Li Bai struggled to get out of Jin He's grip! She was much too strong! He tried many tricks to make Jin He release him. Alas, his efforts were useless in the face of raw strength.
"Who are you?!"
Jin He shouted in front of Li Bai's face. She was angered to see someone other than her master show up in the room. Only Jin He knew of her master's secret - his soul retained memories.
She and her master had an agreement, and it was to make Jin He wait for him inside the ring everytime he reincarnated. The time within the ring was suspended, so it was only natural that Jin He didn't age nor starve inside this ring.
"Wait, could it be?"
All puzzled inside, Jin He loosened her grip on Li Bai's small childish neck. Li Bai took this opportunity to escape and slipped right past Jin He's fingers.
"Yes, Jin He. It is I, your master."
Jin He was shocked by this discovery and immediately kneeled.
"Ah, master! Please forgive me for my impudence!"
Li Bai shook his head and spoke.
"No need, no need. Stand up, Jin He."
Jin He was still confused inside. Why was her master not emitting a powerful aura? Was her master weak?
She hesitantly stood up and looked at Li Bai weirdly. Li Bai saw her face and explained.
"So you see, Jin He, your master is weak right now."
Jin He was confused. She trained the whole time she was left alone in the ring! But the Earth energy had run out so Jin He wasn't able to progress anymore. Still, there should be plenty of Earth energy outside of the ring, so why has her master not trained yet?
"Jin He, calm down. Soon enough, I will be stronger than you again."
In truth, Li Bai was just speaking to put Jin He at ease. He actually didn't know if he had any chance of training. Jin He was once an arrogant prodigy that looked down on everyone she met.
Until one day, she met Li Bai's past self. She had been beaten so easily, and so she wanted to train under him. Li Bai's past self initially refused, but when he saw Jin He's persistence, he eventually gave in.
Since then, whenever they would meet inside the ring, Li Bai's past selves would always be stronger than her. Granted that the current master she was seeing right now was still ten years old, and the past times that she saw her master, he was about twenty already.
Jin He's body would age whenever she wandered outside the ring, so her body's age was still young, at about twenty-three.
If she found out that Li Bai was a failure, she would undoubtedly storm off. Jin He was, of course, the former princess of the strongest kingdom in the continent, Jin Kingdom, before she took off to follow Li Bai's past self.
Even now, Jin Kingdom still stood tall, being the kingdom with the longest time in power, with no signs of deteriorating anytime soon. If they saw Jin He, one of their ancestors, they would certainly blow a gasket.
The most desirable result would be to keep Jin He in the dark before he rose up to fame. Jin He only followed Li Bai's past selves because they were strong, what reason would she have to follow him, not being strong himself?
Although, it was only Li Bai who thought that way. Jin He couldn't care less anymore about whether Li Bai was strong or weak, she had already resolved herself to follow him until she died. At first, yes, she thought about it like that, but now, she felt some sort of connection between them that she couldn't break herself.
