Mira continued training these disciples the same way for the next 2 days and after training them for 3 days they were still useless. It'd be pointless to add on more complicated things such as grapples, chokes, and takedowns. But the disciples were lucky! By the end of the 3 days, every disciple had their thumbs dislocated at least once, and for some of the women, she even made them dislocate their own thumbs. Mira was truly grateful that she could multitask. As for any people that seemed to stand out and progress faster than the others, the only noteworthy person would be Celaine as Mira expected. She even got to be one of the 5 to try and defeat Maria at the end of the day, but Maria beat her senseless almost like she held a grudge against Celaine. Mira just snickered at this as she was able to light a fire in Maria and push her to use what little brain she has to learn martial arts faster. Maria would now even come to Mira whenever they were just cultivating in their rooms and ask her to spar and teach her more. Dominique loved when this happened because she would get to spectate them and would even practice the moves that they used by herself while they cultivated.
Mira could also see Dominique starting to fill out quite a bit. She was beginning to look like a healthy young girl, but Mira decided it was still too soon for training. She was hard on people, but she wasn't stupid. Dominique's body is still incredibly weak and frail, not to mention she is still a child. If Mira were to put her through intensive training, it would undoubtedly destroy her body.
Maria was also now able to go to the Cultivation Cave every day due to Mira scamming the Elder. Though Elder Bridget and Elder Kendra didn't want to just hand out a reward like this, it would also be troublesome to get all of the disciples to participate in something if the reward wasn't great. Mira was able to kill 3 birds with one stone with that token as the reward. She could get Maria to work harder, make sure Maria doesn't fall too far behind in cultivation and create a good incentive for the disciples to work hard as well.
Over the next 3 weeks, Mira and Maria cultivated almost all day and night while the only times they weren't cultivating is either during their weekly classes, sparring sessions in their residence, or the unarmed combat training with the other disciples.
Nothing special happened in these 3 weeks. The disciples did the same thing during each unarmed combat training session because Mira still didn't feel like they were competent enough to move onto the next stage in their training. She guessed that they'd need another 4-5 weeks before she can move onto grappling.
The weekly classes were rather boring for Mira. They discussed proper ways of training their bodies in the training grounds, which Mira didn't need to listen to since she already has this knowledge from her previous lives. They also discussed the different types of weapons cultivators use in battle. Mira also didn't need to know this, nor did she care. They also talked about the different professions that cultivators have and the basics of what they did. Once again, Mira didn't care about this as she already knew what these jobs entailed. What Mira didn't know is the specifics about these jobs and was just waiting for those classes that should be coming up sometime in the future.
These days went by rather quickly as Mira and Maria spent all of their time cultivating. After the first week, Mira was able to break through to Stage 9 Qi Condensation. Her strength rose greatly, but she wasn't happy with just this and continued cultivating like a madman. She really wants to see just how strong she'll be in the Foundation Realm! Maria also cultivated like crazy and broke through to Stage 9 a day after Mira.
The two of them continued to spar and cultivate in their free time but cultivating started to take priority as they were both so close to the Foundation Realm. And after another 2 and a half weeks, Mira could feel it. She had reached the peak of the Qi Condensation Realm. Once Mira reached this point, she actually waited for another day so Maria can reach this point as well, but this is because she wanted to be there to remind Maria of something. Once Maria reached the peak of the Qi Condensation Realm, Mira walked up to her and they both made their way to the Cultivation Caves. Once they reached the Caves, they showed their tokens to Elder Sue and decided to tell her they were going to break through to the Foundation Realm.
"We are going to Break Through to the Foundation Realm during this cultivation session, so if we go past the original 8 hours, can you wait for us to come out by ourselves? I don't know how long it'll take us to break through." Mira asked which shocked Elder Sue a bit, but the more she thought about it, this really wasn't that surprising.
"Sure, but just this one time. If you need any help just let me know." Elder Sue easily agreed as disciples would actually do this quite frequently here whenever they needed to make a major breakthrough like this. Mira just nodded her head and walked inside with Maria. When they both reached their cave, Mira stopped and looked at Maria.
"Remember Maria, when you reach the point where you need to condense your energy that's within your body, I want you to condense it to the max! Though it'll take longer to make breakthroughs in the future and we'll have to train our bodies extremely hard, once we make it to the Core Formation Realm, we'll be leagues above the others. The Sect has everything we could possibly need to make this happen so we should take advantage of that! Not to mention, our bodies are already tempered to the extreme and are probably tougher than probably Low and Middle Houtian Stage Experts, maybe even some Late-Houtian Stage Experts. So don't hold back and trust your instincts. Also, don't forget to use your Rank 3 Energy Gathering Pill." Mira reminded her with a stern voice, this is very important and she didn't want Maria to fuck it up.
"I know! Don't worry! I'll be sure to come out even stronger than you!!" Maria exclaimed in an excited voice. Mira nodded her head and walked into the cave.
She sat down in a lotus position in the middle of the cave, took out her Rank 3 Energy Gathering Pill, and began to cultivate. Once she hit that barrier that seemed to be preventing her from progressing any further, she popped the pill into her mouth and swallowed it. Almost immediately she could feel her body burst with energy! And the barrier that was preventing her from advance was starting to break! Mira now focused on trying to link her meridians to every part and cell of her body, while also sending energy into every fiber. She started sending energy to the organs first as that was the easiest. She could immediately feel her organs filling up like a balloon! She kept sending more and more energy into her organs until they started to stretch. Even though they were stretching due to all of the Qi being shoved into them, she still kept sending Qi into them until her organs reached max capacity. Only then did she stop with the organs and start sending her Qi into other parts of her body.
The next thing she focused on was her bones and bone marrow. This part was extremely painful as the more energy she sent into her bones, she could feel them wanting to crack as they were expanding so much. The Qi being sent in her marrow wasn't making anything better. Her bones actually started to expand until she reached her breaking point and stopped sending Qi into them. At this section, she started to feel her body resonating with the Qi being sent into her body and knew it was her lightning, but it didn't seem to fully activate yet. Mira shook the useless thoughts away and moved onto the muscles.
She did the same thing with the muscles. And after a while, Mira looked like a super buff bodybuilder, but with the body of a 13-14-year-old girl. Her body was expanding like a balloon. This process continued with her flesh and skin as well. All that was left is her blood.
She started to direct tons of Qi into her blood and it felt like she was about to explode into a bloody mess! Blood wasn't supposed to be expanded like this, and her body literally started to balloon up as she sent more and more Qi into her blood. After filling up her blood to maximum capacity, she felt her body and Qi click! And then like she was struck by lightning, she started
"NNNgggghhh!!!" And then like she was struck by lightning, she started feeling immense pain. Maybe some of the worst pain she's ever felt in all of her years of living! Her blue lightning started to resonate with the Qi that was now contained in her body. Around Mira's body, an intense storming blizzard formed. Within Mira's cave was an Icy Apocalyptic Hell! Her lighting was shooting out from her body, but it was also coursing through every fiber of her being. Every cell, every molecule, her Qi, everything had blue lighting coursing through it. Mira felt extreme pain from this, but she also felt a sort of synchronization as well. Like she was becoming one!
The Elder outside started feeling this deathly chilling air permeating from within the cave and didn't know what was happening. This isn't supposed to happen when someone breaks through to the Foundation Realm. They are just supposed to need a ton of Qi, but never would a blizzard start because of it! She didn't really know what to do, so she just called for some other Elders to make their way over. If Mira was really breaking through right now, then she didn't want to disturb her.
Meanwhile, Mira just felt her lightning grow more and more ferocious as time passed. It was like an Azure Dragon made of lighting coursing through her body. Mira felt several things changing as this happened. Her body was becoming stronger just from this lightning coursing through her body along with the synchronization. She could also feel her bloodline reacting, giving her deeper insights into her Absolute Ice Dao! The storm outside her body only grew fiercer and fiercer. Mira then entered what seemed to be a state of enlightenment. And the power permeating from her body grew even more! This went on for hours!
Numerous Elders gathered outside the Cultivation Caves and could feel apocalyptic hell growing stronger with each passing minute inside. They too didn't want to disturb whoever was breaking through as it could greatly affect the outcome. But as the storm grew stronger and stronger, even some of the Elders started feeling the chill, which truly shocked them!
They had to force themselves to not try and stop this madness. And their waiting paid off as after several hours of waiting, the storm went away and things went back to normal. But all of the Elders decided to stay until Mira walked out as they had some questions.
Mira's enlightenment ended, but she didn't know hours have passed as it only felt like seconds to her. She just moved on to condensing the Qi that's currently in her body. This is an extremely tedious process as she has to keep the same amount of Qi in her body, but reduce the amount of space it takes up, therefore, increasing the density of the Qi. Mira then began the tedious process of condensing her Qi.
As she condensed her Qi, there was a visible change in her body as well. The once swelled-up body that looked like an inflatable doll is now deflating, returning to its original state. Mira condensed and condensed until her body returned to the state she was in before coming to the cave. But even after this, she continued condensing. Her body has been tempered to the max before this and only became stronger after her state of enlightenment and synchronization.
Qi was now part of her body, and so whenever she condensed the Qi in her body, she was also condensing some of her body as well. So when Mira continued, her muscles and skin tightened around her body. This only made her look more like an ordinary 14-year old girl as at a glance you couldn't even tell Mira's body was insanely strong.
This went on until Mira felt like she condensed her Qi as much as she possibly could. And if she were to make a comparison, she felt like her body only contained a drop from the ocean that occupied her body before the condensing process. But this one drop had the power of an ocean and more.
Mira finally opened her eyes and felt like she was born anew. The amount of power and Qi contained in her body now could simply not be compared to herself at Stage 9 Qi Condensation. She could wipe the floor with herself from 2 weeks ago, and would only need to lift a finger! This is mainly due to the effects of the Energy Gathering Pill, the Cultivation Cave, and Mira's absurdly strong body. Most people would not have been able to even think about doing what Mira did during her breakthrough and expanding their body like that. They'd explode! Not to mention most people wouldn't be able to gather the amount of Qi necessary to do that. Though it would seem that 2 abnormalities were produced today as Maria also did the exact same thing as Mira, just without the storm and enlightenment.
Mira finally opened her eyes and let out a deep breath. She stood up and started stretching her body, then walked out of her cave, not knowing what kind of commotion she has caused!