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Opening his eyes, Qing Tian quickly stood up and turned to face the white bone katana.
Glaring at the Sword, Qing Tian stayed still for a couple of seconds.
"It happened again…" muttered Qing Tian as he looked at the katana.
Although it was for a short moment, Qing Tian had certainly felt his spiritual energy being absorbed by the katana. There's only one type of sword he knows about that should be absorbing spiritual energy, and although very faint, Qing Tian also felt a small part of his soul enter the sword.
"It's too similar…"
Qing Tian glared at the katana for a couple more seconds before strapping back to his waist and exiting his Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal.
After exiting, Qing Tian had the black lion cub rest before keeping watch the rest of the night.
…
"Good, you both have promise as Martial artists. It's a shame that you two don't have the heart for it," said Qing Tian as he watched over both Ji Yanran and Qu Lili.
"It's only been three weeks since we started, if we didn't improve, I would have given up," said Qu Lili with a cheeky smile.
Qing Tian had already managed to place the third Array a day ago, progressing rather rapidly.
He had stopped by many shelters to gather provisions and to spend some time with his mother and his friends.
In these three weeks, Qing Tian had been training the two girls, practicing the Tempered Star Jade Essence Physique, and meditating to increase the Quality, Quantity, and strength of his spiritual energy.
'I have gathered 73 Life Essences, and the bodies of 12 super creatures,' thought Qing Tian as watched over the girls' training. 'Not only that, but I'm close to where my mother and Queen are. Huangfu Pingqing is a lot closer to Steel Armor Shelter, so I don't have to worry about going to get her just yet.'
Qing Tian also needed to go get Xue Xi, but she won't enter the Sanctuary until 1 month and a half later.
For now, Qing Tian only had to worry about three people besides Ji Yanran and Qu Lili.
What he was doing wasn't just training the girls to know how to fight, but to prepare them for the future.
The First God's Sanctuary is to train not just himself and find ways to be stronger before going to the next Sanctuary, but to train his women and friends so that they can survive without his help.
He's preparing them to be strong enough to be able to fight by themselves and remain alive.
Qing Tian likes having his woman being weak and dependent on him, but he also loves them being strong and being able to take care of themselves.
Which is why he's training the girls to be stronger and training himself to be even stronger.
What Qing Tian was doing to keep both girls strong wasn't a simple training to learn and become proficient at Martial arts. He was secretly feeding them food made from herbs and the condiments he had recently unlocked from his Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal to unlock their potential and enhance their minds and body to make them become stronger and more adept.
When he's done training them for a week more, the girls will be ready to take on the sanctuaries by themselves without anyone's help.
The strength he had imparted onto them is real.
"It really feels like I'm stronger than yesterday," said Qu Lili as she packed everything up and summoned her mount.
"That's good to hear," said Qing Tian as he sat on top of the Ruby Panther's head.
"Good good! Now you won't be weak little girlies!"
Magica came out of Qing Tian's Sea of Consciousness and stood on top of the panther's head before raising her head proudly.
"You will be training too," said Qing Tian as he poked Magica in the waist.
"Gah! I don't need to train, master! I'm naturally strong," happily proclaimed Magica as she jumped towards Qing Tian.
"Relying on raw strength won't always help you, make sure to keep that in mind," said Qing Tian as he poked Magica once more before she suddenly slumped down into Qing Tian's arms.
"No fair! You're just too strong, master," grumbled Magica happily. "That technique of yours is too strong too. A couple of pokes and I'm down…"
"That's why you shouldn't rely on raw strength," said Qing Tian.
"Hmph…"
Magica blushed and kept quiet.
Yes, what Qing Tian looked forward to after he trained his women and they are strong enough to take care of themselves, it's nice and calm moments like these.
After he's done training the women, he gets his Dantian, enters Blackhawk Military Academy, completes the array, and trains himself a bit more, Qing Tian will move on to the Second God's Sanctuary.
Training the women can be done in just a couple of weeks, the ones that will really take up his time is the waiting for the Birth of Immorality Pill that will take 6 months for the pill to become a Spirit Pill and the waiting time to enter Blackhawk Military Academy.
If it all goes well, then Han Sen might also enter the Second God's Sanctuary earlier as well.
'There's still one problem left that I haven't addressed yet.'
Qing Tian had been waiting for the chance to come up, but it hasn't come up lately. He had been waiting for the call from Huangfu Xiaocheng, his master.
At first, Qing Tian only decided to become the disciple of Huangfu Xiaocheng so that he didn't have to explain his superior combat abilities to anyone. However, after a while, it became more about the Super creatures.
Queen had already known about the fact that there exists creatures that are stronger than Sacred, however she wasn't sure about what it was. Qing Tian had been wondering whether it was Huangfu Xiaocheng who knew about them and had told Queen about them.
Qing Tian waited for the moment, for Huangfu Xiaocheng to call him and tell him about everything.
Of course, there's also the possibility that Queen found out herself, but Qing Tian just wanted to be sure.
'Whether she knows or not, I will help her out and train her to become stronger. None of my women will be below anyone, no one but me,' thought Qing Tian as a smirk came across his face.
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More days passed and the girls' training was finally coming to an end.
"Are you sure we don't need any more training? We still can't beat you," said Ji Yanran, panting as she held a sword in her hand.
Her clothes was drenched and dirty, just like Qu Lili who was slumped on the ground, tired as well.
With a spear in hand, Qu Lili held on tight to the spear in fear of falling face first into the ground.
"Yeah, are you sure? I don't think our weapons even touched you once…"
Qing Tian chuckled and stood before the girls completely fine. His clothes were clean and tidy, as if he had done nothing since he had worn the clothes. He had even been training the girls by giving them a handicap they didn't know about.
His fitness of 80.
He had reduced it to a little over five points below their fitness level to keep himself on his toes and continue to become better in his martial arts. As they got stronger, Qing Tian also began to strengthen the handicap and lower his fitness even lower.
It worked out great too, he was feeling himself become stronger and his moves becoming more efficient.
When the girls had finally reached the fitness of 55, Qing Tian had his fitness at 20. Although all this training with the girls was only effective for evading attacks and increasing his reaction speed, reflexes, reaction to danger, and sensing danger.
"Believe me, I'm sure you girls are ready. Before I started training Magica, I'm sure you both could have taken her down easily," Qing Tian told the complete truth.
That's how far he took the training and nurturing of both Ji Yanran and Qu Lili. Their fitness should be at a 55, something no creature or human could deal with in this first God's Sanctuary, especially with their expertise Qing Tian helped train into them.
In terms of the martial realms, the girls were at a Master realm, close to breaking into the Grandmaster realm.
His training and skills are topnotch, including his nurturing and Ji Yanran and Qu Lili had become monsters.
In just four weeks, Qing Tian had made four masters who are just a step away from becoming grandmasters.
'My love for women really is something… I couldn't train Han Sen this fast…' thought Qing Tian in laughter.
"Now, if you want to become stronger, continue to train and that also includes your Hyper Geno Art. Try to include it in the way you fight," said Qing Tian as he brought out Magica to continue her training.
"Right!"
Both girls nodded and sat down on the ground to rest for a while, their eyes trailing over to Qing Tian and Magica about to begin sparring.
"Rest up and after you feel cool, go and bathe," Qing Tian told Ji Yanran and Qu Lili as he stood straight and with both hands behind his back. He then turned to Magica who entered her battle mode and her spinning spear appeared in her hand before smiling.
"Ready?"
Qing Tian only had to ask that one word before Magica lunged forward and struck forward with her spinning spear rotating at a rapid speed.
"You're doing a lot better than yesterday, you just need to loosen up," said Qing Tian as he easily dodged the spear and evaded its attracting effect.
Magica kept quiet and continued attacking in a nonstop motion. Unlike living beings, beast souls didn't get tired, so Magica could keep on going forever. However, Qing Tian could easily keep up with her even after lowering his fitness to 25 whereas her fitness was at 60.
Why was her fitness so high? Qing Tian had been feeding her the fruits he had. The fruits that could increase the strength of a creature by one percent for every time it is eaten.
However, it will only work until the base strength is enhanced by 100%, something that is coming up close for Magica.
Her base strength was an astonishing fitness of 40, something which is generally quite hard to achieve for Super creatures.
Faa~!
The spear whistled right past Qing Tian's head, evading it by just a hair's width.
With a smile spread over his head, Qing Tian continued to dodge every attack by a hair's width.
"Why are you dodging my attacks so narrowly!" complained Magica as her attacks got slower.
Qing Tian smiled softly and said, "You don't think that this training is only for you? Do you?"
Magica furrowed her eyebrows and asked, "Why are you training master, aren't you strong enough already?"
"You know, I have a friend who thought his strength and skill was enough. So he put aside his sword and began training in paperwork," said Qing Tian with a chuckle. "Years later, he picked up the sword again for a fight I had called him for and I couldn't get his help at all since his sword skills had waned and his strength wasn't the same as before.
His strength remained, but it was mostly showy and raw brute force."
Magica increased the speed of her spear, feeling like she didn't want her master to become someone so unrefined. She wanted her master to become a bright and polished diamond that is the most beautiful.
"What I'm trying to say is… becoming someone pathetic isn't something I'd like. Instead, I'll strive to cut down God and become something far better and amazing.
This friend of mine is someone who realized his weakness and took back his sword and trained. In the end, he was not just a friend, but a spiritual teacher," said Qing Tian as his eyes turned sharp and he continued to dodge every attack that became more sharp as time went on and it's piercing and slicing power became stronger.
The spinning spear rotated even faster and the attraction and repulsion forces became stronger.
Qing Tian, talking about this friend of his and having his blood pump all over his body crazily felt his senses rise to a very high point. To a point where he felt serene and could just close his eyes…
Before he knew it, Qing Tian had closed his eyes and a warm and soft smile was spread on his face and he continued to dodge every single attack of Magica.
However, whilst he felt his body move and dodge every attack, everyone else saw something completely different.