Chapter 837 - The Survival Of The Fittest (1/2)
Chapter 837: The Survival Of The Fittest
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
An uninhabited island less than 10 kilometers in area and fully covered by forested hills was seen in the vast sea. The highest peak was nearly 100 meters high and was full of lush vegetation all year round due to the tropical climate.
“Land on the island!”
After the passenger ship anchored on the shore, Tang Xiu floated to walk in the air as he took the lead to land on the island under the watchful, yet shocked and enthusiastic, eyes of the prisoners who observed him. Mo Awu and the rest then closely followed and stood in a row on the shore. As for the purchased prisoners, they were like a scattered swarm of bees rushing towards the shoreline.
With hands folded behind his back, Tang Xiu stood in the air and said in a deep voice, “Awu, I’ll give you two days to organize your team of eleven. I want to see them orderly with strict discipline implemented. Of course, you don’t need to pay any attention to someone if they dare to disobey your orders. Just tell me directly who they are and I’ll make them die here.”
Mo Awu knew that Tang Xiu wanted to eliminate a group of people here, so he deliberately asked loudly, “Boss, do you want to drill them like the elite special forces, or do you want them to train as they wish once in a while?”
Tang Xiu instantly caught the gist of Mo Awu and shouted in a deep voice, “All of Tang Xiu’s men have been, and will always be, strong elite warriors. You all know the rules of the jungle—the weak are nothing but prey for the strong. It’s survival of the fittest. And now, I won’t hide anything from you all. Except for those three dead men, there are still 197 people left. But the number I can bring with me from this island will not exceed 150, for there would be too many people. In other words, if too many people can’t adapt to my drills, no more than 100 of you will be able to leave this uninhabited island alive.”
A burly black man hurriedly asked, “We wanna know the elimination criteria, Boss.”
“You just asked a good question,” said Tang Xiu happily. “The elimination criteria is, in fact, very simple. Those who don’t obey orders, slack in training, kill each other, and attempt to escape will all be eliminated!”
“What about the final elimination criteria, Boss?” quickly asked that burly black man again. “Will we not be assessed according to our individual combat force?”
“Assessing individual combat force is too shallow an assessment, as there are some stronger and weaker individuals among you all,” said Tang Xiu scornfully. “If my memory serves me correctly, some of you are just average people but quite competent in some aspects outside individual combat prowess. It’s simply unrespectful to these talented people if you just eliminate them based on this criterion.”
At this time, nearly everyone understood Tang Xiu and firmly memorized the four elimination criteria mentioned by Tang Xiu in their minds and complied loudly.
Tang Xiu then looked at Spectre and lightly said, “You don’t have to take part in the training. Follow me to walk around the island. I need to use an array formation to hide our traces.”
Array formation?
Spectre trembled inside. He had heard about this array term from legends and had also witnessed its might. Back when he was still in prison, Tang Xiu eventually used an array to trap him inside.
Two days later.
Tang Xiu had covered the entire island with an array formation. The island would appear uninhabited should outsiders look at it from the outside; they wouldn’t be able to discern anything inside it. Spectre was left with nothing but shock after seeing the Illusion Array. Tang Xiu’s knowledge and expertise in array formation made him admire Tang Xiu more. He couldn’t wait to obtain the said cultivation technique and possess these mysterious abilities as well.
“Not bad.”
When Tang Xiu returned to the front of the crowd with Spectre, he looked satisfied after seeing five orderly lines of people. These wild and unruly convicts turned out to be able to cooperate with each other. They were working hard and training conscientiously, albeit under the threat of death. Even Mo Awu and the others had already accomplished Tang Xiu’s goal of teaching these people knowledge about acupoints and meridians.
Imparting and transmitting the cultivation technique itself was an easy and simple issue, but due to the high number of people, Tang Xiu still had to spend several days imparting the cultivation technique to everyone.
On the coast.
Tang Xiu floated in the air and shouted in a deep voice, “I’ve already imparted you with what I should teach you. I don’t care what special abilities you’ve ever had, but know that I’ll give this medicinal pill to the first 10 people who reach the early stage of Qi Refining. Remember, only 10 people! So work hard!”
10 people?
Everyone’s spirit soared immediately and a firm look could be seen in their eyes. To become stronger and be able to fly in the sky like Tang Xiu was something they longed for. They secretly made up their minds to go all out in cultivation and strove to compete for the top ten places.
In the days that followed, the training sessions were extremely arduous. Even though Tang Xiu gave everyone a few hours to perceive the flow of energy every day, most of the time was still spent on physical drills.
After 10 days passed by, the enormous amount of physical fitness training made these people suffer terribly, both physically and mentally. Even some of them couldn’t persist and tried to escape, causing Tang Xiu to obliterate them without emotion.