Hearing Chu Yang's words, Ai Qing was completely dumbfounded, and the white-haired woman's eyes widened as well.
What had truly made them resolve themselves and agree to Chu Yang's conditions, which were practically those of becoming his dependents, was his willingness to accept Li Ling as his disciple.
Li Ling was the future of the Ice God Palace. Her Great Emperor Bloodline had undergone an ancestral return, and she had inherited all of the Snow Robe Great Emperor's legacy. Even the God-King Body could not compare to her.
If Chu Yang became her master, they did not even dare imagine what heights she might reach in the future.
Jiang Tingting's example was right before them. Chu Yang treated his disciples incredibly well; he would give away even Immortal Divine Medicine without hesitation.
But they had not expected that just after taking her as a disciple, Chu Yang's first move would be to grant her one of the Nine Secrets!
If they learned that Chu Yang had long since passed all four of the Nine Secrets he had mastered to Jiang Tingting, who knew what they would think?
The reason he had not treated Li Ling as he had Jiang Tingting, passing on only the Movement Character Secret, was not because he favored one over the other.
Their circumstances differed, as did the paths they walked. Naturally, he had to teach according to their individual talents.
Li Ling's life had gone too smoothly. Judging from the timeline, the obsession held by the Snow Robe Great Emperor's Divine Thought was not merely to return home; it also contained concern for her descendants.
But as time passed, her descendants had long turned to dust. Only then had she sought to select a suitable descendant, help elevate their bloodline, and grant them her inheritance.