Second-rate martial warrior

Sitting cross legged and closing his eyes, Si Zhang began circulating his qi towards his dantian. His eyes were closed but he could see near to a thousand red dots.

"to increase the capacity of your dantian, you must gather all the dots to one place and fuse them together. When you succeed, the capacity of your dantian will increase"

Thanks to Si Guang, Si Zhang knew what he must do. Feeling a connection to the dots, he began to move one of the dot towards another.

It was slow, this would require a lot of time and patience. Leaving Si Zhang concentrate by himself, Si Guang went to look for Si Chen.

Entering the large tent, all that could be seen were the human rests, Si chen was now eating into a little kid's stomach.

"brother Chen, I think you have eaten enough" turning his head with rage, Si Chen soon calmed his bestial self. Wiping the blood out of his mouth, he looked straight into Si guangs's eyes.

"brother Guang, this will be the last time you interrupt me! " exiting the tent, he left to clean himself.

"brother Chen is always on his nerves after eating" he was used to it, so he didn't take it by heart.

They planed on staying in the encampment for today. Like that, Si Zhang would have all the time to focus on gathering the red dots.

One by one he gathered them, a total of three hundred red dots had come in one place. "I am too slow, I have only gathered three hundred dots. I'm gonna be busy the whole night"

If other martial artists had heard what Si Zhang had said. They would be tempted to kill him. To have gathered so much in only one hour, only prodigy's are capable of such feats.

He continued his cultivation until one dot remained, but this dot would just refuse to move. Standing up, Si Zhang was going to stand up and go ask Si Guang.

"elder brother Guang, I have one last dot to gather with rest, but it won't move"

"one last dot?" Si Guang was flabbergasted, he now understood why the great elder took him in as his disciple. This boy is a prodigy!

Calming his mind, he answered to Si zhang. "you only need more qi, I will give you some"

Putting his finger on Si Zhang's belly, Si guang transfered an amount of qi.

Closing his eyes and connecting with the dot, he finally made it move. Fusing it with the rest of the dots, Si Zhang felt his dantian shattering.

But it instantly repaired itself. His dantian was now bigger, it could hold two times the amount of qi that he could hold previously.

Ding! "Congratulations, host has upgraded to Second-rate martial warrior"

Ding! "host, you now have fifteen years worth of qi"

Si Guang and Si Chen could feel that Si Zhang had broken trough the next realm.

"congratulations, junior brother"

Fifteen years of qi? Opening the system, Si Zhang noticed that his qi had got up by five.

The next day, they took their leave from the encampment after having burned it down.

Scouting the borders and looking for dangers, they only encountered merchants. "its so boring! I thought that was gonna fight against other martial artists by coming here"

Si Zhang expressed his disappointment, but to Si Guang and Si Chen it didn't matter.

"shut your mouth, pay attention to the task at hand! "

hearing this hoarse voice scold him, Si Zhang shut his mouth. He didn't want to risk being eaten by this animal.

Days passed but nothing out of the ordinary happened. It didn't look like the just faction had send other spies after the first failed attempt of infiltration.

The duels will take place in ten days, obviously Si Zhang didn't know nothing about it. But he still hadn't got a message to ask him to return to Si city.

"junior brother Zhang, will you take part in the duels against the Wei clan?"

Not knowing what Si Guang was talking about, he gave a confused expression.

"didn't you know that our clan and the Wei clan will face each other in duels opposing five disciples of our elders against five disciples of their elders"

"we cannot participate, because we need to guard the border. so, it leaves exactly five disciples left, You included"

"is that why Master Si asked me to reach the Second-rate martial master realm in twenty five days time"

As they were talking, a large eagle descended on Si Chen's shoulder. Taking and reading the piece of paper that was on its foot. He looked at Si Zhang.

"you are ordered to return to Si city, you have four days" fidgeting in his robe Si Guang took a manual out and gave it to Si Zhang.

"this is a swordskill, I have mastered it completely, I don't need it anymore. It is my way to thank you for your assistance"

Taking the manual and putting it in his robe Si Zhang looked in the eyes of his elder brothers. "I will honor the clan, elder brothers. Trust me, I will not let the Wei clan trample upon us!"

"let's go..., hia!" shouting his horse's name for the first time, Si Zhang went north.

Seeing Si Zhang's figure getting smaller and smaller, until dissappearing. Si Chen could not help but encourage him.

"good luck, little boy"