BOOM!
Yu An crashed into a boulder, breaking it into pieces. You would think such a hit would cause a someone to go unconscious or even worse die, but Yu An was by no means a normal person. She lifted herself out of the pile of rocks, not an ounce of blood on her back.
At the same time Yu Yan was exchanging blows with a woman. Her sword moving swiftly with precision and speed yet no matter how many times she swing her sword she simply could not hit the woman.
The woman held her hands behind her back as she move nimbly around Yu Yan sword. Every time Yu Yan sword was close to hitting her, she avoided it by an inch as if she was a jumping rabbit.
"Is this your limit?" The woman uttered lazily, just as Yu Yan sword was to hit her again, she freed one of her hands from her back and caught it.
"I thought you could do better." The woman shook her head then with a little bit of force, snapped Yu Yan sword in two.
Yu Yan seeing this growled in pain, the sword was actually her mark. She fell to the floor, in pain.
Just at that moment an arrow sneakily appeared behind the woman. The arrow then multiplied by two then four then eight and lastly sixteen.
Sixteen arrows came flying towards the woman, leaving her no room to escape.
"So you've learnt Whispering Tune and Double Illusions?" A shocked expression appeared on the woman face, before it turn into a nonchalant smile, "Its a pity though. If you used these two moves on someone else then you might have caught then off guard."
"But that person isn't me." When the arrows were just seconds away from her, she used her sleeves to blow them away. The arrows then became blurry showcasing how they were just illusions.
The woman continue smiling. She looked at Yu Ai who shot the arrows expecting a frown of disappointment on her face, but instead what she saw was a mocking smile, her hands pointing up.
Before the woman could understand what she was getting at she felt a shiver, her back becoming cold. She immediately turn around only to see an arrow appearing out of thin air. The arrow already piercing towards her head.
"Vanishing Maiden! How could you learn this music battle technique?!" The woman quickly tried to run, but then her expression changed, "Furious Arrow... Fuc—"
BOOM!
The arrow exploded sending the woman flying. At that moment two figures appeared out of no where. These two figures were Yu An and Yu Yan who were waiting for this exact moment to make their move.
Yu An used her fist to land a blow on the woman chest sending her towards Yu Yan who was chanting a song causing her sword to glow.
"Lonely moon awaits its other half at night, Crescent Moon Strike!"
The world around Yu Yan became dark. With a loud yell she swing her sword downwards with all her might. The light that was glowing in her sword swung out in full force towards the woman.
Wherever the light move, the world around it became dark.
"Okay, that's enough for today!" Seeing this move the woman didn't dare be careless. She snapped her fingers causing the light to vanish, the world become normal again.
Yu Yan seeing her move just disappear couldn't help but pout, "I bet you were afraid of my move that you didn't dare take it on Mistress!"
That's the right. The woman the triplets were fighting was Yu Yaojing. It has been two months since she started training them, a month away from the competition and from the results so far, she was pleased.
Yu Yaojing laughed seeing Yu Yan pouting. "It's not that I did not want to take on your attack, but that your attack was simply too strong that it could destroy this entire terrain."
Yu Yan hearing this stared at Yu Yaojing in disbelief. She was even smiling shamelessly, making her sneer. "Just admit you were afraid of my attack!"
"Ok I admit." Yu Yan hearing this looked at Yu Yaojing with a pleasing smile.
Yu Yaojing couldn't help but chuckle when she saw that smile. "I must say though, I did not expect you to learn a four note song in merely two months. Crescent Moon Strike too that was said to be one of the most difficult four note songs our benefactors left behind. Your mastery with the sword have also improved greatly!"
She then turn to Yu An and commended, "And you too Yu An, destroying your mark and rebuilding it to merge with your body is an impressive feat that not many Yinyue's in the past and present could accomplish. Now your body is just as indestructible as your previous mark.
"And lastly Yu Ai, I still cannot believe you managed to turn two six note battle songs that are meant for movement speed and deception into arrows. Not only that, but you also learn the three note battle song Vanishing Maiden! Do you know how long that took me to learn?! A whole three years god dammit!" Yu Yaojing also commended Yu Ai, but couldn't help, but feel jealous of her talent.
The triplets seeing her stare at Yu Ai with envy laughed together. The atmosphere becoming quite joyous.
Yu Yaojing seeing them make fun of her quickly got rid of her envy before saying, "Though I am glad that you three have improved greatly during these two months, what I am mostly glad about is how much your teamwork has improved. I believe if you were to face the mask girl again then you girls would easily defeat her."
The triplets listening couldn't help but sigh in disappointment. "But you killed her..."
"Cold bloodedly at that."
"I heard her head was ripped off."
Yu Yaojing smiled mysteriously at their reaction before saying, "Alright, I think its time for you girls to take a good rest. Its getting late."
"But we want to train more!"
"Nope! You three need your beauty sleep for tomorrows session. I don't want to see you girls coming her tomorrow tired okay~?" She said with a faint teasing.
"Fine." They nodded in agreement before disappearing towards their home.
Seeing them leave, Yu Yaojing smile turn into a deep frown. Two shadows came out of the woods and appear behind Yu Yaojing.
"You know their not ready." Yu Jing and Yu Yingzi both came beside Yu Yaojing. Yu Jing who was closer to her saw her frown and commented.
"Even if they aren't ready they cannot continue living without proving their selves. I gave them a reason for them to continue moving forward, if we suddenly get rid of it then they will become like everyone else in the tribe. Mindless fools who lost their purposes." Yu Yaojing said coldly, completely regarding her people as fools.
And she is right. Every Yinyue who currently resides in the tribe are those who lost their purposes after losing.
There are over one hundred different generations of the Yinyue race and out of the thousands of Yinyue's who are born in those generations only one has ever managed to make it to the top while the rest fall to the bottom.
Because of the competition to become the Mistress of the Yinyue race, a lot of people fell and never came back up. They did not die, but in their opinion what they experience was far worse than death.
Yu Jing and Yu Yingzi could easily attempt to become the Mistresses of their generations, but they declined the offer in fear of losing their purpose. They believed that although they could easily defeat the Mistresses of that time, they were not so confident in defeating the new generation that came after them for the title of Mistress.
So all this time, they acted as Guardians of the Yinyue race until Yu Yaojing arrived and claimed the title of Mistress for the past two hundred thousand years.
"But—"
"Enough about then. When the time comes, we will see the results of their fruitage. Have you gotten any news about Yu Bing?" Yu Yaojing quickly cut off Yu Jing and asked.
Before Yu Jing could say anything further, Yu Yingzi quickly responded with a shake of her head.
"What about Yu Huan?"
"Neither."
"Where could she be..." Yu Yaojing whispered to herself. Thinking about Yu Huan who disappeared after the Central Domain people arrived and disturb their home.
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While Yu Yaojing was training the triplets, Yu Bing arrived at the Witch Race.
"Sigh, we should really start a business or something. We cannot continue being poor." Yu Bing uttered with a yawn. It has been over two months since she started her journey to the Witch Race in search for a elixir that could help Yu Sheng.
Because the Yinyue race is probably the poorest race in the entire Blue Domain, they didn't bother buying any battleships resulting in Yu Bing wasting her time by flying towards the Witch Race when she could have arrived in just ten days.
"I will talk to Yu Yaojing about this when I get back. For now I need some sleep." With another yawn she vanished and appeared next to a hotel. Booking a room with the little money she had, she went right to bed.
Although she might be one of the strongest existence below that of a Domain Ruler, travelling in the air for a whole two months without any equipment to help her took a huge toll on her mentality which drained her energy.
After sleeping for an entire three days and three nights she got ready to visit a old friend, or rather an old acquaintance.
This place hasn't changed at all huh?" Arriving at a building that stood 300 meters tall she said with an nonchalant expression. On top of this building was a structure that if one looks closely resembles a huge alewife hat.
"No matter how many times I see it, it still looks better than the greatest structure in our tribe." Yu Bing sighed with envy. The building was as grand as a mansion, even grander than Yu Yaojing home, but this building that looked like a mansion was actually an Academy.
The Heavens Furnace Academy is a school that witches who chooses to spend their lives making pills and elixir go to improve their skills in concocting.
It is said that this Academy name was founded by the witch race Divine Weapon. A furnace that is rumored to be able to refine the most useless ingredients into divine pills which is the highest rating a pill can go.
It is also rumored that two hundred thousands years ago, during the war The Supreme Witch who is the master of witches used this furnace to swallow countless enemies. The people who were swallowed into the furnace were then refined, burning in a hell of fire to the point that not even their corpse were left.
"Alright let's get this over with." Yu Bing stopped admiring the building and stepped inside. As she walk inside she saw countless young girls staring at her. They even waved at her.
Just like the Yinyue race and Elf race, witches can only be females. Though that doesn't mean males doesn't exist in the Witch Race. Its simply that they go by another name, Magus.
Magus are people born with a high affinity with magic and in the Witch Race a male born there are usually unable to learn to make elixirs and pills. This is because they are born with high talent in magic and fighting which interferes with their talents in making pills.
In fact only the royal family, the Witch Ancestor bloodline and those from the Supreme Magus bloodline are able to concoct pills because they are born with the talents to balance fighting and making pills without causing them to interfere and slow down their progress.
It is the same for females. A female born as a witch cannot learn magic to fight and become a Magus.
Though that doesn't exactly mean witches cannot fight. The elixir they make can either save a person life or take it away from them. A simply throw coupled with a mixture of 'accuracy' could easily end ones life.
"Professor Yu." As Yu Bing walk around the Academy a few students approached and greeted her.
"Professor Yu! Are you back to teach us again?"
"Professor Yu, please come back! I cannot pass my third year without your teachings..."
"Wow, it has been two years since I last saw Professor Yu, but she's still as beautiful and elegant as ever!"
Professor Yu Bing, does your appearance mean you and Professor Yu Huan are coming back to teach us! Ahh... I'm so excited!
"Professor Yu..."
As she continue walking, the more students greeted her. As one of the most smartest individual in the world, she was given the opportunity to teach in many races and one of them was the Witch Race due to her vast knowledge in concocting.
But it has been more than two years since she stopped teaching in this Academy so she couldn't help but make a rare smile blossom on her face before she quickly hid it away. "I didn't expect them to remember me." She whispered to herself as she took in all the nice words they said to her.
Until a rude voice came out of nowhere. "Hey, bitch, you choose to appear here after ditching us for a whole two years? The guts you have!"