Qin Ming laid on the stone vat,with a serious injury and heavy breath. The area that was. .h.i.t by the Fire Snake palm had a barbequed meat smell to it, the bones at that region also seemed to be cracked. Nevertheless, he neither scream pain nor show weakness, only his mouth formed a playful smile. "Zhao Ming elder sister, dont shout so loud and cause misunderstandings."

"You lunatic! b.a.s.t.a.r.d! b.a.s.t.a.r.d! " Zhao Ming screamed in shame, just when she is about to attack once again, she triggered her injury at her shoulder, making her turn pale in pain.

"I won’t complain if you are able to cripple me, if not scram." Qing Ming spat out a mouthful of blood, endured the pain to use his Qi and posed a weird posture gathering all the power to this right hand.

This was his life saving throwing knife techniques, if it wasn’t because Zhao Ming was at a mch higher grade than him, he wouldn’t easily use it.

"He knows how to use throwing knife?" Zhao Ming complained at Zhao Lie, throwing knife techniques is not easy to learn and it very tricky to learn too, along with his strength, the prowess would be astonis.h.i.+ng, but it doesn’t seem to be trained casually, it seems to be a set of Martial skill, but Azure Cloud Sect did not have any Martial skills about throwing knifes.

"I really dont know." Zhao Ming was depressed and scared as he could also tell that the throwing knifes was unusual.

"Hey, Zhao Ming elder sister, you are showing your bottom half." Qin Ming blew a whistle.

"Shameless!" Zhao Ming pulled her skirt in a flurry, Qin Ming's eye shone as he grabbed the chance to strike first. But at this time, a wind breaking sound sounded and a youth with a steel sword behind his back appeared, the steel sword was golden in color, and its aggressiveness of the sword Qi and terrifying glare could be felt from afar.

"Golden Sword Cheng Mu? Darn, why is he here." Zhao Ming's face changed as she clutched her tattered clothes and darted into the dense forest, even glared angrily at Qin Ming before leaving.

"Sis! Wait for me." Zhao Lie also managed to recognize this person, thus he also left in a hurry not caring about Qin Ming.

Qin Ming's eyebrows creased slightly as he kept his throwing knifes.

Not long later, a youth wearing black walked in front of Qin Ming, he was very handsome, but not the gentle kind of beauty, but  masculine beauty, his facial features and angular lines were very well defined, along with keen and deep gaze, it gave others a sense of oppression.

The black clothes wasnt able to hide the heroic look, the most eye catching thing was actually the two golden feathers on his collar, it was a special mark, it represents a much more honorable status—— Golden disciple!

Azure Cloud Sect was hierarchical, it was seperated to normal disciple, elder's personal disciple and then Golden disciple.

Amongst the normal disciples, it was seperated to low grade disciple, normal grade disciple and high grade disciple.

Azure Cloud Sect had thousands of disciples, most of then are normal disciples, six hundred or so elder's personal disciples, while Golden disciples only add up to thirty, those younger than twenty only amount to five.

The person in front was a Golden Disciple, one of the five greatest genius in the new generation, Golden Sword Cheng Mu.

His talent was the best, and he created miracles in Azure Cloud Sect, that sword was personally forged by the Sect leader of Azure Cloud Sect, and was able to release terrifying sword Qi.

Qin Ming was only a normal disciple, a  low grade disciple who was even under punishment, it means that he was at the lowest of them al, compared to the person in front, he was like a sparrow while the other person is an eagle.

"What’s the matter?" Cheng Mu's tone was cold. He was about to enter Medicine Mountain to collect some Spirit Herbs to use, but on the way he heard fighting, and the scene was ravaged, there was even a fire seedling in the ground, obviously pointed out that a fight just happened.

Qin Ming's current injury was very serious, but Cheng Mu didn’t have any intention to help, however his eyes had an unfriendly glint towards Qin Ming.

"It’s fine, thanks for your concern." Qin Ming suppressed his pain and weakness as he turned to leave.

"Stop!" Cheng Mu shouted coldly.

Qin Ming covered the injury on his chest with his back faced towards Cheng Mu. "Speak!"

"Let me remind you, the more stubborn you are, the heavier your punishment is, don’t ever think of leaving Azure Cloud Sect. You better do your job as a servant properly, revere others and bow your head down as much as possible, this is the only way that you will be pardoned, if you ever want to return to Lei Ting city, follow my methods."

"Thanks for your advice!" Qin Ming didn’t even turn back as he left the mountain.

"You can’t differentiate between good from bad!"

"This doesn’t concern you."

"Don’t think you will be recognized because you are in Spirit Martial realm, your parents are sinners in Azure Cloud Sect, their sins will be compensated by you for the rest of your life. You don’t have any Martial skill to guide your Spiritual power, so don’t think about going any further than Spirit Martial realm, i think that you will halt at Spirit Martial realm grade three." Cheng Mu said coldly, he was a Golden disciple that everyone reveres, he wouldn’t have cared about a low grade disciple like Qin Ming, but he and Qin Ming had a special connection—— Yue Qing!

Yue Qing was also one of the five greatest genius in the new generation, she had the talent that all other Sects and Pavillions could not refute, a smile able to cause the downfall of a city or a state as well as a out of the world like fairy temperament, she was the G.o.ddess of every disciple in Azure Cloud Sect.

Cheng Mu adored Yue Qing so he was fanatically pursueing Yue Qing.

But Yue Qing didn’t even care about him at all.

Qin Ming ignored him afterwards, as he dragged his lethargy and injury, leaving the mountain. His face contained a gentle smile, only that this smile made others heartache, in the past eight years, he had experienced these kinds of fights for far too many time. He very well understood that along with the increase in his strength, the threat and plotting against him would increase, but he had no fear and no intention to lower his head and follow others.

As long as one is alive, one will stand.

As long as one stands, it would create an att.i.tude.

From afternoon, the sky starting raining.

Qin Ming went back to the warehouse to prepare lunch as well as greeted the old man, he hid himself in the mountain behind the warehouse after taking some food.

That place was very strange, with old trees intertwined with each other, usually no one notices this place, no one comes here.

Thus this place became the personal training ground for Qin Ming

At this place, he doesn’t smile, there was only strictness.

From afternoon to late night, Qin Ming was devouring the Vital Qi from heaven and earth, recovering his energy and slowing healing his injury.

Maybe because he was beginning to train at the second paragraph of the Rebirth Exercise, but the healing this time was a lot faster.

"Spirit Martial realm grade six, as expected it wasn’t something i can challenged, strength, strength, i want strength."

Qin Ming gently caressed the palm print on his chest, thinking that a complete recovery will take quite a while.

His own strength was too weak, he need to become stronger.

The road was b.u.mpy for years, and he finally entered his goal of Spirit Martial realm, it was time to work hard and break through again, he need to be more hard working than before.

"High grade disciple! Personal disciple! Golden disciple!"

Qin Ming was thinking that about the hierarchy in Azure Cloud Sect, different status, different treatment, different in terms of influence, if one is a Golden disciple, it would be equivalent to half an elder already. He was only at Spirit Quenching realm in the past, so he can’t ask for any status, but now that he is at Spirit Martial realm, he wanted to get rid of his low grade disciple status, only when his status elevate will he be able to get in contact with more Martial skills which will allow him to grow faster, only then will he be able to fight for better benefits for Lei Ting city.

"For me, for my kins and for Lei Ting city." Qin Ming leaped up, his heart calm, both his leg slowly opened up, both hands stretched out, forming a very wondrous gesture.

Who said that he didn’t know Martial skills? This was the gesture for a Martial skill called 'Vajra Spirit', it was the Martial skill of a core disciple, Di Yun.

According to the sect rules of Azure Cloud Sect, Martial skills cannot be taught without authorization, any disciple who wants to borrow martial teachings from Wuzong Pavilion had to register, and mark a return date, even personal disciples of elder's had to properly register.

Qin Ming didn’t read any Martial skill book, he took risks to learn this in secret. Using the excuse of delivering items, he had been observing Di Yun's every fight and training, remembering firmly in his heart, and research from there, by experiencing years of training and constant improvements, he finally mastered it, this also mean that this was his own variation of Vajra Spirit.

This set of Martial skill belonged to the high grade Spirit realm, it was able to increase one's explosive force by five times at this strongest, the power was very domineering, but the criteria on the body quality was very harsh, firstly one needed to train the body till it is like steel, only then will one be able to use it, otherwise it will easily injure oneself.

Qin Ming actually learnt many Martial skills in secrete, for example personal disciple, Si Ma Yao's Wind Breaking Sword, personal disciple Yu Chi Bin's Dark Cloud Spear and also personal disciple Leng Ming's Universal Palm, ultimately, he decided to whole heartedly learn Vajra Spirit.

[TL NOTE: The raw actually says the Universal Palm to be six palm, but it can also mean the six direction(north, south, east, west, up, down) or everything under the sun, which means universal as it covers all direction/ everything.]

His body quality was special, under the tempering of Rebirth Exercise, his body conditions has long overtook others, so he can easily control Vajra Spirit that others don’t dare to try.

Vajra Spirit is split into five stages, Qin MIng had only research the first three stages, as for stages four and five, he didn’t succeed as it was too profound.

But the first three stages is already good enough for him to fully display his strength.

"First stage, Vajra subdues tiger!" Qin Ming ran, vigorous and swiftly, maneuvering in the forest, punching the huge tree in front.

"Kacha."

The ancient so wide that it needs two person to hug it trembles violently, and then a hole could be seen, it was punctured by Qin Ming's Vajra Spirit.

Qin Ming's strongest punch could reach six hundred jin, this punch must be over a thousand jin.

Qin Ming moves evasively, dust and dirt flying around, dried leaves dancing and the whistling of strong wind.

Peng! Honglong!

The ear splitting rumble sounded throughout the remote mountain, Qin Ming was releasing himself, submerging in the bitter training of Martial skill, all the huge trees and strange rocks are his targets, a lot of huge strange rocks here are brought over by himself.

He wasn’t qualified to enter the Sparring Arena to train, so he created his own training ground.

"Second stage, Vajra Pylon!"

"Third stage, Vajra shakes the mountain!"

Qin Ming shook his shoulders while running, and his strength increased by three times, smas.h.i.+ng through a huge stone that is as tall as two person, dust flying around, rubble everywhere in the dark.

[TL NOTE: this paragraph is weird i’m not sure what the author is trying to convey here.]

Every stage means an increase in one times of strength, it also means that it would bring about stronger burden, when Qin Ming reach stage three, there was lines and lines of veins visible all around his body, even his skin turned red.

Qin Ming had already mastered the first three stages of Vajra Spirit, but he strived for improvement, he wanted to infuse his electric energy into it, further improving the power of Vajra Spirit.

"Kacha!"

"Honglong!"

All sorts of m.u.f.fled sound sounded, sometimes there would also have the ear stinging sound of electric arc along with it.

Qin Ming was sweating profusely in the dense forest, he was releasing himself to his heart’s content, painstakingly studying his own Martial Dao.

There was no one to guide, no one to help, all of the progress was made by himself.

He was training till late midnight, Qin Ming lay his back against the cold stone, looking up at the murky night scenery, the drizzle slowly calming the boiling qi and blood in his body. Normally he would train in Vajra Spirit for 4 hours a day, but today he went on for an extra hour, the violent training made his body boiling hot, as he was full of hot air, even his blood was hot like it is boiling.

[TL NOTE: the hot air doesn’t mean arrogant, it mean literal hot air.]

Staring at the sky, the murky sky seems to form two human shadows, smiling at him.

Qin Ming smile too, but two drops of tear came out from the corner of his eyes, as he muttered.

"Father….. Mother…."

"Your son… miss you guys…"

[TL NOTE: the raw says child but in the past chinese does not call themselves 'I' or 'me' oftenly.]

"Where…. Are you…"