Seeking Guidance from the Willow Branch, Regretting Too Late That Knowledge Falls Short!

Today's fourth update: Chapter 3732! 4/4!

It was not copying someone else's path, not mechanically applying the experience of those before her, nor forcing herself into some predetermined framework.

Instead—

She had to walk her own path, in her own way.

For Wind and Fire Dao, she had been the one "cutting keys," finding the key that suited her and opening the corresponding lock.

But for the Path of Wood, what she needed to do was not "cut keys."

It was to "make locks."

To make a lock that only she could open.

With that thought, Xu Caiyi slowly rose to her feet.

She dusted off her clothes. The dejection and confusion had faded from her little face, replaced by a clarity and resolve unlike anything before.

"Perhaps I..."

She spoke softly, her gaze sweeping across the figures silently watching her in the distance—Yue Chan'er, Xu Buwan, the Twelve Moon Maidens, and the Three Little Ones.

"Shouldn't keep trying to figure things out behind closed doors."

A teacher could only teach so much.

But true geniuses had never been "taught" into existence.

They came to understand on their own.

Yue Ying's attainments in the Path of Wood were indeed formidable.

Among the human prodigies around Xu Kun, perhaps only Su Xiaoxiao, inheritor of Goumang's legacy, could steadily overpower her.

Yet whether it was Yue Ying's Wood Peach Moon Power or Su Xiaoxiao's Wood Elemental Energy—

The role they played was one of "support."

They were the supporting foliage in a team, the final flourish that made something beautiful even better.

Clearly, this was not suitable for Xu Caiyi to study deeply and make her own.

What she needed was not "support."

She needed a Path of Wood that could allow her to stand alone, one that could become the