"Now that I succeeded in breaking your seals, try to practice the imprint technique" Qin Gong put his arms behind his back and smiled happily as he looked at the excited expression on Zhou Xinqiu's face.
"Ten Bronze Soul Imprint" She called on the power of the scroll as her mind entered her core. The white origin soul which originally sat there quietly before now had a dark red tint and emitted a slight aura of destruction. As her mind peered into her soul and separated a piece, the 7 jade rings trembled a bit before stopping and going back to their relaxed state. In the outside, a this strand of Soul essence manifested in her palm twirling around into a small sphere.
The sphere expanded more and more until a bell rang out and an illusory palm about the size of her body reached out from the sphere. "First Imprint" She muttered and opened her eyes as an elegant flash of red appeared in her eyes. The aura from the red palm started to transform from a mist to dark red runes surrounding the palm before a soul rune took shape in the center of the palm. It didn't stay still for much longer and the illusory hand and symbol smashed into a near by boulder blasting it into pieces.
"Hmm little girl, you were actually able to do it on your first try, How impressive. Now I will go take a rest, you should try to be able to make 8 palms simultaneously and stacking them on each other to increase their power by the time of the youth ceremony. Same with your other technique, each imprint represents a level in the body tempering stage." Qin Gong explained before looking at his arm in worry, one of his hands had almost entirely disappeared due to using too much of his soul Qi in his reserve. Afterward, he turned into a beam of light and returned back to Zhou Xinqiu's body.
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Zhou Xinqiu stood on the peak of a mountain with 5 Dark Red Palms revolving around her as she glanced at a distant nearby mountain. "Destroy" with one word she unleashed the 5 palms one at a time at the mountain.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
The mountain shook as each imprint landed on its surface, each imprint getting stronger than the previous one.
"The damn mountain still won't even have a crack" 5 more palms appeared behind her but this time another soul essence strand appeared and twirled around her arm before it sat in her hand.
DING
The sound of an ancient bell rang out and the soul essence exploded into another palm. "Success, but 6 is not enough" Two more strands of soul essence exited her origin soul and revolved around her right hand. She formed a hand seal with her left hand as she steadied her internal Qi and blood.
Liiii!
Both of the soul essence strands danced up to the air above her and exploded with a magnificent red aura leaking out of them as they materialized into palms as well. The 8 palms circulated around her and her black eyes turned to a shade of red as a roar rang out from the impact of all 8 of the imprints smashing into each other forming one ginormous palm imprint. The successfully made unified palm suddenly started growing smaller and smaller before turning into the size of Zhou Xinqiu's own hand.
"MERGE!" The illusory palm got closer and closer to her palm as a crazy amount of pain swept out from her hand.
"ARGGHH JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE" The illusory palm slowly got one foot away from her hand before a one Inch size cut opened in the middle of her palm and blood leaked out. However, she kept enduring the immense pain until it completely merged with her hand.
"MUTILATE!" her blood dyed her entire hand red but it seemed to have added a miraculous amount of power into that soul rune. She raised her hand above her chest and leaped into the air as a sphere shockwave spread out from all sides of her hand where the symbol laid. The symbol started hovering in front of her hand swallowing all the blood which looked like it had made it stronger. After this strange phenomena she used all her strength to send the symbol imprint flying into the mountain.
The mountain shook insanely before a huge crack split it in half and in not much longer, it was entirely leveled to the ground.
"Ah, looks like this technique can use my blood to become exponentially stronger" She stared at the place where the mountain used to be and had a mischievous smile before she sat down on the peak she was on to restore the Qi she lost.
"Yes, your blood is very pure, but it has not reached a certain level and therefore you cannot use it as many times as you wish or else the purity will be damaged." Qin Gong's voice sounded out in her mind as she closed her eyes.
"Alright I won't use it unless it's an emergency." She whispered towards Qin Gong
"Your uncle is coming, be ready" Qin Gong became silent and continued to watch.
"Xinqiu, how is your training? How many imprints were you able to accomplish?" Zhou Ye Walked into the valley with his arms beside him while he smiled.
"With a great use of my energy, I can accomplish 8 imprints" Zhou Xinqiu explained to Zhou Ye.
"Oh? That's great, then you should get ready for the youth ceremony as it is starting in 2 days." Zhou Ye tilted his head to the left and laughed. "Try to get into the top 5 rankings so you can enter the Bronze circulation pool"
"Yes Uncle, I have already decided that one of those 5 spots shall be reserved for me " She proudly boasted before Zhou Ye rolled his eyes and left the area.
"I hope this girl can make others recognize her talent and see how much she has improved.... especially brother Zhou He"