"Take my Tiger fist."
A ferocious looking fist was the first to arrive.
'To simple.' Luo Si blocked it with her arm, feeling a heavy weight pushing her back. Having taken in the books stance herself, she stood stable, leaving nothing but some scratches on her arm. Influenced by a mysterious force they slowly vanished.
The attacker took in a defensive position in shock, expecting his opponent to counter. Luo Si did not retaliate though.
There was no time for retaliation as the next attacks came in.
"Hah, Viper kick."
"Howling thunder strike."
"2nd degree angel knee."
Punches, kicks, palm strikes, piercing fingers, chops and other techniques rained on her fair skin. Just like the first, the kids were greatly surprised seeing Luo Si remain steady under the heavy assault.
Only a rhythmic breathing came out from the bullied girl. The bruises and wounds started to visibly vanish.
The only areas unaffected and heavily blocked where her face and forbidden places.
'Even though I can heal those parts, one does not hit a woman in those regions.' Luo Si did not care much about dignity. Yet humiliation was a different topic.
The players paid a pitiful look at Luo Si as they finally understood her destiny. Everybody was feeling weird though, as more and more attacks landed on her body.
"How has she not fallen by now?"
"Wasn't that area already scratched?"
"Why is she not bleeding?"
Questions popped up in their heads. The most annoying being: "What's up with that damn smile? Does she not know pain? Is she a masochist?"
The one-sided fight continued without stop. However, with passing time it looked more and more like normal children venting their frustration.
The controller of this situation was not the cluster of monstrous children, but the dominated Luo Si as she took nearly every hit. Seemingly withstanding the offense with her body and will alone. In reality she was continuously running the Wu Ji Quan healing technique. Healing the regions that had taken damage the next split second.
"Damn, it must be that skill. That technique must accel at defense. How cunning."
One or two bystanders that had thought about her using that. Yet they were puzzled more than others, since Luo SI did not move her body to perform the movement.
The reason behind that was that it was actually not necessary for her to execute the motions. Being able to guide the energy- flow of the technique was all that mattered. The exercises would just naturally set the technique in motion, but it could also be mentally forced if one willed the qi to flow in the same way through their meridians.
Luo Si's meditation before was such an exercise to gain precise control over the worldly energy and move it at will. Of course, it was only possible for her to do that, thanks to decades of intense training with many times more difficult types of energy.
The native people started to sweat as they gathered qi over and over. Every aggressor had hit Luo Si at least 10 times, with the result staying unchanged.
"Hah, hah, as expected of Wuying. He always gets the best."
"Yes, she even willingly receives all our attacks. But why hasn't she fallen yet?"
"Less talking, more hitting. She must have reached her limit. Her defense is getting worse."
Wuying also stopped laughing and he started screaming. "Are you all incompetent? She is just a girl. Just hit her hard."
Luo Si started to move more. The attacks were getting more sluggish and some of them were just normal attacks. Luo Si evaded the qi less attacks as they would not quench her body with qi. Another reason she became more active was because she wanted the attacks to spread more evenly.
'This should be a good opportunity to train my battle perception as well. It has been a long time since I fought like that.' She started to evade a little later, but faster when the strike was about to arrive.
'These kids are quite energetic. If only my head was not buzzing so much.' Luo Si thought to herself. She began to feel fatigued as well.
The number of attacks was already in the hundreds.
Cough* "How?" The boy who had fiercely punched Luo Si at first, felt himself reaching his limit. Sweeting profoundly while puffing hot air he fell on his knees in exhaustion. "How is she still standing?"
His energy cup was somehow no longer allowed him to accept energy. The same happened to others too. Why was that?
For martial learner, qi was just meant to enter their body shortly to be released back in their attacks as it was very voilent. The kids did not care about the violent nature of qi and greedily filled their attacks with it over and over.
The cup to collect the worldly energy needed to be strengthened over time, but if one vehemently filled it up without care or moderation, they would only damage their foundation. And their cups were very fragile since most only had opened around a dozen or so meridians.
Luo Si on the other hand had opened an unbelievable amount of 72 meridians, surpassing the standards and imagination a martial learner, no a martial realm cultivator could have. Even the woman in the well had been flabbergasted by her physic.
"Let me through!" A pitching voice sounded from behind the crowed. It belonged to a young teenager, approximately 15 years old. He had a crude iron sword in his hands.
"Look it's Min Wu. Damn, he even brought his father's sword. Does he want to kill her?" One of the dropped out practitioners exclaimed.
The people made way and Min Wu dashed at Luo Si. "Hah, I have already learned the 3rd move of the 7-fox whip. Take my blade."
"Brown Paw strike." The blade was curved at Luo Si stomach.
Luo Si tucked in her stomach in return by taking in a slight bowing position in a calm and natural manner. The blade missed.
'Let's not get ahead of ourselves.' She did not take on a blade. Although it was a technique, there was no energy on the blunt weapon and would only endanger her body.
"It's not over." Min Wu lifted the sword, wanting to slice her up right in half.
Luo Si sidestepped with a piercing gaze. "No holding back, eh? Then let me return the favor."
She punched straight forward while her opponent was retracting his blade.
"HGN!" Her body suddenly trembled once her fist was inches away from its target.
The small delay gave Min Wu enough time to jump back.
"Hah, what was that? Even my grandma moves faster."
Luo Si did not care what he was spouting. 'Damn it, I nearly lost my focus.'
Not wanting to let go of this opportunity she stuck close to him. "Let's make this a quick one."
Min Wu was caught off guard by her persistency. His rival was to close for his sword to be of use. In fear it was swung plainly. Luo Si fended off the strike. By gliding her hand along her opponent's wrist she redirecting his attack. Before Wu could react, he felt a fist on his stomach. The punch was not hard, but full of qi nonetheless.
"Interesting. Apparently, she learned more than expected." Fu Hantian stood on a hill outside the martial camp, watching from afar.
He had not taken his eyes of the duo when they departed from the tent, as he wanted to know Luo Si's credibility. Contrary to his expectation the nanny had performed brilliantly on her first day of training.
"And it looks like she understood parts of the healing qigong. Taking on multiple martial learner, very promising." Seeing the new servant take on the mass reminded him of the family's secret training methode. The rules inside the aristocraticy were very strict to give the offsprings many beatings.
He looked at his nephew and shook his head. "Why can't he be so dedicated and hard working. His mother really spoils him too much. Maybe Luo Si can enlighten him."
An idea formed inside Hantian's head.
"Let her training bear fruits first. The rest can be talked about later."
The boy lost his balance as Luo Si followed with a kick. Min Wu fell to the ground.
Thud*
Luo Si looked at Wuying with a grin. The latter paled under the turn of event. Children kneeled in front of Luo Si and even the sword user laid down on his back.
But before he could say something, a nagging voice came from the entrance. "Hmph, do lowly servants not know their place nowadays?"
"Wow, Min Pi She came. She is so beautiful, please be my girlfriend for a day. No, just a minute is enough."
"Dream on, with her talent, even the elders dot and praise for being blessed with a lesser fire vein. You have no chance, not even a second."
A 13-year-old girl walked up to Luo Si. She was a little smaller than Luo Si, but her chest held c-cup big breasts, with which she proudly walked in front of Luo Si. Demonstrating her superiority.
Luo Si was amused by the young girl. She viewed Pi She more as a poised red-headed doll.
The bigger hills in front of her did not envoke her envy. On the contrary, she was fine with her physique. Bigger hills would only get in the way of fighting.
Luo Si suppressed a chuckle on the thought that many unsatisfied female inmates had and would waste their choice picking a suitable art and instead go for breast enlargement techniques. Yes, even those existed.
Pi She looked at the beaten Wu for a breath moment, before looking holes at the casual looking culprit. "You already look old and are still in the 1st stage."
Luo Si did not really get what she was going at. It was actually difficult to tell her age based on her hight an outer appearance. If not for her cold eyes those present might mistake her for a year old high school student, when in fact her body had just finished senior education not long ago.
"Pi She are you avenging us?" a bashed boy shouted.
The doll shock her head in return. "I'm about to break through to the 3rd level and don't want my clothes dirtied by a lesser existence before the martial tournament."
"I bet she will end up in the top 30 as blessed as she is." A girl said.
"Top 30? Are you looking down on our town's genius? She will easily reach the top 10." A fanboy protested.
'That's right, the tournament. I will get my revenge there.' Wuying had an evil smile on his face for a second. The martial kids on the training ground were just average. The stronger fighters lingered somewhere else, sharpening themselves outside the village boarder.
The players were excited. "Such a lively AI. The tournament got to be thrilling."
"I know right. We really need to learn a technique, or else we will just be like chicken."
Min Pi She left as soon as she came and so did Luo Si in disinterest.