"You understand reason. That's good."
Jiang Ding nodded. Ignoring the Shadow Demon Daoist Heir, whose face was deathly pale and who had coughed blood all over the floor, he turned and left.
After that, the effectiveness of her classes improved immediately.
The Shadow Demon Daoist Heir not only prepared lesson plans in advance, but also distributed handouts early and humbly learned teaching methods from other Immortal Sect instructors. Before long, her students' grades had risen to the middle of the pack at Clearwind University.
No more, no less: the middle of the pack.
What she taught included the Shadow Demon Abyss's finest concealment spells and cultivation methods. They suited the Immortal Sect's scout sword cultivators exceptionally well, and many students gained profound insights.
A Daoist Heir possessed talent at the very pinnacle of a domain. As long as she took something seriously, she was almost certain not to finish last.
And there was no use talking about differences in culture or custom.
For cultivators of the Shadow Demon Abyss, who could assume a thousand different identities, those were no obstacles at all.
Even Jiang Ding grew serious when he saw the results. Whenever the Shadow Demon Daoist Heir taught, he attended in person with his true body. He gained insights now and then, learning much from someone who had made concealment the foundation of her existence.
Time drifted on.
Before anyone knew it, more than sixty years had passed.
In the Great Sun Celestial Pool, Jiang Ding finished inscribing the twenty-seventh Great Sun Heavenly Dipper Restriction on the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword. After admiring the sword for a while, he flew toward the Immortal Gate Academy of Sciences.
Many of the Immortal Sect's Heavenly Lords had gathered there, including Sun Slayer Heavenly Lord, Divine Mechanism Heavenly Lord, and Myriad Mechanisms