"Congratulation Yan," mother cheering for Yan breakthrough today.

"Ehehe..." Yan's smiling sheepishly after hearing mom compliment.

This time I the one who got the job as a cook while helped by Rin. Mother will go tomorrow, so she needs more rest than us. Yan on the other hand, well, let's say today is her day.

"Here it comes," Rin says while bringing the cake to the table.

"Thanks, wants another hug, Rin?" mom says with a smile, teasing her again.

After hearing mom speaking, Rin immediately runs to the kitchen, hiding next to me. Looking at her amusing behavior, mom laughing followed by Yan shortly.

After finished cooking everything, I bring one cake with me to the dinner table followed by Rin, "Here your congratulatory cake."

After we celebrated Yan breakthrough, we spend the rest of the night chattering each other before we finally go to sleep.

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“Hoahm,” I open my mouth wide and take a deep breath, yawning, still feel sluggish after wake up in the morning.

I stroll to the living room and find a yellow note from mom stuck on the table, she already goes to the main continent. It seems she leaves the house before dawn, Oh mom, I'm pretty sure that taking a trip in darkness is quite dangerous. Well, at least I already send Caldrew to protect her.

After reading mom's note, I'm soon submerging my body in the stream, of course, it after waking up Yan and Rin who still wrestling with each other on their sleep. They immediately wake up and find out mem already leave to the main continent. At first, they disappointed can't see her leave, but soon they joking each other again, what a kid.

The early bird's chirp flowing to my ears, it feels very comfortable, looking at dark sky slowly filled with the streak of lights while floating on the stream.

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In an hour, I'm just floating feeling the water flowing below me accompanied by the frog croaking until I finally call it off. After I wear clean clothes, I stroll back to the home and see Yan already prepared with her battle outfit. She's doing warming up to relax her muscle, and then look at my direction with a smile, it seems she is up to no good.

"Vys, time to sparring," she said with a smirk.

She's throwing me a wooden sword for training, while she's holding another wooden sword. "Finally, my cultivation stage is on the same level as you, how's that feel Vys," she's laughing proudly and then puffing her flat chest.

I grab the sword and put on my standard stance, after looking at my movement, she promptly put a proper battle posture.

It's true what she says, I'm in the Tenth level of Qi condensation too, same as her. Qi condensation usually involves a breathing technique to gather energy in nature and then refining it in meridians to strengthen cultivator Qi and body.

Energy in nature always exists and recover with time. However, its density always fluctuating and changing over time. Therefore, cultivators always sit in a comfortable position to make concentrating easier. It's to make sure the nature energy doesn't leak out because they don't bind with enough Qi or disappear because they put too much power in it.

They must refine nature energy level by level until reach the peak level of Qi condensation, the Tenth level. In the theory, after calming and refining the Qi fluctuation in meridians at the Tenth level, everyone can directly attempt big breakthrough to the next level, Foundation establishment.

However, that just the orthodox type cultivation. Well, it's used even by big clans for thousand years, so of course, it contains some truth in them, but I still take those with some grain of salt and try experimenting with it myself.

My attempts to take a different approach isn't coming from recklessness, it is because of I confident that I have necessary skill for experimenting in a humanoid body.

I'm sure hundreds of years of rigorous scientific study by experts in their field will be better than thousands of years of trial and error improvement by someone who doesn't even understand body works. Besides that, good cultivation is protected tightly by a big clan and most of that still have obvious flaws from a medical point of view.

Even though cultivation techniques are important, body aptitude with Qi is another decisive factor. For example is Yan, her body have high aptitude with Qi and can absorb it easier than a normal cultivator. So, even though she using weird breathing method, her cultivation speed is still very frightening. Well, of course, I already fix her technique to make it suitable with her body and remove its side effect, but still, her talent is the real deal.

Looking at her taunting pose I can't help to fuming, but after a while, I take a deep breath to calm myself, 'calm down, I'm the adult one here.'

“Well, time to put her in her proper place.”

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Yan: Kuhum, Yes.

Vys: …

Yan: What?