Well I lost in the first move against Xiao Xiao upon contact, "my bad let's try again" she apologized "I used too much strength there." but then we went at it again, this time she sealed up all of her Qi and then fought me 'lackadaisically' I still lost but in two moves progress at last, there is at least a difference between being one-shoted and lasting one extra move.

  "Again!" she shouted "you need to be able to match me in combat to break through to the next realm of your combat technique" she said.

  she then continued "don't be stingy with your Qi since you have been able to manipulate your Qi internally you should have become more efficient with your rate of Qi generation, and I wil be feeding you with foods specially cooked to cater to that need of yours so why hoard your Qi?"

  "okay" I replied then I reached for that place where my Qi was stored yes, my secret space and well I can't exactly say if I pulled, pushed or just willed the Qi into myself, it just came flooding in I felt like I was more to myself larger than life all being of this world beneath my notice my les... the punch jabbed unto my face cut off my thought and I was brought to ground level.

  "you are allowing the abundance of energy to fuck with your psyche, instead bend it to your will better, lest you falter in face of higher energy when you break through to higher realms of power because, it gets worse the higher you go" she warned.

  "again!" she shouted and I heeded, I reached for and roused my Qi, it tried to put me in that previous state but "I am me not my Qi not the impression it bombards me with, I am Hua Lei not of this world before but of this world now I am me and no other body!" I said inwardly and kept repeating it.

  okay you can admit that I pulled the last word directly out of Rema's music "you don't need no other body!" but it felt right and I think I'll pen that down in my book after this training, with that I found it a tad easier to call upon my Qi while concentrating on something else for instance reinforcing one's body with vital Qi.

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  Xiao Xiao watched the dolt fumble with something as fundamental as body reinforcement, she shook her head in self mockery wondering if this was what master and big sis saw and how they felt when training her in the beginning, pathetic is the word that suits this situation

  as if it couldn't get worse, he started displaying some queer expression, some of which she had once brutally wiped out off the face of some unlucky fellas that messed with her, the expression on his face was as if he was on top of the world as if she was being looked down on... like a bug?!.

  without any hesitation she snapped her fist to his face in an effort to wipe off that expression, lest he internalize it and it becomes part and parcel of him, which will lead him to a quick death if in an eventuality he offends the wrong person and he dies like fowl.

  after her careful ministration of a well timed, 'light' punch he snapped out of it and went back to evoking his Qi once more under my instruction, he didn't have any issues this time, he even seems to be doing better than before and he slowly, for the first time of his life, reinforced his body successfully.

  'well what do you expect this is your first experience teaching this stuff to someone truly new to cultivation of any kind' she consoled herself internally as she watched hua lei fumble his way into making his first Qi technique not counting his method for rousing his Qi.

  seeing that he successfully reinforce his body with Qi, I threw a punch he staggered under that punch but I kept on coming and he kept on blocking, all being dojo standard nothing too extravagant and seeing that he was adapting I decided to start ramping things up.

  it's been over six days now that I've been training this person, seems whatever master did to him only shows effects when he's been pushed to his limit and placed in apparent danger of bodily harm of any other situation of which is blood boils.

  'hehe' she licks her lips and leveled a predatory gaze on Hua Lei 'perhaps he will also be good in bed, like Cao Wan'er shimei would gossip with us about how master was been good in bed it's just that I might snap him into two or worse my higher level spirit Qi kills him in the throes of passion.'

  the PROFOUND YIN SEALING ART cultivation method modified by master and given to us sisters as analogous to the PROFOUND YANG SEALING ART instead turns us into a suitable cultivation furnace, heighten our Qi mobilization and battle power, and it also had a side effect of heightening our sexual tendencies instead of this drawback of the latter who has to turn himself into a eunuch in order to progress faster in cultivation else, he might lose all of his cultivation base to his partner if he is allowed to have sex..

  this cultivation method is now making me susceptible to his charms all thanks to the fact that master tuned it to his aura and I guess in this case his aura adjacent, big sis Cao Wan'er might not be able to hold back... I think we should probably rescue big sis after we've gotten strong enough to attempt for we might start needing someone who is proficient in alchemy.

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  her first blow rocked me hard and almost broke the concentration that I was expending to hold my Qi in a body reinforcement mode, the punches did not stop coming from then on, then I realized that I could refine my blocking technique with her.

  that idea was quickly scrapped for one of her blows was particularly heavy that it broke past my guard and struck me, it almost lifted me off my feet then I integrated more of parrying and dodging respectively to my foot work in short I was just trying to survive her onslaught.

  while concentrating on defense and her blows slowly started ramping up I found out that suddenly I could perform better under her barrages, that I haven't been sent flying or stumbling away, that I was getting better thus, I went on the offensive.

  a mistake if I've ever known one, I punched thin air which immediately ended our sparring match, since she contemptuously dodged the incoming fist and countered me in such a way that I found myself on the ground before I knew what was going on.

  at least you make mistakes and keep eliminating them till the only thing left is success up for grabs, though at times just straight up rote learning will do the trick, however it's time to digest my gains and I sat down to meditate checking on my improvements.

  and I saw that I am constantly digesting the "soul stuff" put into me by the crazy last acts of Yu Ren, this made me press on further faster than necessary and Xiao Xiao intends to take full advantage of it and make me increase in my realms of power faster.

  so far so good I've not experienced the world blurring movement speed that I initially experienced that day, such a pity, it's not that I intend to faint again through Qi overdraft again, though I still long to reach for my Qi again and revel on that moment of euphoria and this sense of being powerful and... ok don't let us go into that rabbit hole again.

  it seems Qi functionally intoxicates people like marijuana and all other sort of hard drugs, thought it is only those xianxia drug dealers (alchemists) and 'clients' that it affects but now I have to initiate an early therapy to combat unnecessary god-complex.

  now with the Qi spiked food I'm being offered by Xiao Xiao, I found myself able to generate and harvest more vital Qi from my body into my secret space and according to Xiao Xiao this Qi type is still the lowest quality on the spectrum of Qi, now how powerful are the other higher spectrum Qi is gonna be?

  I stopped meditating after I managed to get the amount of wisps to a staggering 7 in my secret space even after my body had during training, passively made use of the majority of the amount generated and this becomes what's left.

  I stood up after checking my gains, it's time for some stretches which strangely did not devolve into a hell in a hand basket, "you've already been primed for all of this training when you haven't heed the call of Qi, making it easy to transit from normal mortal to a cultivator that's what dojos are for." she said after sensing my bafflement on how the training did not become too strenuous to bare.

  I felt a bit more freedom in the movement of my joint after training, this also was to make so that I do not end up with torn ligaments and sprained joints once the training took a more acrobatic turn which will mean that a portion of my training time will be dedicated to mastering this also.

  "reinforce your body now" she ordered, the euphoria took over again not as overpowering as before, since that was directly thrown behind my mind for I'm on the verge of having my ass handed to me again, now with all of that how do you expect man to indulge himself?

  I reached for the Qi, it heeded my call flooded my body and I felt sturdier, I had a small misconception of time slowing down I leaned into it, remembered the feeling burned how it feels into my memory and I moved like an arrow let loose from a bow.

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  he moved fast, at least as fast as his cultivation could let him to, then I turned the training into a game of tag as once described by Hua Lei himself as police and thief, thief I quickly got a sense of what it means but police, after a period of lengthy explanation did I knew that it was their own version of the city guards, where the first pursues and the other tries every trick in the book to escape the person tagging.

  childish as the game might seem it was simple and effective especially when it was modified to suit the intent of the training movement and positioning when engaging in combat, it went on till I took over as the person tagging or the 'city guard's' role to him being the tagged one or the 'thief' role, at first I 'caught the culprit' easily but soon after it devolved into a situation where I have to put more and more effort into apprehending the 'thief'.

  so I became the lessons about movement techniques by learning how to position one's self and the 'police and thief' fun game method, practice 10000 punches another, basic exercises and stretches this will go on for nearly one month to 'firm his foundation'.

  by the time the training ended, I've already reached the limit of the secret space phase firm as he can, ready to transition to the next phase of cultivation which is the internal Qi refinement phase, this phase will require the manifestation of nine clouds of vital Qi wisps.

  'you see, cultivation as it is, generally follows the rule of four or the four truths as Xiao Xiao puts it, it consists of creation, formation, manifestation and transformation. These works hand in hand to the extent that one might not know where one ends and the other begins.'

  if one could manifest enough Qi to cause a qualitative change transformation occurs, this if grasped well could enable you to have a modicum of controlled breakthrough, this one grants the advantage of you able to have a denser foundation than the ones who just breakthrough when it is time or the ones who forces a breakthrough.

  "this 'controlled breakthrough' is an event when a cultivator delays a breakthrough to build up better breakthrough momentum, this helps to firm ones foundations and no one would skip a chance to get as close as possible to be granted the extreme realm by the heavens, " says Xiao Xiao as she began lecturing "the best way to do it is to hold off until you have no choice of releasing your hold on the breakthrough."

  "the creation of your phase is the moment you transform your raw vitality into vital Qi the formation phase is the moment you stabilize it in your secret space so that your body don't take it back this was you predicament some weeks ago."

  "it's manifestation is as you see it now a mass of highly condensed cloud of vital Qi it's best to hold off the impulse to cause a breakthrough, disperse the cloud, it was recorded that the secret space could go on to accept more than nine wisps to around thirteen or fourteen."

  "anything beyond nine wisps signifies the extreme level in this cultivation phase of yours, you might even join the extreme realm exponents if you consecutively reach extreme level in all phases of cultivation in a cultivation stage."

  "however, Hua Lei will you be up to the task?"