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[AbstractTraitorHero]

look for the most intresting fool and personally teach them plus the above.

[O.Wilde]

Have them all stand underneath a waterfall for ten minutes everyday. They must understand that even something tranquil like water can absolutely crush you.

Then have them punch, kick, and beat the stone walls of the cavern until their knuckles bleed. They will know that stone is silent and unyielding.

Have them walk on a path of coals as far as they can manage. The path to glory is paved with pain.

Finally, at the end of the day, climb a tree and fall to the ground, gradually increasing the height of the tree every day. The ground shackles us with invisible chains; we must never forget this as we reach newer heights.

Many will understandably leave due to this. The ones who remain will begin their journey as Ironstriders.

+1

Additionally, any who excell in the trials shall be have the title of Copperfoot bestowed upon them. Any who do badly shall be dubbed the Leadfeet.

[adwarf]

The day after you finished gathering the countless drunken fools you called them forth into the center of the cavern to announce the training program you had devised for them, and while many of their faces paled at the though in the end only ten of those you'd brought decided to leave. With thirty-eight potential disciples remaining you begin your seemingly cruel training regime immediately, and though some hesitate they eventually throw themselves into the training you had devised!

Four months pass in the blink of an eye, and throughout them you watch nineteen of your disciples die in your intense training, but those that survive quickly begin to make progress in advancing through the Foundation Layer under such brutal training. All in all you notice seven disciples stand out above the rest with six reaching Meridian Cleansing in a mere four months, and the seventh even managing to break through the Dantian Gateway in such a short time. When you ask after that particular disciple's name you find out her name is Zhang Wei, and you decide to take her under your wing to be personally trained by you.

What to do now?

Teach them some of your martial arts?
Scout out nearby sects?
Something else?

What do you impart to Zhang Wei?

Spoiler: Zhao Li the Unyielding Ironstrider (click to show/hide)

Age: 48, 6 Months
Spirit: Loincloth?
Cultivation Stage:
Spirit Creation, Solidified Spirit Layer

Techniques:
Bronze God's Bod Technique (Early Divine God Bronze Layer)

Martial Arts:
Fist of Three Mountains (Introduction Stage)
Swiftwind Step (Introduction Stage)

Treasures:
The Bronze God's Body Manual
Fist of Three Mountains Scroll (A mid-level Fist technique that utilizes Qi to boost the strength of your punches. If practiced to perfection then three illusory mountains will appear, and a single punch can contain the might of three mountains crashing down.)
Swiftwind Step Manual (A low-level movement technique that allows a users single step to traverse the distance of dozens of steps, and those who manage to master this technique can travel a hundred steps in one.)


Reputation:
Holstice Kingdom - This is the nation that surrounds most of the Ashwood Expanse, it is home to countless Sects and martial Clans making it a true Martial Way country. Respected for your determination, and unyielding nature.

Spoiler: Ironstrider Sect (click to show/hide)

Located in a small cavern with a vaguely armpit shaped entrance.
Density of Earthly Qi: About Average.

Locations:
Matriarch's Cave [Your personal abode, slightly higher Earthly Qi density]
Fifty Simple Disciple Caves [The caves of your Sect's Disciples, plain]

Disciples:
Personal Disciple Zhang Wei [Foundation Layer, Dantian Gateway]
6 Copperfeet [Foundation Layer, Meridian Cleansing]
12 Leadfeet [Foundation Layer, Bone Refinement]

[Lermfish]

Um, martial arts with fantasy elements and an overall eastern theme? I don't even need to say yes.

>Teach them some of your martial arts.

[Cheesecake]

It is time to reintroduce the once-drunks to their hometowns. Have them return to their villages, beg for forgiveness to all those wronged by them, and offer each one they wronged a punch to their face (considering their idiot drunkards, thats a lot of punches). The Ironstriders who can take all the punches will have been redeemed and be promoted (from leadfeet to copperfeet, or from copperfeet to steelheart.)

As for Zhang Wei, teach her the Fist of the Three Mountains and the Swiftwind Step. She's hopefully close, or will soon be close, to our level, so she'll be good practice for ourselves and help us break our bottleneck.

When she has gotten the basics of both martial arts, use the Fist of the Three Mountains on her, and she may only dodge with the Swiftwind Step. Then alternate: she uses the Fist and successfully hit us as we dodge with the Swiftwind Step.

[RAM]

As each masters the basic punishment training, send them on a quest to craft a loincloth and colour it to match their inner nature.

[Lermfish]

It is time to reintroduce the once-drunks to their hometowns. Have them return to their villages, beg for forgiveness to all those wronged by them, and offer each one they wronged a punch to their face (considering their idiot drunkards, thats a lot of punches). The Ironstriders who can take all the punches will have been redeemed and be promoted (from leadfeet to copperfeet, or from copperfeet to steelheart.)

As for Zhang Wei, teach her the Fist of the Three Mountains and the Swiftwind Step. She's hopefully close, or will soon be close, to our level, so she'll be good practice for ourselves and help us break our bottleneck.

When she has gotten the basics of both martial arts, use the Fist of the Three Mountains on her, and she may only dodge with the Swiftwind Step. Then alternate: she uses the Fist and successfully hit us as we dodge with the Swiftwind Step.

+1, in addition to my option.

[Salsacookies]

It is time to reintroduce the once-drunks to their hometowns. Have them return to their villages, beg for forgiveness to all those wronged by them, and offer each one they wronged a punch to their face (considering their idiot drunkards, thats a lot of punches). The Ironstriders who can take all the punches will have been redeemed and be promoted (from leadfeet to copperfeet, or from copperfeet to steelheart.)

As for Zhang Wei, teach her the Fist of the Three Mountains and the Swiftwind Step. She's hopefully close, or will soon be close, to our level, so she'll be good practice for ourselves and help us break our bottleneck.

When she has gotten the basics of both martial arts, use the Fist of the Three Mountains on her, and she may only dodge with the Swiftwind Step. Then alternate: she uses the Fist and successfully hit us as we dodge with the Swiftwind Step.

+1

+1

[Funk]

It is time to reintroduce the once-drunks to their hometowns. Have them return to their villages, beg for forgiveness to all those wronged by them, and offer each one they wronged a punch to their face (considering their idiot drunkards, thats a lot of punches). The Ironstriders who can take all the punches will have been redeemed and be promoted (from leadfeet to copperfeet, or from copperfeet to steelheart.)

As for Zhang Wei, teach her the Fist of the Three Mountains and the Swiftwind Step. She's hopefully close, or will soon be close, to our level, so she'll be good practice for ourselves and help us break our bottleneck.

When she has gotten the basics of both martial arts, use the Fist of the Three Mountains on her, and she may only dodge with the Swiftwind Step. Then alternate: she uses the Fist and successfully hit us as we dodge with the Swiftwind Step.

+1

+1

+1

[NRDL]

It is time to reintroduce the once-drunks to their hometowns. Have them return to their villages, beg for forgiveness to all those wronged by them, and offer each one they wronged a punch to their face (considering their idiot drunkards, thats a lot of punches). The Ironstriders who can take all the punches will have been redeemed and be promoted (from leadfeet to copperfeet, or from copperfeet to steelheart.)

As for Zhang Wei, teach her the Fist of the Three Mountains and the Swiftwind Step. She's hopefully close, or will soon be close, to our level, so she'll be good practice for ourselves and help us break our bottleneck.

When she has gotten the basics of both martial arts, use the Fist of the Three Mountains on her, and she may only dodge with the Swiftwind Step. Then alternate: she uses the Fist and successfully hit us as we dodge with the Swiftwind Step.

+1

+1

+1

+1

[adwarf]

Seeing that your disciples have done well and have begun to reform themselves somewhat you give them a task to return to their hometowns, and undergo a trial to allow those who have been wronged by them the right to punch them in the face. It takes four months for those who left to return, but in the end you find that many of those who had been leadfeet had either died during the trial, or decided not to return to the sect. Despite this those who do return seem to have had a weight lifted off their shoulders and seem stronger for the task they have been given. Maybe even more importantly all of the previous copperfeet managed to complete the trial becoming Steelhearts and reaching the Dantian Gateway!

While the other disciples are away finishing the task you handed them you take the time to train Zhang Wei in order to teach her the Fist of the Three Mountains, and Swiftwind Step hoping to impart onto her some measure of the power you've come to wield. As you spar with the girl on a daily basis you come to realize how truly impressive her talent is, perhaps even outstripping what you've managed all these years as she manages to advance to Qi Gathering, and master both techniques to the Introduction Stage in four short months.

What to do now?

Teach them some of your martial arts?
Scout out nearby sects?
Recruit more disciples?
Something else?

What do you impart to Zhang Wei?

Spoiler: Zhao Li the Unyielding Ironstrider (click to show/hide)

Age: 48, 10 Months
Spirit: Loincloth?
Cultivation Stage:
Spirit Creation, Solidified Spirit Layer

Techniques:
Bronze God's Bod Technique (Early Divine God Bronze Layer)

Martial Arts:
Fist of Three Mountains (Introduction Stage)
Swiftwind Step (Introduction Stage)

Treasures:
The Bronze God's Body Manual
Fist of Three Mountains Scroll (A mid-level Fist technique that utilizes Qi to boost the strength of your punches. If practiced to perfection then three illusory mountains will appear, and a single punch can contain the might of three mountains crashing down.)
Swiftwind Step Manual (A low-level movement technique that allows a users single step to traverse the distance of dozens of steps, and those who manage to master this technique can travel a hundred steps in one.)


Reputation:
Holstice Kingdom - This is the nation that surrounds most of the Ashwood Expanse, it is home to countless Sects and martial Clans making it a true Martial Way country. Respected for your determination, and unyielding nature.

Spoiler: Ironstrider Sect (click to show/hide)

Located in a small cavern with a vaguely armpit shaped entrance.
Density of Earthly Qi: About Average.

Locations:
Matriarch's Cave [Your personal abode, slightly higher Earthly Qi density]
Fifty Simple Disciple Caves [The caves of your Sect's Disciples, plain]

Disciples:
Personal Disciple Zhang Wei [Foundation Layer, Qi Gathering | Fist of the Three Mountains & Swiftwind Step (Introduction Stage) | 21 years old]
6 Steelheart [Foundation Layer, Dantian Gateway]
3 Copperfeet [Foundation Layer, Meridian Cleansing]

[NRDL]

Have the Steelhearts and Copperfeet continue their training at the cave, send our disciple Zhang Wei on a quest of her own, tell her to remember the values of fortitude and struggle, and to seek out the strongest opponents the world has to offer.  Our Ironstrider will continue to train like hell at the cave.

I think it'd be a good idea to sharpen our own technique, or else our disciple will very quickly overtake us. 

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Have the Steelhearts and Copperfeet continue their training at the cave, send our disciple Zhang Wei on a quest of her own, tell her to remember the values of fortitude and struggle, and to seek out the strongest opponents the world has to offer.  Our Ironstrider will continue to train like hell at the cave.

I think it'd be a good idea to sharpen our own technique, or else our disciple will very quickly overtake us. 

+1 but
Romance Zhang Wei Also

[NRDL]

That...could get messy. 

[AbstractTraitorHero]

That...could get messy. 

Our power will double she has already proved herself to be worthy of our greatness!