His voice remained clear and cool, but there was a faint dryness in it that was hard to detect.
Su Miao obediently walked over and looked up at him.
"Master."
Yuanshi drew a deep breath, pointed at the pile of Jade Slips, and began laying out her instructions.
"These one hundred and eight volumes are the Yellow Court Inner Scenery Annotation. You must recite them every morning upon waking, calming your mind and focusing your spirit."
"These seventy-two volumes are the Cloud Scroll Seven Records Foundation Building Chapter. They concern the tempering of your Dao Foundation. You must not slack off for even a single day."
"These thirty-six volumes to the side are the Essentials of the Five Elements Evasion Techniques. You have already taken your first steps, so you must practice diligently during seclusion until you are fully proficient."
"And these: Initial Explanation of Innate Bagua Deduction, Clear Heart Barrier Breaking Incantation, Method for Condensing Body Protection Golden Light Spell..."
He pointed to them one scroll at a time.
His pace was unhurried, yet he did not pause at all.
Clearly, he had gone over this arrangement countless times in his mind.
Su Miao's little head turned from side to side with his gestures, and her eyes gradually began to glaze over.
One hundred and eight plus seventy-two plus thirty-six...
And all these others...
Did Master Yuanshi think that during seclusion, I only needed to read and didn't need to sleep?!
Prehistoric World-style cramming education?
Yuanshi remained oblivious.
Or rather,
he deliberately ignored the increasingly vacant look in his little disciple's eyes and continued.
"The path of cultivation is like rowing upstream: if you do not advance, you retreat.
This seclusion of ours may last as little as three thousand years, or perhaps far longer.
You must not grow