Training With A Sect Elder |END|

Wang Tao was the first to notice a change in the atmosphere in the middle of the whole sea of disciples. Looking towards the direction where he had felt the change, he caught a glimpse of who had caused it.

'Lien Hua... Not bad for only 8 years old. She has already figured out the trick behind the exercise, but she is still immature.' So he began to look around a bit where other people had also figured out the exercise, scrutinizing them as he had already done with Lien Hua.

In the meantime Lien Hua hadn't noticed anything strange on Wang Tao's side; she was too focused on succeeding in the exercise that she had eliminated her perception of things around her and was only thinking about how to improve herself.

I've more or less figured out how it should work but we're not there yet. Should I push more on getting the spiritual energy out or improve the push? I don't know, but I think I'll start by getting the spiritual energy out better and see if the further I take it, the better it comes out with the final push.'

Thus, Lien Hua placed herself again in the horse position with her palms in front of her facing the training dummy and closed her eyes, entering an internal trance state where her breathing was becoming calmer and calmer. So from inside her body, a small filament of spiritual energy was coming out. But without doing as before where she had pushed right away, she let it out slowly. Even though it was quite mentally demanding, Lien Hua didn't want to give up.

As soon as all the filament was about to come out, a small distraction made it explode into a thousand particles, making Lien Hua's face turn pale outside, and she began to cough and put a hand on her stomach as if to support herself.

'What the f-! What the hell happened!?!? Why did it fucking explode?! Ah- Damn!! Why does it hurt so much?'

Everyone around her noticed her movements of pain and wondered what the hell had happened, but they returned to their exercises shortly afterwards. Lin Yue and Cheng Huang also noticed her and were about to approach her, but Feng Xiao, who was next to Lien Hua, beat them to it and moved next to her with a worried face and put a hand on her shoulder to help her.

"Lien Hua what happened? Are you alright?"

"Don't worry, Feng Xiao. I simply made a mistake in a movement and hurt myself a little, hehe."

With a smile that was a bit painful and with her face completely pale, she didn't look very good. Looking at her a little strangely, Feng Xiao didn't pay much attention and smiled at her.

"The important thing is that it's nothing serious."

He went back to his seat and resumed the exercise. He was very close to figuring out what the trick was behind it, so after making sure that nothing serious had happened, he went right back to practising himself.

Looking over Feng Xiao's shoulder, Lien Hua was a little surprised at how someone she had only known for such a short time was so concerned about her, but she thought it was just basic courtesy. She would eventually pass it along to the person next to her whom she didn't even know.

Not thinking about it any more and seeing that she was recovering from the damage created by that mistake, she began to calm her breathing, which had become laboured. A few minutes after she had calmed down and that pain in her belly was no longer present, with ten times more caution than before, Lien Hua returned to practicing. However, this time, even though she was a little more hesitant, she countered this hesitation with a much longer preparation than before in case she got hurt again.

So after she got into position and went into a trance, she repeated the technique of slowly drawing out a strand of spiritual energy, which she noticed was even smaller this time than the other times. I'm starting to run out of spiritual energy. Damn it, I need to calm down and do it slowly; I don't want to run out of reserves or not be able to do anything productive.' With this new motivation, she slowed down the process even more.

Millimetre by millimetre the filament of spiritual energy that glowed in the emptiness that was inside of her body like a firefly in the middle of the night, came out completely, and it was here that Lien Hua finally began to concentrate with everything she had. Lien Hua didn't notice that this great focus of hers because of this had automatically closed her senses to the outside world and even if someone was walking over her, she wouldn't have noticed.

Calming her breath more and more, Lien Hua commanded the strand of spiritual energy to go higher and higher until soon it came close to her heart. As soon as it had gotten there, Lien Hua, like a broken string, opened her eyes wide and with a grunt while holding her teeth clenched, and pushed her palms outwards with all her strength.

Right at that moment all the people around Lien Hua felt something as if the entire atmosphere around her was being disturbed. With incredulous and shocked eyes, they witnessed an incredible scene. Just as she began to push her palms outwards, the air around the little girl began to create a fantastic sight as very distinct waves began to form from her, moving all the way to the training dummy.

Just as these infinitely smaller waves than the ones Wang Tao had created were about to approach the training dummy, like a wave breaking on the rocks, it all dispersed into the aether. Lien Hua, meanwhile, looked at this with a huge smile and screamed with happiness.

"Yes! Haha I did it, yes!"

Just as she was celebrating her success, her head began to spin and everything around her became indistinguishable. 'Oh God right, I've run out of spiritual energy reserves. So this is the feeling when you don't even have any spiritual energy inside your body.' So Lien Hua bent down on her knees, and trying with her hands to feel the ground, she sat down on the soil where she found a better balance and could already bear more of the nausea that came over her.

In the meantime, Lin Yue and Chen Huang saw that their friend had succeeded in something that they were still experimenting with, and they were a little worried about what had happened to her, but seeing that she had sat down and was fine, they resumed their training with much more seriousness than before; they couldn't be left behind.

While Lien Hua was regaining his strength, it took Lin Yue and Chen Huang ten minutes to figure out how to do the exercise. And they did, but of course being of a lower level than Lien Hua, they had even lower reserves of spiritual energy than she had, and as soon as they succeeded, they fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes.

Not only were they tired after all that running, even after that it was too much for them. Lin Yue, looking at Lien Hua resting thought, 'But if we are so tired even after that insane run, how can Lien Hua not be? Absurd.'

Lin Yue was a little jealous, but also happy that her best friend was so strong. 'But still in the future she will have to reveal to us how she did it; she can't become strong just by herself!'

Thinking of this, Lin Yue, with Chen Huang beside her, touched something hidden above her chest. Chen Huang, watching her make a strange movement had become quite curious.

"Lin Yue? Did something happen?"

Lin Yue turned to Chen Huang and replied with a sigh, "Don't worry... I was just a little worried about Lien Hua."

So turning around, Lin Yue didn't notice that Chen Huang was still looking at her. Chen Huang didn't know what Lin Yue was thinking but he was still worried. 'Sigh... I don't understand why she doesn't want to open up to me. What happened that is making her worry so much?'

Although he didn't give it away Chen Huang was a very bright child and especially sensitive to what was going on around him, so seeing his best friend hiding something from him and not talking about it with him not only worried him even more but he also didn't know what to do.

While all these discussions were appearing, in the meantime Feng Xiao, looking at Lien Hua, was very surprised. 'How is it possible that she has already succeeded? Even those two children managed it absurdly, as well. So, is this the difference between an average grade and a low grade?'

He thought about all these things with a slightly pained face, but he didn't give up and started training again.

Wang Tao was pleased with what had happened today. Not only had he found 4 very prominent talents, but more and more people were succeeding in this test, which was also quite difficult, but apparently not enough for this group of acolytes. 'Eh, just as that decrepit old man had said, this year's people are absurd, the future of our sect looks very bright.'

In the meantime, the very calm and reserved Ling Tianni had also succeeded in the exercise, shocking all those standing around him. In the end it was a low grade. For heaven's sake, he, too, had succeeded, but they hadn't yet! So with determination and jealousy, they, too, began to train.

Lien Hua didn't know what was going on around her, but she only knew one thing: she was completely depleted of spiritual energy to the point that she found it difficult to breathe. So she did something shocking so out in the open. She started cultivating in front of everyone, showing her superior mastery in this field.

All the people around her were even more shocked. Not even after 1 week of waking up and already this child had superior cultivation mastery? Absurd! Those people in the midst of everyone who hadn't even managed to cultivate wanted to bury themselves in embarrassment.

So calmly, Lien Hua cultivated to restore her reserves for a few hours until she was eventually disturbed.