"What's wrong with me giving it to him? Zi Yan must be preparing her disciple as well even though she's aware that Leon is only at the second level of martial arts, so what's wrong with me preparing him to face her?" Quin Xuxu turned to look at Bai Quing with a questioning look.
"Besides, he's your junior brother, you should join me in helping him prepare as well," She added.
Bai Quing was left tongue-tied; she could only stare at her Master speechlessly.
Was this still her cold-hearted Master who was ruthless to men? Since when was she so concerned about the opposite sex that she was even defending Leon in front of her? She felt like her Master now valued Leon as her favorite disciple.
"I'm going off now; you two can continue with whatever you have to do." Quin Xuxu waved her sleeves when Bai Quing didn't say anything and entered the courtyard, leaving her two disciples outside.
"Umm, Senior sister, are you all right?" Leon asked softly from the side when she saw that Bai Quing wasn't moving.
He wasn't too surprised by her reaction. If one really thought about it, what Quin Xuxu did was very unexpected to those who knew her and would leave them petrified from shock.
Hearing the price of the pill made Leon understand the importance of an alchemist as well as the value of the blood-cleansing pill that he had received.
He wasn't too sure about the value of money on planet Hafari, but since gold coins were involved, then there must be silver coins and coppers as well. From his numerous circles of reincarnations, he had gotten some understanding of worlds that used these three coins.
A hundred copper coins were equivalent to a single silver coin, and a hundred silver coins were a single gold coin.
An average family could live on 50 silver coins a year, while a rich family could live on 5 to 10 gold coins a year.
To spend a hundred thousand gold coins on a single pill was like spending hundreds of generational worth of income of a well-to-do family on a single pill, and probably only cultivators could do such since they had the means to make such amounts in short times.
He was now surprised as well after learning how expensive the gift that he had received from Quin Xuxu was, he might have felt too embarrassed to accept it if he had known beforehand.
'Nah, I would still take it without second thoughts; I will consider it as her paying my dowry.' Leon nodded; his thoughts were reasonable and acceptable; a hundred thousand gold coins wasn't too much for someone of his caliber.
Bai Quing came back to her senses after hearing Leon's voice, she looked at the handsome monster beside her with conflicted emotions.
This junior brother of hers might catch up to her in a couple of years with such a talent speed; she didn't know if she should be happy or depressed about it.
Shaking her head, she said.
"Come, let's go continue your training." Bia Quing led the way down the mountain, and Leon followed behind her.
On their way, he asked where she and Quin Xuxu had gone during the morning.
Bai Quing didn't hide anything and told him that they were holding a meeting with the other elders to decide how his duel against Zi Yan's disciple was going to be held.
Leon found out from the sect mistress that the duel was going to take place in the dueling arena of the outer sect ground, this was to allow all of the disciples in the falcon sect to spectate the match since outer disciples were not allowed in higher sect grounds but everyone could go to the arena in the outer sect ground; the result of the duel will also be announced immediately after the duel ended and both sides with have to fulfill their bets once the result was announced.
This was obviously planned by Zi Yan and her supporters since they were confident that Zi Yan's disciple would win and they would be able to humiliate the Grand Elder and her disciple in front of everyone.
Leon gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
'Those bitches, scheming against my woman; I'll make you all suffer the humiliation that you're planning!' Leon vowed in his heart.
Bai Quing noticed the angry expression on Leon's face from the corner of her eyes, she nodded in satisfaction.
'It is good that he has the interest of Master at heart, Master won't be spending resources on an ungrateful prick'
They reached the clearing where they usually trained and stood opposite each other.
Leon didn't need Bai Quing to remind him, he immediately shot forward with his new speed.
Bai Quing's eyes narrowed slightly at the sight of this. Leon's speed was at least five times faster than before, and he arrived in front of her within a second!
He immediately executed the fist art of the Three Worlds folding art, his punch rolled toward Bai Quing like three worlds combined.
Bai Quing reacted. Leon's speed might have surprised her but she was a level 6 expert for a reason.
Her hand moved with a blue as her eyes followed Leon's movements.
Pah!
Her palm caught his fist with blinding speed.
Leon was surprised, he didn't even see her movements clearly.
He pulled back after she released his hand, he moved around her before dashing toward her again.
This time, he sent a palm to the back of her waist but Bai Quing swiftly turned around and met his palm with a palm of her own.
Their palms collided and Leon was sent flying while Bai Quing kept standing in place.
He landed lightly a few meters away before dashing forward again. For the next couple of minutes, Leon moved around Bai Quing, who remained standing in one spot and attacked her from all angles, but Bai Quing would always block each and every one of his attacks.
Pah!
Their palms clashed again, and Leon was pushed back; he didn't rush forward immediately this time but stopped to stare at Bai Quing.
"You've improved faster than even core disciples when learning how to fight, that's impressive. Now, let's get you to switch between your fist and palm technique before they reach your opponent; this will be your element of surprise since they won't expect your punch to suddenly become a palm or your palm to change to a punch" Bai Quing stated.
Leon nodded, agreeing with her. It would be like fighting a weapon user only for them to abandon their weapon and kick you in the face, anyone would be too stunned to react to this.
They continued training this for the following hours. Since Leon was already used to using his technique when he was already close to Bai Quing, it didn't take long for him to learn how to change between the fist technique and the palm technique; it was just a matter of releasing the techniques faster.
After an hour and some minutes, Bai Quing stopped Leon.
"That's enough; you should already be on par with most core disciples and even some prime disciples with your current skills; I have nothing else to teach you aside from what you already know; though I can spar with you occasionally, it won't be considered training.
You will need to experience true battle against others to learn more; we'll resume training after you are able to release Shi from your attacks," Bai Quing said as she prepared to leave.
But Leon's voice suddenly caused her steps to pause.
"You mean this?" Leon asked before moving the Shi in his meridians and the Shi in the air to move to his fist before punching out.
An outline of a massive punch made by Shi flew out and struck a tree about fifteen meters away from him.
BOOM!!
The energy Shi crashed against the tree and caused the tree to shake violently, dozens of leaves fell off after the energy punch landed on it.
Leon was surprised, the tree in the center of the courtyard didn't respond this way to his attack.
He wasn't the only one who was shocked by this, Bai Quing stared at the tree that had a fist mark on it before staring at Leon.
'Monster!'