Si Sui's candor made Lu Yang willing to place a little trust in him.
Besides, one thing was true: the emergence of the Cultivation Dao Lord had, in a sense, harmed no one. On the contrary, everyone had benefited.
"The Light Sea these days is far from peaceful."
As they talked, Lu Yang could not help bringing up the Light Sea's current state, denouncing Chu Sheng's shamelessness while describing how morals had gone to the dogs there.
"Can you imagine it, Senior?"
"You finally manage to join a sect, your heart full of dreams of seeking immortality, yet before you even pass through the gates, a senior sister drags you into a little dark room and plunders you until you're human trash."
"Then there are those senior brothers with ill intentions, who deliberately give you the wrong cultivation method."
"And then—"
Si Sui silently listened to Lu Yang's account. Only when he heard that Chu Sheng had already reached the summit of [Other Shore] and become the Light Sea's foremost figure did he let out a deep sigh.
"It is not all that surprising, actually."
"Back then, when Chu Sheng and I debated the Dao, I lost by one move and let him take the [Heavenly Book]. From that point on, I knew he would sooner or later reach the very pinnacle of the Light Sea."
"I taught many people in my life. He was the only one who surpassed his teacher."
Lu Yang froze at those words.
Then he realized it. As the Light Sea's first Dao Lord after the Ancestral Dragon, strictly speaking, every Dao Lord of later generations had been Si Sui's student!
Even Dharma Power Dao Lord Du Xuan—though nominally Si Sui's friend and a cultivator of the same generation—must have attended Si Sui's lectures countless