Today's fourth update: Chapter 3728! 4/4!
This compounding, rolling difficulty—if Xu Caiyi had to slowly explore, refine, and study it all on her own—would undoubtedly be a waste of time.
And Xu Caiyi's time had never been something she could squander freely.
She was growing, and so were others.
Those lurking enemies and potential dangers would not wait for her to slowly become stronger.
So—
After witnessing Xu Caiyi's performance in the battle against the Winged Race, Yue Chan'er, this "principal," no longer dared to underestimate the young mistress in the slightest.
She and her master were cast from the same mold.
All you had to do was teach.
She would learn everything.
The so-called barriers to learning, talent bottlenecks, and limits of aptitude—concepts that plagued ninety-nine percent of cultivators in the world—simply did not exist for that father and daughter!
"Course instructor" Yue Ying was in place.
"Supplementary instructors" Yue Ling and Yue Rong were also in place.
Then, after a period of systematic learning and accumulated insights, there was naturally one most crucial step that could not be omitted—
Practical sparring.
The Three Little Ones had existed for this purpose from the very beginning.
And this time, the one taking on the duty of sparring with Xu Caiyi on the Path of Wood was Zhi Yi.
The process was simple and clear:
Yue Ying taught the Dao—Xu Caiyi comprehended the Dao—then she sparred with Zhi Yi in actual combat.
However...
This "sparring" mode was completely different from her previous sessions with Hong Huo and Shi Ye.
Those two had sparred by "exchanging moves with the young mistress," "trading attacks with the young mistress," and "helping the young mistress refine her techniques through combat."
But the sparring method Zhi Yi had arranged for Xu Caiyi...
"Young Mistress."
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