Setting aside the matter of the children, that was something the children had to resolve themselves.
What kind of interpersonal relationships they formed, how they should deal with one another—all of it could be left for the children to handle themselves.
Li Qi, like Zhu Fengdan before him, raised his disciples with complete freedom. Even if they died, they could be hauled back, so there was truly nothing much to worry about.
He only needed to care whether they might encounter some especially intractable situation that damaged their Dao heart and left behind scars that could never be erased.
Just like Great Shaman Yun Fang's disciple.
Could Yun Fang not rewind to the past and see his beloved disciple again?
In truth, he could. But he would not do so, because that would be equivalent to erasing his disciple's life. One had to know that even trauma, even demonic thoughts, were indispensable parts of what made a person.
If one could cut away those memories from after he had fallen to demonhood today, then could one also rewind to the moment he was born and start over?
Would that still have any meaning?
If that were the case, he could simply create a copy of his disciple. It would be the same, and he would not even need such a troublesome measure as rewinding.
Thus, it could be seen that in Great Shaman Yun Fang's eyes, although there was a difference in substantiality, higher intelligences held equal status with one another.
If a character in a game developed higher intelligence, then when facing the player before the screen, although they differed in substantiality... were their thoughts truly any different?
Was intelligence made of a pile of numbers and code inferior to intelligence formed from proteins and neurotransmitters?
At the very