The Strongest Dandy in the City-Chapter 580: Breakthrough! Breakthrough! Another Breakthrough!

Yu Fengnian and Yang Yuan both hurried over and left just as quickly, which for Ye Chenfeng and the others was just a minor incident and didn’t affect the mood of everyone present. They all continued to eat meat heartily and chat loudly, for members of the Wing Guard Team, they would have to plunge into Ye Chenfeng’s brutal training again tomorrow.

The next day, while it was still dimly lit, Ye Chenfeng personally led the members of the Wing Guard Team into the Cangyun Mountain Range, arriving at the edge of a steep cliff within the mountains.

This cliff was roughly four hundred meters high, and at its base lay a vast natural lake. Ye Chenfeng’s lips curled into a smile that sent chills down one’s spine, and he said to the members of the Wing Guard Team, "Today’s training task is for each of you to jump off this cliff, and then climb back up from the bottom. Then, jump down again and climb up again. Each person must complete ten round trips before dark. Anyone who doesn’t finish the task will go without dinner tonight."

Ye Dongjian carefully walked to the edge of the cliff, peered down at the bottom — roughly four hundred meters below — and couldn’t help but have his legs shake uncontrollably. This wasn’t bungee jumping; there was no rope tied around your body, and in such a situation, it was natural for a sense of fear to arise in one’s heart.

"Instructor Ye, do you really want us to jump down from here? And then climb up from the bottom? And to do a full ten round trips? It seems to me that jumping down from here could very well mean death," Ye Dongjian couldn’t help but speak up.

Ye Chenfeng looked at the Wing Guard Team members and said, "People can only break through by overcoming fear. Today, I’m going to help you overcome the fear in your hearts. As true powerhouses, fear will only hold you back."

"In the future, when you encounter opponents who are several times stronger than you, even fearsome enough to drive you to despair, fear will gradually devour your spirits. Without even fighting, you’ll have already lost."

"However, if you can overcome your fear, no matter how strong the opponent you face, you’ll be able to fight desperately, and maybe you’ll manage to triumph against the odds. A true powerhouse is not only physically strong, but also far surpasses the average person in all other qualities."

"You can imagine yourselves as birds, simply close your eyes and dive from the cliff. This method might be helpful to you."

Following that, Ye Chenfeng continued, "I’ll demonstrate for you personally, to show you that the fear in your hearts is crap, jumping from here won’t kill anyone at all."

Having said that, Ye Chenfeng took a running start and plunged straight off the cliff. Ye Dongjian, Wu Kunming, Wang Li, and others gathered at the edge, watching Ye Chenfeng as he rapidly fell to the bottom of the cliff.

Four hundred meters was covered in the blink of an eye and with a "Splash!" Ye Chenfeng’s body hit the water, sending a spray of water one to two meters high.

Three to four seconds later, Ye Chenfeng burst out of the water and without wasting any time, made his way to shore and began climbing up from the base of the cliff. Like an agile monkey, Ye Chenfeng climbed with ease. It took him merely five minutes to scale the roughly four-hundred-meter height, equivalent to climbing eighty meters a minute.

Seeing Ye Chenfeng, soaking wet, return to the top of the cliff, the fear in the hearts of the Wing Guard Team members gradually faded. Ye Dongjian was the first to step forward and said, "Instructor Ye, since it won’t kill anyone, and you still seem very relaxed, let me, Ye Dongjian, be the first to bite the bullet!"

As he spoke, Ye Dongjian, like Ye Chenfeng, jumped down towards the bottom of the cliff. As his body continuously plummeted, the wind scraping against Ye Dongjian’s face was painfully sharp, and his ears filled with a buzzing noise.

"Splash!"

As Ye Dongjian’s body hit the lake, he felt as though his entire skeleton might come apart, the pain in his chest making him grimace. His head felt groggy, cursing inwardly, "Chenfeng, you little rascal, you’ve tricked me again. With the way you’re treating me, my body is going to break down sooner or later."

Ye Dongjian felt numb in all four limbs; only after sinking four or five meters into the water could his arms and legs manage to move at last. Two minutes later, he shot out of the water, his face completely pale. After returning to shore, he sat down, gasping heavily for breath, his legs trembling so much he couldn’t even stand, which proved Ye Dongjian had not yet overcome the fear in his heart.

The Wing Guard Team members atop the cliff watched Ye Dongjian below, barely clinging to life, and their recently vanquished fear resurfaced. Ye Chenfeng could face such an event with ease because to the now powerful Ye Chenfeng, it was nothing but a trifle. If members of the Wing Guard Team also considered such an ordeal trivial, would there still be a need for Ye Chenfeng to bring them for training?

"Next, five or six of you can jump together. If you feel you’ve had too much for breakfast and don’t fancy dinner, then take your time—I’ve got plenty of patience," Ye Chenfeng said as he sat down on a rock by the edge of the cliff.

Wang Li’s gaze hardened with determination. He wanted to be strong; he wanted to ascend to the peak of the world. With such intense desire in his heart, he charged towards the bottom of the cliff.

Following him, Wu Kunming, Brother Hu, Tie Niu, and others all gritted their teeth and stamped their feet, rushing down towards the base of the cliff.

The sight of one after another eagerly leaping from the cliff, if captured on camera, would undoubtedly make for a magnificent scene.

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Time flows like water.

In the blink of an eye, another half-month had passed.

In this half-month, all members of the Wing Guard Team had successfully overcome their fear.

Of course, the endurance-draining medicine had also been increased from three bowls to the limit of five. Now, every member of the Wing Guard Team could easily withstand having their energy sapped instantly by gulping down five bowls of the potion, relying on their potential and willpower to act.

From the moment the members of the Wing Guard Team arrived at Cangyun Mountain Range, in the time spanning approximately a month and a half, each of their strengths had leaped in quality, undergoing a complete transformation.

If one were to classify these people according to the rankings of the Ancient Martial World, each of them had now entered the Earth Rank. That they could enhance their strengths so substantially within such a short period owed much to Ye Chenfeng’s perfect training plan as well as their own excellent foundations, especially those from the Soldier King Group.

There were eighty-seven people in the Wing Guard Team, among whom seventy had reached Middle Grade Earth Rank, and the remaining seventeen had peaked at the High Grade Earth Rank—with not a single one at the Lower Grade. These were very objective figures.

Ye Chenfeng’s goal was, by the time they entered the Ancient Martial World, to advance all of these people to the Heaven Rank; what a magnificent force that would be! Surely it would astonish the denizens of the Ancient Martial World, wouldn’t it?

In the Ancient Martial World, a sect with thirty disciples at the Heaven Rank level was already considered first-rate. And here was Ye Chenfeng, aspiring to cultivate eighty-seven experts at the Heaven Rank level?

In this period, aside from the continuous breakthroughs of the Wing Guard Team members, our comrade Ye Chenfeng was not idle either. He was in a daily Yin-Yang Union with the two women, and his Soul Force was becoming purer and purer. Now, if he were to face an expert at the High Grade Heaven Rank from the Ancient Martial World, even if he still couldn’t win, stalling for dozens of rounds would pose no difficulty at all.

Of course, under the diligent cultivation of Ye Chenfeng, Ning Yuting’s and Wu Xiaofei’s strengths had reached the peak of Third Level Soul Force, just one step shy of breaking through to the Fourth Level.

With the two-month deadline almost upon them, and the engagement with Hei Xin to eradicate the Devouring Empire ever on his mind, the mysteries of the Devouring Empire provoked an intense curiosity in Ye Chenfeng. He was eager to understand why such a power possessed so many advanced technologies? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at Qidian (qidian.com), and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to continue reading.)