It was already nearing sunset, Hui had no thoughts of building herself a house yet, she just decided to make the most of her day and try to cut down some wood before she retired for the night. Who knew that an annoying fly would follow her around, all the way to the large tree she finally decided on. She swung her ax. And missed.
To be fair, she'd never held an ax before, but this just caused Gu Feng to straight up start laughing at her, doubling over and slapping his leg in hysteria. "Haha, knew you couldn't do it, so weak! So dumb! Hahaha!"
Hui decided she needed to sharpen her ax skills to cut something else besides wood. She hefted the large ax again and swung once more, this time, much more carefully and controlled. However, because she used less power in this swing, she only was able to lodge it a little way into the trunk, hardly creating even a half inch deep crevice. Gu Feng laughed even harder. And he continued to laugh at her and throw insults at her, which somehow, after they were repeated too many times, began to motivate her to spend the entire next 2 hours going from tree to tree, slowly whiling away at each of them until she had cut them all down, and then completely dismembering them piece by peace until she had molded some planks, which looked quite good in her opinion, but Gu Feng criticized them heavily. "These couldn't even be used as firewood, what are you even trying for?" He commented, picking his nose. Hui resisted the urge to spit on his face that was now near hers, since he had crouched down lazily on top of her planks.
Be patient, Hui, all in good time. She would get him back in full later. Hui, characteristic of a woman, rarely ever forgot her debts, especially for things that made her mad. Everyone has that thing that makes them lose it, while other things don't bother them in the least. This had completely confused Li Haoli, because no matter what he did, Hui never hated him. This was simply because he had never did anything that actually made her mad. So, what made her mad? Simply, when people treated her like a delicate girl. Not gently, like with Luo Binggong, who only wanted to help her as a person to another person, but rather, as a man trying to help a woman just because she was a woman, and he felt it was his duty to help her. Li Haoli hardly treated her as a woman, but more like an object or pet, so Hui had no problem with him. But this numskull Gu Feng on the other hand…She had it out for him. Plus, he kept stepping on her perfectly good planks!
"Here, let me help," He finally offered. She ignored him. "One swing of mine, is worth 100 of yours." She still ignored him, he took the ax from her, "Look, see how good I cut compared to you?" He sliced down a tree in one cut. She still ignored him and simply began gathering the planks she'd finished and piling them up, putting them on a tarp that she'd found in the shed. Gu Feng hated being ignored the most, especially by a little girl who was poorer, younger and weaker than him. He marched over. "I'll pull it, then we'll get back much faster!" He stole the canvas from her and began to pull it back. Hui didn't refuse the gesture, instead heading back into the woods. "Wait? Where are you going?" Shouted Gu Feng from behind her. But she was already gone. After witnessing Li Haoli's qinggong for so long, and practicing it a bit previously, now that her shackles were off, her feet were already light as a feather and followed the familiar steps like it was nothing, using the skill in an incomplete fashion, she leapt from branch to branch, racing through the woods so quickly, she'd already lost Gu Feng, who had kinda only focused on physical arts, neglecting his qinggong, far behind her. And she continued her attempted qinggong until she came to the stream she had heard nearby, dropping down to the ground, to check it for fish. There were a couple, and with a good catch of her hand, she'd already gotten herself a second dinner, heading back to the housing. After she arrived back at the woodshed, she scanned the surrounding cautiously, but didn't see Gu Feng around anymore, and just her pile of wood, which he had been so kind as to finish dragging over there. She sighed in relief at his disappearance, before finally exiting the woods.
"There you are!" A voice came from the opposite side of the woods. Her mood immediately dropped. "Where did you go all the sudden? Don't you know our master has a set curfew!" No, she didn't know for that matter, and she didn't care if he did. She set up a fireplace, and lit it by hitting some flint against steel she'd found lying around in the shed, onto some dried leaves. Bowing the leaves until a fire formed from the sparks and leaning the sticks over it, as she set her fish that she'd gutted earlier by the river up to roast.
"Hey! You can't use the firewood without permission!"
But she still ignored him, instead, leaning back to stargaze, completely relaxed, as she smelled the fish cooking. The bear-headed man finally had enough and directly came over to kick dust over her fire and dinner, completely smothering her hard work. Her stomach growled in protest, and the second thing that ticked her off had just taken place. Two things that pluck your nerve, and your nerves won't hold you back anymore. She attacked without warning, her fingers turning into claws and jabbing at his face, her qi forming in a similar fashion to the ghosts she'd seen in the valley. Her movements deadly, alike to Li Haoli's. Gu Feng barely had the chance to dodge out of the way, before he quickly stepped back, using incredible footwork to create distance between the two of them. Her killing intent had already caused him to draw his blade, but before he had a chance to react, she had already lunged for him again, Her eyes could only see red, as her feet and hands moved as she'd seen Li Haoli's, her movements alike to a beasts, She pushed his sword arm to the side, biting into his nose, as her hands ripped out his hair. He screamed, slamming the but of his blade into her neck, and she was forced to leap off, before she went at him again, biting and cutting at him with her bare hands, merely covered with vicious qi like she'd seen from that mist.
Although Gu feng was already in the 9th level of the qi condensation realm, and largely considered a genius among his peers, but he was still inexperienced in any real fight, and thus was left completely unable to to do anything against her vicious and quick movements, but passively defend. He'd never faced such unbridled killing intent, nor such an unpredictable fighting pattern. He had no idea what technique she was using, but he was completely unable to follow it with his eyes. Well, that was because Hui wasn't following an attack pattern, she didn't know of such things, she also wasn't practicing any fancy technique, she knew little of those either. She only knew how to survive, and she knew how to survive even a fight against a foundation building cultivator. She'd only recently killed one. She didn't know there were rules to fighting, so she fought without rules, like she'd fought on the streets as she got food for her family, and Gu feng, who'd only grown up well, had no defense against that.
However, he was still a man, and his constitution and his cultivation were both stronger than hers.
His sword quickly jabbed at her heart as his other hand grabbed at the little beast. She dodged backwards. Quickly, but not quick enough, if he'd really meant to kill her. However, the moment his hand caught her, was the moment she completely lost. One blow of his was death for her.
She changed tactics, hoping to avoid his annoying blade. She made distance, and began to pick up rocks, chucking them at him.
Gu Feng still holding his bleeding nose, had never had such a preposterous battle. The rocks did little damage, but were very annoying, and hard to defend against with his sword. It was also hard to approach her, as he had to protect his already throbbing face from the unnaturally accurate tirade.
Only, while he was distracted protecting his face, his eyes were unintentionally covered, and in that moment, a sharper rock cut through the air, and he felt a pain in the tendons of his inner wrist, he subconsciously let go of his sword, as the rock clattered to the ground after striking him. He looked toward her in surprise, only, she wasn't there anymore, instead, he suddenly felt an inexplicable pain behind his knee, as something hard was slammed into the joint. His balance was offset, and he fell to his knees, allowing her to reach up from behind to grab his hair again, pulling him downwards and backward. He pulled back, forcing the hands that gripped his hair to follow him forwards, but instead of letting go, Hui held on, lifting her legs to surround his neck, as her fingers changed direction to his eyes, stabbing into them. He quickly circulated his chi to protect himself from a blinding blow, but he couldn't see anything for a moment, pain erupting from his eyes, as Hui leapt off him again to grab a large rock while he was distracted, and bludgeoned him over the head with it, as he hadn't had time to stand up. The shock to the back of his skull, now unprotected by the qi sent to the front of it, sent him to the ground, as Hui leapt on top of him and continued to relentlessly bashed in his face and head.
…is what Lu Biming walked into on his way back to his house, after dropping by his second disciple's abode.
One glance at the covered fire pit, and he could tell what had happened.
"Qiong Hua." It took her a moment to realize he was talking to her. "Get off your senior brother."
She obediently stepped off him, and he scrambled away to hide behind his master.
"Master…The new disciple is crazy, look what she did to my face!"
"Gu Feng! Aren't you ashamed at losing to a girl! And mortal as well!"
"But! She cheated!..." Lu Biming's stare shut him up, and he mutely stood by the side, his head raised, as he tried to stop the blood flow from various incisions. Lu Biming turned to Hui, who was still standing quietly there, as if she hadn't almost murdered her senior brother for ruining her dinner…
"Qiong Hua, a daoist knows how to hold in their emotions, I don't want to see you attacking your fellow disciples again!" Hui didn't respond, other than commenting in her mind how lazy his naming sense was, just kept her head bowed, waiting for them to leave. "For your insolence, and the violence displayed, you'll refill the woodshed tomorrow, clean your sect brothers' and my house, making sure to carry the waste down the mountain (it's still not a mountain…sigh), and bear 50 beatings with a rod as punishment. Do you accept?" Hui bowed politely.
"Hmph." He turned away, heading back to his house with Gu Feng in tow.