To my child,

maybe, just maybe, I made a new discovery.

I might have been playing around a little too much trying to learn how to move qi around when I attached it to my spindle and wool, but it is still a great discovery to me.

When you put multiple sieves into the spindle and thread you spin then drive the qi throught the thread down to the spindle while spinning the impurities are driven away much further and the qi is cleaned much more effectively. Also the cleansed qi can be safely stored in the spindle and you don't have to worry about it getting dirty again because of the surrounding qi.

You can keep circling the qi through the thread and spindle while spinning to keep cleaning it. This is even easier than the regular method because you don't even have to control all the qi and keep it together. It's in the thread, after all, you just have to control the point between your fingertips where the thread ends and new qi can be inserted while sending the qi inside back the other way.

This is much easier than the method from the cultivation book. And the qi comes out cleaner. And the book doesn't mention that you can store qi in anything, even though I obviously can, even at my level.

Why didn't they write down something like this instead?

I really don't think I'm the only person to ever discover a method like this.

So...is that book supposed to make people slow down on purpose?

I was never one of the stupid girls at home, even though I'm far from the great scholars and cultivators. They must know. How could they make flying swords if they didn't know you can store qi in things?

My spindle is changing somehow. So I think I'll wait a little longer before I start cleansing my body.

I didn't forget about you. I miss you. Spinning with qi is so fascinating it helps me not sink into depression.

If you are disappointed in me for this - then I'm sorry. You are not here and I can't allow myself to die inside.

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In love,

your mother