The days passed one after another. Soon, months passed. As Snow has been freed from her sealed state and regained all of her power, she will be leaving very soon. She said as soon as Edward finished his training of the Physical Essence realm, she will leave.

Right now, Edward is trying to focus on training, but the thought of Snow leaving is lingering around his mind, distracting him from his training.

The very first stage of martial arts cultivation is the Physical Essence realm. In this stage, one starts upon the path of martial art by building physical essence, and the very first step in building physical essence is building the body. Edward already has a tough physique, as he has lived all these years by himself doing all kinds of tough physical works to earn his living.

Snow was sitting in a meditation pose inside the house, while Edward was carrying a heavy log with his two hands and running laps around the house. The log weighed around 50 kg. For an ordinary human, this is indeed an unbelievably heavy training regiment. But to build physical essence, this kind of training is still not enough.

Around Edward's house, each lap is around 100 meters. Doing 10 laps is equal to running a distance of 1 kilometer, Edward has to do about a hundred laps every day, and there is also a time limit. If he can finish it within the time limit and still has quite a bit of energy left after the training, then from the next day, the log would be changed into a 5 kg heavier one.

At the beginning of training, Edward started with a 5 kg log, and now he can handle training with a 50 kg log. Today, Edward's performance was quite good. So, from the next day, he is supposed to switch into a 55 kg log.

"So, what comes after this?", Edward asked Snow.

" The point is to reach the limit of your body, then start sensing the physical essence dormant in your body, and finally, learning to utilize them."

"OK. So how do I do that?"

"Right now, you can run about 10 kilometers within a minute carrying 50 kg weight. Without having access to any physical essence, this is your limit. Starting from tomorrow, I will be sparring with you. Don't worry, I will only use the strength of the Physical Essence realm. By sparring with me, you can get a grasp on your physical essence, and also learn to utilize it in battle.

The next day came. After waking up very early in the morning and meditating for a while, Edward started his training. Today's training was the sparring session with Snow.

Edward did not have any experience in fighting. He has been in a fight with people in the markets and streets a few times, but those could not be truly called fighting, as they were just mindless tussle, with neither side being trained fighters.

"Ok. Begin. "

Edward ran towards Snow, throwing a punch towards her hand. He couldn't make himself hit a beautiful and cute girl like Snow in the face, chest, or stomach so he went for the hands and shoulders. Snow easily dodged and blocked his punches. Then, Snow threw a punch. The punch was intentionally thrown far from his face, but he still felt as if a heavy rock passed by his face. The right side of his face felt a bit numb, and his right ear was ringing.

" How can her punch be so heavy and impactful?", he thought.

"This is the power of physical essence.", realizing his thoughts, Snow explained. "With proper body stance and using accurate movements to channel all the strength within your body in your attacks, you can create shocking impacts with each movement. When necessary, you can also direct your strength in the lower half of your body for quick movements to dodge and catch up to your opponents. Depending on the situation, you can gather the strength of your body wherever you need the most. It not only requires pushing your body to its limits but also focusing and concentration. The ultimate purpose is to be able to sense qi and enhance the muscles in your body with qi.", Snow finished her explanation.

"So, that's how it is.", Edward nodded.

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Another month passed. One fine morning, Edward was doing his usual training with Snow, when suddenly, Snow stopped the session and looked at the sky. Her face was solemn.

"What is it?", asked Edward.

"Two martial cultivators are heading towards our direction. One of them is quite strong, almost as strong as me. But the other one, I can not even see through his power!"

"can they be reinforcement from the demons?"

"No, from their aura, it is clear that they are humans, and they don't seem to have any plans in hiding their aura. It seems like they came for me, but they can not be from my clan, or else I would be able to identify them."

Soon, two silhouettes were visible in the sky. They were very fast. Especially the one in the front was glowing like a meteor.

Both of them landed on the ground. Their eyes were fixated on Snow. Seeing them up close, Snow seemed to have recognized the boy standing at the front.

"So it was you, Julian! To think that your aura has changed this much since we last met.", Snow exclaimed.

" Ah! Princess Lisa of the Pisces Clan! To think that after going missing for more than a year, we would be the ones to find you in a remote place like this. How interesting. It seems that your destiny is indeed tied with our young master Julian. Or else, how can our young master Julian end up finding you when your clan that specializes in foresight and divination failed to find you.", said the boy standing behind the one named Julian. It seemed like he was a lackey.

"Stop beating around the bush. State your intention. Why are you here?", Snow ignored the lackey and asked Julian.

" To take you back home of course! You, my fiance, have been missing for quite a while now. How can I not be worried about you?", finally, the boy named Julian opened his mouth. His voice carried a tone of pride and arrogance.