From 7 to 9 years old

Many months passed and Ki turned 8 years old, her body strength was improving a great deal and she had grown a little more.

Some of the businesses began to show great progress, Elizabeth's clothing business began to expand to other cities and became popular with the common people the most which helped to boost the Bombyx families name to the masses.

Many of Ki's restaurants had started gaining many profits, the family began to purchase buildings in other cities further away to prepare to open more stores in different places.

The tea pavilion became popular among ladies, the main source of customers was by noble and rich ladies of different age groups from places surrounding Wolfden city and began to slowly stabilise.

The blood shadow group had acquired more than 30 people, many of the members had reached the stage of a third rate martial artist while the first group of eight had broken through to become lower second rate martial artists while Rashida was a little stronger.

Leon and Evie made great progress with their martial arts and Evie had begun to handle some people under her who were employed or taught to manage the treasury work as she was being taught by Miranda on how to handle the basics.

At age 9, Ki began to feel that there was a little bit of a Qi and body imbalance within her body because the amount of Qi she had built up had reached around 30 years worth of Qi.

With the help of her generation Qi art, the vitality collected after hunting bandits that moved near the roads between Wolfden city and the village, the blood Qi had been replenished greatly after the heavy need for it during training the body and nurturing the growth of her poisonous Qi but finally she began to feel that her growth speed of her Qi had been a little too fast because her body was still not fully developed and strong enough to contain any more right now.

If a persons body is like a glass cup then the Qi is the water, if the glass is cracked then the body will lose parts of the Qi and encounter periods of weakness or unknown illnesses as the Qi will escape through the cracks.

In Ki's case, the amount of water was surpassing the limits that the glass could hold so Ki began to increase her physical training to further strengthen her body and added an extra type of training.

She would use up the Qi in her body and began to climb on the nearby Rocky Mountain, every time she climbed she used more parts of of her body strength to pull herself up and the higher she climbed the more the pressure increased.

When she lost her grip and fell then she could briefly use her Blood Buddha qi art to forge her damaged body further as if forging a piece of steel while hitting it with a black smithing hammer.

The skin on her body and muscles were bruised or in a lot of pain from the small falls as she managed to land without breaking her bones, this process repeated as she continued to temper her body to its limits.

This training continued for a couple of months until Ki would come out of her seclusion away from the public eye, not only did Ki use many herbs during the time training to create a medicinal bath suitable for healing her wounds and strengthening her body but she had spent the rest of her time sparring with Marilyn and training the others.

The vitality needed increased further in order to reach the next stage of the blood Buddha Qi art for strengthening the muscles, tendons and skin so Ki, Marilyn, Rashida and the blood shadow group had began to search for criminals who were roaming within the area to capture and drain in order to support their training.

Marilyn began to also point out known murderers and trouble makers within the Wolfden city slums who continued to harass others and cause others harm, Ki and others made their way into the city with a plan to set up a group of bandits to lure in the criminals and set up a small camp near the roads between Wolfden city and Ki's village.

The plan was to lure the targeted criminals into the camp so Marilyn found ways to get the criminals to hear a conversation about a group that was getting lucky robbing people and abducting others and selling them on the black market.

Since the group was recruiting new members then some of them were tempted and began to join and over time more began to fall for it.

This allowed a place to gather more blood and vitality to continue the training for everyone and to clean up the slums a little slowly over time.

Marilyn's friends began to collect information within the slums and slowly build up a prototype version of her intel group with the help of the beggars and orphans who lived within the slums.

Any information collected would be arranged and sent to Marilyn in secret, she also began to place some people that Ki had assigned to her in other places in order to slowly increase her range of information gathered.

Some people were placed within the tea pavilion to gather information within the noble and rich circles, the restaurants to gather the information from the groups of common people and travellers while others were sent to the darker areas to gather information about the gangs and underground events.

The group under Marilyn had not exerted any of their strength or presence within Wolfden city and the other places they had infiltrated and began to slowly gain information on the gangs and underground businesses in their surroundings.

The initial plan was to start the organisation quietly and unnoticed in order to not exert their influence within the dark places, future plans required everyone to not be noticed or try to gain control over the gangs because Ki did not wish to be noticed or have her people be suspected as criminals after certain events happen within Wolfden city that had happened in her previous life.

Ki did not want her name or others who worked with her to be connected to those events in order to avoid Being noticed by outside forces like the blood sect, the unorthodox alliance, the demon sect or the martial alliance.

Months later, Bombyx family village, within the mansion Ki, Rashida, Marilyn and Isaac sat at a circular table with cups of tea served.

Marilyn had matured and become a lot more curvy and her muscles were a little more toned, when she was 15 she was malnourished and quite skinny compared to most kids her age but she still had some strength from training but after she turned 17 she had grown up to become more beautiful and her aura became stronger.

Her medium length blonde hair was now washed properly and was no longer a dirty blonde colour but a light blonde.

Isaac had cleaned up in appearance and looked more scholarly and mature over the years of experience with the Bombyx family while Rashida began to look more curvy and enticing after recovering and training her body but she still had the scar on her face which made her look a little intimidating.

Marilyn took a sip of her tea and began to speak. "There is no big changes right now. I have heard that those with debts with the gambling hall have been receiving harsher treatment lately in Wolfden city. Other than that the nobles are rumoured to be hosting hunting games between them, the location of the gathering is unknown right now but I could guess a few locations that it would happen. It's also rumoured that they had been purchasing captured caged animals and slaves so the gangs have been capturing innocent people more often and the gambling hall has also began to hold those who could not pay back their debts by other means and sell them to the nobles as slaves. They are blinded by the money so much that they have been using unfair means to cheat in the games so that they increase the people who owe them money."