Wei YunXiang used her water control skill to pour the appropriate amount of water into the teapot. Then, they started a fire using the grade 1 Pristine Wood Coal to boil the water.
The boiled water simmered for a while before she slowly put out the fire, leaving only a hot coal. The boiled water was poured into the tea cups, she used the boiled water to clean them.
After that, the used water was poured away then she placed the tea leaf in the tea cups before pouring another boiled water. The tea cups are placed in front and opposite Wei YunXiang.
Using her spiritual energy, she started making a hand seal on her hand, her thoughts and heart slowly synchronizing.
Just as she felt a mysterious energy emerging from the unknown, her spiritual energy was exhausted, interrupting the tea ceremony.
The tea water swirling suddenly stopped and splashed out of the cup.
Both tired and pale, a guard hurried to her side, fearing that a situation happened after seeing her complexion.
Wei YunXiang shook her head, "It's fine, my spiritual energy was just exhausted. I'll just eat a pill to replenish the spiritual energy in my Dantian."
The guard was silent for a moment before nodding, then returned to his original position.
Wei YunXiang ate an Energy Replenishing Pill that reached an uncommon-quality, the exhausted Dantian was slowly filled with the gentle spiritual energy from the pill.
It took her fifteen minutes before her spiritual energy became full again, Wei YunXiang feels that if she started circulating her cultivation technique, she can absorb a wisp of spiritual energy in just an hour.
However, she didn't do it because she knew that every pills will leave an erysipela, which will slowly accumulate in the body.
The less pill she ate, the better.
Looking at the messy table, Wei YunXiang sighed in dismay before asking a maid to clean up the mess.
The tea cannot be drank as everything spilled.
Wei YunXiang did not immediately started the tea ceremony, but quietly pondered on the process, trying to find the mistake that caused the tea ceremony to fail.
'Besides the fact that my spiritual energy cannot keep up, i spent too much spiritual energy in the water-control skill because of my hesitation. The fire-control was also full of flaws, i just raised the temperature impatiently boiling the water.'
Wei YunXiang sighed after realizing the process full of flaws, however, she was not disheartened but became more diligent.
Again and again, she used the mortal-grade tea leaf and spring water to practice. Most of the tie, her spiritual energy was exhausted and sometimes the control of water and fire was not up to the standard.
Wei YunXiang's heart became more and more restless, so the part of synchronizing the heart and mind became difficult as times passes.
Just as she was about to start another tea ceremony, a sigh sounded which caught her attention. Raising her head to the source of the sound, she saw her Great Grandma watching her while holding a small basket of flowers.
"Grandma Ya," She stood up to greet the old lady.
"Well, I see that our Xiao Xiang is so hard working." The old lady whose hair was like the brightest silver falling like the water fall sat gently beside the little girl.
She can see that YunXiang was tired but her eyes is still glimmering with determination to succeed. This made the old woman's heart soft and proud.
"Cultivation needs to balance work and rest," She spoke while caressing the girl's hair. "Let's rest first and you can ask Grandma about the problems you encountered."
Grandma Ya gestured to the maids, "Bring some pastries and drinks."
Wei YunXiang saw that her Grandma already decided so she also relaxed from her tense state. "There are quite a few questions I have, I'll bother Grandma then."
"Good girl, you can ask without worries, Grandma Ya is happy to answer." This made Wei YunXiang smile.
The pair spend the rest of the day in the pavilion, they only stopped when the sky turned dark and filled with stars.
The old lady invited the little girl before they parted ways, "Tomorrow, come to the spiritual garden and I'll demonstrate the Wei Family's tea ceremony for you."
Wei YunXiang was happy to agree.
She walked back to her boudoir under the company of her maids and bodyguards. After going back, she took a shower then started a new round of cultivation.
It took her three hours before completing one circulation and getting one wisp of spiritual energy. Wei YunXiang checked her Dantian and saw that she already accumulated 10 wisps, halfway to the third-level of Energy Refining Realm.
She calculated that she could reach the mid-stage of Energy Refining Realm, that is the fourth-level, in the next two months.
"I wonder how is my speed of cultivation compared to those geniuses." Wei YunXiang said to herself in a daze but didn't think too much.
After all, cultivation is not just about the speed of cultivation power, but many things are also need to be considered.
The various skills, techniques and resources are indispensable.
Some cultivation techniques need the person to pay attention to the purity of energy, thus spending more time in their level.
Some also spent more time in their artistic understanding, cultivation is just second.
For Wei YunXiang, she maintained a balance of both.
The Enlightenment Tea Technique is top-notch in terms of the spiritual energy purity in the Dantian, but the speed depends on the person's understanding.
Every successful Tea Ceremony means higher understanding and faster circulation of spiritual energy.
A win-win situation for a cultivator.
Of course, its not only the Wei Family who have a good cultivation technque. The royal family, th other noble families, even the powerful sects and tribes have their own capital to maintain their dominance.