Chapter 3: Adrian and Yahui
In the five year old matches no one was allowed to use weapons since they would lack control and may hurt the other children. The two to watch in this age group was Adrian and Yahui who would meet for the finale. Adrian's fighting style was filled with strength and focused on over powering his opponent. While Yahui was taller then average for her age so she used speed and reach to best her opponents.
In Adrian's first match he was facing a big muscled child from the Prodst family. Both youths were ready to show off their strength. As the referee gave the go ahead the youth from the Prodst family charged at Adrian with his fists swinging. Adrian looked on as if he didn't give his peer didn't enter his eye. He smashed his own fist forward and they hit fist to fist. This caused both to grimace but neither is willing to give up the fight. They continue in this manner until the Prodst boy can't take it any more giving in. Both have bloody knuckles.
Looking proud of him self and with many youths praising his strength and bravery. Raul Just shook his head. "Are you happy with that fight?"
"What I won and beat him at his own game!" Adrian angrily yelled causing a scene. There were plenty of menacing smiles looking at the Emerald family.
"I thought you were going to come fight me. How many more battles can you fight now with your fists like that?" Raul grabbed his hands and pulled them to look at them causing Adrian to visibly wince. "Get him some medicinal bandages for him to use during the match at least." Raul spoke to the medicine master they brought a long who quickly came over to take a look.
Through gritted teeth Adrian stated "Even if I had both my hands broken I could still win against every one in my age group!"
Raul looked at his father who has a scowl and mother which has a worried frown and sighed. "Fine, just do your best not to permanently hurt your hands." After which he turned away from his incensed brother and returned to his seat.
Adrian who had a seat next to his brother chose to not return to his seat and get treated. Pouting he tried to pay attention to the matches. Every so often he would flinch from pain in his knuckles from the medicine.
Soon Yahui was up for her first match. She was fighting a young lad from the Kang family. The boy was happy to be fighting a girl off the bat he was sure he'd over power her. The boy from the Kang family wasn't a brute like the boy from the Prodst family. They begin by circling each other until Yahui took the initiative to move in which a quick punch to the boys face. He hadn't managed to block but he was surprised by how little he was hurt. Without any worries the Kang youth pushed forward ignoring the attacks from the Yahui. However she was just out of reach looking like a dancer avoiding all the attacks surprising many with her finesse. Soon the exhausted boy could no longer fight clenching her the victory.
Adrian grumbled that her way of fighting was unfair. While glancing at his brother who seemed uninterested. Through gritted teeth he complained. "He's so pompous thinking he's better then everyone else."
His next match soon arrived. Reluctantly he was forced to take a more conservative fighting style from now on due to his fists hurting. Still both Yahui and Adrian found no true opponent in their age group. So as expected these two would face off in the five year old finale. As they prepared the beginnings of the first of the six year old combatants faced off in nearby rings.
Yahui smiled happily as she entered the arena waving at her parents in the stands. On the other end Adrian who was enduing a great amount of pain from his swollen fist could only grimace. While laughing melodiously Yahui greets Adrian "Even though this is our fist meeting your gallantry indeed hasn't been exaggerated. But today I will be the victor!"
Adrian frowned he couldn't be beaten by a girl here. Yet looking at his hands that were slightly shaking from the pain he didn't have high hopes. He was enraged that his brother was right he had made a huge mistake. "Even though you are quite skilled I only need one punch to connect to win." He postured hoping no one would notice his predicament. Glancing quickly at his brother he saw a bit of his smug smile which made his heart sink.
Shaking his head he focused on the tall slim girl in front of him. Both had sweat glistening on their foreheads proofing that neither had much stamina left. Adrian gritted his teeth and charged forward only focusing on getting that one hit with out fear. To his surprise Yahui stood her ground throwing out a quick straight kick right at his undefended stomach. He didn't have time to shift his weight at this point and could only endure.
The kick sunk in to Adrian's stomach sending foundation energy into him. He was shocked feeling the energy flow into him. He had only felt this a few times when sparring with older kids in the family. Knees buckling out of his control he fell to the ground.
Those powerful individuals in the stands were shocked for a kid of only 5 years old to be able to use even a bit of foundation energy was a great genius. Lingxin just gave a slight nod oozing pride in the young girl. All the others could only grudgingly admit that the Akachi truly had a great new star in the family.
The referee was also surprised but quickly recomposed him self announcing "The Akachi's family Yahui is the victor of the five year old division. Would you like to face off in the six year old division?"
Yahui was drained and even a bit pail shaking her head "I fear that I used my last bit of strength here." No one would blame her she already did a spectacular job of showing her skill.
"I haven't lost yet!" Adrian hollers standing to his feet he begun to rush the weakened Yahui.
Before even the experienced referee could step in Raul was in front of Adrian. "You've done enough today." Raul Grabbed Adrians arm and tossed him out of the ring with ease. He'd expected this little outburst and was prepared for it.
"Brother don't get in my way." He screamed before slamming into the ground loosing consciousness.
While smiling at the young girl Raul said. "I apologize for the interruption. You did well out there Yahui, I hope you won't hold this against him." Giving a slight bow to the leaders in the stand he turned and left going back to his chair as if nothing happened.
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Also sorry the release is a bit late hopefully it won't happen again... It is still Saturday for another 22 minutes for me. :P
Chapter 4: Foolish Cultivation
The competition continued with the large families dominating but none showing the talent that Yahui had. It had been two hours since the start of the exhibition. There had only been minor injuries so far but as the strength of the competitors increased so did the danger. With foundation energy becoming more significant. Weapons would be allowed at the ten year old level as the skill at this age should be enough to avoid injuries.
Raul was preparing for his match he knew he would be targeted as he was not well liked in general even in the family. He had chosen a cultivation art that was considered bad at best and a waste of time at worst. It caused great strife in the family but he stuck to his decision. It felt like the right path and he didn't mind the tedious nature of it. Richard his father was extremely angry he yelled at Raul for a whole week to no avail. Anabele his mother had finally stepped in but even she didn't understand why her child was being so stubborn and could only sigh.
The truth was that this cultivation art had never been practiced and was just created by some old cultivator at the end of his life. He was neither strong or well known so there wasn't any one willing to give it a shot until Raul found it covered in dust in the family library. Every one thought that Raul was a foolish kid who thought he'd found a great treasure. However there is no great power that this cultivation technique gives.
In fact it was simply named Thoughts on Cultivating Every Meridian. It was slow and meticulous forcing the user to unlock every meridian path. A completely pointless and thankless task that would only allow the user a bit of extra control. It actually ended up limiting the strength of the user as it didn't have any specific paths to unlock the innate powers of the heavens. Many would eventually take a bath with a mix of medicines to destroy blockages giving the same results making this cultivation even more pointless.
What drew Raul too this was the great feeling of unlocking new paths sometimes finding small meridian path ways he didn't even knew existed. Some couldn't even be found in books to his amazement making him feel like an explorer discovering his own body. Also it gave him an excuse to be locked away for long periods of time much to the frustration of those around him. It was also very painful as he had to endure breaking through the blockages in minor seldom used path ways. This tactic was also dangerous with a chance of permanently damaging the meridian. Where the normal medicinal route was both safe and relaxing Raul's path was excruciating and exhausting.
Raul could only laugh he didn't know why he was so driven to go down this path. It just felt perfect when he tried it. When he was forced to use other cultivation techniques it just never gave the same feeling of control over his body.
Raul knew he would not meet any expectations put on him due to his choice of cultivation. He was just slightly above average at the mid sixth stage of foundation development. The average at this age was in the fifth stage. The geniuses from the other families would already be at the high end of the seventh stage. Eighth stage was the first major bottle neck with the fifteen years old children only reaching about the tenth stage on average with the best in the mid eleventh stage. Fifteen was the cut off for the exhibition so there was no fear of power houses entering. Still he had to go on the stage and fight. It was his duty and while he didn't enjoy the trappings of politics he didn't hate his family. Now it was the time to put worries aside and fight he thought as he took his first steps towards the arena with a stern look in his eyes.
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