"Goodbye, Teacher..."
Fire Leopard Three, Flower Vine, Blood River King, and the other students rose to their feet, just like Immortal Sect students.
This was something Jiang Ding had always promoted, so that outstanding future prodigies who could enter the Immortal Sect would more easily adapt to everything about it and not find it unfamiliar.
Jiang Ding gave a slight nod, glanced at Blood River King, and vanished.
Blood River King's Dao Heart score had been slowly improving over the years and had now reached the eighty-to-ninety range. As the foremost human prodigy of the Horn Nether Domain, driven by his yearning for the Great Dao, he was striving to reshape his Dao Heart. It had shown some results, but he was still far from meeting the Immortal Sect's requirements.
Old cultivators were simply that difficult to change, even when they actively cooperated.
Yet the contradiction was that it was precisely these old things that held the overwhelming majority of the world's power and possessed the greatest value for united-front work. Therefore, this line of exploration had to exist.
The palace at the very center of Fire Spirit Academy was Jiang Ding's residence.
"Teacher,"
the Skeleton-Blood Vine Demon Imperial Heir, Flower Vine, said cautiously as she entered the palace and respectfully bowed.
The person before her was a human imperial heir. Whether in strength or talent, he far surpassed her, and he had taught her selflessly for three hundred years. He was both her teacher and her elder.
"Flower Vine."
"Don't be so respectful."
Jiang Ding smiled slightly. "Among citizens, even Spirit Transformation cultivators and mortals are equal. You should gradually learn to adapt to such relationships."
"Teacher,"
"this student cannot adapt to it at present. This student believes that forcing myself to imitate it would instead have the opposite