Mei Liling smiled then sent her divine sense up to look at Ah Chun's soul sea. A person's soul sea was positioned in the spot between one's brows. It was where one's mystic eye would form and it would allow people to use divine sense. Divine sense was the ability to look at things you normally would not be able to see normally, such as one's dantian. What Mei Liling saw was not what she had expected. Hovering in Ah Chun's soul sea was an open mystic eye and above that was a pink lotus that circled around it. Mei Liling retracted her Divine Sense and looked at Ah Chun with a doting smile.
"Chun'er, Mother is very proud of you! The speed of Chun'er's advancements is a lot faster than Mother had anticipated. Because of this Mother will have to increase Chun'er's training. From now on Chun'er will need to do everything with a spirit pressure array placed on your body. Mother also has to talk to you about your vow to the heavens. But first, Mother needs to clean up. So Chun'er, clean up this mess while Mother goes and washes up." Mei Liling smiled as she left the room.
Ah Chun did as she was told and started to clean the room up. Ah Chun was very happy that Mei Liling said she was proud of her. Ah Chun started singing a little song as she cleaned, she could not wait to start her training.
It was about an hour later that Mei Liling came back to see Ah Chun finishing up the clean up of the alchemy room. She stood at the door with a dotting smile on her face. She realized taking Ah Chun in as her daughter was a good idea. Just watching Ah Chun busying herself cleaning brought warmth to Mei Liling's heart.
"Ok Chun'er, come sit down Mother has to talk to you about the vow you made." Mei Liling motioned for Ah Chun to take a seat.
"The vow you made to the heavens and earth is a vow that if the one who made the vow does not show signs of trying to reach their goal, the heavens and earth will deem that person as not keeping the vow and will enact divine punishment on to them. Meaning you will die. Because of this Mother has no choice but to make your training even harder than it should be. I hope Chun'er will understand that Mother is doing this for you. " Mei Liling did not want to put Ah Chun through such hardships but this was the only way.
"Chun'er understand Mother. Chun'er will never blame Mother." Ah Chun did not realize her vow would be something so huge. But this just made her want to become stronger even more!
"Then Chun'er undo the top of your dress and turn your back to me. Mother will inscribe an array on your back." Ah Chun did as she was asked and undid her dress top and turned around.
Mei Liling had some hesitations at first but still took out a knife and cut the tip of her finger. Mei Liling then started to draw strange runes in the air mixing her Spiritual Qi into the blood. It took Mei Liling thirty minutes to finish the array pattern. She then made a few hand signs before sending the array onto Ah Chun's back. The array on Ah Chun's back looked like a tattoo of runic symbols and lines in the shape of a circle. In the middle of that circle were two root shaped images. Signifying the strength of the array. The Spiritual Pressure it would admit would be that of a Two Dao Root cultivator.
Ah Chun felt a burning sensation on her back but it faded quickly. But soon after she felt a strong force pressing down on her. Which forced her off the chair and onto the floor. Making her kneel. Ah Chun was very surprised by this and was about to panic but she soon felt someone adjust her dress top.
Ah Chun looked up from her kneeling position and saw that Mei Liling had a pained expression on her face as she was fixing Ah Chun's dress. This was something Ah Chun did not want to see on her new mother's face. She knew Mei Liling was doing this for her own good. In order to complete her vow and stand at the apex, she had to endure! Gritting her teeth Ah Chun slowly started to get up. First Ah Chun placed her hands on the ground supporting her upper body as she slid her right foot under herself and pushed up with all her might. Slowly staggering as she got her footing until she stood in a hunched position. Sweat was dripping from her brow. Just to get into this position took a lot out of Ah Chun. But she did not want to make her mother worried so she used the last of her strength to raise her upper body and smiled. This caused Mei Liling's heart to wrench.
"No matter how hard the training is. Mother does not need to worry because Chun'er will endure it all to the best of Chun'er's abilities." Even though she was sweating profusely and was out of breath Ah Chun's smile at this time was brighter than the Sun.
From that point on Ah Chun started to get used to the pressure on her body. She started off by walking slowly around the house, then by running, jumping, then doing daily routine exercises. Once she was up to this point Mei Liling started teaching Ah Chun different martial arts and sword techniques.