Moonstone

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{Learning Qinggong}

The night came and went like the wind, and it was already the next day. Zhou Yun's eyes fluttered open and her eyes met with the soft light of dawn. Once her mind cleared, a small smile grew on her lips. Zhou Yun was looking forward to the day as she would be learning Qinggong for the first time today. Although all her Master's could teach her Qinggong, they had decided the previous day to let Zi Lei teach her one-on-one as he was most adept at it.

As a soft breeze traveled through the forest and rustled the leaves, Zhou Yun sat up stretching her body. Standing up, she decided that it'd be a good idea to warm up her body by doing a few stretches seeing as how today would be more strenuous than the previous day. As she did though, there was a strange feeling on her arms. When she looked down, she paused before letting out a light laugh. It seems like they didn't forget after all.

What Zhou Yun saw was that her clothing had actually changed from the short-sleeved azure coloured Qipao to a long-sleeved violet Qipao. It was basically the same style except had longer sleeves.

Holding her arms up, Zhou Yun once again admired the quality of the fabric and the detail of the fine embroidery. As her eyes trailed down the length of her arms, they reached her tiny hands. Gazing at them, she couldn't help but sigh. The little girl's body was truly pretty, with delicate looking hands, both jade-like and flawless. A precious young miss indeed. Zhou Yun joked in her mind before dropping her hands to her sides.

With a smile on her face, she started up her stretching routine. This was the most basic of basic things, without doing this, Zhou Yun was sure that she'd get a terrible cramp within minutes of learning from her Master.

Standing with her feet shoulder width apart, she started stretching her arms. Left side, right side. Holding one across her chest and using the other to pull and hold for a few seconds. She did this to both sides, once each side for one set, and completed 3 sets. She then held her arm above her head and to the back, like when one would scratch their back from above. Once again, using one hand to push, she completed 3 sets of this. 

Zhou Yun then went to roll her shoulders slowly. Forwards and backwards. 3 sets. Now that she felt her arms and shoulders were loose enough, she then went to sit down on the ground with her legs splayed out in front in a 'V' shape. Zhou Yun knew that since the body was still that of a 7 year old's, it should still be very flexible and soft. So she took advantage of this fact to make sure that it stays that way and made a plan to incorporate yoga and gymnastics into her routine in the future.

Leaning forward as she thought, Zhou Yun reached out and touched her toes. As she was flexible, she lent until her palms could hold her toes back and stretched for a few seconds before releasing and siting back up. Then, she moved each leg to make a 'P' shape, with the sole of her foot on her thigh, and lent forward to stretch each leg individually. 3 sets each.

Standing back up, she stood on one leg and held the other back by the ankle behind herself, and stretched the upper muscle of her thighs individually. Starting to feel that her body was getting to the desired point, Zhou Yun made sure to finish off the rest properly. 

After completing a few other leg and arm stretches, she then stood straight before holding her hands above her head. Then, she lent her body sideways slowly, stretching the muscles on the side of the body. Left and right, 3 sets.

Standing upright, she breathed out and beamed. Zhou Yun felt her body was in the most optimal condition right now and that she should made the best use of it while she could. So turned around looking for Zi Lei. The moment she found him, her face lit up as he made eye contact with her and motioned for her to come over.