Peach Blossom Estate, Private Training Area,
*Claaaang*"Huff, huff" *Clang, clang* "Huff, huff"
*tap* whoosh * tak,tak**taak *The two figures, who had been continuously crashing on for some time finally separated and distance from each other dust rose in their wake from this reckless spar.
*Tiring* *shining* a sword thrown to the ground by one of the duelists, her hands were trembling from strains she even felt her bones were aching, she couldn't help but bend over to support herself from falling to her butt.
Her body drenched in sweat including her wavy blonde hair, her breathing was irregular, she grimaced to herself as she placed her hands on her knees for further support.
Seeing Vaani's pitiful condition Megha lips twitched into an amused smile, her hands were also trembling and she was little out of breath Megha discarded her sword ; she plunged it to the ground at her side.
She too felt more than a little relieved they were kind of reckless just now but it was insisted by Vaani and Megha didn't want Vaani to live a mediocre life not to mention what they are going to face Megha agree with her suggestion on one condition.
Megha's own excitement along with her trembling subsided greatly before long this was the perks of her special physique whereas Vaani looking completely exhausted and battered about to pass out Megha was recovering her stamina.
But Megha had to admit Vaani wasn't called as iron lady for nothing, Megha chuckled lightly when she thought of this ridiculous nickname, Because of her unapproachable aura and taciturn personality she earned such a name amongst Estate maids.
Megha wasn't sure if Vaani aware of this funny nickname, if she didn't Megha wouldn't be too surprised even Megha accidentally overheard two maids talking to each other though Megha had to admit from the bottom of her heart Vaani had strong and firm will like a cold iron she was always like this as far as Megha remembered.
It was Megha's condition for them to spar using real swords, even the they were blunt worst quality there is both of them had to constantly aware of the possibility of someone get hurt In a moment of carelessness or heat this put considerable pressure on both of them it was more so in Vaani's case which was Megha's real intention from the start.
Megha was sure Vaani would improve leaps and bounds if she pressure her in the right way coupled with vaani's competitiveness and iron will all Megha had to do was not cool her down completely.
Vaani doesn't back off from such dangerous conditions or the pace of the training she is also willing to put more effort on her training then Megha expected as if her fighting spirit ignited by Megha's sudden improvement and exceptional performance she was willing to put up with this all.
Megha started to regulate her breath. Unlike her stamina recovery, the soreness didn't decrease like she wanted them to. " Tsk, It seems like there is no other choice but to adjust my body with constant training and spars!'
She subtly frowned when she glanced around and found the private training area dusty ' What a hindrance! This wouldn't do ' she planned to take care of this issue before her next training, if this was continued like this sooner than later her lungs would be filled with nothing but dust.
But contrary to her dissatisfaction and annoyance at this scene witnessed by any hot blooded youths, there are high chances they most likely lose their rationality at such a tempting sight in front of them who bother to look around the pitiful condition of the training area.
Because unlike their usual training outfits, both girls now wear something rebellious, uncommon with a touch of foreign styles. What rebellious? Was there a need to use such words Hmm?
Today both of them were wearing a soft, charming outfit : Which was black in color, it was tight fitting, clung to their body and semi transparent. Undoubtedly this could cause one's imagination to run wild, making one wonder if they were wearing such an outfit for some other purpose.
Its appearance was also the reason why they were training in a such a small and secluded area, not only that, these dresses were probably most expensive custom made training suits in entire flowing Light Empire, if they know the origin of it people might die in shock but she casually bought few sets for both of them for 'sole purpose' of training in her mind.
Even though this dress looked a little inappropriate, it made people frown. Even Vaani felt a little uncomfortable wearing it for the first time, Megha forced her to wear it to be exact and she expects Vaani might still take some time getting used to it.
Vaani at least secretly admits in her heart that what Megha said about this was indeed true the material was more comfortable to wear during the training than any other thing she previously tried. It is coming from someone whose origin was daughter of a great merchant and someone who had a hobby collecting and hoarding dresses.
To be honest It was nothing fancy just a set of shorts and loose shirt and undergarments made of same materials the benefit is that it freely allow one's body pores to have breath of fresh air
The material didn't get drenched by sweat, making one uncomfortable, with the help of body heat and ambient temperature to evaporate. Most only kept what was necessary for cooling the body down; besides , it wasn't easily stained.
The most unbelievable thing was despite its delicate and doubtful appearance it was resilient, very hard to tear and take damage as if they were made of soft steel cables instead of shiny threads.
Megha was only satisfied with their usefulness and efficiency for comfortable training not at all cared about any other things that came to her as some added bonus, nonetheless it still pleased her a great deal, she narcissistically praised her intelligence when she figured out how compatible they are for training.
Megha got this idea on whim, when she thought about some serious and grueling training, she recalled back then how she did all kinds of tricks to just escape from these training sessions and couldn't help but remember some unpleasant training memories that happened at that time when she got caught.
She never liked those training in the first place. Her laziness aside she felt tired and uncomfortable from all this training. She couldn't understand at that time why her father insisted on making her the sect leader when it was clear as water to understand she didn't like wasting her time on such things.
Women practitioners for various reasons had it hard in their daily practice, it was a tortuous process for women to temper their body and practice martial arts unlike men who are often seen practicing martial arts with bare chest and rolling around in dirt.
Women had to mind their manners wherever they are and act with dignity, they also had to maintain their appearance no one should be interested in a girl who rolled around in dirt for the sake of training martial arts women often trained with a help of their father or brothers unless they are talented enough grab attention of expert and tutelage of a master.
One of the most annoying thing is finding comfortable enough outfits would they comfortable with heavy and baggy clothes not to mention the excessive body heat drench them in sweaty and itchy this was pure form torture.
She was also worried about such a things when this fleeting idea come to her mind, this was relatively high cost material often used in making coat of plates or used as a padded shirt underneath armor by royal or some high ranking nobles when she plunder them for her use it was indeed comfortable thus she custom made these outfits.
The material was imported from foreign empire. It was an unusually soft, weightless, stretchy yet strong silk, what's more this came with five natural color variations one had to know it was a sought after commodity and used with other other materials by high-level noble ladies of all nearby Empires.
Even Megha felt she was quite extravagant and impulsive when she ordered them ' Well, I'm wealthy and like to do whatever I want ' she consoled herself it cost her hefty sum of gold, directly her years of savings when she thought of this her heart ached a little.
She could tell how her family going to react if they know about this, Megha believe Vaani would be so far the funniest one with her reaction though she wouldn't mind if she fortunate enough to witness her father's reaction when he learn about this, Vaani frozen on the spot for about an hour really made Megha worry she still couldn't believe Megha really did something like that on whim.
Anyway no one going to be surprised after their initial shock wear off, even though they might think she was being wasteful or stupid then again she was really the type to do things for her own convenience they would eventually accept she customize such a materials for the sake of convenience
Megha continuously regulates her breath but compared to Vaani she was doing much better, it was really amazing that she can build her lazy and untrained body to this level in such a short time even to some geniuses this was still an impossible feat.
In stamina and endurance her body's capabilities are at least on par with that of some famed Senior Martial sisters in her sect, as she long surpassed that of her big sister Vaani. What is so shocking about this was she caught up with those geniuses with a training of only a month and a few days.
Even though she had some unknown special physique, it doesn't mean she couldn't attribute it as part of her strength and the efforts she put in this month also held as part of the reason she improved this quickly.
But this wasn't what made her gleeful and satisfied, with her efforts and achievements, Megha successfully achieved Poison Grand Physique. She still felt it was unbelievable. It could be said she was just blindly staking on this thing, not even believing fifty percent chance to succeed, she just a fifteen year teenager managed to succeed in this.
She was indeed gambling against odds, her special physique could only prevent her from dying if anything goes wrong but never really useful in acquiring such elusive poison physique that put her in a good mood.
She felt extremely elated by her achievement, the perks of the acquired physique was even more amazing than she was hoping for. Her whole body baptized by the poison qi undergoes marrow cleansing not only that all her accumulated pill waste in her body has been gone without any trace.
From her meager understanding of what she could figure out for the time being, she wouldn't have to take precautions of ever accumulating pill poisons. She was capable of completely refining a pill she consumes from now on.
If one want to know what so grateful or gleeful about this thing, then there is two factors one had to understand, It was an undeniable fact that even there was a 'legendary' supreme grade pill exist it's purity wouldn't exceed ninety seven percent the remain three percent was what one classify as pill waste it was very little compared to decent enough pills.
If a normal person consumed a supreme grade pill they could only harness about thirty percent of its medicinal effect if they had any external assistance like say: few high level natural treasures or specific few array formation they could at most harness fifty percent of it, everything else would go to waste while the pill was absorbed and stayed in their body.
It was inevitable part of being martial artist, one had to understand how it was impossible to concoct a pill without wastage it was also impossible to separate the waste while consuming it, that's why genius martial arts tend to refrain from using pills at most some take heavy dosage when they are trying a break through for grand master realm.
Unless it was a healing pill or qi recovery pill every body chooses to consume them with certain ingredients to lessen the pill waste build up in their body. Genius would decisively stay away from low grade pills.
How could she not be happy with such a blessing ? She also figured how much of a help this was going to be in her future, as she experienced the effect of pill poisoning first hand. Megha had fairly easy breakthroughs till she reached the grandmaster realm. Once she reached that level it was simply like she was stepping into some swamp land which put an abrupt stop to her speed streak, and her breakthrough to great-grandmaster realm became an impossible feat.
Each small realm became a huge ditch to her, she could only grit her teeth and struggle to pass them, while her fellow genius long stepped into great grandmaster level experts she could only come up with the conclusion it was something to do with the pill waste in her body becoming shackles to her progress.
Well she was a little doubtful about her poison body cultivation, it's possible this could also have some adverse effect on her there was nothing she could do at that time as both of them her own doing if she was diligent she could have still salvaged the first before it became a shackle to her.
This time she chanced upon a best deal shouldn't she be happy about this, if not for this she still looked for a way to resolve the pill waste in her current body not to mention she was also practicing poison a unknown one there was no choice would be left for her.
Some rare spirit fruits are said to expel these accumulated pill waste in Martial Artist body, what was her chance of chanting up on one she probably needed to take some extreme measures as her practice reached grandmaster realm.
Anyway Megha wasn't sure she would have the guts to continue to cultivate a Thousand Poison body in a place like her sect. she would have no choice but to abandon something that was considered her ace in previous life no matter how unwilling she felt.
"Damn it!" Vaani plopped to the ground and distracted Megha from her thoughts " I'm exhausted, I shouldn't be impulsive " she grumbled in a low hoarse voice.
Megha got up and helped Vaani to the nearby tree shade with a teasing grin, then she looked around and went to get her some water. She forgot to arrange small things like this ' Was I once again changed into that pampered Little Miss? ' she asked herself.