Wu Gen was the first to successfully use the technique – Space Sleeve, it didn't take long, after successfully doing so, no one else made progress for almost an entire week.
His yellow-gold hair blew in the wind as he waved his sleeve from right to left internally yelling "space technique – space sleeve" he practiced it continuously for the next two weeks, growing more accustomed to it.
This technique was different from the first gravity tracer. It didn't need a crystal, but instead used upon the natural energies of heaven from understanding the glyphs and internalizing the energy.
Instead of forcing energy into a crystal, this technique moved energy into the body, specifically focusing on the sleeve.
Wu Gen's eyes widened as he realized he succeeded "I did it! I only have twenty-five square feet, but it's a start!"
"Hey, brother Lou Ben, have you succeeded in space sleeve yet?" Wu Gen stood in front of Lou Ben with a confident stance.
"oh, brother Wu Gen, if I had succeeded then I would be the one in front of you asking the same question." Lou Ben rubbed his nose.
Lou Ben was having issues trying to understand the technique, this is mostly because when Steward Wen Guoliang was teaching, Lou Ben had his thoughts on the technique starry thoughts and caused him to miss valuable information.
He asked his fellows, but the answers he got from inexperienced dao apprentices differed greatly from someone like Steward Wen Guoliang, who is a dao master.
"You just move the energy from the inside to the outside."
"Just open your mind and let the technique come to you."
"What do you mean pointers? You just do the thing."
The answers he got was less than savory to say the least. It caused him to fall back at be the only one that could not do this technique.
From the outside it seemed simple; surely it must not have been too hard since the entire Xiao clan was able to get it done fast.
Three weeks in total, everyone gathered experience with the technique, but Lou Ben suffered the costs of not listening to Steward Wen Guoliang.
"Maybe I don't understand it at a fundamental level."
"When we first practiced gravity tracer, I was able to get it done with basic understanding, maybe this is because the focal point was heaven and earth."
Day and night Lou Ben would question his understandings and wonder if there was something that he was not getting. He felt like he was unable to proceed forward.
Finally, Steward Wen Guoliang had waited enough for everyone to succeed, he noticed everyone had completed the task, but Lou Ben was not able to proceed.
"Lou Ben, because of your lack of understanding, I will give you one more opportunity to prove yourself. Do not think I am making it easy on you."
Steward Wen Guoliang pointed his finger toward the forehead of Lou Ben, and in the next second, a bright star appeared in his mind.
Lou Ben saw this bright star and mumbled "space technique – gravity hand."
Steward Wen Guoliang smirked "Yes, because you can't comprehend the first set of mixing heaven to self, you will be the first to use this technique, when you finish, I will know, at that point you will be able to make up your mistakes."
"Lou Ben, you must understand, although you might believe I am treating you currently, know that this is only the beginning. Since you were not able to do the most basic, I can only go around and try to teach you."
Steward Wen Guoliang swept his sleeve and threw a crystal, before the color of the crystal could be identified, it crumbled and fell onto Lou Ben.
When the Xiao clan opened their eyes, Lou Ben disappeared.
"Now class, you will also learn a new technique, although much different than gravity hand, you will all learn instead, the technique gravity force."
Steward Wen Guoliang shared the technique information to the Xiao brothers.
Lou Ben on the other hand found himself in a place he easily recognized.
"I'm home?" he tilted his head and looked around.
"Why would Steward Wen Guoliang ask me to come home and practice? Does he think I am home-sick? Are my brother not all home-sick?"
"Maybe Steward Wen Guoliang thought I would not be able to proceed unless I spent some time with my beloved. This will be nice, a few days of comfort never hurt anybody."
All this time the mental energy of Lou Ben has been stressed to the limit in trying to deduce the last technique and gather the information to proceed on his path of becoming a dao master, he thought it would be a good opportunity to be able to get some rest and approach the issue after seeing Qi Shuang once more.
"Ah, it's been almost three months since I've seen that curvy figure and those beautiful amber eyes."
"I wonder how she is doing now; I have time before the library is set to close. I should sit down and try to comprehend the new technique I was given to practice."
Lou Ben closed his eyes and focused on the bright star that appeared in his mind "Gravity hands, it is still a space technique, but the glyphs seem a little different than Gravity Tracer. The glyphs are short but there are multiple lines of them."
What Lou Ben saw did not only include the basics of the technique, but it also included some notes left by Steward Wen Guoliang to help Lou Ben use this technique appropriately.
Lou Ben focused on the note that Steward Wen Guoliang left and it responded by playing his voice "In order to use this technique, instead of inscribing the glyph into a crystal, you instead inscribe the energy of heaven onto an object."
"Lou Ben, this is what your failed to do last time. You have to experience the energy of heaven coming from the technique and move it towards an object. When you move energy to an object, there is often a movement coming from the body. When you use the technique Space Sleeve, you wave your sleeve. When you use the technique Gravity Hand it should not require a second thought as to what you need to do."
"When you can crush a boulder, you can send me a message using a jade slip that I deposited in your pocket. This works the same way as any crystal, but messages are often inscribed in the form of messages and can be read without having to break the earthly material."
Lou Ben opened his eyes, reached into his pocket, and felt a thin jade green slip, it reminded him of the first one that he encountered when he first entered this world.
"So, they have messages attached to them. It's like a delayed text message." Lou Ben thought as he twirled the palm sized jade slip between his fingers.
Qi Shuang arrived shortly after he took the time to think over his new task.
Qi Shuang grabbed his sleeve and rubbed her fingers on the embroidery on the chest that read 'dao apprentice' and looked at Lou Ben "So you are no longer a mortal?" she said as he smile dropped.
"Oh, Qi Shuang, I am still Lou Ben, but now Lou Ben is Xiao Lou Ben."
"Oh, Qi Shuang, the library fairy, yesterday I arrived and you were there to give me love, today I am a dao apprentice and now it is my turn to love."
Lou Ben placed his palm on the cheek of Qi Shuang and kissed her.
He felt at home when she arrived, the sense of comfort that came from finding a place that you belong to, someone that shared happiness and anger. When Lou Ben saw Qi Shuang, he felt his heart warm at the sight of her.
"Although we have only known each other for a short time, the recognition we share of each other lingers as if its been there since birth. Do we have to say we knew each other for a small time? Our lives are so short, a moment today is a year when I hold you."
Lou Ben embraced Qi Shuang and told her about the task that he was given, he told her about his new blood relations, he told her about his rivalry between his brother Wu Gen and Liang Jianjun. There was nothing that he didn't tell her.
After being away from this beauty, he thought to fully embrace the life that he was given, he saw beauty in his happenstance and wanted to grasp it with a smile.
Now that he walked down the road of becoming a dao master, it gave him a strong belief that with power anything is possible, so why should being happy be something unattainable?
He was already given such a lucky start in this life, he felt that he should let it go no matter what.