While Talia and Witney queued to enter the HavenField Stadium, Vasari was roaming the Outer Haven.
He had a total of 233 cloud points remaining after his spending spree for the cubs and he planned to spend at least half of his cloud points today.
Before advancing to the Supreme Qi stage, Vasari planned to upgrade his basic Wills to Advanced Wills and if he tried and failed to do so he at least wanted to master his basic wills. He had a sneaky suspicion that entering the Supreme Qi stage with Advanced Wills of the 4 basic elements will potentially reap amazing rewards, but from Miss Covington's teachings he knew it would be an extremely difficult feat to achieve. Throughout the long history of cultivation, notions that all cultivators should be aware of were naturally formed. One of those notions was that Advanced Wills could only be comprehended if one has already comprehended the secrets of mana, an advanced version of Supreme Qi, but Vasari wanted to test if this notion was, in fact, true or just complete hogwash.
So although walking around aimlessly, he had a set destination in mind.
"Vasari I didn't expect to see you here."
A sweet feminine voice spoke out from behind Vasari. He instantly recalled whose voice it belonged to and turned around after removing his mask with a charming smile.
"Jiang Xia it's been a while. How are you doing."
Jiang Xia dazedly stared at his soul-capturing smile before shaking her head and clearing her thoughts.
"I'm doing well. Are you also here to enter wind elemental cultivation ground?"
"Oh, so that's where I am."
Jiang Xia giggled seeing his funny facial expression, "Don't tell me you were just walking around here for fun?"
Vasari shrugged his shoulders and answered honestly, "I was looking for something to do but since I'm here I might as well check it out."
"Great! We can go in together. It's my first time here too."
Jiang Xia confidently strides into the green-painted building with Vasari following closely behind.
"Hello there, we want to enter. How much is it?" Jiang Xia got straight to the point and the receptionist immediately understood.
"It's 75 cloud points for 24 hours. Normally it would cost 100 cloud points but we are doing a discount weekend to celebrate the friendly competition."
"Ah, I see. Here we go. Thank you." Jiang Xia paid the 75 cloud points and waited at the entrance of the spatial portal for Vasari. Vasari paid the 75 cloud points to the receptionist leaving him with just 158 cloud points left.
"Will we be transported to the same destination?" Vasari asked as he stood next to Jiang Xia in front of the door.
"What do you mean?" She glanced up at Vasari's face hidden behind a mask and a white piece of cloth with confusion.
"You don't know?" Sensing a good opportunity to tease the girl next to him he took it with both hands.
"Obviously not you big lump of meat." Jiang Xia rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
"Hehe, this door is actually a spatial portal that leads to an area outside the sect. It's the same for the Winter Yin fields and Summer Yang fields."
Jiang Xia listened to his theory in half belief and half disbelief. It was hard for her to believe that she was entering spatial portals without her even realising. Unlike what it felt like to Vasari, when Jiang Xia walked through the spatial portal doors it felt completely normal as if it was just another door leading to the other side.
"Well if what you say is true then how will we be together once we enter the cultivation ground?"
"Like this…"
Grabbing her hand, Vasari jumped through the door and landed softly on the ground with Jiang Xia next to him.
*WHOOSH* *WHOOSH* *WHOOSH*
Instantly heavy winds crashed against the two students. Jiang Xia was not prepared for a sudden assault and stumbled into Vasari's embrace. For the first time, she noticed the large size difference between her and Vasari. She was only 160cm (5ft2) tall and had a petite build except for her well-endowed chest while Vasari towered above her at 198cm (6ft5) tall. He actually grew a centimetre or two these past few weeks, he was still a 16-year-old kid after all.
His large body shielded her from the viscous winds threading to blow them off their feet. Feeling his large hands gripping her waist and holding her tightly against his body, her eyelids fluttered slightly as she subconsciously breathed in his masculine scent which was smelt so intoxicating to her. She couldn't get enough of it.
"Are you ok?"
Hearing his deep, charming voice broke her out of her stupor.
"Y-yes I'm fine. Just got caught slightly off guard."
Vasari was a little disappointed when she distanced her body from his, he was quite enjoying the feeling of her huge breasts pressed against his body.
"Let's cultivate shall we?" Vasari got over and sat down in a lotus position, quickly entering a meditative state.
Jiang Xia sat down not too far from Vasari and similarly started cultivating.
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Wind…
What is wind…
Speed? Agility? These descriptions were commonly associated with the wind element but surely there is more than that.
Versatility. Wind could be considered a versatile element that can be used to attack, defend and move. It could be argued to be the most well-rounded element.
'But there must be more…when I think of wind, what do I feel?'
Vasari meditated on this question for the past 4 hours but with little success.
'What beasts use wind the most? Birds…?'
It was clear he had to change his approach and decided to think about how beasts use elements. It is not a secret that beasts are inherently better at controlling elements than humans and many times techniques were created to mimic beasts.
'When I imagine birds, what is the first thing that comes to mind…
…freedom.'
Vasari's abruptly jumped to his feet, causing Jiang Xia to open her eyes and observe him. She had just comprehended a Basic Will for wind and the only reason she stayed in the wind cultivation grounds was due to Vasari.
Standing completely still amidst the raging winds, his long midnight black hair flapped wildly behind him and his sect robes were glued to his body. Jiang Xia watched as Vasari slowly lifted both his arms until they were adjacent to his body.
Just then something happened that Jiang Xia wouldn't be able to forget for a long time.
His long hair stopped flapping wildly and fell perfectly down his back, his sect robes stopped sticking to his body and returned to normal. It was as if Vasari was in a different dimension as the winds had zero effect on him.
He then dropped his arms and his hair started blowing around again and his sect robes looked stuck to his body due to the hectic winds.
His face was drenched in sweat but a smile of accomplishment hung proudly on his lips.
'Heh, which idiot came up with that stupid notion that you need to comprehend mana to comprehend Advanced Wills! I just want to talk to the guy and tell him he's an idiot.'
If the world could hear his thoughts right now, they would tie a noose around his neck and hang him from a tree for speaking such idiocy.
"Vasari, what did you just do?" Jiang Xia walked up to him with great difficulty and stared at his exhausted face.
"I just made a simple barrier made of wind but I used quite a bit of Qi to create it so I'm a bit dizzy."
"Hmm you do look tired, do you want to leave?"
Vasari put his mask back on and walked to an exit door followed by Jiang Xia who was fairly suspicious about Vasari's previous actions. She knew before he even told her that what he did was create a barrier to block the wind but she could feel that the barrier was made purely out of Wind Will. From her knowledge, she understood that it was impossible to perform such a skill with Basic Wills, she also knew that it was impossible to comprehend an Advanced Will without first comprehending Mana so she was left utterly baffled.
The two left the cultivation ground and exited the building before walking to a nearby park. Jiang Xia took out a blanket from her spatial ring and placed it on the grass. She sat down in a seiza position on the blanket and asked Vasari to lie down.
Although confused by her actions, Vasari followed along and laid down on the blanket, resting his head on her lap.
"Hmm, this is quite nice." Vasari praised, he liked her scent and her tender thighs were a comfy pillow. What made it amazing was when Jiang Xia started stroking and playing with his hair.
"Vasari you know today is the first time that we are alone together. Just the two of us." Jiang Xia started a conversation while continuing to stroke his hair.
"That is true. We haven't really talked to each other either."
"Isn't this the perfect time then?", Jiang Xia giggled lightly.
"What do you want to talk about then?"
"How about…what do you want to achieve in this sect and your ultimate goal for the future?"
Vasari didn't immediately answer and thought about the question for a little while before answering.
"My goal I want to achieve while in the sect huh? I guess I want to create my own faction and make it the best. And my ultimate goal in life would have to be to just survive. I've always felt as if my life was balancing on a tightrope and one wrong step could lead to my doom but I have no clue as to why I feel this way."
Vasari was surprised that he opened up so much, not even Witney knew about his goals yet. For some reason he felt comfortable around Jiang Xia, he put it down due to the comfy lap pillow as well as the gentle hair stroking.
"What about you? What's your goal?"
This time it was she who took her time to answer.
"My family will most likely marry me off in a couple of years to some rich and powerful man to be used as a trophy wife but I want to choose, by myself, the man that I want to spend the rest of my life with, and to do that I need to get stronger."
Vasari could feel the emotion in her voice, anger, determination and hopefulness exuded from her tone.
"So in a way, our goals are not too dissimilar."
"No…I guess not."
A ray of sunshine was painted on Jiang Xia's face when she heard what Vasari said. In her head, images of her and Vasari together formed in her imagination. Some were wholesome and sweet while the majority of the images were hot and steamy. A seed of desire was planted in her heart and the way she looked at Vasari changed. From admiration and curiosity towards his looks, to desire and longing for his touch and love.
Oh~ how easy it is for young women to fall in love.
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"Finally we made it inside. It felt like we were waiting out there for days!" Xena exclaimed after getting their tickets checked and allowed entry to the stadium.
"Hehehe thank you for letting us go in with you."
"Sister Witney there is no need for thanks. We are friends so it's only natural to help each other ."
Witney and Xena exchanged a few more words before bidding each other farewell. Their seats were on opposite sides of the stadium so they had to unfortunately part ways here.
"Talia, what do you think of Xena and her sister?"
Witney asked her best friend about her new friend. She thought it would be nice if they could get along with each other.
"They are nice just keep them away from Vasari. There are already too many girls around him, he doesn't need more ."
Witney's left eyebrow twitched in annoyance hearing what Talia said.
'I'm his girlfriend you know! Why are you acting like you are too!' She screamed in her head but nodded her head on the outside.
The two breathtakingly gorgeous women walked side by side while navigating the newly renovated stadium. After asking the staff members for directions the duo finally found their seats.
"This is too much…"
Witney said in a daze to which Talia only nodded in response. The reason for their surprise was that their seats were the closest to the arena where only VIPs sat.
"We probably should've paid more attention to the type of tickets we got."
"No wonder the staff was so agitated after we asked them for directions."
The two girls looked at each before smiling and sitting in their VIP seats. Witney promised to treat Vasari to a special reward after the competition. Talia's thoughts were unknown but it wasn't hard to guess what or more like 'who' it was about.