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You decide to make the most of the week by working on your fundamentals. First, the most fundamental of fundamentals.
>Foundation
Every day, you circulate your Body Tempering Technique - two or three times thanks to the pills resplenishing your spiritual energy - then circulate your Meditation Technique.
Diligent practice leads to consistent results, letting you pulling more threads in your Nose Aperture. Progress is consistent you're a bit less than a third of the way to fill said Nose Aperture.
Your pill stockpile is dwindling - you still have enough to work seriously on your foundation one or two times.
>Drink tea + Unlimited Rising Star Kick practice
Frustrated with last weeks struggle and lack of progress, you kept your practice's focus on your movement technique. And there is something else you want to try.
At first, you still make no progress. Then, you try out your strategy : using the seldom coins of spare change remaining from your first city trip, you ask one of the older kid to fetch tea for you.
The boy's back with a small poach, only enough to brew one teapot. You didn't expected much with so few money, but still.
In the end, the greatest challenge turns out to boil water - you achieve so by volunteering for dishwashing, taking a pot with you one day, and bringing it back the next day.
You boil water, take it out of the small fire you lit up, and wait. Wait a bit more. Now. You pour water in the teapot, and drop the few leaves in the incorporated metal mesh.
You take a couple breath while the tea is brewing. Once it's been long enough, you pull out the metal mesh, and throw away the infused leaves, then pour yourself a cup.
As your hunch told you, your comprehension of the Unlimited Rising Star Kick seems better after drinking from the Teapot.
Also, your progress in comprehension are fast, faster than other techniques. One more session should be enough to bring the technique's level up to your cultivation level.
Maybe it is linked to the Growth part of your technique? Or linked to your affinities?
>Affinity evaluation
Speaking of affinities, you just add an idea. you'll just need a few rocks, plates, and something like shelves.
You use some string with just enough slack to let one plate lift a millimeter up before pulling the next one.
>Built Soul Affinity Measurement Contraption prototype!
Now, the difficult part : you'll need a lodestone, that will pull everything while a soul resonnates nearby.
And you remember how the master of the main branch tested you - yeah that, that could work.
Not consuming anything, with a wide array of spiritual beasts, you could average out affinities using a similar group of beast to control for other elements.
And if you luckily stumble into a lodestone at some point, it would even be more straightforward.
