Hundred drawings of a naked Moon Fairy

It was late in the night, the fireplace was already just coal shining on a cold night, Bao was on deep sleep her expression had a gentle smile, and Little An was even dropping some liquid off her little mouth, Shi was with his back facing a giant tree bark, his chest goes up and down, tiny microscopy snakes would enter his nostrils, and later they would go away to the night.

In his mind scenes of fighting are playing like a movie, he would do it every fight after the suppression of his Heart Demon, he would draw every memory on dry bamboo sheets, and lay it down like photographs on the floor, as he kept moving in the same way shown on the drawings.

The Vipassana chant playing on his mind, giving it strength, making his memory and imagination stronger.

"Sigh" he exhaled the last breath of his meditation.

Getting up he took a look at the two women, the two sleeping expressions made his heart gentle, shaking this thought off he got at work, he got a large root from a nearby tree and made a crude table with a flat surface.

He started drawing all those scenes, he would make complete drawings of important scenes and would make just sketches of the less important ones, he would always draw the battlefield alone, so he could think about movements and traps separately.

On the grassy floor shadows of a young man drawing and sketching could seem to be moving, at first, Shi wasn't a great fan of drawing, the more time passed, the more he would understand how much this skill did for him.

The drawing and the soul technique would help a newbie like him imagine and copy things better, this way he could reproduce the beautiful ying-yang carps and the primordial chaos chart better or even understand how to counter a move.

He got up and got some stones, sculpted an awl, and started to do the same movements Zhong Yong was doing, from time to time he would look at the drawings and imagine a group fight where he wanted to kill a cornered enemy.

After some breaths Shi got annoyed at the weapon and put it away, putting the drawings on his ring, he picked his spirit sword again, taking another hundred of drawings of a moon fairy.

That day she shot sword energy at him, asking Long Shin, he told that energy was a sword aura, it was something cultivators who wield swords could do when their understanding of the Sword Dao was enough.

He put the drawings on the floor forming a sequence, some of them are just sketches with movements, others complete drawings where he was trying to feel and draw the woman's intent.

"SWOSH" a sword slashed through the air from above, but nothing happened.

"Sigh.." Shi was dejected at his skill, but he kept trying.

Suddenly a bored voice came from the depths of his mind "You're doing it wrong, you keep thinking about the sword aura, and not about the sword, I gave you lessons on the fundamentals of the sword, that woman had 24 years on her bones it's 10 more than you, 10 more years for her to wield it."

"You need to understand the freehand swordplay after your accomplishments are good enough you will find the dao anyway, seal your spiritual qi and train without it, try to use the same techniques and the primordial breathing method"

Shi put the talisman on his mouth sealing his spiritual qi, after that he kept swinging the sword from one form to another, without spiritual qi was really hard to swing it, the spiritual qi would nourish the body and give it strength, sealing it was like to try exercise without stamina, the body would ache faster and faster, until you didn't have any force anymore.

But every time Shi became tired his heartbeat accelerated giving him forces to keep it up, Shi was noticing the change on his body after the incident with the moon woman, his body had a hidden force that pushed him forward.

Not far from where he was training, two women are now looking at him, it was already 5AM.

They looked at the drawings on the floor, but it made their faces become hot, everyone knew Yue and him had a misunderstanding on the sect, but none knew the real reason.

They could see a scene being played, Yue cutting the stone, their fighting, almost everything was clear, they could feel a little of the Yue intent on the most beautiful drawing.

It had the moon shining on her, on her back was a white fish phenomenon, she was naked holding a sword, her expression was resolute and brave, this drawing gave the women a deep feeling of awe.

They took another look at the young man, because he wasn't using spiritual qi and his body was tired, his swordplay was slow like floating clouds, his movements were graceful making them enchanted.

Shi didn't know what was happening within the women's heads, neither he cared, an empty feeling was coming from his sword it was like the absence of something, he kept reminding himself it was just the lack of spiritual qi, but it couldn't make him at ease.

The bored dragon said "Put your sword away, let's make something new, I want you to enter your boxing stance, but use the right hand as a sword"

Cleaning the perspiration on his face with his sleeves, his right scapula was aching and a blue crust could be seen on it, he got on the boxing stance, but this time he put his left hand in the middle of his chin with some distance from his face, his right hand was in a 'chop' manner imitating a sword, pointing forward.

Closing his eyes he started to put his mind to work, using the hand as a sword and moving his way through the fight, his footwork would always shine on a group fight, because speed was the crucial part against a group, if they couldn't get you, they can't kill you.

He didn't know what he was doing, but he knew it would work, his father was never wrong, the only problem was his tired body, this time, maybe because it was on his head, or maybe he was just hallucinating from training for hours, he could feel a sword on his hand, a very tiny feeling, but it was there.

Seeing it was already morning he stopped his training and seated in the same place, he took the mask and the shredded robe off letting his face and chest naked, the claw scar distorted because of his bulging muscles and lean skin.

His image was seated on the middle of the primordial chart, the two fishes would swim encircling it, this time however the fishes were more real, and the snakes coming to his nose were larger.

After finishing his meditation he got up, his eyes shining as he took a look at the cloudless morning sky, the women sitting quietly near the fireplace.

Looking at them Shi said "Before you guys go, let me make a vitality medicine for you, Sickly Gorilla."

Taking a clay pot from his ring, he filled it till the middle with beast blood and put a Spirit Bellflower on it.

"This spirit blue flower cleans the impurity of the beast's blood." he said looking at Little An.

"After it started to boil you put a little of this bloody ginseng, the older the ginseng it will give a better effect"

The women are incredulous, he was really an alchemist, but why is he calling Spirit Bellflower spirit blue flower? and a 100 years old ginseng bloody ginseng? they could see the doubt in each other's eyes.

After some minutes the liquid was more a syrup, he gave the pot to the thin woman and said "take it every morning, get a little more of sun but not too hot, better would be if was the early morning sun, since it still has yin qi from the moon lingering in the air".

Receiving the pot with bloody syrup, Little An took a look inside it, it had a bad smell, but she could feel her body earning, she put it on her ring and made a deep bow to him, not only he gave her the recipe, he also made it in front of her.

Bao was opening and closing her mouth, but before she could say anything she felt his hand on her shoulder "Don't start it again, I didn't have any intention of taking you with me" he said, giving her a cold shower.

Picking up the two bodies, he shot at the forest, leaving the women in the nest. He had some bad feelings about all this situation in the neutral zone, it was the second time he saved women from the claws of the Evil Cloud Sect.

And a name kept coming up: "Young Master Yun", always in a group overwhelming the women, maybe it was just imagination, but since he was already an enemy it didn't matter.

Fastening his pace he shot through the neutral zone in the direction of his cave, he would use the two bodies to study medicine, for him it was creepy, but his father told him it was how medicine evolved.