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Since you opened the twin balls of eye aperture, your sight is better - you can clearly see from far away, able to focus and remember thing you've seen more vividly.
The day after that Stable Lotus fiasco, Wolf Mistress picks you among the disciples working on the Eye Aperture - You, Dhundan and Ai have it opened, but as the first to have open the realm, you're also the first that had it stabilized.
"<span class="mu-s">Eye aperture is a twin hourglass. But now it's filled and open, you can work on your Nose Aperture.
It is pear-shaped, with the narrow side leading to a wall. At this stage, cultivators usually experience their first Bottleneck.
However, you're young and ahead in your cultivation, so as long as the sect keeps helping you you're expected to break through while your mouthful of Inborn True Qi you received at birth haven't dissipated yet.
This True Qi means no bottleneck for around two more years for you.</span>"
Following the mistress' instructions, you locate the Nose Aperture. It's still and wonderful mystery why Aperture does not appear before you're ready - and seems only visible by seeking them and knowing their locatoins.
Having a sect and instructors is more than mere techniques and leaving you on your own while raking in ressources and work - it could easily have taken you a month or two just to locate the Nose Aperture correctly, despite knowing it's the next step.
Circulating your technique, you generate <span class="mu-s">Qi and Blood</span> threads, and pull them in. Despite a more-than-ample amount of energy gathered and pull in, you feel it's a mere drop in the Nose Aperture.
The early free time dedicated to cultivation is over. Daily chores are starting. But the Wolf Mistress still have something to tell you.
"<span class="mu-s">Keep your eyes open for a Wolf spirit. It won't be immediate, but transplanhumance is coming in 3 months after all.
Although... It's been a while I've not seen your pup, is he fine?</span>"
You answer a non-commital "yes", and abscond.
Over the two weeks, you diligently spins your energy threads. Energy is higher than your pill-enhanced sessions of Eye Aperture stage, but filling speed is a crawl.
You're not able to pinpoint wether the higher energy comes from the teapot or your higher level.
Your daily chores still involve taking cares of the mundane beasts. You take some time to observe the batch of newcomers.
They seem plain. Their potential : poor, deficient, inferior or weak. As a comparison, Dhundan and Ai are somewhere between Excellent and Incredible, not impossibly higher.
This bad potential is on par to the twenty-or-so other kids your age you've left in the dust, none having opened the Heart Aperture yet.
Yourself? Cutting yourself a bit of slack and not wallowing in angst, you have to admit to yourself you're at least Fine.
However, The twin sisters and Yi Norm where in your first impression Average or Mediocre. But the competition burning you out and your focus on group growth pulled everyone up, turning them at least Decent.
