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In the end, your need for a few potential days away is accomodated quite easily by the monks, adding two "bookable" weeks without modifying the amount of booked day.
It seems fair, but somehow the abbot's smile makes you feel like he found some kind of loophole to take advantage of you.
They take their leave with an appreciative nod from Medicine Master Soulgaze - no doubt he profited from the deal.
"<span class="mu-b"><span class="mu-s">Looks like you're mostly using the pills I provided you? Good. You're in no dangers of Qi deviation for now.</span></span>"
The very next day, two teenage monk of undetermined gender silently join your daily practice.
Said daily practice, despite the use of pills, doesn't bring you much progress in your already developped channel nor in term of fulfilling your realm-hopping dreams.
Are you cursed since you lost the last of your Inborn True Qi? Or is it since meeting the Empress? Did she stole your luck and gave it to the other kids of your group?
Maybe you're doing it wrong. Time to search for answer - and you know the elder kid to ask.
"Big Brother Boyd? Do you have some time for a Junior's question?
- <span class="mu-s">Well, for the promising Rising Phoenix of our sect, I will take some.</span>
- Forgive my rudeness, but I've seen you a couple years ago unfurl some winds of your own, and flying up back at a cart.
- <span class="mu-s">Oh, when the Skyshark toppled us? One of the worst scare of my life. That thing's fin actually dug deep in the wood. A feet deeper, and I was losing my left arm.</span>
- Yeah. So, those wings... Are they from Body Shifting with a bounded best?
- <span class="mu-s">They are indeed.</span>
- Could you help me develop my own?
- <span class="mu-s">Let me see... That's a great pair of wings you've got there! I see no problem with your practice, little brother</span>
- But they're not enough! They can only slow down a small fall!
- <span class="mu-s">Getting my own wings strong enough to carry me required some hard work. What you call 'body shifting' manifest differently regarding Cultivator and how they practice. Those wings of yours can be improved by diligent practice - by reputation, I know this is already your case - or overcoming some tribulations.</span>
- I see... I happened to fall from a cart, too. I failed miserably at breaking the fall with those wings. So you're telling me that searching adventure could had helped me strengthening them?
- <span class="mu-s">Exploring ancient ruins, visit a Spirtual Animal Plan, partaking in tournament... All of those have risks, but those trials are a great way to improve, not even factoring the rewards to reap. Don't hesitate to ask the Master about missions. You want to get better with those wings of yours? I learned a lot by visiting our cousins of Skyslandia when I helped shepherd a flockwing Transhumance</span>"
Well, you're more or less banned by Empress Mandate to leave the town, so you doubt missions are on the table. Seems like you're doing everything right regarding the way you train.
