They were starting to get tired, one always on duty and they never managed to get a good rest because they were always on the alert. Ju was the one who was most upset with this situation, he wasn't used to being like this, luckily now he and Dark were at the same level of cultivation and had learned new fighting techniques thanks to Lia; but the irritation of his lack of rest was more noticeable, making him have bad attitudes.
The others did not take his aggression seriously because they understood his discomfort, but deep down they bothered; this caused Lia to move away from him spending more time with Dark and Yogi than with him since he had become difficult to get along with. This situation caused her mood to be worse, he still doubted if he was still captivated by the initial greed in her feelings but he wanted her for her, so he returned to show her jealousy when interacting with her. Dark.
She could no longer stand this situation and said: - we need to rest even if we are locked in a cave for a few days - also worried about Yogi who continued to carry a lot of weight on his back, however it did not bother him despite being tired he took it as physical training . And this was true, he was strengthening his body.
He was learning them better how to use the energies and the difference between the martial and the spirit, seeing that the latter had as her conscience, in her he could see reflected what he thought. Thanks to this he managed to form a green and a blue dragon, and teach Dark and Ju how to make them although they did not succeed; they were inspired to develop new techniques. Especially Ju with his spear making his attacks have the force of a river, moving more easily.
Dark only learned to move stones and plants to set traps for his enemies, but it was difficult for him to incorporate this knowledge into fighting techniques; At most if his blows had hardened thanks to the energies of the earth. The only good thing is that he could heal himself and his allies.
They agreed, although they were still alert, by covering the cave they could sleep more peacefully while someone else was on guard.
They were already close to one of the mountains I had seen a long time ago, they had traveled for a long period of time, by then the time of migrations and parking had already ended, so they would only be attacked if they entered someone's territory. very dangerous animal. But due to the level of Lia and Yogi it would be difficult to find them, she and Yogi were at level 5 of both martial and spirit fire. Due to the strange connection between them Yogi was able to absorb Lia's Qi and get stronger faster, for them now the red pearls would have no use.
Yogi and Lia discovered that they could feel what the other felt, having detected that Yogi was fighting even though she couldn't see him going to where he was. Neither she nor he knew why this was happening, but they explored it because they found it useful.
Dark was worried about getting too close to some small bandit settlement, or the lair itself; she was deeper into the forest but if they continued their journey, in search of some town or sect little by little they would get closer.
Besides that they usually change the base location from time to time, so they couldn't know where they would be.
Although they will avoid them due to their level and the results of the previous fight, they could gang up on them if they get too close; either because they may think they are looking for them to finish them off, or because being closer to the base makes it easier to end up exhausting them fighting and thus defeat them.
Dark talked about this with Ju behind Lia's back so she wouldn't worry, because they didn't think we'd find either if they stayed close to the mountains. Since sects are usually located in them and it can be dangerous, unless there is a mine with a town nearby, many bandits did not believe, but these were located deep inside the continent.
They approached the mountain that before had sights in the distance little by little as the days passed, while they continued to increase their bad temper due to fatigue.
Lia tried to get a smile out of them by making certain mistakes on purpose when training with each other, and wanting to teach them some other technique inspired by fighting moves from some novel, or anime.
Knowing that this caused them to be in a better mood for learning. Despite her bad mood, they liked to see her smile or laugh, and any body-to-body contact between them aroused feelings, sometimes jealousy and sometimes shyness, being shy when she touched them and being jealous when she touched another. the other. Only with Yogi they were not jealous, she remembering a game that she used to play with her brother, she thought that she could improve things with this type of contact.
The game consisted of approaching each other as if they were going to dance the tango, even holding on as if they were going to dance, and trying to knock the other down using their feet. At first you could hold hands in that pose but then it was just chest to chest, kicking each other.
The truth is, she introduced them to them, telling her that this is how they taught her as a child to be more agile with her legs, and they laughed a lot practicing it with her, sometimes being knocked down by her and other times by her.
Something that quieted the humor a bit was that if one of them got hurt, she offered to massage it, worried that a muscle might have been injured. She did this once she saw Ju hit herself while practicing with the spear and fell off it, running to yell at her back because she had hit the ground.
Dark was amazed that she didn't use green energies for this, and he threw one of those energy balls at her, and Ju angry, wanting him to continue, told him: - despite the fact that it closes and heals the wounds, the sensation of pain continues and it hurts- looking at her and she continued. Half jealous, Dark pretended to hurt you as well by occasionally hurting each other on purpose to get her attention.
Although it is true that the pain continues despite healing her wounds, both are used to pain but they liked her way of giving affection; she genuinely did it with no other intentions, and at most if she massaged a leg but none dared to ask for scandals somewhere.
They walked close to the mountain while remaining half angry and half friendly with each other, wishing they could find some opening in it.