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>Catching Up
You take time this week with your friends. You don't go much over what exactly happened, just that you were on a mission for the sect and it went more than well. Dhundan doesn't really care, and grunt on how you've made a terrible choice that delayed your cultivation.
Ai also doesn't get it, but understand it seems important for you. She says she's happy for you. Under your perplex gaze, she retracts into a "sorry that happened?". Those two are awfully, and irremediably, out of touch.
Ai had much progress recently : she's on the verge of breaking over the Nose Aperture. Dhundan, brooding, admit he's a bit behind her.
Sin Din is close to breaking her Eye Aperture open., Yi Norm is halfway there Man Din is severely lagging behind the other members of your gifted group.
With the tournament closing by, and Ai reiterating her lack of will to fight, you decide to share the rewarded <span class="mu-s">Purple Bamboo Shoot</span> with Dhundan.
Secretive and keeping for himself as ever, you can't invite him to sit down and drink with you. Plus, you're not showing him your prized Teapot like that. As such, when he leaves for his secret lone training, you follow him, order him cryptically to wait here for 10 minutes, shove the cup brewed out of his sight in his hand while having you yourself, then empty your cup in one go while keeping eye contact. He follows suit.
The drink is almost tasteless. But with each gulp, you smell the delicate bitter aroma filling up your nose.
The aroma stucks and lingers. Now, like a sponge, each breath you take stockpile smells. Those smells, located behind the Nose Aperture, push on the wall of said Aperture.
A Wall? Wait, you never felt something like that! Other Aperture where a simple matter of stockpiling energy until the Aperture overflows...
>Foundation
The Purple Bamboo Shoot helps tremendously your progress - you estimate you won around a month and a half of amazing filling speed of your aperture in merely two weeks, in addition to the strange pressure you're feeling.
Dhundan broke through a few days before Ai - making him the first of your group; Sin Din also broke through this week.
However, you finished your pills suiting your style - meaning slower progress in the foreseeable future.
You regret the waste of the perfectly good pills provided by LuoBin, speeding you up toward figuring you would have been too late anyway.
A few pills - 4 - remains for your Spear style : Blood-Shadow Wolf Painful Assault. And 10 are suited to Wind and Horse energies.
Wait a minute... Those Wind and Horse pills... They should work for the Mounted Archer’s Wind-Gliding Phoenix Arrow, right?
