After the mid-month get-together, Chen Chuan spent the following days with his aunt's family, but dedicated his free time to diligently honing the new techniques he had learned. Once he felt he was getting the hang of them, he would go back to Instructor Wen for more guidance.
Initially, he could only maintain his Divine Thought for three hours, but that duration had since increased to over four hours, and it was still trending upward.
Before the last third of the month, he had managed to grasp all the techniques he was supposed to learn, putting him a third ahead of schedule.
However, the techniques that came next were beyond his current ability to master. They required coordination between Essence Blood and the Divine Constant, and he had not yet built that foundation.
