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Panic spread within Noah's mind at that event, he felt heat rise to his face at the understanding of what he felt. But what he experienced was mostly embarrassment. For some reason, he didn't find her not alluring even after her words, only that he knew he could never approach her with the intent his body desired.

Realizing that his machine was about to be revealed through his garment, Noah instinctively hunched forward, an event that caught the attention of Lady Sarah who tinkered with a few items in her ring.

"What's wrong with you," her voice came like a blow startling and causing even more panic and heat to rise in his face. To make things clear, he only felt embarrassed about his middle-legs reaction.

"Nothing," Noah replied squatting. "Just trying to stretch a bit seeing as you look ready to begin our training," he explained trying to fake a cold expression even if his heart had begun to beat extra faster.

"Why would you even need to do that," Elder Sarah asked arching an eyebrow. "If I find your flexibility lacking I'll simply break a few bones multiple times until your body learns it," her words drained the blood in his face and managed to scare his love stick enough that it began to reduce in length.

Lady Sarah shook her head when she saw that Noah's continued to perform squats, after which a few seconds later he stood.

A sigh of relief escaped Noah's mouth knowing the danger had passed. The situation had been closed. Had she asked him to get up immediately, his life would have ended for the nth time in that world. He couldn't face the harsh even worse, teasing words of that woman. They would sink deep into his mushy heart.

"Take this," Elder Sarah said at some point. She had been busy with her ring for a while and a small bottle floated towards Noah's figure after her words.

"What am I to do with it," Noah asked inspecting the vial filled with green pills.

"They are pills to slow regeneration speed by fifty percent and increase pain sensitivity by twenty," Sarah explained. Noah's expression flickered at those words, but he kept his cool.

"I need your body to experience pain or you won't learn. Do not worry they only last about nine hours. Those pills are higher-stage pills. Your body is too outrageous for middle-stage ones," she explained ushering Noah to take one or two if required.

With evident reluctance, Noah placed one of the many green pills in his mouth and felt it dissolve almost immediately when his saliva touched it. A sweet taste spread in his mouth as it went down his throat.

[You have ingested a substance]

[Scanning its effects…]

[Scan complete]

[The substance attacks your healing capabilities]

[Your body is battling it]

[Your body has managed to neutralize 60% of its effects]

[You will now experience a 20% decrease in healing speed and a 10% increase in pain sensitivity for 4 hours]

Noah shook his head at the system's information before placing a second pill in his mouth. This brought his healing speed down by another 30 percent, placing his healing speed at half its real capabilities, and his pain sensitivity experienced a 30% increase in total.

A false sense of weakness permeated Noah's body after that event, and it took a while to get his vision from being blurry.

Nodding her head after he used the pills Lady Sarah walked closer to him until she stood only about a foot from his tall figure. She even had to raise her head by a significant amount to talk straight to his face.

"We are going to begin with leg stretches. Since you'll be tasking your lower body the most, we'll begin with exercise meant to make them flexible. This may seem mundane for cultivators about to reach levels of power that aren't normal, but for someone like you who's never had a trainer, it's the first set of things we have to do," she explained taking a few steps back before sitting and spreading her two legs in a perfect split.

After that, she bent at her waist and stretched forward, keeping her toes pointed at the ceiling, and her thighs flat on the floor.

"This is called the straddle stretch, and it's a very important one. Literally, all I need from you is to execute it without any difficulty and we can move on to the others," she explained still in that painful-looking position.

Noah immediately knew he couldn't do the same. Nevertheless, he sat on the floor and tried it, but pain reached his mind as he stretched tendons that had never been put in that posture. This caused his legs to barely form a V, and his thighs didn't even touch the ground. He wasn't flexible in the slightest.

Glancing helplessly at Elder Sarah who shook her head in disappointment, Noah watched her stand and crouch before him.

Her expression was blank making Noah unable to know what she was thinking, even if he had an idea.

In the blink of an eye, she grabbed both his legs, and with a sickening tearing sound, she spread them apart forcefully.

Noah went from momentary shock to dying on the inside.

A scream of deep agony exited Noah's lips as the tendons and muscles in his legs tore at their forceful stretch. Even his pelvic joint suffered an injury. Noah immediately passed out from pain, but Elder Sarah woke him by slapping him hard across the face.

Noah suffered severe internal bleeding and the pain that coursed through his mind made him weep and groan like a child. Unfortunately, Elder Sarah's mental waves held him in place meaning he couldn't writhe all he wanted. He felt trapped.

He openly cursed Elder Sarah at that moment as all his hatred poured out. Unfortunately, it would take a while for his body to heal from the injury, so he had to sit in the extended position and wait for his legs to repair. Thankfully there was s steady flow of essence available.

Noah continued to glare at Elder Sarah for the ten minutes it took for his legs to heal, but she never paid attention to him, and even went out of the room to get a few things done. But her consciousness never left Noah alone.

Anger really burnt in Noah's mind after that incredibly painful and traumatic experience, but all those erratic emotions vanished when he found that staying in that position didn't hurt anymore.

"You can feel it right? Your body has already adapted to that position since it healed like that. It's an unorthodox method, but it's pretty effective, especially for someone with such a healing speed such as yourself." Sarah grinned seeing the shocked expression on Noah's face.

"Why didn't you tell me that before you almost tore me in two?" Noah spoke, his tone containing all the vileness it could muster. He really wished he could punish her for what she did.

"If I had told you, I doubt you would have stayed still. And besides, it was satisfying to watch someone with such a handsome face cry like a child," she shrugged, as she didn't even try to hide the satisfaction in her voice and expression.

"I hate you," Noah spat those words like a curse. He lacked fear at that moment. And he also knew she wouldn't do anything to hurt him. At least for the time being.

"You're not the first to say that. At this point it's practically a compliment," Sarah giggled. A giggle that soon turned into laughter. Annoying laughter.