THE TECHNIQUES PART 3

For the next week, the siblings practiced under the three keepers' watchful eyes. Each dawn found them in the courtyard, learning to fade into the world around them. Lady Wei refined their control of the Breath of the World technique until their presence could blend seamlessly with the morning mist. Lady He drilled them relentlessly on their Permission Barriers, testing them with increasingly subtle probes until they could maintain their shields even in sleep. Lady Xu pushed them to understand the spaces between spaces, though maintaining the Dimensional Shift for more than a few heartbeats still left them trembling with exhaustion.