I Cultivated Too Long and Got Isekai'd Into a Game-Chapter 194: New Disciples and a Misunderstanding

The next day.

A man stood in the middle of the underground training area, wearing a loose white shirt and tight-fitting black jogging pants with blue highlights along the sides.

"Your posture’s broken! Again!"

SLAP!

The man, Xu Tao, shouted as he lightly tapped Henrietta’s shoulder with his fan. As soon as he did, the girl fell forward, smashing her nose against the sandy ground. The blocks she was carrying rolled a short distance ahead of her.

"Uugh..." She groaned in pain.

But even though her eyes were teary and her arms and legs felt stiff from eight hours of nonstop training, she didn’t give up. She crawled forward, grabbing the stone blocks—or rather, bricks—and holding them in her hands, palms facing up.

She lowered her hips as if she were sitting in an imaginary chair. Her legs were perpendicular to the ground, her knees bent at a perfect 90 degrees, and her arms stretched forward, parallel to the ground—a perfect squat.

It wasn’t just that either. The "bricks" she was holding in both palms were enchanted. Although they shouldn’t have been heavier than a kilogram, Henrietta’s perceived weight was well over a ton! She had to keep her Spirit Descent active for extended periods just to maintain her posture!

"..."

Xu Tao stared at her before nodding his head.

He was partly pushing Henrietta to her limits, trying to see how much she could handle. However, he never anticipated that she’d be too stubborn to even ask him to stop. Little did she know that the current "exercise" bore little to no help in her training, if at all.

At most, it could help her keep her cool while activating her Spirit Descent for a long period, but that was it. Nothing else.

"M-Master, excuse me..."

"Hmm?"

A curious voice echoed from the side, making Xu Tao turn. There, Uriel stood clad in her maid uniform, looking as if she had some news to deliver.

"Uriel? What is it?" he asked.

Seeing that his attention was on her, Uriel quickly opened her mouth. "Master, eleven women claiming to be your disciples have arrived. What should I do?"

"Eleven?" He paused, confused for a moment—before recalling who they were. "Ah, the girls from The Silver Chalice? Let them in... "No, let them come here directly." He turned to Henrietta and asked, "You don’t mind having company, right?"

"...!"

However, Henrietta couldn’t nod or even shake her head. The slightest movement would break the delicate balance she had painstakingly built, after all.

"Silence means yes." Xu Tao nodded, turning to Uriel. "Tell them all to leave their things in the living room and come here."

"Yes, Master."

Without wasting another second, Uriel rushed back to the ground floor, leaving the training ground behind.

Only after five minutes passed did presences arrive.

A group of eleven dazzling, beautiful women rushed in, forming a line before Xu Tao. They were all already wearing exercise clothes, making them look like they were going for a yoga session instead.

"Greetings, Master Xu Tao!" All of them cupped their fists and bowed in unison, paying respect to him.

"At ease," Xu Tao said, waving his hand.

"Apart from Geraldine, the rest of you still have broken meridians. Today, I’ll be fixing that one by one." He declared in a flat, serious tone. "Geraldine, you just follow this scroll I made for you. Focus on the first ten lines today, and cultivate well."

He pulled out a white scroll from his pouch and passed it over to her—something he wrote specifically to cater to Geraldine’s unique physique, the Resonant Martial Body.

Of course, what he prepared wasn’t too difficult a technique to practice.

He believed that Geraldine should be able to comprehend it soon enough even without his direct guidance for now. Still, just in case, he gave her specific instructions.

"If you have questions, try asking Henrietta over there or Yifa hiding in the shadowy corners. Both of them are your senior disciples."

All the girls turned to see the red-haired woman who was stuck in a squat, looking irate and scary. On the other hand, they turned to the corner Xu Tao mentioned... but nobody was there. At least, not until a little girl appeared crawling from the shadows, with a cute pout on her lips.

"Tch, should’ve known I couldn’t hide from Master Tao’s eyes..." she grumbled quietly, clicking her tongue. "Alright, little girl. If you have questions, I’ll answer them for you." And said as such.

"..."

Geraldine couldn’t really accept being called "little girl" by a little girl, but she decided to keep her thoughts to herself. Not only would that be rude to her senior, but she also felt that saying that was like stepping on a landmine... and she definitely didn’t want to die early.

"I’m looking forward to your guidance, Senior Yifa!" She simply bowed respectfully, nothing else.

"Good," Xu Tao exclaimed before grabbing the ten women. "Then, I’ll be fixing all your meridians. Come with me."

The next moment...

SNAP!

As soon as Xu Tao snapped his fingers, he and the ten girls disappeared from the training ground. The next moment, they found themselves inside a large room. A large bed sat near the other side, with a large VR pod lying in another corner. The place they moved to was Xu Tao’s room!

"T-This is... an illusion?"

"We were underground, and then... where are we now?"

"We teleported! Master can use the legendary spatial and temporal techniques!"

CLAP! CLAP!

"Enough chatter," he said, reprimanding the girls. "Instead, who will go first? We don’t have all the time in the world, so better hurry."

Even with his skills, fixing someone’s meridians and dantian without breaking their unique constitution would take time. For Geraldine’s case, it took him over five hours straight—partly due to how difficult it was to handle her unique constitution.

These girls were possessors of interesting physiques too, but in Xu Tao’s estimates, he should need merely an hour for each of them at most.

"T-Then, I’ll go first."

A woman with pale silver hair raised her hand shyly, stepping forward.

"Name?"

"H-Hannah."

"Got it. Then, Hannah, strip all your clothes and lie face-down on the bed."

"Y-Yes..."

Of course, as they were working as prostitutes, they had no hesitation in showing their bodies. Rather than questioning Xu Tao’s intentions, Hannah just removed her clothes, one article after another.

Everyone watched as she stripped naked before crawling on top of the bed and lying face-down in the middle of it.

"...Then, I’ll begin."

With that as the signal...

Screams of pain echoed nonstop from Xu Tao’s room.

Enough that all maids and other employees in Henrietta’s mansion... misunderstood what they were doing. And in broad daylight, starting early in the morning, nonetheless!