After this, Heifeng Jiansui left the two girls to the time accelerated training ground after advising them a bit. He had neglected that little loli, Baifeng Tianxin for quite some time, so he might as well go and play.

After returning to the mobile estate, breakfast had already ended. Most of the maids were gone already, but two figures, large and small, were still seated on the table.

“Elder sister, I am already full, but I haven’t eaten everything! But father said that its important to finish your food…” The little girl was valiantly trying to eat everything but the tall girl dissuaded her.

“Don’t eat if you can’t stomach it. I’ll pack it away and then you can eat it later, alright?” After saying this, Qinglan Weiwei hastily packed away the remaining food before putting it away in a ring.

The little girl took away the ring and stared at it with wonderstruck eyes. “Such big food was put into such small ring… How is this possible?”

“Magic!” At Heifeng Jiansui’s sudden voice, the two girls were frightened! Only after turning around and seeing the figure of the master of the house did their tension disappear…

“Elder brother, I thought you went home!” Baifeng Tianxin’s voice was filled with displeasure!

Around three days ad passed since his arrival at the Ninebless Island, and other than during the time spent eating together with the residents, he hadn’t interacted with the little girl at all. Thus, seeing her ‘big brother’, the little girl puffed up her cheeks in anger.

“Does elder brother hate me? We haven’t played together for… I don’t know!” At her childish voice which seemed cute even when angry, Heifeng Jiansui poked her cheek with a finger.

“Elder brother was busy. Wanna play?” Heifeng Jiansui’s suave voice and posture immediately reversed the loli’s unhappy mood to excitement!

“Play, play!!... Elder brother, what do we play then?”  The loli’s excitement disappeared when she couldn’t think of anything.

“I’ll take you to play a new game. Weiwei, thanks for taking care of her.”

“It was my duty, young master.” Weiwei’s voice was upbeat after being praised.

After this exchange, he picked up the little loli and left. The tall girl was left alone in the dining room to clean.

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After taking her to an empty training hall within the manor, Heifeng Jiansui finally placed the loli down.

“Wah, elder brother, what do you want to play?” Excited, the little girl asked while bouncing around.

“Were you taught any martial arts?” At Heifeng Jiansui’s question, the girl shook her head.

“Martial arts… Daddy told that since I cannot learn breathing techniques, I cannot learn martial arts or cultivate.” Saying this, the girl scratched her head and asked, “Brother, what are martial arts?”

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Heifeng Jiansui, as a Perpetual Emperor, had an understanding of martial arts that could shock and awe the Heavens. However, since it would be wasted on this, little girl, he simply replied… “Martial arts are for beating people up.”

“Wah! Back then, when daddy smacked my butt for disobeying, was that martial arts? What is ‘cultivation’ then?” The little girl avidly asked the former Perpetual Emperor.

“See, martial arts are only useful against people who are as strong as you! If they are even stronger than you, martial arts are useless! Cultivation means increasing your strength! Become even more stronger that the people stronger than you, and beat them up!” Heifeng Jiansui answer filled with wisdom caused stars to appear in the loli’s eyes.

“If I cultivate, I will become stronger! If I learn martial arts, I can beat up everyone! But elder brother, daddy told me that I cannot learn martial arts or cultivation… If anyone bullies me, elder brother mst beat them up for me…” The little loli turned sad as she said this.

“Don’t worry! You can learn martial arts and cultivation without breathing techniques! Don’t you trust your elder brother?” Heifeng Jiansui had really gotten into this ‘play’.

“Okay! Elder brother, quickly teach me martial arts and cultivation!” Unhesitatingly trusting her elder brother, she jumped and pestering him.

“Okay, since you are asking me, I will teach you! Let’s begin with martial arts first! Take this!” Heifeng Jiansui removed two green wooden staves from his ring and gave one to her while keeping the other for himself.

Sword techniques were composed of 13 basic movements: chop, pierce, scrape, sweep, break, tap, cleave, support, intercept, twist, lift, draw, and sheath. Saber techniques had fewer movements due to the single edged blades. Spears had lesser basic movements, but the style of that weapon was completely different from swords and sabers!

Comparatively, a staff had only two attacking movements: swing and strike. The defensive movements were two as well, parry and guard. As the saying went, learn the sword in a year, the spear in a month and the staff in a week! Heifeng Jiansui was confident in driving the foundation of staff techniques in Tianxin’s head!

“Elder brother, you are teaching me stick fighting?” Tianxin grasped the stick bottom of the stick and instinctively held it in an upward slant.

Heifeng Jiansui remembered that this loli awakened her bloodline memories with a weak soul and inadvertently fused them. This turned her into a retard, but there were other advantages as well, such as the innate knowledge of some fighting techniques!

“This is a staff. Now, let me teach you how to attack with it…” Heifeng Jiansui helped her change her grip before showing her how to swing.

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In the beginning, he showed her the offensive techniques: swinging the staff and striking at a single point. They practiced this on dummies.

After this, it came time for learning the defensive techniques. Heifeng Jiansui lightly hit her until she grasped how to guard from attacks by using the length of the staff and how to parry by striking the attacking weapon.

“Elder brother, you are a meanie! I am red all over!” Red welts had appeared all over Tianxin’s little body, and Heifeng Jiansui remedied that by applying healing salves over them. Soon, her skin was pure white as snow.

“Wow, all the red is gone! Elder brother, have I learnt martial arts now?”  The little girl seemed to have calmed down after the marks of the beating disappeared. She asked him with excitement.

“No, all this while I was teaching you how to properly wield the staff. Now, I am going to teach you real staff martial arts!” At this, Tianxin reacted with elation. Gripping her staff perfectly, she held it in a stance that could smoothly interchange in attack and defense.

While staves were pretty easy to grasp, they were hard to master. The fundamental of staff fighting was simple to understand but hard to grasp: switching between attack and defense like water. Now that she had mastered the four basic attacks and defenses, it was time for smoothly combining them!

“Now, you don’t have to think before attacking. Let your instincts take over and your thoughts come later!” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui attacked and the little girl hastily parried with a opportune strike.

Heifeng Jiansui conformed to the basic forms he had taught her earlier and attacked open and overboard. There was no need for excessive thinking to counter, all that was needed was instinct. And the little girl didn’t lack that!

Steadily, Heifeng Jiansui increased the speed of his strikes and the little girl rose to counter him as well. Finally, they reached the limits of her current strength. Due to her bloodline, her strength and speed was high and stamina surpassed that, but the point of training wasn’t to improve these stats but to utilize them to the fullest extent.

So, Heifeng Jiansui began introducing unpredictability to his attacks. A series of fast blows were exchanged before suddenly a slow attack struck, suddenly giving up the offensive to switch to defense… All manners of cunning strikes were used to shake the girl from her instincts and use her thought to bolster them!

Finally, the two exchanged one last series of attacks and counter attacks before the session came to an end.

“Elder brother, while I couldn’t beat you up, I didn’t take much of a beating either… Does that mean that I have learnt martial arts?” The little girl had an inquisitive look as she asked this.

After Heifeng Jiansui shook his head, her cheeks puffed up, annoyed. “First you told me to learn to swing, strike, guard and parry. Then we spent all the time switching between these attacks as we fought. Now what? When will I learn martial arts?”

In response, Heifeng Jiansui simply swung his staff at the sky. The strike split the void, causing a single black line to streak through. The line was like a glass through which another world could be seen: Tianxin could see flying rocks and fiery Suns within it!

As the line disappeared, Heifeng Jiansui said, “When you can split the void like this, you can be considered to have learnt some martial arts. How long will it take for you to reach this level?”

The question went unanswered, but a fiery light burnt in the eyes of the loli.