Ever since that day's discussion of the Dao, everyone had followed Ling Qing in performing morning lessons.
Even Liu Taizhen, who loved sleeping in, had eagerly risen before dawn every day.
But after morning lessons, they did not discuss the Dao and expound the Dharma every day.
After all, how could one have so many questions every single day of cultivation?
Besides, once doubts had been resolved, one still needed to cultivate and verify the answers.
When facing Xu Xian, Liu Taizhen, and Xiaoqing, Ling Qing was merely giving guidance and expounding the Dharma.
Only when facing Bai Suzhen was he truly discussing the Dao.
As the saying went: read a book a hundred times, and its meaning would reveal itself.
Each time one interpreted the principles of the Dao, one gained something anew.
Though Bai Suzhen did not know much about the Dao, that was precisely why, when she repeatedly pondered a single principle—
seventeen hundred years were enough for her to gain insights independent of others.
Ling Qing had ultimately cultivated for too short a time, and what he had learned was too miscellaneous.
Though his talent was extraordinary and his understanding of the Dao far broader than Bai Suzhen's, when it came to such principles, his comprehension was not as deep as hers.
This was the gift time bestowed upon cultivators.
Bai Suzhen's Nine Heavens Profound Origin Art could refine Heavenly One True Water.
Although she had previously failed to refine this true water because she had not known of it and lacked that final sliver of opportunity, it had still given her profound insight into the Dao of water, allowing her to master the divine powers of summoning wind and rain and overturning rivers and seas.
From Bai Suzhen, Ling Qing not only learned how to