Wang Miao was not at her home so I left in a hurry to go start my training as quickly as possible. There was no time to waste but in order to train I needed my swords to start with. I didn't want to go back home because I would meet Li Jing and she would make me stay to eat breakfast. There was no way I could sneak past her, she was probably in my room waiting for me. If I got home and met her there she'd probably make up an excuse why she was in my room. I only knew her for less than a day but I felt like I already knew her since forever.
If this was what transmigration felt like I did not know if I wanted to or did not want to experience this again. I had never fallen for a girl in my past life or felt drawn to them so why now? This useless body, what was it doing to me? I chose to just use sticks to train, I wasn't going to that house until I was done with my training. Even if it took me days or the whole two weeks. Which meant no rest. I was not the kind of person who would push myself so hard and I did not know what my motivation but I knew one thing for sure, I wasn't losing to Liu Chen in the Blue Haze Mountain contest.
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I was back at my spot for training and started my planned agenda with meditating. I went back into the state of mind and admired all my nine cores but that was not what I was here for. In the book I read concerning multiple spirit cores, it said that whenever multiple spirit cores were formed within a person the cores would be unstable and would not be fit for use but they could be stabilized one by one through meditation.
I started with my orange core, the fire spirit core, since it was the easiest. It was going to take a while but it would be totally worth it. What was the point of training if I couldn't use any of the cores. I was sure that I spent at least eight hours stabilizing that fire core. "I can't believe that the rest are supposed to be harder than this"
It may have looked like I was just sitting down with my eyes closed but that wasn't all there was to it. It required intense focus to control just a tiny, rice-sized, fragment of a spirit core. Then imagine how it would be like putting together pieces like that together to form a ball the size of a soccer ball. That was what it took to stabilize the fire core and the others were meant to be harder than this.
The process was also energy draining so it would take me long to finish all the cores. I could not stay out here so defenseless and I also could not spend my two weeks on just stabilizing cores. I was just going to stabilize my fire and water cores and integrate them into Wang Wei's sword skills. In his memories his sword techniques had a kind of form unlike any other, I could definitely find a way to use them with my spirit energy.
After taking a break I went home. A place with abundant spirit energy like this one could attract beasts. Better safe than sorry.
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When I got home I saw my sister and Li Jing talking in my room. It seemed like they were discussing something because Li Jing's cheeks were flushed red and Wang Miao was smiling. In Wang Wei's memories the two of them were always close and it was even suggested that Li Jing became Wang Wei's maid. Li Jing was from a commoner family but she and Wang Miao had always been so close.
One day Li Jing's mother who worked in our parent's house brought Li Jing to work and there they met. From that time they hit it off. She said that when she got married she wanted to use Wang Wei as an excuse to see Li Jing but I knew that wasn't the only reason. Come to think of it I hadn't gone to see my mother since I woke up. I then decided to go see her the next day. Why did I get the feeling I knew what it was that they were discussing. Wang Miao gave me a look that made me feel weird.
"Wang Miao, what are you doing here?"
"Brother what kind of question is that? You know I always come here to see you and Li Jing"
" I went to your house but you were not there"
"I had probably left by then"
I took off my shoes as I entered the room and I noticed a new bedframe in the corner of the scape. Li Jing got up and wanted to bow and leave but Wang Miao pulled her by the hand and made her sit down again.
"When I'm here that will not happen"
"Wang Wei, why do you always make Li Jing bow to you?"
"But I never once asked her to bow. I'd even prefer it if she didn't bow"
"Huh? Brother is something wrong with you?"
"Why does everybody keep asking me that question today?"
"Li Jing, help me feel his body to see if he has a fever. Is he alright?"
'Nice trick, pulling a fast one on me there Wang Miao"
Li Jig was surprised by her request. "You want me to check the young master?"
"Yes, is something wrong with that?"
"B-b-but-"
"I was the one who told you to do it. He's not going to do anything to you"
"But-"
"Are you afraid of him?"
"N-no"
"Do it then"
Wang Miao was truly evil. If she forced Li Jing to do this she might be the one having a fever and not me. Li Jing stood in front of me with her head down so I took her hand and placed it on my forehead. Her cheeks flushed red.
"Now tell me, do I have a fever?"
"N-no. You don't have a fever young master"
"See? Nothing is wrong with me"
"Then why are you acting so nice? Are you an impostor?" Wang Miao drew a sword from gods-know-where and pointed it at me "I know my brother well, and he doesn't act this nice"
This girl was insane, she was really going to kill me because she suspected that I wasn't her brother, which was partially true. But still, was that even a valid reason to kill someone. I strode at her in an I-don't-care and sat in the seat opposite to hers.
"I'm your brother for god sake, and put that sword away before you injure someone"
"You haven't answered me" Wang Miao said and threw her sword at me.