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But your most impressive progress are obtained while working on your Bow martial art.
This art is insanely deep. The book start with basic mounted marksmanship exercise, coupled with metaphorical explanations of movement (Phoenix metaphore, obviously).
There are also a fair amount of deep explanation on how to circulate your true Qi while working the technique. Said True Qi that you still lack.
>97 : Understanding what "myths" bring to a technique
You feel, however, that working this technique brings much more than you would have thought.
In addition to spiritual energy related to "Horse", "Wind", "Bow" and (somehow) "Distance" - same element than the "Wide" keyword of your body tempering technique, you feel the technique allows you to work on the channels related to "Hawk", "Fire" and "Gold".
The book text is clear, although fragmented :
"<span class="mu-i">What is or isn't the Phoenix belong to the Daoist of the Phoenix path.</span>
<span class="mu-i">To each practitionner his path. Are you wise enough in your art to judge what is or isn't your art?</span>"
This is unequivocally a sign that "Phoenix" is not a single concept.
In your understanding, such a powerful word could hold books of meaning by itself. For you, it's the aforementionned Gold, Fire and Hawk element.
Probably because of your confusion of the Ascendant Golden Flame Hawk Spirit for a Phoenix almost two years ago.
A convenient tool. Increasing the width coming from training a single skill. Not the depth though - your energy can only increase so much in a single session.
>Double-97
You feel that "Phoenix" skills are indescribably well suited to you.
What would it take to capitalize on that newfound progress?
Of course, working your "Phoenix" skills will be rewarding by itself.
Going even further, you might turn your Body Tempering technique into something like "Phoenix's Wide Ballet". You'll need 2 breakthrough for that : a first one to bring "gold" to the technique, a second one to merge the concepts of the Phoenix in the mythical word.
A lucid thought cross your mind. A daring one. One you're intimately convinced is an Heaven-sent truth.
You might fuse your Hawk Spirit with a Phoenix spirit. Any Phoenix spirit.
Last, you might deepen your Phoenix understanding : there is a way to extend what the word encompass for you.
The enlightment fade just before you grasp said way.
Ryota indeed sold the Goose spirit to Medicine Master Soulgaze. The gains are enough for the five of you to get a minor realm-improving treasure, akin to the Echo Root or Purple Bamboo Shoot, in addition to tailor-made pills to claim on a (later) visit to Stable Lotus sect.
>Take the prize now. More opportunities in the future will grant more treasures.
>Wait. Your breakthrough might be two or three months away, and a Mouth-stage consumable treasure just at breakthrough will be an insanely valuable option.
