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You perceive yourself surrounded by your four companions, with the Hawk how-so-little brighter, in a kingdom of gray emptiness.
The next step is to guide the strands of Qi and Blood in your heart aperture. You don't immediately perceive said aperture - by the time you focus on the glass-like sphere you now see in your spiritual self, a first strand have dissipated back in your body.
You send the Hawk to quickly grasp the second one, but the brusque approach ripped the second strand when the talons touch it. You makes the bird of prey catch the third one more gently, guiding it to the aperture, when you stumble into a sizeable problem : you can't find an opening. You press the strand against the
glass sphere, hoping the aperture will catch it, but this is a miss. The strand starts to dissolve. You slide it across the sphere, to no further result. Finally, you find the opening - in the top half of the aperture, directed toward your spine, as the strand frays.
You desperately attempt to shove it, but it's too late. You've missed by a couple seconds.
"<span class="mu-s">This is unfortunate. You'll better remember that the road of cultivation is hard. No step toward the Heaven's pinnacle is free.</span>"
This conclude your first session of cultivation. Of course, you benefited from it as your body condition improved. However, at the eye of the sect, your first attempt is not successful as you haven't even started to fill your heart Aperture.
The worst part, you know you've been unlucky, that you were damn close missed the roll by 4 percent, and that this technique is suited to you.
Of course, Ai and Dhundan have succeeded perfectly.
Body Tempering Liquid is a rare and expansive resource. Your failure means you won't get more of it before next month - an eternity away, that will turn the gap between you and the geniuses into a rift.
Maybe you can court favor to someone (another disciple, a master?) to decrease the wait to your next attempt? Or just accept your mediocre fate and wait?
>Ask the Snake Master if being bitten by a Snake and forcing the venom out of our bloodstream is a valid body tempering technique or if it's some kids foolishness that I just have
"<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-i">This is an as valid test as any to test <span class="mu-s">Poison</span> Affinity. But that's stupidly dangerous at your current realm. First, gather Qi and Blood in your heart aperture. Then, turn it into True Qi. That's the minimum point to materialize Energy Qi.</span></span>"
What are you doing this week/month?
>Work diligently with the sect to regain favour [require clever writes-in]
>Let it go and focus on your duties as well as mental training with Dhundan
>Ask someone [Who? How do you convince them?]
