Regime training

<1 year and 9 months later>

<3rd POV>

The Dawn Forest was a forest situated at 500 km of Heaven Dou City, near its border. It was a forest of no more than 100 square km, form basically with Steel Blue Trees and the most common plant Blue Silver Grass. It was marked as a low dangerous area and due to its low resources, it was uncontrolled by any clan. Also, the absence of more than 300 years spirit beast, populated with low grade 10 years beast or plants, only existing 10 documented beasts of more than 100 years.

Basically it was a little forest where low-grade spirit trainees without any backing and strength try to obtain easily his first spirit ring, being of poor quality but with a safety impossible to find in a bigger and more famous forest like the Star Luo Forest.

There, in an open space near the centermost part of the forest surrounded with a lot of foliage and leafy hindering the view of the outside of it, it can be seen a hooded person that due to his height, he won't be over 9 years old.

At this moment, 3 beasts came from different points of the forest. A 150 years old Land Bull {a brown bull-like spirit with more than 4 m long and 2 m tall, known for its powerful tackle}, a 230 years old Grass Eater Snake {a silver-blue snake of 6 m long, known for its agility and poisonous enough to paralyze same age beast} and finally a 300 years old Steel Monkey {a 4m gray monkey with a skin-like armor, known for its big defense}.

Although in other places this will be weak beasts running and hiding to be alive, in this forest, they are considered behemoths. Observing close enough, you can see that the hooded person has its eyes closed. In this instant, the hooded person's eyes open slowly, its eyes observing his surrounding and grinning with contempt, easily seen in his full of prideful eyes.

He stands his right arm and moves his hand signing to the beast to come. The 3 beasts seeing his demeanor, they become angry. As the oldest spirit there, they are treated as kings so are unfamiliar with being treated with so much impudence, quickly charging toward the hooded person, creating an air shock with their big bodies, creating a strange image of a little figure that is gonna be smashed by powerful big beast.

Due to the air generated, the hood opens showing a young face with white hair that even though the best way to describe him, it will be cute, it can certainly be appreciated that when he grows, he will be a handsome man.

The white-haired boy changes its posture lifting his arm, having his hands positioned like grabbing something, materializing a red sword between his hand, with a shining yellow ring around it. The boy's sword pointing to the ground. Then a white light surgse out of the sword as the boy pierces down, nailing the sword to the ground saying "Intent: Scattering Protection!" a white aura scatters at all directions, surrounding him creating a kind of barrier.

The charging beast colliding with the white are pushed 6 m in the contrary direction. Now having a scared look at their faces, the 3 beast start running in a opposite direction of the boy leaving the white haired alone in the open space only accompanied by the forest's silence.

<Bai's POV>

(It seems like 100 years old beast are no longer my match, being impossible for them to even leave a crack at my weakest defense without mattering their numbers). After scaring the beasts, I sit down in a lotus position doing my breathing routine improving my foundation and enlarging my lungs while I remember what I learned this last year.

<Flashback>

I am at the training room with mama and papa says "In addition to your normal routine, you will have to learn 3 different techniques. They are Mind Eye, Stealth Treasure and finally the Raising Breath. The first 2 are techniques of our clan and I will teach you. For the last, is your mother self-created technique and she will be the one to teach you." I nod.

"Mind eye is a technique that permits you to observe your surrounding, having a 360º view of what happens without the necessity to even open your eyes. At first, the information is essentially more basic than your normal sense, so the information obtained, it will be not too precise but nevertheless is always good to control your surrounding. Moreover, training will help your mental energy to grow. Depending on your attainments in this technique the range will grow and eventually it will be a passive that you can maintain without any effort." Papa explained

"The method to training is meditating and slowly sending weak waves of spirit power outside your body that must have boomerang-effect, detecting the changes of it" (So like a radar) I thought.

"The next one, the Stealth Treasure is a unique technique of our spirit, you should try if your mutated spirit can use it. It is based on controlling the flow of spirit power inside the pagoda, maintaining it in each layer, blocking the power to leave outside. With our spirit, it is very simple to do and our spirit skills do not need to show our cultivation." Papa continued "With this technique, we hide our cultivation, making it impossible for others to ascertain our rank without a very exhaustive analysis. There's also the evolved version of it named Mirror Treasure that let you lie. showing the cultivation that you want, controlling the flow of spirit energy that leaves oneself, even having the power to change the color of your rings, causing the rival to underestimate you That way, at most, it can only show your true cultivation and at a minimum of no cultivation at all." Finish papa.

"For the breathing technique is a special way of breathing, exciting all the muscle and cells of your body, improving it, especially your stamina. Mine is a little special because of the strange flow and the use of spirit energy in it. I'll guide your first time and then you can repeat it alone after that." Says mama.

After that, they spent 1 month teaching me the basics of each technique until I could practice them without the help of any of them. With this, my training regime grew to keep me busy most of the day.

From the sunrise cultivation until breakfast, then meditating improving the Mind Eye and Stealth Treasure (Yeah it was exactly the same with my Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sword than with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagods) improving my mental power until lunch. At evening running and doing weight training for 2 hours, then a little snack and sword training. Finishing with a little sparing with my mother and breath routine.

(I shivered remembering, mama's usually very kind and easy-going but when she fights she become a spartan teacher that hits me every time a commit any tiny error. Especially when teaching the Raising Breath she was always hitting my stomach, shouting that I'm wrong and that I must do a correct posture). Then, taking dinner and finally a little cultivation before sleeping. Only having two days a week to rest and recuperate that I spent it playing with my sister and taking naps, feeling too numb to do much.

After a year of continuing the regime, my Mind Eye rank it can be extended to 20 m when concentrating and 1 m of passive, the Stealth Treasure was easy to master and I can control the cultivation that I show but for the ring color, I must concentrate in it and for now it impossible to maintain the changed color when using the skill.

For the breathing, I can finally do it alone and it is an always improving so my body is strengthening Finally, my sword art has improved deciding to focus in a more defensive style (Yeah at first I want go offensive but I have more talent in defense and with my Intent, it goes better) completely attaining the Sword Intent Real, creating intent whenever I want, even though it consumes a lot of stamina so I can only go with maximum strength 1 time and 2 times without overexertion. For my spirit rank it is 19, it won't take long before I become a spirit grandmaster.

Today I wake up and as usual, in a lotus position, I start cultivating. When I go to take breakfast, I find only grandpa Bone that he says "Your parents have an urgent business so they will not come in a while. Moreover, you had a good foundation but lacks practical experience so we decided that I will take you to a forest to gain some experience fighting with spirit beast there. There, you will be alone and learn how to survive without any help until you can win over the strongest beasts there"

Seeing my worried face, Bone calmed me "Don't worry too much, is a low-grade danger level territory full of 10 years old spirit beasts, being only a handful of 100 years old"

(Yahoi! Finally finishing this hell training and I can start real fighting, without the continued control over me.)

Like reading my mind grandpa Bone says "This is training so even with your fighting, you must continue to do the training routine, improving and putting it to practical use" I silently cry "If after that training you didn't arrive at our expectations, there will be severe punishment" he says grinning causing me to shiver. Then grandpa invokes a black hole and both of us enter it.

On the other side of the black hole, I can see that we are at the entrance of a forest "Welcome to the Dawn Forest, your new home for an undetermined time!" says grandpa doing a bow like presenting me the forest. Then grandpa gives me and white armor that can cover all the important parts of my body and a statue of a pagoda saying "This will be your protection. This silver flexible armor is able to stop a 1000 thousand beast strike at the cost of breaking. If there's some case that the armor takes damage to a certain extent, it will warm me and I will go to rescue you. The statue is similar. If you break it, it will warn me. If nothing happens, use it when you think that you finished your training. Good Luck!" He says disappearing.

(My new and first alone adventure will start) "Be prepare forest because I Come. YAHOI!" I shouted running to the forest.