After Cong left, Joey entered his room in a gloomy mood while recollecting his memories with Zhang He. He observed his room inside. It was not much different from his room at the palace. The only difference was that there were various weapons in one corner of the room.
He approached and sat crossed legs on his king-size bed.
He sighed and murmured, " Goodbye my friend! I will take care of your sister. Zhang Zhan, Zhang Zhan ..." Afterward his mood lifted a bit and he started to practice his cultivation mantra.
He started chanting with his mouth this time. ( Note: Everyone can read out the mantras but to cultivate with it was another thing. Various parts of the body including the soul will stimulate in a rhythmic synchronous tone with the chant of the mantra .)
Knowing his limit, he just chants the first syllable multiple times.
" ISWAR , ISWAR , ISWAR , ISWAR "
At first, he could feel the blood inside his body get heated up slowly. Outside his body, a small whirlpool of essence qi was formed and various minute streams of qi flowed from the whirlpool into his forehead. When the qi entered his body, the increasing temperature of his blood was balanced with the cooling effect of the qi.
Then he felt great and moaned softly. He continued it for an hour, afterward stopped and laid on his bed then started sleeping quickly.
The next day, he woke up early, cleaned himself, and went to the training ground as told by his sister after the banquet.
When he came outside of the castle, he could see the twilight coming from above the sky. After some time he reached the training ground, various types of weapons could be seen near the entrance of the ground. Various men and women were already on the ground practicing their martial arts. Various partitions were made in the ground using some magic arrays.
Joey entered into one of the chambers. Then he began exercising using the Tai - Chi technique while increasing weight to 750 kg. ( I will use tai chi from here onward, as the technique was not much different from it. )
While he was practicing Tai -Chi, Mie lien was secretly observing his movement technique quietly from a hidden spot.
" Good boy, you even practiced that old fart's unique technique. Then let us see how much you have improved," she murmured to herself and appeared before Joey who was exercising.
( old fart, here is their grandfather. She always used to stay with him, so she knew much more about their grandfather than anyone else .)
" Oh! Sister, you are here too," he said to her.
" Brat, take it," she shouted and punched at him suddenly. He blocked it with both his hands but he was propelled backward and stopped after 10 steps.
" Ha ha ha, great! You can block that. Again . " she tried to punch again.
" Wait wait, what is wrong with you ? " he quickly spoke out, stopping her.
" Xiao di, let me check your martial art. I will limit my power to your level," she said while stretching her whole body.
While thinking, he heard the voice of Ai on his head saying," Brat, what are you hesitating for? "
" You can talk to me outside the pagoda ! " he exclaimed.
" I can but don't like to bother with your outside affairs. I feel a similar presence from her, same as your aura. Fight! Let me observe her. " Ai explained.
" Heh, kiddo. I am just asking for a spar. Are you scared of me that much? Why are you spacing out? Also, what pagoda? " Mie lien asked a series of questions.
" Okay, Zi Zi. I will not hold back. " Then he moved back from her, keeping some distance between them.
" Are you ready? Make your move first. " She calmly said.
Joey then started making his move. He used the first movement of the dragon soaring to heaven. He quickly approached her from the front and punched her head while shifting the weight of his hand to 50 kg using his dragon's suit. He thought that this punch may have moved here a bit.
" What ! " he screamed in his head as he saw his fist caught by her left hand easily.
" Good explosive punch. Too bad, you used it as a frontal strike to someone stronger than you. So, you have zero fighting experience . " she said to him and pushed him back.
" Now, it's my turn," she said and started to make her move.
She then approached him quickly and started raining multiple punches at him. Joey used his 1st movement step and the Tai - Chi technique to guard her attack.
He successfully avoided the first two punches easily. But, after the third punch, he got a hit on his chest and he quickly stepped back. Her punches were all connected so it became hard for him to block it.
But Mie lien followed him quickly and kept attacking him.
Then he started using the second movement technique, but still, he got many hits all over his body. Later he then started following the third one.
But her movement technique was a strange one. She was too quick for Joey to avoid her. After getting beaten by her since the beginning, he felt like he didn't have anything else to counter her.
When he was about to throw the towel, he heard a telepathic voice in his head, " What the hell? Brat, remove all the weight and fight her with all your strength. "
Joey calmed down quickly and removed all the weight on his body. When he removed the restraint of 750 kg weight, he felt his body weightless and grinned at her.
When his face was about to be punched again, he disappeared suddenly. After removing the weight, his speed exceeded 20 times his previous speed.
" Oh ho, interesting. Xiao di, you are holding back all this time. Then I will also become serious. " she spoke out and started following and attacking him again.
Their moves became quicker and quicker after that, it also kept increasing on and on.
This time Joey started to predict her next moves after getting hit by her multiple times. He blocked her with his hands. Without thinking, his body started moving on its own.
Seeing that she couldn't hit him again, she thought inside his head, " His fighting instinct is too perverse. He keeps predicting all my next moves. He is a true martial genius! "
After blocking her every attack, Joey started counter-attacking her instead of just blocking her punches. He used his palms to hit her this time ( Tai - Chi ).