4 Chapter: Practice Duel

As the sun rise from the east basking the entire Willow Leaf City with a new day as the people and wild life also start another day in living.

Inside the Shu clan compound one of the houses instantly burst out with a strong fluctuation of Qi greatly scaring the birds near the house but fortunately no one was near when it happen as they might have been surprised to discover someone broke through and reach the Foundation Building Realm.

After the burst of Qi in the atmosphere the scene around the house turn peaceful again as the door of the house open up to show a little girl went out

Its been a week after Ming Shu started cultivating in peace as she only went out of her room to eat or go to the bathroom to relieve herself or to take a bath and her body show an amazing figure even for a child as her white skin glow in the morning sun and her rosy cheeks also adding her crimson robe making her a total beauty.

After breaking through the Foundation Building Realm Ming Shu's dantian form a golden dantian with a small golden azure dragon sleeping in her dantian while her body became much more harder and stronger compared when she first started.

You all must be wondering why Ming Shu didn't continue in cultivating inside her room, first of all she couldn't staying coup up in that room, second the servants told her their is going to be a clan meeting once more, and lastly she felt that with her current cultivation is enough for now as she needs to at least see what is happening in the clan.

Ming Shu went to the clan hall passing by a few servants and they felt a strong pressure from her greatly shocking them as they bow to her as she pass by and rumors started to spread because of it.

Ming Shu once again enter the clan hall ignoring the elders as she sat once again in the seat for the patriach as she gaze at the people around her.

Last time when she gaze at them they only saw an arrogant brat but this time with her current appearance and the pressure releasing from her body greatly surprise them as they all showed different expressions.

A few minutes later the elders of the clan started arriving and Ming Shu's uncle also arrived and as his eyes lay on her figure which greatly shock him as he appeared surprised on his face as it quickly went back to normal as he quietly sat by Ming Shu.

As the all the clan elders have finally gathered Ming Shu stood up which caught all of their attention as she released her pressure greatly surprising them as they were now sure of their young patriach.

She is at the Foundation Building Stage! And she is still at the age of nine?! All of the elders wanted to cough up blood discovering her achievement.

"I want to ask the elders of what is the purpose of this current clan meeting."

Yesterday they ignore her when the clan meeting started but now with her current momentum they had to pay attention towards her.

One of the elders stood up as he bow towards Ming Shu and said his report.

"Patriach the other clans have started gathering their forces and we even discovered that a few of their men came outside of the city."

"You mean foreigners want to get in mix with our affairs?"

"As the patriach says."

Hearing the elders words she knit her eyebrows in anger but calm down as she order the elder sit down again and face them all.

"Can anyone tell me when will they start to attack us?"

"Patriach with the speed of their movement I say it might take a month or two before they start."

Looking towards to the person who answered her she saw a female elder as she noticed that she was one of the only one who truly show respect towards her.

Ming Shu nod her head as she sat down and her uncle stood up and the meeting continue on and Ming Shu got impressed by how her uncle manage their clansmen in the up coming battle and the meeting only took half an hour before they left as she was left again with her uncle.

"Little Ming how where you able to reach the Foundation Building Stage this quick? Didn't you start cultivating a week ago?"

Ming Shu couldn't say that she used more than two hundred big Qi stones to reach her current realm in a week so she could only lie to her good uncle.

"To be the truth uncle Do father hid the fact from you that I already started cultivating when I was a four year old child."

"Then your telling me that you were able to reach the Foundation Building Realm in five years?"

Hearing those words Ming Shu would also think it was absurd except if your in an ancient clan or a disciple of very strong sect.

"Uncle Do father used all of his resources for me to reach my current strength as that is why I could reach the Foundation Building Realm."

After saying Ming Shu could only wait to know the results of her lie if she could deceive her uncle or not but fortunately he did as sigh filled with sad emotions.

"So that is why your father didn't give me anything even when he was close to his death bed and here I though he was a stingy old man."

Ming Shu cough in akwardness hearing her those words, uncle Do father maybe really was a stingy old man!

"Then uncle I want to ask for your help."

"What is it then?"

"Uncle are their any good blacksmith here in Willow Leaf City that can make armor and weapon artifacts?"

"Yes their is actually as they are called the heavenly smith sect where they teach their disciples how to make artifacts."

"Uncle how are artifacts graded?"

"Artifacts are graded according to the cultivation realms."

Ming Shu nod her head and ask what are the cultivation realms.

"They are the Qi Gathering Realm, Foundation Building Realm, Core Formation Realm, Golden Core Realm, Nascant Soul Realm, Nirvana Soul Realm, Soul Transformation Realm, Void Completion Realm, Body Rebirth Realm, Great Acension Realm and all of this are under the mortal real and beyond that is the immortal realm and I know nothing about it."

After hearing all of the realms Ming Shu felt like she still had a long way to go so she asked her uncle for a spar.

"Are you sure little Ming?"

"Yes uncle Do and I want you to limit your strength to the 9th stage of the Foundation Building Realm."

Her uncle nod her head and they went to the sparring area of the Shu clan where their are a lot of Shu clan members where sparring and with their arrival all of them were surprised as they stop and bow towards them and uncle Do only wave back and totally ignore them.

Uncle Do took one of the practice arena as it is square shaped and a meter above the ground and all of the people in the sparring are gathered around below the arena of Ming Shu and uncle Do were using.

"Ok then little Ming show me how much you can do."

Hearing the go sign Ming Shu used all of her strength and dash towards her uncle greatly surprising herself as how fast she was but she stay focus and delievered a heavy punch at her uncle which he easily block but took a step back in receiving the blow.

When this happen the crowd got surprised at what they were looking at since uncle Do is famous that every clansmen knew who he was and witnessing him being push back a junior completely change their way of thinking.

But Ming Shu didn't stop as she revolve the Qi inside her datian as the golden azure dragon open its eyes as it screams in a prideful manner boosting Ming Shu's physical strength by a few folds.

With the new strength Ming Shu became even faster as she dash towards her uncle with a fist with everything she had.

Uncle Do was greatly surprised when he received the attack of her niece as his arms hurt a bit but as he stable his body he felt her niece growing much more stronger and dash towards him and he felt danger coming from her.

That's right a mere Foundation Building Realm cultivator pose a threat to him who is someone at the peak of Golden Core Realm.

He clench his fists as he gathered Qi in his right hand at the peak of Foundation Building Realm and punch out without holding back.

As their fists connected a resounding explosion occur which swept the entire training area as a most of the young clans men were push back a bit and all of them saw the outcome which they thought that would never happen.

Ming Shu was standing at the edge of the arena with a bruised up right arm while her uncle got sent out of the arena with small wound on his hand which was lighter compared to Ming Shu.

But they didn't care about that as they only thought that how mosterous the little girl on the arena was.

Ming Shu felt her hand was a bit painful even though some of her bones cracked from the collision of their fists but she didn't mind as she instead felt excited! The feeling of using all your strength felt really good that she wanted another round but with the condition of her hand she removed that idea and went down the arena.

Uncle Do stood with his clothes all dirty but he had a big smile on his face since he was greatly happy for her niece!

"Little Ming you truly surprised me with your current power."

"You praise me uncle if you weren't holding back your punches I would have been the one who flew out of the arena."

"Haha, but I was still the one who did."

Ming Shu laugh with her uncle as she observe the people around her which they showed various expression such as respect, fear, jealousy and many more as she was satisfied with the outcome.

"Then uncle Ming Shu will go back to recover from her injuries."

Her uncle look at her bruised up arm and he only realized now that he may have used the strength of Core Formation Realm but then he thought I still got defeated?

What a monstrous strength he thought.

He took out a medicine bottle from his storage ring and gave it to her.

"This is?"

Her uncle whisper in her ear.

"That is a high grade healing elixir as a single one of these costs ten big Qi stones."

In the past few days Ming Shu learn how much a big Qi stone is worth to.

A single small Qi stone true worth is a ten gold coins, a medium Qi stone worths a hundred gold coin, and a large Qi stone worths up to one thousand gold coins.

So hearing her uncles words Ming Shu couldn't help but gauck in surprise but no words came out of her mouth and when her uncle saw this he only wink at at the corner of his eyes as he sent her away leaving the gob smacked young clansmen to their own thoughts.

Ming Shu return to her room to rest but she didn't use the elixir her uncle gave to her but instead use the Qi inside her dantian to heal her arm and after a few minutes the condition of her arm almost return to normal.

But because of it the Qi inside her datian almost got depleted so she felt a bit weak and cultivated to restore the Qi that she lost.