Three Vassals

In a blink of an eye, Zhou Mengyao spent the whole morning with Wan Mei without realizing that it is already noon.

"Young master I have brought Hou Jia, Lin Xia, and Teng Hu. All of them are willing to be a loyal servant of yours!"

Qin Peng who looks ugly and not very pleasing to the eye brought three men to Zhou Mengyao.

"Master, I am Hou Jia. I am a hunter first before I decided to be a servant of the family."

"Greeting master, I am Lin Xia. I came from a very poor family and have just entered to be a servant of the family, I came here to show my loyalty upon you master!"

"Young master, I am Teng Hu, I am nothing."

The three men differ in age, first is Hou Jia who is a middle-aged burly man full of muscles and scars from battling with beasts.

Lin Xia on the other hand, is just in his thirties and he is very thin and looks like he would collapse at any second, his body is not in a great state due to malnourishment.

As for Teng Hu, the latter is just an average young man who looks like an empty shell with no emotion left, he looks indifferent to everything but in reality, he is a broken man. Zhou Mengyao can tell that from his complexion that his state of mind is already insane.

He is broken to the point that he just lived without realizing he is alive. He is like a dead man still walking with existence who has no purpose.

Zhou Mengyao did not know any of them but he has no problem accepting their loyalty. Although it is just words and he will not be able to ensure their loyalty yet, everyone has their story and reason for why they wanted to serve him.

He just needed to be a good and cruel master at the same time in order to find a perfect vassal that will not betray him.

"Let me see your capability first, since all of you are at Qi Transformation Realm then I will need you to spar with me."

"Young Master I don't want to sound rude but you just started cultivating wouldn't it be bad if you were to fight us?"

"Although master said to spar, what the young master meant is we have to fight him to improve his skills. Of course, we should not hit young master very hard."

Hu Jia who is a middle-aged hunter asked the question which Lin Xia answered, with that simple conversation Zhou Mengyao realized that Lin Xia is good at grasping things while Hu Jia is just a rather simple man when it came to his intelligence.

As for Teng Hu, he just stood still without budging for a bit. It looks like he is out of focus.

"I just need to improve a movement skill of mine, of course, you have to defend my attacks and if you pass this simple test without getting hurt by me then I will accept your loyalty and promote you with my authority myself."

Zhou Mengyao stood up from the chair that he is sitting and he stared at their eyes. They are at his villa, as he stood up they all look at him and followed every movement of him other than Teng Hu who is still out of focus.

"Follow me to the training ground of my villa. let's see your skills if you are worth it or not."

Zhou Mengyao led them to the training ground, the training ground is full of pieces of equipment one can use to train their skills.

There is also the equipment that he can use to measure his strength.

It is the force measuring stone. It was a piece of equipment that can measure one's strength until the Foundation Establishment Realm.

He stood up next to it, the force measuring stone is gigantic as it over tower's Zhou Mengyao who are taller than the average people.

The force measuring stone stood tall next to the training platform where it has a very huge space that can be used to train one's skill and for people to spar.

This training ground has not been used by Zhou Mengyao as he did not have the capabilities to improve.

There are plenty of specks of dust among the sets of equipment signifying that they have not been cleaned and used for a long amount of time.

HAAA!

Zhou Mengyao shouted as he threw a full-powered punch to the force measuring stone coupled with the torrential strike which made the punch be stronger.

30126!

A number showed up in front of the force measuring stone as Zhou Mengyao's punch exploded with power and a loud sound deafening the surrounding area for a moment.

"That was a powerful punch young master! I knew that I will not be serving a weak man at all."

Hou Jia quickly opened his mouth as he genuinely complimented Zhou Mengyao. He is very sincere with his words showing that he is truly amazed by Zhou Mengyao's power not minding the fact that the punch is not right for Zhou Mengyao's amount of qi.

Lin Xia naturally caught up to the weird thing about Zhou Mengyao, almost everyone who has eyes and higher cultivation than Zhou Mengyao can see the amount of his qi and guess his true level.

Lin Xia look confused for a second and then realized that Zhou Mengyao is not just a normal cultivator, he is still someone from a prestigious family so this should not be strange at all.

"That was a good punch young master, everything from the posture to your breathing pattern. I can tell that you have practiced this move thousand of times already."

Lin Xia did not forget to give a compliment, everything he said is true. Zhou Mengyao's teacher is very good at teaching about fighting techniques.

From tips to even posture that one will be comfortable.

Lin Xia is just a lower-leveled cultivator so he naturally can't see some of the flaws to his posture and execution, if it is his teacher then she will be able to point it out without any problem at all.

After hearing their compliments, Zhou Mengyao nodded at them. He doesn't need to hear their compliments but since it is genuine and not said in a half-assed manner so he still appreciated it.

"Alright, now show me your power. Use this force measuring stone."

Zhou Mengyao commanded them as both Hou Jia and Lin Xia looked excited. They did not use a force measuring stone yet as they are just the lowest level servant who does various odd jobs mostly errands.

They have to do plenty of errands first before they can promote their status as a servant, if they can be promoted then they will be entitled to some benefits.

Now that an opportunity presented itself they naturally will take advantage of it. Nothing is wrong with it as long as they follow their master.

Hou Jia got in front of the force measuring stone as each of his muscles budge and his expression change to that of a wild untamed beast.

BANG!

55,657

Zhou Mengyao look at it and he nodded, it was a little bit below average the fighting power of someone that is at the 5th Stage of Qi Transformation Realm.

Even though it is not up to his standard, Zhou Mengyao took into consideration the fact that they are using a low leveled martial skills and a bad cultivation technique making them stuck at their level.

"I have a punching power of 50,000 kilos? That is amazing!"

Hou Jia looked rather pleased to himself, Zhou Mengyao guessed that he probably doesn't realize that it is below average and as his master, Zhou Mengyao has to scold him so that he will not be arrogant and stupid.

"What are you being happy about? That was below average force for someone at your level. At this point you can't even be called a mediocre, you are worse than that."

Zhou Mengyao did not hold back at all, the middle-aged man who looks like he got toughened up by his experience in life felt embarrassed and his confidence have sunk.

Hou Jia is someone who fought his whole life to survive and feed his family so being called weak naturally lowered his confidence.

"Don't be arrogant now, right now you are just weak and a speck of dust but since you promised to serve me then I will do my best to strengthen you. Even though you are weak, at least you wanted to improve so you came to me."

"Others will be contented in their life but you chose to follow me to chase greatness and glory, that alone is enough to at least prove that you aren't a coward. Being a coward is much worse than being weak, remember that a coward will never have the courage to stand up for themselves."

After giving a harsh remark, Zhou Mengyao took a step back to flatter Hou Jia for him to regain his confidence and the spark in his eyes. Of course, he did not forget to add a lesson for them to remember.