The Story of the Prince, Leiva
Chapter 17 - Practicing Hard II
Daytime.
Leiva did not bother Syifa or Empress Ruby. He took a bucket of warm water and brought it back to his room. He won't take a shower as usual, but a medicine bath.
For a warrior, training with Original Qi alone was not enough. He also needed to practice his martial skills. Leiva's physical health was weaker than his peers. If he wanted to make himself strong in a few months, he would not only need battle practice but also a medicinal bath.
Leiva bought five more servings of Refining Powder, each costing 1,000 silver coins. He poured a serving of Purification Powder into a place.
A baam!
White smoke drifted.
Leiva sat cross-legged in the middle of the place, his head submerged under the liquid. The liquid was as hot as boiling water and bubbling and giving off steam.
A sharp pain darted across the surface of his skin. Then, that sharp pain seeped into his flesh and blood, and then into his marrow and into his five internal organs.
A burning pain flowed all over his body. If he were another warrior, he would not have been able to endure this pain and would have jumped out of the barrel.
Leiva was as solid as a rock, sitting cross-legged at the bottom of the barrel with no change to his facial expression. He endured the pain from his flesh silently.
Only by experiencing the most difficult difficulties can one rise above the ordinary. Leiva crouched under the water peacefully and calmly. He transferred the Original Qi in his body to the three Meridians. The pain decreases with each cycle of Original Qi.
He could not hold his breath to train underwater for too long due to his current level of martial cultivation. So, he had to get out of the water to breathe every five minutes.
After two hours, the pain was almost gone. A stream of cold air entered his body to regenerate it. The feeling was so pleasant that it almost made him groan.
Then, Leiva stood up and wiped himself dry. He stood in front of the bronze mirror, looked at his own body, and nodded. The 10-day workout and the reduction from the medicinal bath had strengthened his body to some extent. He used to look very sick.
Only four days had passed in reality of course, while an ending of 10 days had passed in the Stone of Space and Time.
Four days ago, he was a loser who was chased out of the Crystal Palace by the Eighth Prince and was mercilessly laughed at by everyone. Who could have imagined, however, that only four days later he would reach the cultivation of the Earth Level intermediate stage? That was a miracle!
"This is not enough! The Earth Level is just the beginning!" With a sharp look in her eyes, Leiva clenched his fists.
After putting on his clothes, he took out a Blood Pill and entered the internal space of the Space and Time Stone to continue his training. The reason why he was able to reach the Earth-Level Refining Stage in just four days was not just because he had Martial Arts experience in his last life. But, because of the help from the Stone of Space and Time.
He could train three times longer than other warriors with the help of the Space and Time Stone, which was his unique advantage.!
Bugh!
Bang out!
"Saint Lord's Father!"
After the medicinal bath, one needed to use a fist technique to integrate the effects of the medicine into the body, thus transferring it to their own strength. Leiva spent the next few days mainly training inside the internal space of the Space and Time Stone and only came out every three days.
Empress Ruby knew that Leiva had just obtained her Mythical Mark and she needed to seclude herself for purification, opening her Qi Container, raising her bones. Therefore, she was not involved with him, but simply asked Syifa to take good care of him.
She still continued to sell her accessories and used the money to buy Blood Pills for Leiva. At that time, Leiva asked Syifa to secretly buy back the accessory at a higher price. It was an indescribable feeling, Leiva was deeply moved by the selfless love.
Gradually, Leiva accepts his identity in this life and sees Empress Ruby as his biological mother.
“Why don't we tell Empress Ruby the truth? He will be very happy if he knows that you are a true warrior now,” Syifa said.
"Not now.I want to surprise him at the Year-End Assessment. Besides, I don't think I'm strong enough now. I need to be stronger!" Leiva.
Syifa now knows a lot of Leiva's secrets. Except for the secrets of her last life and the Stone of Space and Time, Leiva had told her everything.
In Syifa's view, the Ninth Prince was an outstanding Martial Arts genius. In just a few days time, he had reached the Earth Level intermediate Stage, which could not be compared to any other prince.
Perhaps only the best of the best, the Seventh Prince, could be mentioned in the same breath as him.
After reaching the Earth-Level Refining Stage, Leiva continued to train in the Space and Time Stone for a month, taking energy pills every six days and taking medicine baths every 10 days.
His other time was spent on practicing the second movement of the Sacred Lord's Palm, and comprehending Lord Shinichi Moniyan's Scriptures and Meridian Graphs. The Original Qi in the Qi Container had been completed but the second movement of the Sacred God Site was not ready yet.
"Tonight, I will try to reach the advanced stage of the Earth Level!" Leiva.
After hearing this, Syifa was very surprised and said, “Advanced stage of Earth Level? But you just reached the Intermediate Stage a few days ago! Are you going to the Advanced Stage? The Eighth Prince alone took four years to do that!”
Syifa did not know about the existence of the Stone of Space and Time, so she thought that Leiva only practiced for 10 days. In fact, Leiva had been training for an entire month.
Actually, he shouldn't have taken that long. He spent a lot of time repairing his body. Otherwise, his training speed would be faster.
“Areally that fast? Everything just came when needed.”
Leiva never considered that his training speed was very fast. He believed that if other geniuses had the good resources he had, they would also be quick.
The Eighth Prince who took four years only proved that he was a person of terrible grace.
After all, Syifa was very excited right now. He said, “I know that you will succeed. If you can reach the Advanced Stage of the Earth Level, we need not fear the Eighth Prince anymore!”
"Yes! Now please leave me alone. I don't want anyone to bother me tonight" Leiva said.
