Uma Musume, from entry level to basement

One of the walls has been transformed into a wooden counter, filled with a wide variety of fine wines, which looks particularly tempting under the gentle yellow-orange lighting.

Master Jin was the first to come to the dining table and sit down, then he extended his hand and motioned Tang Han to sit opposite him.

"Please take a seat."

"Thank you."

As soon as Tang Han sat down, Master Jin took out a cigar box from a drawer beside him, picked out a cigar from it and handed it to Tang Han.

"Sorry, I don't smoke." Tang Han waved his hand to refuse.

"Really?" Master Jin put the cigar back, stood up, walked to the wine cabinet, picked up a bottle of 1993 vintage whiskey, turned to look at Tang Han and asked, "How about this one?"

"Thank you for your kindness, but I don't drink either." Tang Han refused again.

"You guy..." Master Jin frowned, looking somewhat dissatisfied.

"You're wrong. If you're a real man, you'll drink strong liquor and smoke a cigar!"

He took out two more glasses from under the wine cabinet, returned to the dining table, poured half of the two glasses with whiskey, and pushed one in front of Tang Han.

"If you don't drink, I won't agree with you."

After saying that, Master Jin downed his glass of whiskey in one gulp.

"Huh~refreshing!" He breathed a sigh of relief, then stared straight at Tang Han, indicating that Tang Han could follow his example and drink this glass of wine, which was his token of joining the gang.

"......" But Tang Han looked at the glass of whiskey in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and shook his head.

"Well, our definition of a real man is different here..." Tang Han scratched his face.

"We believe that a true man is someone who can suppress his desires for the sake of someone important, laughs off the slander of others, and dares to carve out a bright path in the dark wilderness."

Of course, the important person Tang Han was referring to was actually himself. He didn't want to develop bad habits like smoking and drinking because of a momentary impulse.

"Well, well said!" Master Jin nodded with satisfaction and took back the whiskey he had just pushed to Tang Han.

"Xiao Xiang, you are a good guy..."

"Although I can't see your face, but judging from the tone and attitude of your voice, you are probably a young man in his teens or twenties... How about being friends with my daughter?" Master Jin said on a whim.

"Daughter?" Tang Han was stunned.

He remembered that the owner of the dreadlocks shop said yesterday that his brother, Master Jin in front of him, had a daughter who was a horse girl and studied in Tresen. She should be the daughter he was talking about now.

So Tang Han quickly waved his hand: "No need!"

A daughter? Or a horse girl? It would be better not to introduce her to him in this lifetime!

"Master Jin, let's talk about business first..." Tang Han crossed his fingers, rested his elbows on the table, and looked serious.

"Is there really a technique that can defeat a horse girl with just physical strength?"

"Yes, yes..." Master Jin picked up the glass of whiskey that he had just given to Tang Han, put it to his lips and took a sip.

"However, its use is extremely demanding. After all, you're dealing with a horsegirl whose strength is three or four times greater than that of an average human male."

"You mean... you want to train your strength to be as strong as Mamu?"

"No." Master Jin shook his head and said:

"Strength is secondary. To perform that kind of technique, the most important thing is actually to have a strong endurance!"

"Tolerance..." Tang Han pinched his chin, thinking.

Tolerance, should refer to endurance...

Although he would exercise from time to time in order to better avoid Ma Niang, and could jog continuously for three kilometers without being out of breath, and could barely run a 42-kilometer full marathon by exhausting his physical strength, he was probably still far from the level that Master Jin mentioned.

So Tang Han asked, "Excuse me, to what extent do I need to improve my endurance?"

"It's not endurance, but tolerance..." Master Jin corrected:

"You need a body strong enough to withstand several full-strength attacks from the horse girl."

"Huh?!" Tang Han was stunned.

With an average person's physique, a single careless blow from the horse girl would already be a serious injury, and now he's being asked to be strong enough to withstand several full-strength attacks from the horse girl?!

"Is this really possible?" Tang Han doubted the truthfulness of what the other party said.

"Of course you can, as long as you undergo targeted training and learn some energy-dissipating techniques. After all, I have done it before." Master Jin raised his head proudly and pointed his index finger at the ceiling.

"If you have talent and follow the most reasonable training plan I give you, you will probably be able to reach the level I require after a year of training."

"One year..." Tang Han was speechless.

This is too long...

"Of course, there's a simpler move that's applicable to all horse girls, and it doesn't require you to have a very strong physical fitness to use it."

"What kind of move is that?" Tang Han asked curiously.

Master Jin stood up, turned around, and patted his butt: "Pull her ponytail..."

"Wait!" Tang Han immediately raised his hand and asked his own question:

"But don't I remember that pulling a ponygirl's tail is a particularly dangerous thing?"

"That's right..." Master Jin nodded, put his hand on his kidney, and looked melancholy.

"Back then, it was because I pulled someone's ponytail that I had to retire at a young age and become a father..."

"So, unless it's an extremely urgent situation, you should never pull her ponytail!"

234. Horse Girl Under the Waterfall

"I'll keep your teachings in mind!" Tang Han nodded and took note of Master Jin's warning carefully.

Don't worry, even if he dies, he will never pull Ma Niang's tail!

"Master Jin, does it really take a year to train? That's too long." Tang Han touched his head in distress.

Because if he were to train for a year before challenging the Condor, the trainers in the school would have been beaten countless times, and even the next batch of rookie trainers might have been killed.

"That depends on your current foundation..." Master Jin explained.

"How about this, stand up now and let me test you with a punch. If you already have a strong tolerance, you don't need to train for so long."

After saying this, Master Jin rolled up his shirt sleeves, revealing his well-trained arms.

The arm circumference was at least 50cm, full of muscles and bulging veins. The power contained in it was immeasurable. It looked like one punch could knock Tang Han into a tomato crushed by a car.

"..." Tang Han looked at the other party's fist as big as a sandbag and swallowed nervously.

If he punched me, with my current frail body, I would probably faint on the spot...

However, Tang Han did not refuse or run away at this time. Instead, he nodded and accepted the test.

Because he really thought of a way to quickly improve his body's tolerance!

He remembered that Lucky had said before that the energy of hope could not enhance his strength and escape speed, but could only increase his ability to withstand attacks. Its only effect was to make him be stuck longer, so under normal circumstances, this bonus was of no use at all.

But now it is different. What Tang Han lacks now is the ability to withstand blows. The energy of hope he had accumulated before finally came in handy when he was going to challenge the Divine Eagle today.

Tang Han: I was lucky. I used all the hope and energy I gathered from previous competitions to enhance my ability to withstand blows.

Luck: Are you sure you don't want to keep it? What if it's not enough for you when you get unlucky later?

Tang Han: If the old doesn't go, the new won't come. If you want to achieve great things, you can't be greedy for such small profits. Add!

Lucky: OK.

As luck brought all the hope energy in stock into Tang Han's body, a warm current started from his heart, flowed into his internal organs, limbs and bones, nourishing his whole body.

Although Tang Han's strength did not increase at all, he could clearly feel that his body had become much tighter, more durable... and more resistant to beatings!

"Come on, Master Jin..." Tang Han opened his arms, raised his head, closed his eyes, and said in a firm tone: "I'm ready!"

"Okay, I'll use 40% of my power this time. Okay!"

Master Jin came in front of Tang Han, swung his arm, aimed at Tang Han's abdomen, and punched him hard.

"Ugh!" Although Tang Han's body was bent by the violent impact of the fist, he still stood in the same place without retreating or falling down.

"how do you feel?"

"Feeling... okay?"

Tang Han touched the place where he was hit. Although it felt a little hot, he was not injured and his internal organs did not hurt.

"Hmm, your tolerance is pretty good. If it were an ordinary person, after taking this punch from me, I'm afraid they would have fallen to the ground and vomited up the food they ate yesterday..."

"Next, try 60%!"

After one punch, Tang Han was shaken.

"Eighty percent!"

Tang Han took a few steps back.

"Ten percent!"

"Bugah!" Tang Han flew backwards.

This time he finally couldn't bear it anymore. He lay on the ground, holding his stomach in pain, and curled up like a boiled shrimp.

Although Tang Han failed the challenge, Master Jin, the tester, was very happy.

"Xiaoxiang, you have a strong foundation! Were you a masked wrestler before?" Master Jin looked surprised, and looked at Tang Han with more and more satisfaction.

Although this 100% of his current strength is far inferior to the strongest punch at his peak, not everyone can withstand it. The mysterious young man in front of him can actually withstand it to this extent without fainting. His endurance is already at the peak of ordinary people.

"Are you sure you don't want to be friends with my daughter? She's also interested in wrestling..."

"No... no need..." Tang Han waved his hand to refuse, and then asked: "Master Jin, do I meet the requirements at this level?"

“Not satisfied yet, but not far off…”

Master Jin rubbed his aching wrist, seeming to be lost in thought.

"As for whether your physical fitness is up to par, it would be best if a ponygirl could test it herself..."

"Let's do this." Master Jin came to the floor-to-ceiling window and pointed to the mountains and forests outside.

"Two kilometers east of here, there's a fifty-meter-high waterfall. Recently, a strange horsewoman came here. She's said to be from Teresen. She meditates and practices at the foot of the waterfall every day, from morning till night..."

"If you can withstand three of her attacks, it means your endurance is up to standard. Then you can come to me to learn that technique. How about that?"

"Ma Niang?" Tang Han was surprised. He slowly got up from the ground and looked in the direction Master Jin pointed.

Is there really a horse girl in this deep forest?

"Well, although I don't know her name and she doesn't want to reveal her identity, she's quite easy to talk to about other things. If you ask her sincerely, I'm sure she'll be willing to help you."

"Anyway, your exercise plan includes two hours of meditation under a waterfall, so you can meditate with her during this time and ask her to help you test the results."

"......" Tang Han hesitated.

A horse girl from Tresen? Could it be Condor?... But Condor was still looking for someone to wrestle with in the academy yesterday, and Master Jin said he came recently, so the time doesn't match, so it's probably not him.

I don't know if that strange horse girl knows herself. It would be best if she doesn't. That way, apart from asking her to test my tolerance, I don't need to have any unnecessary contact with her.

However, if he wanted to know the identity of that horse girl, Tang Han had to go and see it in person.

So Tang Han finally nodded and agreed.

"Row."

Half an hour later.

Following Master Jin's guidance, Tang Han came to the waterfall in the mountains.

At the top of the waterfall, white water falls from a height of fifty meters and splashes into the shallow pool below. The sound is so loud that it drowns out all other sounds in the green forest.

Tang Han hid in the grass and looked at the bottom of the surging waterfall. He indeed found a horse girl meditating on the smooth stone there.

Preliminary judgment showed that she was in her twenties, with a pretty face and a tall figure. She was wearing a conservative light blue swimsuit. She closed her eyes and meditated quietly, bearing the violent impact of the water falling from a high altitude on her head.

It wasn’t the Divine Eagle, nor was it any other horse girl Tang Han knew.

"Huh..." Tang Han breathed a sigh of relief.

It's better not to know...

So he walked out of the bushes, waded into the shallow pool, and slowly walked towards the swimsuit girl.