Ashan and Feng Cheng taught their students in different ways.
Feng Cheng would set a lofty goal, completely unleash each person's desires, then draw them close and assimilate them.
Ashan, on the other hand, gave his students a relatively free environment, assigned them tasks of a certain difficulty, and left them to complete them.
Throughout this process, everyone would unconsciously reveal their true nature in their efforts to complete the tasks.
What Ashan wanted was the nature and bottom line these students had kept hidden.
As for whether they ultimately completed the assigned tasks smoothly, that was not the most important thing.
Ashan thought to himself, "Trust, loyalty, righteousness, gratitude, desire, one's view of how to conduct oneself, one's bottom line, and the keen ability to perceive the basic balancing logic in matters and people... Based on my observations, out of fifty, only sixteen meet my preset requirements."
After a hundred years together, Ashan had developed some feelings for these students. But feelings could not become the standard by which he judged them. He knew clearly that what he himself thought was not important. In teaching these students, he was not only being responsible for himself, but also for Boss Wei.
He sighed softly. "The time is about right. It is time to conduct the final assessment."
With a single voice transmission, Ashan summoned all the students into the palace and said softly, "The hundred years of the second trial, 'Learning and Exploration,' have come to an end. What I can tell you is that, among the fifty of you, sixteen have met my requirements. Those sixteen will be qualified to know my name and qualified to become my disciples."
The fifty students were greatly shaken. They had never imagined that only sixteen had met their teacher's standards—not even one-third...