"alright Yuan, show me what you got!" Shao Qi sat down like a tiger emperor surrounded by monks in the practice ground, they were all starring at her seriously, some are exited to see her skill and some elders are serious
"Yuan you can do it! Jaiyu" Yunxi was also nervous behind her trying her best to cheer up Yuan
Yuan closed her eyes and pulled out her whip, she has been practicing it for a month and gave all her time handling the weapon given by Yi Ce, She never wanted to fight and use weapon but to serve Rong Yunxi, and upon knowing her situation and look back to her previous life at Jhu state, she does not want anyone to harm her lady anymore
Yi Ce saw her good abilities in handling the weapon, even in her first time using them she failed over and over tripping on her own feet, she does not quite know why Yuan picked a whip instead of sword or bow, she said she liked the whip cos its a long range for fighting, one thing is for sure when he was training her, each time Yuan bring out her wings and play the whip, it change color and become stronger and faster
she had a spar with a beetle beast once at her training, beetle beasts are fast and furious, but Yuan managed to take them down and never left a single one flying out of her sight, Yi Ce was a proud trainer
"Shènme, are you afraid!" Shao Qi's temper rose
Yuan started dancing with her whip showing her skills and delicate moves, two female monks went inside the circle in Shao Qi's command to spar her skills
Yuan ended up getting scared, but upon looking at Yunxi and Yi Ce she cheered and firmly stood her ground to fight off her opponent
her whip is a normal leather with wooden handle, the first monk jumped towards Yuan and kicked her behind to run by force and tripping on her feet, the other flipped her to the air and slammed her back to the ground causing her to gasp from the sudden pain and hard ground that kissed her pretty face, blood came out of her nose causing her head to spin from the impact
"Yuan!" Yunxi yelled out of worry stepping inside the circle but was pulled by Yi Ce
"Diánxià don't" their martial arts are really good for hand to hand combat, and the impact of their energy is really dangerous, Yuan knew she need to get away from her opponent and keep her senses sharp and hear out the moves of her enemy, whip is long range weapon to protect her away from other short range weapons, Yuan got up wiped away the blood in her nose and flipped away,
the first woman walked towards her in a speed, this time positioned to give her another strong blow, the other is flying behind her
she wrapped the rope on the monk's body infront of her and used her force to throw her to the other, the two monks was surprised and had no time to run but dodge one another, Yuan continued to move forward and whipped them with her force to weaken their strength, after weakening them she wrapped the other monk and threw her away with a big impact amount of energy that came out of her body, Yuan's strength is unbelievably strong by force, everyone who saw it was surprised including Yunxi who watched her closely, Yuan's enemies were impressed and could no longer get close to her because of her speed and strong power, Shao Qi smiled and knew he don't need to worry about protecting the wife of his son Fei Jin anymore
after the spar is done, Shao Qi stood up with a still serious face and stared at Yuan
"Yuan, why did you learn whip instead of sword?"
"I-I" she stuttered, Shao Qi's cold eyes can't even make her a sound but caught her tounge
"Its what I desire and each time I play the whip my wings are becoming stronger, and also? I wanted to use this weapon to protect my lady" she frowned, Yunxi is greatly touched and smiled
"good, that's good Yuan, one thing is for sure you have power that connected you to that weapon, you can use that in battle and unlock more power within you if you keep on practicing that whip" Shao Qi said, Yuan was overjoyed and kowtowed to Shao Qi
"thank you Master!"
Shao Qi looked at Yunxi next, Yunxi knew it's her turn so she breathed in some big amount of air
"now I want to see how the princess has mastered her Fan!" Shao Qi sat down and signalled Yuan to get out of the ground by shooeing her
Yunxi walked down to the training ground and pulled out her fan to show her little skills that Fei Jin thought her
"that fan is no ordinary and it listens to the command of the one handling it, I thought that to Fei Jin, I hope he thought you a better technique my daughter in law" everyone felt awkward upon hearing Shao Qi, Yunxi and him look like at the same age, but Shao Qi is already half a thousand years old living from generations
"y-yes Master"
Yunxi positioned in her feet and opened the fan like an elegant fairy, Shao Qi summoned large flies in the air as her target, everyone had their eyes locked on Yunxi, Yuan is tapping the railings of the stairs looking at Yunxi with concern in her face
"Yuan, don't worry her highness can do it!" Yi Ce tapped her in the shoulder to calm down,
Yunxi didn't know what to do, the flies are really slim flying from one place to another making her head dizzy
"these flies are just an illusion, they might attack you in no time be alert, try to target them one by one and kill them!" Shao Qi said
Yunxi's eyes were rolling around the air and kept her ears open to hear the flap of her opponent
one insect attacked her, Yunxi blew it away but caught off guard by another which attcked her without caution, the insect spang her to stumble in her feet and lose the fan out of her hand
"I said be cautious, I guess my son sucks at teaching people he is weak!!" hearing this words made Yunxi feel guilty, she swiftly got up and grabbed the fan to her hand
the monks looked at her with pity and thier eyes made Yunxi nervous, she never felt this way before, other than healing, she really did want to learn martial arts and now that it's her time to perform and show them what she got, she dissapointed herself, one more thing Shao Qi called Fei Jin weak, is this a way to address your son! she thought
"l-let me try again!" Shao Qi's one eyebrow lifted towards the heaven, he snapped his finger, 5 illusion wild giant bees came to life with aggressive faces, Yunxi prepared herself for battle
one flew behind her as a surprise attack, but using her sense of hearing and guts she delicately thew the fan to its direction where a two wild beast wanted to devour her
A wind blade sliced the fly into two pieces before it vanished like a smoke, Yunxi flew in the air bringing our her fairy wings and delicately summoned as many wind blade as she can with the fan's power
the wild bees are way smarter than before, it dodged her wind blade where it vanished in thin air
"that fast-" she gritted her teeth and threw the fan, it twirled towards the creatures direction and two was caught before it landed back to Yunxi's hand, the last one attacked her aggressively, Yunxi was alerted and shielded herself by forming a circular wind shield using a technique Fei Jin thought her, the wind shield was strong that it made force to push back the creature and tore the illusion beast with a wind spike, Shao Qi is quite surprise looking at Yunxi in the air, seems like she is fit to use the fan as her own weapon
everyone was impressed and clapped at her good performance, Shao Qi was the happiest behind his serious face, at least she is no trouble to Fei Jin in terms of protecting herself
"good, you mastered the windshield and blade, there are more to practice which can unlock more ability of that fan Yunxi" Shao Qi smiled
while everyone celebrate, Yunxi looked around to witness the image of her husband but he is nowhere to be found, she was upset and faked a smile instead
"Diánxià, you did well today" they praised walking towards their princess
"of course, that's my lady?" Yuan hugged her behind feeling proud and happy
"you too Yuan!" she hugged back
it's already after midnight inside the wilderness, so deep inside the forest, trees are tall like a giant towers, the dark blue skies are barely seen, and like a small dots of light from the moon trying to pass the abyss, is not invited to even touch the ground
there are mushroom as big as bears at the foot of the trees, glowing in colours of white and light blue mushroom, the night flowers makes it alluring as their number grow like an endless love of nature, the sound is eerie and the hooting of owls makes me tremble in exitement, so fresh like mint mixed with the odor of earth hushed Fei Jin as he slowly sat down with his spear
"Yue Did you find it?" asked Fei Jin in a whisper, the big white dog sat down as a no and rolled to play next to the prince
"Yue it's no time to play you stupid dog!" Fei Jin threw him a rock, Yue got up and ran to Fei Jin and attacked him with his big long tounge
"yucks, stop it!!!" they began to play not knowing their prey is already gone as an escape
"Yue you idiot, we lost it!!!" Fei Jin frowned like he lost a bet, the big dog wagged his tail laughing at Jin
"you stupid alpha, wanna play then let me catch you!!!" Yue ran away in a fast speed, the prince got up and ran after the big white dog trying to catch the speed of his fluffy enemy
"alright Yue, race to the hilltop!!" Fei Jin and Yue broke up and went to their own destination
Fei Jin felt the wind kiss his skin, so cold like winter so fresh and clean, his feet are barely hurt from the rocks he ever step, Fei Jin flew in the tree and climbed like a leopard up to the top, his gravity made him do it in an instant that he saw the moon up high in the sky, star gazed down and twinkled so pretty, the wind is way colder making him feel much more exited than before, shirtless and handsome he looked down and spotted the big white dog on his way to the hilltop, Jin jumped from tree to tree trying to catch up with the speed of Yue, so fast and strong he really is an alpha
Fei Jin dropped down to the ground and start running again, exploring the forest, so dark but colorful, so wide but scary, Yue was the first one to meet the edge and stopped to wait for the loser prince who he challenged
"haha- you won!" Jin stopped gasping some air to help him cope with life
Yue stepped up the rock and looked at the dawning moon
"do your thing!" Jin walked beside Yue before he howled in the moon
the howl of a wolf, so mighty and majestic, echoing around the wilderness from a pure gentle creature, how Fei Jin love to see him like this, he is already a king but still move like a kid
"the big alpha dog with so many kids act like a kid himself!" Yue's beautiful moment cracked, he jumped down to Fei Jin and wrestle him to death with his long large tounge and tons of sack weight
"Yuuee!"
The sun has set and a new day began, Fei Jin flopped at the river with a really bad face cleaning away the dirt and slimy saliva of Yue, Yue in the other hand sleeps so weird, stretched his body and positioned upwards while spreading his legs
"after his bath he put on his clothes and slightly kicked the dog awake
"wake up lazy dog, let's go!" he commanded and tied his bag behind
Yue's lazy eyes opened and stood up, Jin sat on his back and pulled some hair for safety
"we'll come back again!" Yue started to slowly walk and stretched his body before running like a leopard
"You stupid dog, sloowww dooownnn!!!" Fei Jin yelled