Training and Studying are no fun

It was already late in the night. The sky was black with beautiful stars, and a full moon.

After Long Shi got to the village he didn't want to talk about his almost death situation with the village leader, he told him he was looking for Dolly before falling in the river and in the waterfall. In the end he found a short sword by the river and he used it to crawl his way up.

The leader was a tall and sturdy man, his skin was red from working in the sun, he was at the 6th layer of body refining and was the only expert in the village, he was the motive the near evil sects didn't annoy the village.

When Long Shi was younger, he treated the leader as a father, but after his 'accident' he saw the cold truth, he was just an orphan being looked at.

The village didn't have too much light, all light was given by torches, scattered by the stone houses door, which helped Long Shi disguise the blood mark in his clothes.

Near his house was Little Sunflower house, she was at the door, giving him a smile, looking at his valiant figure with a funny expression "Why this kid looks so different" she asked in her heart.

She was a short and slim woman, with two big buns in her chest, her long and shiny black hair was up in a lousy coque, letting some threads of hair fall on her cheeks and shoulders, her round black eyes are ¼ closed giving her a seductress look.

"Oh~ Our Third little brother has a brave face, look at his steady steps, so cool, this elder sister is afraid of the night, could she sleep with Third Brother?" The vixen asked with a bewitching smile squatting a little to give the boy a vision of her abundant valley.

A shiver run down Long Shi spine as he looked at Little Sunflower, his face distorted he said with an aggressive tone "Get lost big tit gorilla, today this little brother is not easily scared"

his words made the woman freeze as her willow eyebrows kept twitching and when she got back her composure the kid was already gone.

His stone house had only two rooms, a bed room and the other one was used as a living and dining room, his bed was a big stone board with some grass and wool on it.

Lying on his bed he looked at the ceiling, then he heard the dragon's voice "You better sleep child, tomorrow when the sun and the moon meet you'll have to cultivate".

A resolute glint slipped away in his eyes, he closed it, and easily fell asleep.

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It was early in the morning, the sun and moon could be seen in the orange black sky. A young boy was standing in the middle of a grass field, his limbs and upper body pushed forward, his muscles would tremble from time to time.

"Now exhale and relax your muscles" A stern voice sounded in Long Shi ears.

"Sigh" the young boy blew the yin air out of his mouth as his muscle began to relax.

"Father, can we stop Yijin Jing, it hurt so much the day after, and I can't concentrate in the classes after" ask the boy with a mischievous look on his face.

"Don't try to fool me kid, I know you want to see that little Sunflower girl working" the dragon said with an accusing expression.

Walking dejected and with a red face to his stone house the little guy picked a 20cm bamboo stick that looked like a pencil, picked some bamboo sheet and some animal blood to start to draw some runes his father teached him.

The bamboo sheets are Long Shin ideia, wasn't a great paper, but for him to draw runes was enough and was really cheap, just some boiled dry bamboo fibers.

At the beginning of the training life, all was sweet and glory, Long shi was happy he had a father, but as the days went and the adrenaline went out, his child nature became to appear as he didn't want to do everything on the schedule his father made.

Was just too much, every day he would cultivate early in the morning, after that he would study things like drawing forms and nature, understand and cultivate runes and after that he would go hunt some snakes to eat, because it helped his bewitching serpent bloodline.

In the evening was the worst part, he would do a lot of body exercises but the most hated one was the spanking.

"Go call that happy girl, it's time to train your fight skills" the dragon said after Long Shi finished eating a snake soup.

"FATHER! Please have mercy. That little monkey beat me all the time, why do I have to use a band in my eyes?" complained the boy.

The little monkey was the left house neighbor girl, she was younger than him by a year, he would use a band to 'fight' her, but there is no fight, he always took a beating, since he could not attack her nor take the band off, he could only evade or block her attacks.

Long Shin told him to do this, so he could train his senses and become less dependent on his eyes, also creating opportunities for the boy to see more girls and women helping him get over his fear.

After the beating he would soak in medicine, was at least the best one, not because he liked, but because he would treat his own wounds, he learned about acupoints and meridians from Shin, crushing the blue spirit flowers, making paste for cuts and powder to baths with it, getting his body nourished.

Every time he took a hot bath with powder of that blue spirit flower, his body would suck it like a sponge, he would feel so well, that it can almost make him fall asleep.

He would always think about his annoying training at the bath, thinking about how he couldn't understand that rune thing, how he could not make his father happy with his meditation, how bored he was in the drawing classes, why he needed to learn to draw anyway.

The only thing who made his flame keep alight was the negativity, the taunt of the other boys who already at 3th layer of Body Refining, the stupid and despising eyes of the girls, even the harass and taunt of Little Sunflower, what make it worse she was his neighbor too, every time she worked his bones would make a fuzz, but his father would never let him off his training, so he keep hearing her moaning.

He learned about hours, but since there is no clock all he could do was estimate based on the position of the sun and moon, he also learned the days, weeks and months, he learned that he was ten years old, after all, his father could see his bone age.

A lot of things Shin teached the boy he didn't even see, but when he asked where Shin learned it, the answer was always the same "I have millions of years, so i learned a lot of things", which made the boy even more frustrated.

The boy couldn't see it, but the blood essence his father gave him made him way more aggressive and the fact his bones were awake influenced him even if it was just an atom of dragon blood.

Every Saturday, he would go to an old village woman house, she lived near the village exit, she was the only one in the village who knew how to read and write and would teach him how to, for some snake soup.

Sunday was the only day he could just meditate and then was free, he never understood it, but like a charm it worked every time, he was always waiting for it.

Sunday was his favorite day, but also his worst night, he would think about asking for a stop, but his father would use the Blossom Lotus Sect and that woman as a reason, it worked every single time.

Long Shin was having not a good time too, the little guy's life was pretty easy and was really hard to take a child off his comfort zone, at the beginning, because of that death situation on the forest, it was easy, but as the time goes, the little guy started to become lazy and whine like a real child.

The boy didn't know anything he didn't need to live, so Long Shin had to teach or make him learn through others means, like the old woman or the little girl, but in the end the boy would call women gorillas and girls monkeys, making Long Shin efforts to help his fear laughable.

Being the good and bad cop at the same time was hard, with the limited knowledge about this universe made it way too worse, this kid was too poor, don't know how to read and write, don't had any kind of spiritual jade, in fact not even in the village, no one had a single one, so every time he explain a rune to the boy, it would be futile without examples.

It was Monday, the skies between dark and bright, the low complaint could be heard in the little guy's mouth, rubbing his warm to dispel the cold morning wind, as he walked to the grass field at the back of his house, he would make a stop, put some water on his spirit blue flowers on the way and keep going.

He started his meditations with Yijin Jing, from form to form, inhale, clamp his muscles and tendons and then exhale and relax.

Last time at the cave he could see the dragon breathing at least one time, but after that no matter how much he tried he couldn't.

Today he wanted to try something new, he wanted to put himself in the dragon position.

He closed his eyes, and started imagining the yin-yang fish, after three years his spirit and body got way better, thanks to the everyday training, nourishment and medicinal baths.

But everytime time he tried to imagine the giant golden dragon again, he could see a form, not too long after, it would go away like a mist, all he could see was a fuzzy giant thing.

So he decided to forget about the dragon, father always said to use references when drawing, but he can't remember all details about that giant guy besides Long Shin dragon form wasn't the same as that giant thing.

His mind started to work, first his most outstanding feature, his face, an oval face with some baby fat on his cheeks, a chiseled nose, his eyes not too narrow like most males, or too large like women eyes, black pupils with some beautiful purple glint in his iris.

His short soldier black hair, his father always made him cut when it was too long, his sword eyebrows with a golden little tear between them.

His athletic child body, standing there in the same position as the real one.

He was standing in the middle of the primordial chart, the fishes swimming in opposite directions, he started to synchronize his movements in real life with his mind one.

Long Shin was floating in the air with a smile in his mouth, looking at the focused children, at every inhale, little snakes of primordial yang would enter his nostrils, his muscles would bulge as he cramp them, the yang qi would pass through them nourishing his wounded fibers, when he hold his breath the yang and yin qi inside his body would form a little vortex in his dantian, and with a exhale his body would eject yin qi.

"BAANG!" an exploding noise came from his dantian as a white steam started circulating through his meridians and a purple steam was being ejected from his pores.

As Long Shi opened his eyes, a purple light came out of them, giving him a mysterious look, with an exhale black air could be seen coming out of his mouth, after the purple steam got away, little black dirt started to get out his pores.

"Father this.." asked the kid yelling with a bewitching voice that made him jump in fright "what's happening with my voice?"

"Haha! Congratulations kid, you are now a cultivator, that was your breakthrough to the 3th layer of body refining" said Long Shin with a big smile.

"Now I'll have to change your schedule, also we need to control your bewitching nature, this bone of yours isn't a joke huh?" The dragon told analyzing the bewitching nature in the kid bones, now so obvious.

As the cold morning wind was going away and only the sun was in the sky, Shin was talking with the boy about his future, now he could use spirit qi, now his training would really begin.