(A/N: Vote on chapter 58 for discord vs aux chapter. do not forget to waste your powerstones *~*)

——(POV third person)——

Now that Li Huang had two stable meridians, He could confidently say that he is on schedule for his next breakthrough to the next stage.

As you stabilize your meridians, the next one would need more work and in each stage, the ninth meridian is the most important one and that would be the hardest one to stabilize, and most won't be able to do so.

The ninth meridian is a sort of main meridian that connects to your other eight meridians that you had access to in this stage. Opening this meridian would help you to use your Qi more efficiently and in the final three stages, you can form some obsolete formations that need one or more of these types of meridians to exist so that you can form them.

There is this known fact that each person has 12 of these meridians in their bodies but with cultivation, you can only open 9 of them in total. The three meridians that can not be unlocked by training are is the unfair advantage that some people have from birth.

To feel these main meridians, you have to at least form one of them yourself so that you know what you should be looking for. There are two ways to do this, you have to either stabilize one of the main meridians as mentioned or ask someone who has formed one to check your body.

Li Huang naturally had his main meridians checked even before he could speak as the normal procedure in families of his standing.

The only difference is that his grandfather, Li Long, decided to stop his parents from telling him even if he asked and after a bit of persuasion they agreed with his logic.

He said that knowing this could have one of these two effects: the first one is that you think that you are trash and makes you lose motivation for trying harder and adds to your mental pressure. The second possibility is that you will get overconfident in your talent and will slack in your training.

Because of this, to this day Li Huang doesn't know the number of his naturally stable main meridians.

Well, after he got a bit older and wasn't just a child he also knows that it wouldn't matter much to know this so he didn't care about it anymore. As grandpa Long has said, knowing it for now at best has no effect and mostly could have detrimental effects on his mentality.

The night passed and for this day Li Huang continued on training to be in the best shape possible before the main event.

His main focus of training for today was his sword training.

One flaw that he found in the way that Li Huang is trained is his style of swordsmanship. Meaning that his focus might create problems in the future.

Li Huang's main focus is to finish the opponent as fast as possible but you only need this type of mentality when you are in a life and death situation.

In competitions like this one, all Li Huang could do was to use simple moves like different slashes, parries, guards, and other simple movements to counter whatever his opponents throw at him.

This resulted in his fights being fast but without any fancy sword arts that could make it harder for his opponents. He just used the simplest movements and with his speed, that sufficed to win the fight.

Using simple moves is also a technique that will help you in deepening your understanding of the way of the sword, but they don't have the element of surprise that using a sword technique has. You can follow simple moves and partially know what to expect next but a technique would be confusing at first until you get the hang of it and can use any flaw or opening that you have found; if there is any.

Li Huang didn't have anything on hand to train on so he decided to ask grandpa Long after he got back from this trial and has the time to train diligently.

Using his time left he trained in his sword and meditated more to get his body accustomed to the new stabilized meridian.

——(Li Huang a.k.a The worrywart)——

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One more day passed and when I was training I remembered that today is going to be the last day of competition for the smaller powers so I decided to give myself a small break and take a look at the results of Ren Tai and Ren Ru in this selection.

'With the pills that I gave them, they have to be in the eighth stage of the Qi gathering realm and shouldn't have any big problems getting into the final spots but it doesn't hurt to be careful and to be on the safe side, check on them.' I shrugged.

Putting on a new chief disciple robe to look clean and pristine, I went out of my room sword in hand.

There is an unspoken rule in these kinds of events that it is better to have your holy land symbol, in my case sword, when you are going somewhere as your sect's disciple.

The last time that I went out I didn't bring a sword because I had no thoughts of staying there and you could say that I wasn't representing my sect, but this time I want it to be a little more formal and bring a standard heavenly sword sect sword with me.

'No, I didn't forget to put my training sword in my training ring in my room and I'm not bringing it with myself just to not mess the sorting that I have done for my other storage rings. Yes, it's because of that unspoken rule that I care about very much.' I nodded to myself.

Getting to the selection ground was easy and getting closer to the stage to see better was easier because of my training sword. The crowd would automatically give way, being a young master is really a blessing.

Checking the winners so far, I could easily locate Ren Tai and Ren Ru there, sitting in 25th and 26th position.

'Good enough. Now if they somehow do not get eliminated, they can use this to hopefully find some good treasures for themselves in the trial.' They have a really good chance.

Looking around I didn't see any sign of discomfort on the twin's faces so that young master Hou shouldn't have created any more problems for them.

Feeling good that nothing has deviated from my expectations, I started walking back to my room to resume my training.

I didn't want to lose these last days for training before the trial and because the trial would be held in three days after today, I had mostly today and tomorrow to train and for the last day, I could only meditate.

Having lighter training before an event is always recommended, or so I have read in a blog post in my last life.

As I was getting inside my room I looked at Hu Anjing's room for a moment.

'It would also be great if Hu Anjing is successful in forming the formation to its initial state before the competition.' Wishing luck for her, I got back to my training.