Chapter 3: Mysterious Stone Crystal
When Xiao Ren succeed to get it out he see it's full appearance, it is like a crystal but not a crystal and it is a size of a baby fist with faint red glow,it has a ancient word and flame mark engraved in it.
'hmmm, this stone crystal doesn't seem simple. I guess ill just keep it for now and study it when I have time' Xiao Ren think inwardly before continuing to walk down the mountain to go home.
Xiao Ren got home after a few minutes of walking. Xiao Ren was surprise whe she saw Xiao Xi training near the house because from what he remember this little girl rarely train and in those rarely time she was even force by him or his father because this little girl always want to play. Xiao Ren walked towards Xiao Xi before saying "What's happened? why is my little sister suddenly training? this rarely happened hahaha" while staring at his little sister with a teasing smile.
Xiao Xi turned around when she hears the question and see Xiao Ren with a teasing smile. She glared at her big brother then said "well it is because of my super hardworking brother, and when father see me not improving father forced me to train and said why I'm not as hardworking as you. that's why it's your fault that this happened"
When Xiao Ren finally knew the reason why Xiao Xi was suddenly training and he couldn't help but laughed "Hahahah, so that's what happened huh, hahahah" when Xiao Xi saw his brother laughing she glared even more at Xiao Ren and said with irritated tone "hey, why are you laughing? do you know that I can't play today because father goes back from time to time to check if I am really training"
Hearing that Xiao Xi blamed this to him Xiao Ren said "little girl don't blame this to me, you need to train sometimes, but don't worry before the end of this week I'll fulfill my promise to you to take you to the city" when Xiao Xi heard this her face full of grievance change to an excited one "hmmm, but don't you forget the other promise you need to treat me to a sweet shop and I'll make you buy me many of it" Xiao Xi said while nodding.
When Xiao Ren heard this he suddenly remember that he also promise that he will treat Xiao Xi sweets then begun thinking 'ughh, I forgot about this, will my money be enough for this little girl?' while wryly smiling.
"Alright let's go home and eat Xiao Xi" Xiao Ren said while walking toward the house. after Xiao Ren eat he goes to his room to inspect the stone crystal but cannot find anything about it. As he can't find about it he just jeep it on his sleeves before meditating, when Xiao Ren was meditating he feel's like it there was something different this time, he feels hot and feel that even by just meditating he is increasing his body strength. Xiao Ren open his eyes to find the reason why he suddenly feel it and saw the cause of it, it is the stone crystal that is now emitting a heat and brighter light than when he found it this afternoon.
"This thing is like giving me an strange hot energy that is helping me strengthen my body, It's look like I found a treasure hahaha" Xiao Ren exclaimed before laughing. after Xiao Ren calm down his face became serious "I also can't let others to know about this if it can really help me to train, I wonder if this stone crystal can also help me when I stepped in Martial Apprentice Realm and if it can really help me train in the higher realm the importance of this stone crystal will be much higher than I thought" Xiao Ren mumbled to himself while sighing before making a determined face.
Then Xiao Ren continued to cultivate for a while before he sleep. As Xiao Ren was sleeping he didn't know that the stone crystal continued to absorb the energy of heaven and earth before inserting a strand of red energy into his body to further strengthen his body.
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The next morning Xiao Ren is in a good mood and already training because when he woke up he quickly get up to train when he feels that his body suddenly get stronger than before he sleep. He suspected that this is cause by the stone crystal, but he didn't know to explain it or how did it happen that's why he didn't think about it for now and train.
While Xiao Ren was training the second move of the Raging Tiger Fist, he didn't know that there is a man watching him execute the move. "Ohhh, you already have some knowledge to execute the second move of the Raging Tiger Fist? what about the first move did you already learn it, hahahah" when Xiao Ren turn around to see who spoke he saw his father Xiao Feng walking towards him with a smile.
Xiao Ren nodded while saying with a smile "Hmmm, I think I already learn the first move but it's still not as strong when father execute the first move" Xiao Feng's smile grew brighter when Xiao Ren confirmed that he already learn to execute the first move of the Raging Tiger Fist "well it is because even though we have the same martial technique it still depends to the one who used the technique know it's strength and mastery, and even if you learn it already maybe you are in initial mastery or not even in the initial mastery as even I myself only master it at the peak middle mastery, for example you use this peak grade yellow rank Raging Tiger Fist to a Martial Apprentice 1st layer while you are in 9th layer in Body Tempering, he can still defeat you using only a middle grade yellow rank technique if both your mastery is at the same level because he is stronger than you in a whole realm but if you learn it to perfection maybe you can make an attack that is equivalent to the force of a Martial Apprentice in 1st layer to 3rd layer, but of course there is merit using a higher grade and high rank technique even if you didn't master it to perfection because you can still put a fight to someone a level or two higher than your realm if your opponent's technique is lower than yours but at the same level of mastery. Now try executing the first move so I can see if you are at initial mastery" Xiao Feng explained to Xiao Ren before ordering Xiao Ren to use the Roaring Fist.
Xiao Ren nodded then use the Roaring Fist "haaah!" Xiao Feng nodded when he saw the Roaring Fist used by Xiao Ren "Good, you really master the first move of the Raging Tiger Fist" then take out a medicinal plant and give it to Xiao Ren "Take it, I found this rank 1 medicine plant blood lingzhi, It can help you to strengthen your body to help you breakthrough to 5th layer Body Tempering Realm, I will also try to find other medicine plant for you to use to strengthen your self before the test next month maybe you can also breakthrough to the 6th layer then maybe you can get to the top 3 hahaha" Xiao Feng said with a laugh before turning around and left "I will leave you now to not disturb your training"
Xiao Ren keep the rank 1 blood lingzhi while promising to himself that he will do his best to get the top 3 rank and even the first rank in the test next month. When Xiao Ren was about to continue to train he saw the blood lingzhi's energy got absorb by the stone crystal "aaaaahhh! wait wait don't, I need to use that to breakthrough to 5th layer of body tempering realm" Xiao Ren shout before separating the two, but when he separate the stone crystal and blood lingzhi, the blood lingzhi's energy already got absorb
Xiao Ren stared at the withered blood lingzhi before turning to the stone crystal before sighing "hayss, If this stone crystal doesn't help me yesterday and when I sleep, I will really throw it away" Xiao Ren said with bitterness on his face, when the stone crystal start glowing again before sending a few strand of red energy to Xiao Ren's body and he feel's that he will breakthrough to 5th layer of body tempering realm soon, half an hour later Xiao Ren Breakthrough to 5th layer of body tempering but Xiao Ren was still feeling that his body still has that few red energy strand in his body slowly strengthening his body.
"wow, this can be used like this? then it's okay of you absorb the energy of that blood lingzhi hahahah" Xiao Ren said with a laugh at the stone crystal and look at it while caressing it like it was a really delicate treasure. After calming down his emotion he continue to train the second move of the Raging Tiger Fist.