After their meal they all set out to accomplish their tasks.
By noon,both girls had managed to collect enough wood to last them for at least three days if not longer.
A few days of regular meals had returned their strength and energy, not to mention that removing their seals had got rid of the hindrance on their bodies allowing them to work faster and more efficiently than before.
Paul was also finished with the traps and cleaning the fish .
Right now he was sitting under a tree and crafting something.
At noon they were all back and Paul started preparing dinner.
After he placed the rabbit meat at the spit roast,he turned to the girls and gave them two items each.
The first item was a necklace with a small bone tag hanging on a paracord.
-These are your name tags,they identify you as my servants and a part of my house.
He explained.
The tags had a smaller version of their signs on one side and their names written on the other.
The second item was a knife made from a bone of an evolved blood rabbit.
-This is for you to use and to defend yourselves if needed.
Paul said.
The knives come with sheets made from rabbit skin and hang on a piece of paracord that serves as a belt .
Both girls were very grateful for the gifts as these were the most precious items that they had ever received from anyone.
They thanked him again and again, happy with their gifts.
Paul never suspected that such simple things could make them so happy as he thought of crafting them mostly for convenience and for the girls to have something to use for self defense.
After their meal they all started to cultivate but this time Paul stayed with the girls as he decided to focus on purifying his mana and raising it to level fifty first before continuing his Qi cultivation.
Purifying his mana was a very painstaking task as it required separating a part of it and cleansing the impurities before reintegrating it and doing the same thing with another part.
It went slowly but his efforts were not in vain since once he had purified it all,he could cultivate again without worrying about his foundation and future cultivation.
Both girls were trying to cultivate Qi at the same time and sat quietly in a lotus position breathing regularly like he taught them and chanting the technique in their minds focussing on that.
After a few hours passed and the evening was fast approaching Maya opened her eyes and remembered what he said she came to Paul.
Sensing her approach he opened his eyes to look at her.
-Master you said to come to you once I felt energy entering my body and I think I just felt it.
The girl said.
-Show me.
Paul said to her and she sat back down and restarted her cultivation.
Paul waited patiently and after a few minutes he sensed that there really was energy entering the girl's body.
It took her only about half a day all together to comprehend the technique and started to cultivate.
She really was very talented and on par with him at the very least.
Soon after Maya showed him that she had learned to cultivate he felt another source of energy emerging from Mia as he had sensed that the Qi was entering her body.
He was shocked by these two sisters as they managed to become cultivators within almost the same amount of time.
After Mia opened her eyes and came closer to tell him about the energy Maya also opened her eyes.
-Congratulations to the both of you for becoming cultivators.
Paul said with a wide smile on his face.
-Does that mean that we can now become like you?
Mia asked.
-Yes you can but first you need to practice your Qi cultivation more before I will teach you a basic mana cultivation technique.
Paul said, still smiling.
-Like I told you yesterday the first stage of cultivation is called the body cleansing stage and with every level the impurities in your bodies will be released from your skin cowering your entire bodies with a sticky and smelly substance.
So now that you learned how to cultivate it would be better for you to go near the river to the spot that I usually use for cultivation and take off your clothes so that they won't be covered by the impurities when you advance in levels.
Paul explained everything so that there was no confusion or misunderstandings about him instructing them to strip their clothes.
By now both girls understood that he wouldn't hurt them or take advantage of them as he had way too many opportunities to do so and not counting their first meeting,he never so much as raised his voice at them not to mention his hand.
Paul was unaware of their thoughts and instructed them how to circulate the energy they absorbed and direct it to their dantians and cautioned them to not try to circulate Qi through their mana channels as this could damage them and hurt the girls.
They both listened to his instructions with great focus as they knew that it was for their own good.
When he finished they went to the spot he had told them about and took off their clothes before cultivating.
Thanks to Paul's instructions they soon felt the energy once again entering their bodies and they directed it to their dantians to be absorbed.
AS they absorbed more and more of Qi they soon felt that their dantians couldn't absorb any more of it and when they tried to absorb more their dantians doubled in size signifying their advancement to the first level of body cleansing stage.
At the same time the first portion of impurities was ejected through their skin covering them with a black sticky and smelly substance.
It was all just like Their master had told them but they were unable to withstand the stench and they b oth went into the river to clean themselves.
The water was cold and refreshing especially since it was quite hot as it was the middle of summer season in this world.
Now both girls fully understood why their master told them to cultivate naked as this substance would stick to their clothes and they never wanted that to happen especially since now they knew that it stinks to high heaven.
After washing themselves both girls came ashore to continue their cultivation and as the evening soon turned into the night they had taken six baths that day alone and they were exhausted.
They both managed to reach level six in one day which was a great start on their cultivation paths.
After the last bath they both came back to the camp only to find Paul still purifying his mana in the same spot that he was sitting when they left.
They decided to leave him alone and went to the shelter and they had fallen asleep the moment they lied down.