When the meal was over everyone went to their rooms and I took a bath following my normal routine. When I finished and was standing in my bedroom I was able to see the chests that were used to store my research books stacked next to the couch.
Walking over I opened one to find that they were now filled with Qi gathering manuals. This discovery made me to exited and unable to sleep, so I grabbed a few of them and a new blank note book.
Sitting on the couch I started flipping through the books marking everything I found that was wrong or incorrect while paying attention and taking notes on what was correct. Thankfully these manuals were smaller and a little more simple than the body tempering ones, but they made up for that in the quantity.
There were so many that I thought it would take me even longer to complete all of these.
I got so engrossed into reading the techniques, I ended up forgetting about sleeping entirely until the sun was starting to rise the next day. Knowing that it was not going to be a good day I went to the bathroom to clean myself up.
Afterwards I went to the shrine and did my morning prayers before moving to the dinning room for breakfast. This lead to the same lessons with Mo as yesterday. I wished that I could have had this time for research, but I still went with this as i would only need to spend today to catch him up to the rest.
From there it went into the normal routine as the last few days with the only difference being my lack of sleep. Thus when I got back to my bed room after dinner, I did not care about anything and fell asleep on the bed almost instantly.
The next day had a slight change to the routine. In the morning I would go back to my room for research until it was midway through the day. This then went on for about a week. The only changes during that time was instead of having everyone learning how to make there techniques, I had the fixing other ones I already found the errors in.
The end of this week was the deadline I set for everyone to have their techniques fixed and ready for use. So when it came time for the lesson, I collected all the techniques and started grading them at the side.
The grade was a number based one like the ones you would see in school and was based on the amount of errors that were present in the technique. I was only going to lenient on the person who chose to take the messed up heaven ranked technique.
Surprisingly the fixed heaven ranked technique was the best out of all of them with only a handful of errors. Looking at the name I found that it was the shy maid which stepped forward to ask me that question.
When I handed the grades out I toke a second longer to congratulate the young maid and then finished handing them out.
With that I announced the end of the class as I was still going through the Qi gathering level techniques and had no more to teach. Mr. Xia shot this down though when he asked me if I could help teach the rest of the staff. Seeing no reason to refuse I managed to continue this same routine for the next two weeks.
At the end, I had finally finished going through all the Qi gathering techniques. Drawing some inspiration from how these techniques leave an opening to continue forward I instead reverse it and have my new technique build off of the previous technique I made. I also wanted to make it so that anyone practicing this technique could jump to another one with out difficulty once complete.
This was something that took almost a week to formulate and create, but once finished I did them same as last time and error checked everything once more. When I was finished error checking I used the same artifact as last time and then jumped for safety.
Like last time everyone broke into the room to see what was happening and saw me hiding behind the couch looking and a book sitting on a table. They stopped at the door for a split second, which was enough for the lightning gathering in the clouds above to fall. The lighting was aiming for the book that I just wrote, but as it was about to hit the book started floating in the air.
Soon a shield sorounded the book and an illusion of what looked like an endless start sky covered the room for a second. The illusion than compressed in to the shape of a meteor that had a atmospheric entry trail and shot off toward the Strom.
The tribulation above seemed to learn it's lesson from last time and dodge the strike only for it to explode and dissipate the tribulation anyways. When all that finished, I walked out from behind the couch and grabbed the floating book. This time the booked did not want to stay in my arms but I held it there and flipped to the front page.
It still fought against me but I held it on that page and started to write down the name of the technique. When I was writing the name the book stopped fighting for a second and I was able to finish writing without any interruptions. The moment I finished the name the look of the book changed and a diagram of Earth's solar system appeared on the cover. Checking the grade showed it to also be a divine grade technique.
With the technique in hand I walked up to Raina who was standing in the door way watching all this happen and handed her the technique. She did not move for a few seconds until Mrs. Xia pushed her shoulder.
When Raina came to she grabbed the technique and flipped it to the front page. When she saw what was written there she lunged forward and wrapped me in a tight hug.
It felt a little weird to me but I did not resist or anything as I had gotten to know her a little over the month that I have been around her. Since I wanted to at least give her a chance I let her do things like this.
However, what I was unaware of was my tail wagging around behind me betraying my emotions that I was trying to convince myself otherwise.
When I was let go I stepped back and grabbed the book holding to my chest. I did not want look at anyone so I stood there looking toward the ground thinking if I should start on practicing the technique or start working on another project. This decision was a little easier as I went back over to the table and pulled out a large sheet of paper. On this sheet of paper I started drawing out different designs of house's that I thought would look nice.
The reason for this, was because I was starting to feel more than a little bad about intruding on them for this long even if they did say it was fine. So I was starting to plan out a house and work space I would create on the mountain that was given to me.
This drawing session did not last long though as Lou Xia walked over and grabbed the new technique I just made off the table. I turned around to grab it back for her, but she instead took of running. Not letting go I chased after her.
This lead to me chasing her all over the mansion until we stopped at the shrine to Elinaria that I would always cultivate at. It was here that she stopped and I realized I had been tricked into coming here.
Thankfully she stopped running, so I walked up to her and got my technique back. When turned around though I saw all of the servants in the house watching us. Looking back at Lou Xia I saw the grin on her face which I am sure if this was a book, it would be described as an ear to ear grin.
Sighing and giving in I sat down on the ground opening the tech ique to the first section as a refresher. When I was certain I had it down, I started to practice.
This was going to be extremely painful, as the first step of this technique was a fundamental transformation and change of your meridians. This change would also cause someone to grow more collateral meridians, a lot more. The amount of Qi this would take was also quite substantial so this would take a while even with all my meridians open to the max.
Once I had enough Qi gathered in all my meridians I started the process.