It had only been a short week but towards the orphans, they felt an entire eternity had passed, however they were more stoked by their personal achievements.
The girl orphans soon realised that they were being trained more towards stealth and balancing as well as martial techniques while the boys would train their physical body then learn assassination skills. Soon they switched positions and the girls where the ones dying on the inside instead. However, under the excellent lead of Yin Hua, the girls persisted even more, perhaps it was the image of their saviour praising them, or perhaps they genuinely wanted to become stronger, did they try their hardest every day of that single week.
It had only been one week, yet the physical body of these originally malnourished and fragile as glass children were now stronger than even B rank assassins.
Their techniques were way beyond comprehension as all the orphans somehow managed to learn the hardest assassination and protection martial techniques in only a week! However, these techniques were ones they as children who had never been exposed to society learned. Which meant, these techniques, were actually...invented by a certain someone, and if anyone who had even an inkling of martial knowledge would be able to tell that those techniques were, in short, genius!
If even kids who were training martial arts since they could walk learned these martial techniques, they still wouldn't progress as fast as the ten orphans, they perhaps wouldn't even be able to learn any of the techniques. That, was precisely why Ye FengTian had chosen orphans.
It was common sense that when learning something new, it wasn't always necessarily better knowing past knowledge. Starting on a clean slate, that was something that the orphanage had taught her.
The orphans not only progressed physically, but mentally, they were happier, despite the hellish training, they were healthier and at the end of the day they felt safe and peaceful. It was something these orphans had never experienced before.
Ye FengTian stood in the shadows observing silently as always. She stared at the girls and then at the boys, mentally, she was noting down who had better skill and who had a better physical structure.
Completing her analysis, she walked out to the shadows, showing her peerlessly "beautiful and handsome" face of Ye Feng.
Her ink black hair was tied up in a high military ponytail and her amethyst eyes glowed and glistened under the sun. No one could read them.
Seeing their most beloved person, their saviour, they all felt cheerful inside, despite blaming their saviour for the hellish week they had experienced, they were still thankful dee down in their hearts. They knew that, without the boy standing in front of them, they would never achieve or have anything they had now.
Seeing the orphans attention on her, 'Ye Feng' was silent before spoke out emotionlessly, "Yin Hua has the best assassination skills, Yin Yu has the best physical skills." She suddenly stopped, "You two will fight each other. First one to surrender wins."
She stated the rules before disappearing from her spot, the orphans thought she had left. In fact, she was hiding in the shadows still, observing their every move was necessary.
Yin Yu and Yin Hua glanced simultaneously at each other, their eyes filled with determination to win. Zhen Hua has her usual stoic face on but this time, she made sure to keep her fists clenched. Yin Yu was a strong and muscular boy that was a whole head taller that Yin Hua, he towered over her easily, his eyes also filled with determination as he stared at Yin Hua in front of him.
Suddenly, Yin Hua had disappeared almost exactly like Ye FengTian, except that was only what was seen of the surface. In reality, she hadn't actually disappeared but she had just used skill and light to make it seem that she disappeared but in fact she was running speedily towards the back of Yin Yu.
However, at that moment Yin Yu felt something was off, his gut feeling was telling him to watch out. And exactly at that moment, Yin Hua suddenly popped out behind him to take a hit, but Yin Yu had better physical abilities so he instantly took the hit head on. He suffered the brunt of the hit, but his other hand was tightly on the neck of Yin Hua.
Grabbing tightly around her neck, Yin Yu used his superior strength to strangle Yin Hua. Yin Hua chocked, she struggled and silently she refused to give up, despite knowing that if she continued like this she would loose, suddenly a glint flashed by her eyes, but that glint was seen by Ye FengTian.
Out of no where, suddenly came flying down a pair of black robes and violet glowing eyes, staring right at Yin Hua's eyes. Her wrist was firmly grabbing Yin Hua's raised one.
She coldly said, "you'll kill him." Those three words instantly brought a shiver down everyone's spine, including the shacking Yin Yu who had loosen his hold on Yin Hua's neck due to Ye FengTian's sudden interference.
Yin Hua looked down, her eyes and expression was down cast as she apologised softly.
'Ye Feng' released Yin Hua'swrist. Standing their, her current aura was suffocating the orphans, they all felt frozen to their very souls. It was the middle of spring, yet, it felt like winter had arrived already.
"So, you two think it's a death match?" She asked coldly, her voice like ice that froze the entire training courtyard.
"S-s-sorry..." Yin Hua and Yin Yu both apolosed at the same time, their faces guilty as they apologised onscreen to Ye Feng and then to each other.
Ye FengTian was standing their silently. She pondered silently her eyes dark and mysterious, completely unreadable.
"When you meet enemies in the future, fight like how you two did today." With that she disappeared into the shadows again, her chilly aura still lingered in the air, but the suffocating suppression from earlier left the ten orphans all breathless.
They knew now that, despite their saviours coldness, he still cared for them!