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Time flies. Over the next weeks, you feel like you do a lot and very little at the same time.
First, there is the matter of your Foundation. You benefitted greatly from your trip in Growth realm. You feel your Foundation is on overdrive.
Your Mouth Aperture fills up and up in the upcoming week. You feel it's almost ripe for breaking through before the tournament, and just then it frustatingly grinds to an halt. Oh well. You don't push the matter - you'll need to stabilize after the Breakthrough anyway.
Ryota once came with Dhundan, Ai, Yi, Sin and Man.
"<span class="mu-s">Quiet Word will break out to second stage in at most three months. You know why you might not? Amount of work.</span>"
This effectively motivated everyone in your group. Yi, Man and Sin are half a step away to breaking through Ear Aperture. Dhundan and Ai are halfway to breaking open the Mouth Aperture.
Your foundation work also granted you an unexpected insight about the poem.
Thinking of the upcoming tournament, you'll see two girls qualifying as the Lotus. You worry if that mean you'll have to make one of them your Dao partner.
With a more torough read, you understand you have an out : the titular Rising Phoenix seems predestined to match either a Dragon, a Qirin or a Lotus.
That mean you at least won't have to chose imperatively one of those two. That still mean you have to get married. You're not sure how you feel about that.
You made progress working on your spear style. On one hand, your fighting mastery have reached out to someone of the mouth-aperture-filling level.
On the other, you failed to discern hidden techniques, and you're a step away from the Apex of your level.
The blood-related treasure helped you tremendously in your practice : the Hemomancer Profound Bloostore is well-adjusted to your technique, letting you understand more, more easily, akin to a bounded beast. Your curiosity made you draw a drop of blood. It was hungrily sucked up by the treasure, Qi still twirling inside.
Looks like this treasure have the same use as the Marten Mistress' Blood Via0l.
You also focused your practice on the Unlimited Rising Star Kick.
Although you fail to break throuhg, you feel the technique benefit a bit more from your bounded spirit, as well as from the Teapot and the Growth-originated Bloodstore.
It does wonders for your mobility : your speed and overall movement mastery can't be challenged by those weaker than the Ear Aperture-filling level.
Combined with your fighting proficiency, this should make fighting unremarkable oponent a walk in the park.
As last year, Ryota takes a bit of time off his masters to teach his promising disciples. Unluckily, your turn comes up only two days before the tournament.
"<span class="mu-s">So, what could help you?</span>"
>Pointers about your Spear Style!
>Pointers about your Halberd Style!
>Pointers about your Bow Style!
>Pointers about your Movement Technique!
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