Spirit Firming Stage

Wu Yi spent the next couple of days in cultivation.

He had gotten the second stage of the Lion Heart skill from Wu Lin. He had then locked her in her bedroom and began his cultivation underneath the large tree in the courtyard. It had been two days already and he was making good progress. He had not yet decided whether Wu Lin had outlived her usefulness and this was why he was still keeping her alive.

She tried to protest her improvement but the beating she received was enough to remind her of her position in the new order of things.

Wu Yi wanted to break through to the second stage as soon as possible so that he could get his revenge on the entire Wu family when they returned.

For this reason, he spent night and day in cultivation.

He discovered that he truly had great talent when it came to cultivation. With each passing minute, he could feel his cultivation rise and his power increase beyond measure.

The second stage of cultivation was called the Spirit Firming stage. In this stage, one had to make their spirit stronger by absorbing spirit qi from the world and using it to harden the walls of the spirit.

Wu Yi was able to do all this in just three days. It usually took months for geniuses and for those less talented liked Wu Lin, it could take years.

When Wu Lin finally reached the peak of the second stage, he felt that he could break through to the third stage immediately but he instinctively chose not to do so. He felt that he could strengthen his Spirit even further. He did not know where his confidence came from but he continued absorbing spirit qi and instead of using it to break through to the third stage which was called the Spirit Gathering stage, he continued attempting to strengthen his Spirit.

The small round pearl that was his Spirit rotated on its axis inside his body. It was already as hard as the skill described but Wu Yi still felt that it was a liability. If the spirit was the centre of cultivation, he understood that once it is shattered, a cultivator loses their cul, motivation and some die instantly. It can not be reforged. Once one Spirit is destroyed, that is the end of their cultivation path. Since this was the case, Wu Yi wanted his Spirit to be the strongest it could be. For this reason, he spent an entire week trying to find a way to make it indestructible. Unfortunately, he could not find a suitable solution. He had been dubbed a genius since childhood but he was now stuck. He tried his best but nothing worked. The Spirit continued its clockwise rotation without showing any signs of becoming stronger. When Wu Yi was looking at this Spirit, he sighed in defeat and when he was about to give up, a bad idea entered his mind.

He hesitated for two days before he made up his mind to try it out.

The first thing he did was try and stop the rotation of the Spirit. The Spirit rotated according to the principles of heaven and earth. This was the belief held by cultivators all over the world. Its rotation was not controlled by the cultivator and those that had tried suffered from qi deviation and their lives were forfeit without any exceptions. Wu Yi was new to the Jianghu and he did not know about this information. His thinking was quite simple. He wanted to control the rotation of the Spirit so that's could continue strengthening it even after breaking it into the third stage and beyond. He focused on the Spirit and channelled his qi to move in an anti-clockwise motion about the Spirit. At first, it did not seem to work but Wu Yi was determined. He did not want there to be any possibility of him losing his cultivation before achieving his vengeance. He now understood that his enemy was someone much more powerful than the Wu Family. Young noble Chu Han was a talented young master with limitless wealth and masters gui9dinghis cultivation since he was a child. It was very likely that Chu Han was a powerful cultivator and even if this assumption was false, the young noble still had many cultivators working for him.

Wu Yi persisted for three days without seeing any progress but he did not give up. On the sixth day, his Spirit suddenly stopped its rotation. The moment it did, Wu Yi spurt out a mouth full of blood and fell to the ground unconscious.

He remained unconscious for an entire day. Suddenly, mysterious sharp energy entered his body and after circulating through all his meridians, it entered his stationery Spirit.

Immediately, Wu Yi regained consciousness and opened his eyes. For an instant, there was a dark glow in his pupils before it disappeared . Wu Yi stood up and the first thing he did was check on his Spirit . He found that it was now stationary but he felt a lot more connection to it.He then thought about it moving clockwise as before and to his great joy,it did just that .It rotated as before but he felt that his will was what kept this Spirit moving .He thought about increasing its speed and it did .He did not completely understand what had happened but he was happy with his success.He also noticed that the faster the Spirit moved ,the more the surrounding SpirIt qi was absorbed into his body.This qi was quickly circulated through his merridians that sone how seemed stronger than earlier before it was absorbed into the Spirit .

Wu Yi increased the spread of rotation and after a few seconds of this ,a whirlpool of Spirit Qi was formed around his body.Boom,he felt a loud sound in his mind and just like that ,he broke through to the Spirit gathering stage ,the third stage of cultivation.Cultivation had nine stages and Wu Yi was passing through them as though they were nothing to him.

He felt his body becoming stronger and the power surging through his body gave him a high like never before .He was now the strongest member of the Wu family.Wu Chen ,Wu Li and the supervisor were all in the second stage ,the Spirit Firming stage .

Wu Yi was now confident that he could get his revenge without any obstacle .He slowly walked back in to the house and as he walked ,he continued willing his Spirit to rotate and in so doing ,he passively absorbed spirit qi growing ever stronger .

Even now that he had aq higher cultivation,he understood that the Wu family were just his steping stone .He had greater vengeance to seek and he did nit want to waste time on this so called family.

He entered the small house and went straight to Wu Lin's bedroom.

He opened the door and the first thing he saw was Wu Lin jumping ut from behind the door with a sharp hair pin.She wanted to kill him by sneak attack.

Wu Yi did nit even turn around as he simply moved to the side easily doing her attack .As she was falling in front of him ,Wu Yi grinned like the devil himself as he kicked her in the stomach with his right foot .He did not hold back .He was now a Spirit Gathering cultivator .The force was so great that her body curled around his foot like a rag doll b before she was sent flying .Bang ,she collided with the opposite wall shaking the entire house in the process .Her body was embedded in the wall .She spurt out a mouthful of blood before falling to the ground .

Ta,ta ,ta,Wu Yi slowly walked towards the woman as though heading to a slaughter .With each step he took ,Wu Lin who was still in great pain coughed out blood as she tried to move away from this devil .

In her state ,she could not get very far and Wu Yi easily caught up with her .

He stood towering over her like a god come from hell to claim her soul and all she was.Wu Yi had grown up to be quite the male specimen.He was handsome in a masculine sense of the word .He was muscular with a well toned body and his practice over the two ears when he was trying to break through to become a cultivator had done wonders for his physique .He stood at six feet tall and his black hair and green puplis that had a circle of gold around the edge did wpnded for his appearance .He was a sex symbol and in the eyes of some ,he could be said to have the appearance of a god .

Wu Lin looked up at this man who towered over her and could not stop the regret that flooded her heart .All she had to do was treat him well and she could have been the mother to this genius .She had sensed that he had broken through again .He was now on per in terms of strength with some of the elders of the Lion Heart dojo .With his power ,he could even set up a faction of his own .She came out of her day dream when Wu Yi bent down slowly and gripped her neck.He lifted her up like a chicken and raised her to his face .

He looked at her direct in to her eyes and in his green /golden eyes ,she did not see any mercy for the weak but she saw great cruelty for all he deemed hos enemies .

"Time for you to die ,harlot ."he said as he raised his hand d to finish her off.