Only Ana 's face seemed uninterested about the Dragon Birth Festival .

‘ Bear and Fiona, come out’, Mia called.

Bear walked through the crowd of young candidates.

‘ You two have reached the third grade of mysterious dragon skill?’ Mia asked.

Hearing this, the other young candidates discussed in surprise and admiration as most of them were inbetween the first grade and the second grade.

Apparently, Bear and Fiona were one step ahead of every body else.

‘ I never expected Fiona to also reach the third grade of mysterious dragon skill ’, Even Ana was a little surprised.

‘ Master Mia, are we allowed to begin learning the spiritual martial arts?’ Bear asked eagerly.

Compared to Bear, Fiona was calmer.

Ana muttered to herself. Now that she was at fifth mysterious dragon skill, she had also achieved the qualifications to learn spiritual martial arts. However, how could she learn that under the circumstances where she must hide her real strength?

‘ Mia ordered while nodding.

‘ Bear answered with excitement.

Fiona also nodded.

The two then left with the two deputies under the envious eyes of the other young candidates.

‘ Mia called Ana, who was still worried about how she could learn the spiritual martial arts. Mia then turned away.

Interrupted by Mia 's voice, Ana feared that something might be wrong but she still unwillingly followed her.

At the sight of that, the other young candidates all gloated over Ana 's misfortune.

When they were away from the crowd, Mia stopped and said,‘

Ana was both stunned and confused. She couldn't figure out Mia 's intention.

‘Mia stared at Ana with her beautiful eyes.

‘ Ana asked in confusion.

‘ Mia replied with cold eyes.

Ana's heart jolted as her whole body trembled. She assumed that Mia would take the opportunity to fix her. If her assumptions was right, she would surely suffer. Undoubtedly, training with her was the best excuse Mia could find.

Ana sighed in her heart. However, she soon came up with a good idea and said,‘

Mia laughed scornfuly. If she used all her strength, she could defeat Ana effortlessly.

‘ Ana proposed.

‘ the eyes of Mia turned as cold and sharp as an ice shard, shot straight into Ana's eyes.

‘ Ana said, eager to grow stronger.

Mia's legs stomped on the ground as she instantly flew in the air and rushed towards Ana. Her two forefingers drew closer where a finger force shot out as a light shone on her finger tips which then ran directly towards Ana's chest.

As quickly as she could, Ana stepped back to her right side as the finger force just brushed against her shoulder and hit the ground. Immediately, it exploded and flashed some sparks.

‘ Ana asked.

‘ Mia replied unconsciously.

‘ Ana imitated Mia. She put her forefingers together and gathered the dragon spiritual power of the dragon spirit mark on her finger tips but she couldn't release a complete force like Mia did.

‘ Mia shook her head as corrected Ana.

‘ Ana kept the advice in her mind.

‘ Even if you are able to grasp it, you still won't be able to apply it in practice due to your low grade of mysterious dragon skill, so you should just forget about it’, Mia scoffed intentionally. However, she knew nothing about Ana's purpose. Ana made the mistake because she wanted to learn the details of the spiritual martial arts directly from her.

Ana, who just shrugged her shoulders, pretended to be innocent.

‘ Let's continue!’ noticing Ana had stopped imitating. Mia immediately turned her palms over. Palm shadows then overlapped, making it difficult to tell which ones were real.

Ana looked at them carefully but she still couldn't figure out the real ones.

At that point, all the palm shadows ran towards her and hit her right shoulder. It was so mighty that she struggled to pull herself together after getting thrown backwards a few meters.

‘ You hit me really hard!’ Ana said the moment she regained her balance. She touched her chest and felt numb.

Mia reminded her.

‘ Ana figured that she might as well get some thing out of the pain it caused.

‘ Mia stopped talking before revealing anymore information.

‘Ana thought to herself.

‘ said Mia.

‘ Ana had a discovery that Mia was trying to motivate her with the spiritual martial arts. Maybe she was not as bad as Ana thought.

‘ Mia suddenly turned stern.

Ana was stormed with kicks and punches.

The result was not surprising at all.

(A/n: poor Ana lol)

About an hour later, Ana was standing there covered in bruises as she heavily panted and could barely hold herself together. Mia didn't even break a sweat compared to Ana and it clearly showed the gap in thier strength.

Mia never thought Ana could withstand her attacks for an hour.

‘ That should be it for today’ Mia said coldly as she turned to leave.

Ana could no longer keep it together and collapsed right after Mia left. She cursed,‘ This women was obviously holding a grudge against me and just took it all out on me. What was her problem? Was she on her period? But after all, at least I was able to learn some moves from the spiritual martial arts and it was all worth it’,

As Ana could not even stand up, she just wrapped up her training early and dragged her broken body back to her room. The moment she entered her room, she saw Ananta sound asleep on her bed without a care for anything happening around it.

‘ Time to get up lazybones. I need you to heal me’, Ana woke Ananta up and collapsed right on top of it.

Ananta woke up to see its master all bruised up. It immediately started to lick her wounds to help her recover.

It got dark pretty soon. Ana borrowed cloud tiger after dinner and took it to the depths of the bamboo grove. She wanted to use Ananta to stimulate the potential of cloud tiger but the results weren't as she expected.

An idea suddenly came to her. ‘ she thought to herself.

Another night went by.

After another day of brutal training by Mia. Ana went back to her room and left a message for Fiona beforehand asking her to head to the bamboo grove.

Fiona saw the message left by Ana and it read ‘ Please bring the cloud tiger to the bamboo grove ’. She looked confused as she wondered what Ana was up to and why did she not just take it herself. Odd as it seemed, Fiona still brought the cloud tiger to the bamboo grove to meet Ana.

Fiona got the feeling that she was being watched.

Suddenly a shadow quickly charged towards Fiona from the dark. Cloud tiger immediately stepped up to protect it's master. However the opponent was too powerful that it blew cloud tiger into the air. It then turned to Fiona with it's sharp claw that was full of power.

Despite the fact that it happened out of blue, Fiona remained calm as the dragon spirit mark on her arms began to shine. Freezing air spread through the entire area, and an ice sword materialised out of nothing. It came swooping through the air and took the fearsome hit from the claw. But the owner of the claw was too powerful as it kept pressuring against Fiona.

Just as Fiona wanted to draw back because she could no longer hold it, a shadow dart shot forward about three meters away from her. Fiona had no time to respond given the short distance while being suppressed at the same time.

The cloud tiger, which was unable to make it to its master in time, roared in anger. But roaring was not going to help it's master.

At that instance, the shadow dart just closed in on Fiona with great force. If Fiona was to be hit directly, she would probably die. However, there was nothing Fiona could do as she watched it unfold right before her eyes. Her face was covered in despair at the thought of dying right then and there.

At that very moment, it happened.

Just as the shadow dart was less than an inch away from Fiona, an ice claw like a blade swooped through the air and clashed with it, causing a small explosion with huge bang and sparks.

Fiona couldn't help turning towards the direction where the ice claw came from. It was where the cloud tiger was. She never knew that her cloud tiger was capable of anything like this.

Meanwhile, the being that was suppressing Fiona pulled back and stopped the attack.

Then came the sound of hands clapping. A round of applause erupted around her.

A/n: Damnnn, that was intense, wasn't it? Hello kiddos, it's your sexy, cutie lovely author ✌️. Today my question for you is......

Was the scene intense according to you ?