"Oh? Your second disciple? Ye Buqu, right? I'm curious—didn't you find a Tribulation Transcendence Realm expert to watch over him? Why does he still need my protection?"
Taichu spoke with a hint of amusement.
Ever since Ye Lin had brought Ye Buqu to Nameless Mountain, Taichu had secretly gone to take a look whenever Ye Lin was away. After all, with Taiyuan as a precedent, he had wanted to see just how gifted Ye Lin's second disciple was.
If he had been no different from Taiyuan, Taichu had considered trying to poach him.
The reason great powers took disciples was that once their disciples matured, the benefits they returned to their masters would be enormous.
But there was one crucial prerequisite: the disciple's talent. If their talent was too poor, taking them in was no different from not taking them in at all.
After painstakingly accepting a disciple, if that disciple ultimately stalled at the Nascent Soul Realm and could not advance a single step further, then taking them in had been no different from taking no disciple at all. One would still have to spend energy training them, while the effort and reward would be wildly disproportionate.
When he had examined Ye Buqu with great expectations, he had been bitterly disappointed. Ye Buqu's talent was simply far, far too poor.
He truly could not understand why Ye Lin had accepted a disciple with such abysmal talent. In the end, Taichu had left with regret.
Yet now, Ye Lin seemed to place great importance on this second disciple of his, whose talent ranked at the very bottom. He had even specially found a Tribulation Transcendence Realm Heavenly Lord to serve as his protector.
A Tribulation Transcendence Realm Heavenly Lord was certainly no cabbage growing by the roadside.
Even with the