PRINCE OF DRAGONS
The Inner Energy Circle

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Blue Flower College is one of the colleges whose name is quite well known by almost all Swordsmen in the Song Kingdom, who became the leader of the college is still very young, his name is Ling Yang.

Ling Yang was currently 38 years old, and Ling Yang was the only youngest College Leader of all the colleges in existence.

Blue Flower College has many students, ranging from male to female students, and the most recognized martial arts skills in the Blue Flower college is its interesting and unique Flower Sword game.

Today the Blue Flower college is very different from the usual days, all the students work hard cleaning the college and decorate the entrance to their college.

Many students are confused, even though they still work to clean the College and decorate it very beautifully.

"That should be replaced with a fresher flower."

"Remember not to have a leaf along the way."

The disciples could only follow the directions of their guides, and obediently and confusedly, they could only look at each other and then return to work.

"What day is it really? Why do we have to clean like this?" ask one of the students.

"If you want to know the answer, you just ask the guidance teachers, or all of you ask the Master" replied his friend.

"I'm confused, of the many Universities in Song Kingdom, why did Your Majesty choose this College of ours to include his youngest daughter as a disciple here?" ask one of the teachers.

"That means Your Majesty sees our College as the best college than others" replied the other teacher.

"Maybe! Right now junior Han Yue is on her way escorting His Majesty towards here, hopefully there are no problems on the way."

"As long as there is still Junior Han Yue with them, all the problems will definitely be resolved."

Han Yue was one of the Disciples who was appointed to be one of the youngest Instructors, she was only 23 years old, despite her young age, but she was already an Expert Soul Swordsman, therefore Han Yue was appointed as the Guiding Teacher by the College Leader.

After almost half a day of work, the students finally finished their work. Now the Blue Flower college has looked clean and very beautiful because of the flower decorations that follow the path to the college page.

"Everything, you clean yourself up and then prepare to march to welcome King Song" said one of the Instructors.

"Huh? So this is because His Majesty is coming to our college?"

All the students were surprised to find out the real reason why they had to clean and decorate the College with beautiful flowers.

"Why are you guys as noisy as you are in the market? Quickly clean yourself up and quickly regroup in this courtyard!" snapped the guidance teacher who made all the disciples disperse themselves to clean their bodies.

By noon, all the students had gathered in the courtyard of the college, while some of the Teacher Guides had gone to greet King Song.

After waiting for quite a while, finally the sound of numerous footsteps began to be heard, and not long after, the group of soldiers escorting King Song was seen.

The soldiers instantly filled the College grounds, and after that Han Yue walked over to one of the stretcher carriage and one of the bodyguards opened the stretcher curtain, after which, King Song and the Empress together with a little girl came out from inside.

"The disciples of the Blue Flower, pay tribute to the King," exclaimed one of the guiding teachers.

The disciples immediately made sword moves that were done in unison and compact, the movement was called the Younger Sword Flower Dance.

Seeing the welcome of the beautiful Sword Dance style, King Song and the Empress were really very entertained and enjoyed the beautiful dance that was presented, which was, and the final movement of the Flower Sword Dance Technique was to put the sword behind his back in an upright position standing upwards, while all the disciples had already kneeled on one leg while bowing their heads.

Ling Yang immediately approached King Song and greeted him very kindly. "Welcome to Her Majesty's Blue Flower College and the Empress, let's go in" Ling Yang said.

"Your students' sword show is very good, Master Ling Yang," King Song said in praise.

"Xihua, do you like it?" ask Empress.

"Yes the Queen Mother, Xihua really liked her," Song Xihua replied.

Ling Yang let out a sigh of relief because Song Xihua was very fond of the Young Sword Flower Dance Technique, now it was just a matter of waiting for King Song's decision whether Song Xihua would still be made a disciple in the Blue Flower or not.

"Master Ling, who is the one who is suitable to become Master Xihua?" ask King Song.

"There are so many Master Guides of His Majesty, it's up to the Princess only" Ling Yang replied.

"Master Ling, it seems like I know a suitable person to be a guiding Master to Xihua!" empress said.

"That girl was escorting us" replied the Empress.

"You mean Her Majesty the Queen is Han Yue?" asked Ling Yang who was replied with a nod by the Empress.

"Han Yue is indeed suitable to train Xihua, but she is also still young and does not have her own students yet, does Her Majesty the Queen still want to make her a teacher for Princess Song Xihua?" ask Ling Yang again.

"Yes, I will still choose him" replied the Empress.

"Then call Han Yue in," Ling Yang said.

After a while, Han Yue came to the place, and without further ado, Ling Yang explained everything to the girl about the Empress' wish.

"Force the servant of Her Majesty the Queen, the servant is not unwilling to accept the Princess to be a servant disciple, but there are still many other teachers who are more senior than the servant. Honestly speaking, I still don't have so much experience to become a Teacher, yet" Han Yue said.

"Miss Han is too humble, I chose you because you are a very responsible person and always careful, your attitude is what makes me choose you," replied the Empress.

Han Yue was only silent, whereas Ling Yang was still waiting for the decision of the agreement of the two of them. The real Ling Yang was very hopeful for Song Xihua to become a student at his college, thus he indirectly his College would increasingly have a stronger relationship with the Kingdom side.

"How is Miss Han, do you still mind my decision?" ask the Empress again.

"If it is indeed the wish of Her Majesty the Queen, I will strive to be a good teacher to the Princess," Han Yue replied.

The Empress was delighted to hear it and then she ordered Xihua to immediately kneel before Han Yue while simultaneously calling Han Yue with the teacher's call.

Xihua who was already very enthusiastic immediately obeyed the Empress' order, she immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times before Han Yue.

"Wake up Princess!" said Han Yue.

"Miss Han, since you are now already Master Xihua, then you no longer need to call her Princess, just call her name so that the relationship between teacher and disciple can be more familiar," King Song said.

"Your Majesty!" han Yue replied then she spoke to Xihua.

"Come here Xihua, from now on you have officially become a disciple at the Blue Flower College," Han Yue said.

Xihua immediately stood next to Han Yue, then afterwards they chatted with each other until the very afternoon, after which King Song and the Empress and her guards returned to the palace, after which, they only left Xihua who had become one of the Blue Flower disciples.

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Elsewhere, Song Lin Qian continued to get increasingly strenuous and difficult exercises on a daily basis, even Feng Feng would hit Song Lin Qian if she made a mistake in demonstrating her practice.

"The elbows of your left hand are bent too much Qian, relax your left muscle but the horses should not be changed," Feng Feng said.

Song Lin Qian immediately followed the directions of Feng Feng she resumed her weight training under the direct guidance of Feng Feng.

Song Lin Qian was not only training to increase her inner strength in order to become a great swordsman, but at night, Song Lin Qian would learn to write as well as read, and the one guiding him was Yuwen.

At midnight where Song Lin Qian was already sound asleep, Feng Feng and Yuwen sat in front of the house looking at the starry sky that would sometimes be covered by clouds.

Both of them felt that Song Lin Qian already had some progress, be it the increased progress as well as her number of Deep Power that was starting to increase.

"His Inner Power has increased by 2 circles, it seems that the medicines I made are not so influential to increase the amount of inner power," Yuwen said.

"When our College is close, maybe I can go there and look for all the remnants of the resources in the ruins of our College, but I'm not sure, maybe now our College is not just a ruin, but a ruin, it was most likely already a forest," Feng Feng said.

Yuwen only sighed helplessly, he felt pity for Song Lin Qian who trained hard without sufficient resources, if the College was still around, he said, of course Song Lin Qian would not lack resources, because the resources in the form of Pills and medicinal herbs were urgently needed to increase the amount of Inner Energy.

Inner Energy is the main source of power, and the collection of the amount of Inner Energy is calculated in per circle. Under normal conditions, people who train naturally will usually be able to collect the Inner Circle as much as one circle in a year or at the earliest five to six months.

But if assisted with other outside support such as Pills and the like that are devoted to Swordsmen, it will improve the process of collecting the Inner Energy Circle, it can even get it instantly just by consuming certain Pills that are specifically intended to increase the amount of Deep Power.

"Now, Qian will rise to the third grade with a total of 10 inner power circles, as she ascends to the third grade, then the resources required by her will be even greater, even greater, whereas we don't have enough money to buy such Pills in the city" Yuwen said.

Given their living conditions that were only enough to eat, of course they did not have more money to buy medicine and special Pills for Song Lin Qian, let alone the price of medicine and Pills was not cheap.

"How else, just this is the limit of our current abilities. But I will also try to raise money in order to give him the resources he needs," Feng Feng said.

Yuwen nodded and then looked at the clouds covering the stars in the night sky, and that night, the two old men immediately rested because tomorrow there was still a lot of work to do.