The next two days focused on exercises to improve control over each of the forms of Qi; we only stopped to eat, and I continued training; there was nothing mystical in the whole process, just pure practice and repetition. When I had improved enough in the eyes of Master, we spent the next day seeing different uses and applications of Qi. From walking along a vertical wall, using it to propel yourself or be repelled in the opposite direction, to protecting yourself with QI from a blow in a fall, and many other various uses... I never saw an aura manifestation again, but I knew that one day, and it wouldn't be too late, I could manifest my own aura.
However, the next morning, I could see a sinister light in my teacher's eyes. On an improvised table made with a cut stone, he had spread a multitude of vials, books, some thin and creepy needles, and some weapons, from daggers, needles, to fawns...
