Techniques & Recipes

If all methods are flawed, then a flaw has its mending. See where the gap is, close it at the smallest cost, make a thing that would have hurt somebody usable again. Mending is never free.

The beginner’s pill rogue cultivators swallow most, five ingredients: Cinnabar, Leaf, Dust, Root, Sweet. It ought to be steady, yet every so often somebody takes one that has gone backlash. The ingredient gone bad is always Root.

A 12-page hand-copied fragment that runs one more minor meridian below the left rib than the common art does. And on that same meridian sits a break half an inch long.

The beginner’s breathing art circulating openly in Qingqi Market: the Governing Vessel, three layers, trained by nine in ten rogue cultivators. Its end looks as though someone had measured it out in advance.