Flames of Ambition

4: Cultivation World

Chapter 4: Cultivation World

"Lihua is so pitiful. Chef Shen even wants to punish Dao Lu for following my order since he doesn't want to make Lihua food," she even makes her tear more miserable than make Fan Xuan Yan soften to her facade.

"This Father will grant you justice, dear. Don't cry," Fan Xuan Yan hug and coax her daughter as he saw her crying. He doesn't want to make her precious daughter upset about this small matter.

"Guards! Put that bastard out of this Kitchen and give him a 10 beating of wood Plank. He will no longer the Head Chef of our Fu. He doesn't even know how to respect!" The guard drags out Chef Shen and even if he struggles, the guards are all trained most of the guards are in Low Intermediary Spiritualist which is one of the most powerful guards in the Pingjing Dynasty.

The Cultivation in this world was divided into 9 realm which is the Primary Spiritualist, Intermediary Spiritualist, Senior Spiritualist, Earthly Spiritualist, Heavenly Spiritualist, Venerable Spiritualist, and Saint Spiritualist. Each realm was divided into four-stage which are the Low, Intermediate, High, peak, or the so-called bottleneck.

The higher realm they cultivate, the harder the breakthrough they will get. Pingjing country was only a 9th-grade country which makes their country one of the lowest countries in the whole Da[1] Continent.

In terms of cultivation, they only need to gather qi[2] to flow on their meridians[3] and stock it in their Dantian[4] using meditation. The whole process was repeated continuously until you reach a new level.

The higher realm, the bigger qi they need to gather.

Zexel's host was only an Intermediate Primary Spiritualist since a lot of people can only gather qi around 10 yrs old. In this country, she can be considered a genius since the abundance of qi in this country is not that strong.

Fan Qinyou was in the High Primary Spiritualist level so she was called the number one female genius in their country while Fan Yaoli was a so-called waste since even if she was already at the age of 15, she still can't gather qi to cultivate.

Zexel was really fond of reading Chinese novels so she knows how to cultivate. She plans a lot right now and she also wants to test three host innate skills. For now, she wanted to be with Fan Yaoli to guide her and let her experience the wonderful world.

"Make your Young Mistress a meal and bring it to Hua Kai Pavilion," Fan Xuan Yan said. Zexel smiles at her jerk Father and tells him something.

"Father, my jade was confiscated by Chef Shen, what should your Daughter do?" She knows that every young miss' jade of the Prime Minister was a treasure to them. It represents their presence so if it was lost, or even robbed by someone, that someone will punish really really severely. Which is the goal of Zexel.

She saw how angry her jerk Father was when she told him about the jade and immediately command another guard to bring back Zexel's Jade to her in Hua Kai Pavilion.

"You're the best, Father. Lihua is happy for your giving justice to her," Zexel gives her jerk Father a fake smile as she bows and drags Dao Lu out of the kitchen.

When they got to Hua Kai Pavilion, she saw how red Dao Lu's face as she avoids staring at Zexel.

"What's the matter?" Zexel asks confusedly. "Huh, this..." Dao Lu kowtows again to Zexel a lot of times as her forehead begun to bleed.

"Nubi is grateful for your help. Nubi thank Young Miss for saving Nubi. Nubi will never forget this day," Dao Lu said while kowtowing. Zexel rolled her eyes and help Dao Lu to stand up.

"You don't have to apologize, let's go to your Young Miss," Zexel walks elegantly and gracefully as she emits a noble aura. Am an aura that even the Imperial Princess doesn't have.

When they got inside the room, Dao Li prepare the table and Zexel helps Fan Yaoli to go to the table. After a while, the meals are all served at the table and the Jade of Zexel gave back to her.

Her sense of smell was really sensitive towards her surroundings so when she smells fragrant of Fan Yaoli's meal, she immediately frowns and switches her meal to her.

She ordered Dao Lu to invite the servant who delivered the dish and the person who cook the dish.

Both of them were also dragged into the punishment hall and she gives the 10 beatings of plank wood. She was really furious as someone wants to harm her sister under her nose[5]. The food has a poison so she needs to switch their food for her to get rid of that food.

She did not know how miserable and how hard her sister's life after her mother died when she was young.

Fan Yaoli easily got scared because of Zexel's action but she was also grateful to her for saving her because her sister said that her dish had poison.

Zexel stayed late to her courtyard until Fan Yaoli needs to sleep. And before she sleeps, Zexel promises her something.

"Elder Sister, I promise, from now on I'll protect you. This sister will give them beatings when they harm you. Dao Lu, if your Young Miss face trouble in the future, just go to my courtyard and tell me directly, I'll avenge you," Zexel said sincerely to Fan Yaoli that makes her cry.

Fan Yaoli never experience affection before so everything to her is so new.

'I wish that even Seventh Sister is just pretending, she will just pretend for the rest of my life. It really felt so good that someone wants to protect me,' Fan Yaoli smiled. She was too happy today because of the affection that Zexel give her.

For Zexel, it's just a normal gesture but for Fan Yaoli, it was the most wonderful gesture she ever had in her whole life.

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1: Da (大) - Big
2: Qi - In traditional Chinese culture, qi or ch'i (simplified Chinese: 气; traditional Chinese: 氣; pinyin: qì About this soundqì) is believed to be a vital force forming part of any living entity.
3: Dantian - Dantian is the "qi focus flow center", an important focal point for meditative and exercise techniques such as qigong, martial arts such as t'ai chi ch'uan, and traditional Chinese medicine.
4: Meridian - The meridian system (simplified Chinese: 经络; traditional Chinese: 經絡; pinyin: jīngluò, also called channel network) is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) about a path through which the life-energy known as "qi" flows
5: under her nose - under her supervision or her sight