Marilyn had lots of vitality stored in her blood mystic arts storage so she was able to make great progress uninterrupted and break through to the transcendent realm within a couple of months after beginning to master the evil flame arts but she suppressed it in order to achieve a perfect breakthrough.
She worked hard in perfecting her sword arts, the evil flame palms devouring technique and also worked hard to temper her body which helped her build up her skin, muscles and tendons toughness and resistance to heat and fire.
In fact after tempering her body her skin had showed visible signs of darkening the more she practiced the tempering method as if her skin was being tanned or scorched a little at a time.
After a year of tempering her body and getting additional help from Ki through sparring and with the medicinal and poisonous body tempering baths she was able to quickly progress at a fast speed with her training.
After she broke through she had been focussed on gaining further insight in her own martial arts and tempering her bones with her evil flame qi.
She picked out several trusted people within Nox during the first month who had a very high ranking and built up a high level of trust and began to teach them the evil flame qi art, sword art, palm art and body tempering art.
One person focussed on using their palms so they chose the body tempering and palm arts along with the qi art while the other used the sword primarily so chose the sword arts but also used the evil flame devouring palm technique to use in case of emergencies but those that chose to practice the body tempering art also had to deal with their skin darkening.
Later a couple more people were chosen to use the evil flame arts but two of the five that were chosen first showed the best results and stood out for their one handed swordsmanship and the others tough body and palm arts.
Those who began to use the evil flame arts were given a vitality gu that was connected to her and also tattooed with the blood mystic arts runic patterns so that they could be kept under control by her and also they would be able to collect enough vitality to make up for their evil qi arts demands show they can continue to practice without harming themselves and raise their qi to a higher level at a fast rate.
As she was avoiding conflict with many forces she rarely showed up in the underworld besides at important meetings.
Another unknown factor that had arisen from the prison of age was Agnes, as she continued with the sacrificial arts she could feel her body keep changing and growing stronger until she was approaching a certain limit that her body could support.
She could feel much healthier, stronger, more resilient, faster, her stamina was higher but most of all she had ridden herself of the ailments that held her back over the years that forced her to retire behind the scenes within the family.
With the introduction to the evil yin qi art and the palm art she was able to slowly open up to the idea of using the palm art on the captured evil yin sects recruits within the territory and was also given a qi boosting pill by Ki so her age problems and practice speed were no longer a problem for her.
It was not long before she was corrupted by Ki's persuasions and finally took a step down that dark path like many others in order to protect her son, daughter and grandchildren.
After regaining her youthful appearance she hid her face behind a veil or mask when outsiders were around and focussed most of her time on practicing with Miranda according to Ki's instructions to help her make up for their bodies lack of training and lack of experience in martial arts in order to increase their chances of survival.
Thanks to the abundant yin qi provided behind the scenes and the qi boosting pill she was able to achieve a fast speed of growth and it did not take long before she had achieved the peak realm while her qi was faster approaching the limits of the transcendent realm but she still needed some time to refine the qi she had collected within her dantain and increase her control over it.
Although she was not able to appear in public just like she hadn't done so in years she could still use her new vitality to put herself back into the family business working behind the scenes.
After witnessing Agnes youthful appearance Ki could not help but look at her own appearance and compare each other.
While her father may of not inherited the features of his mother most of the main features had been passed down to the next generation onto Ki who had mostly inherited her looks from her grandmother while she gained a little from her mother and father.
After growing Leon showed more signs of inheriting more of his fathers looks but it was unknown who he inherited his large build from while the youngest child Naara looked more like her mother.
While Elizabeth was making a little progress in her ice qi arts and the movement foot art forms to help her evade attacks and escape and she also had her contract beast to keep her safe.
She had also been given a qi boosting pill so after practicing in her free time it did not take long until she experienced a breakthrough and found herself at the peak realm but spent the rest of her time refining and learning how to better control her qi as she slowly gathers more over the years.
Thanks to many sketches provided from things Ki had seen on men and women in the future she was able to give Elizabeth what she needed to trigger her creativity and expand her clothing line further.
Whether it was types and styles of upper or lower class of clothing, jewellery or accessories there were piles of sketches at her desk.
There were ideas for pins, cuff links, hair ties, hair pins, hairbands, necklaces, rings, piercing, wrist accessories and broaches that could be made for a jewellery venture and different uses of bows and tying methods for different types of ribbons or fabrics that could be used on clothing designs, hair accessories or as a neck, wrist or waist accessory.
With the families resources and built up connections Elizabeth was free to pick out any of the designs she had seen and adapt them to the current noble trends and give it her own unique design.
With the newly rejuvenated Agnes backing from behind the clothing store was showing greater results and the jewellery store was slowly being put forward over the years thanks to Agnes and Adams contacts that they had built up and the craftsmen that the family had nurtured.
The mines that Ki purchased over the years also played a large role in providing many raw gems to be cut and made into jewellery or accessories to be sold within the jewellery store that had opened first in Wolfden city as a trial but since it was showing good results Agnes decided to offer her more support to expand.
In order to increase the sales Elizabeth stepped back into the social world once more and occasionally held a noble gathering with many noble ladies at the tea pavilion in Wolfden city.
Thanks to this she was able to promote her products that she wore on her body and could also advertise her new store while making efforts to set up a store in another location.