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You have no choice but giving your all. You soon fell in a routine leaving you alone despite the crowd of cultivator around you.
Wake up before everybody. Cultivate one hour. Calithenics. Daily duties, done well and quick to cram in another hour of cultivation. Dung shoveling, cultivate, eat, cultivate. On the verge of exhaustion, go sleep a handful hours, and do it all again.
You focus on your foundation - <span class="mu-s">Hawk's wide Ballet</span> as well as the <span class="mu-s">Way of the Spiritual Beast Whisperer</span>.
Mainly, this is what you feel is lacking, plus there is one more bother : your snake spirit.
When you materialize it, it naturally comes in your hand, stiffening while coiling the far end of its tail around your arm. You got the best weapon one could dream of : bonded to your soul, able to subtly move to land a hit or change the angle of attack.
The head of the snake is surprisingly sharp, able to bury into wood or straw mannequin way deeper than an animal should. This weapon bound to your soul will probably turns into a great asset in the future. However, one detail irritates you deeply :
Although you learned by chance the <span class="mu-s">Vengeful Spear</span> technique, you have no spear cultivation method. Spear and Halberd are fundamentally different, so adapting your Windy Cavalier's Halberd would require a Breakthrough.
Plus, you will need a backup weapon - you spent a day without the Horse and the Hawk after your last incursion; quite unfavorable in a battlefield situation. Also, starting a fight with said backup weapon would mean keeping the spear-snake as a trump.
You're stressed enough by the whole "falling behind" issues, so you cram this problems under a rug in your mind for the future-you to deal with. Still, it bothers you and you have to actively repress the dread.
At first, you find a bit of solace and comfort with Spiritually bonded animals; until on the second day after they materialized back. You realize as they're part of your soul, or destined to be, it's like hugging yourself. You were gazing in the abyss, this realization was a good step forward.
However, not all is grim. Your bonded snake spirit presence smooth your cultivation even more - somehow, your Hawk Wide Ballet benefits greatly from the new spirit.
You don't take time, nor mental energy, to delve on that particular point. Your aperture is filling at an hysterical pace. Until, after one week...
