A Drifting Senior Brother, Inner Elixir and Outer Elixir (Part 2)

Only then did Su Che understand from Yulizi that the Yellow Heaven Sect's six Teaching Guardians actually had to take shifts. The six were divided into two rotations, switching every thirty days. Their specific duty was to oversee the defenses within the Yellow Heaven Sect.

So many cultivators gathered in the Outer Void were like torches held high in the darkness. No heavenly demon could resist such temptation. Though the Yellow Heaven Sect had its Dao Chief standing guard, among the endless heavenly demons, how many knew when to advance and when to retreat?

When things became busy, they sometimes had to invite other senior brothers and junior brothers to lend a hand besides the six Teaching Guardians. At times, even great figures at the level of Earth Immortals and Tribulation Dharma had to act together.

Su Che immediately understood why Yulizi had left him to roam free below for so long.

It truly was not because this beneficent master did not value him, but because the Outer Heavenly Demons would not give Yulizi a day off.

As for why he should not listen to the patriarch's teachings, according to Yulizi, one should listen to the Yellow Heaven Dao Chief's lectures less often.

"The Dao Patriarch does not lecture on dharma—he demonstrates dharma. Though the two differ by only one word, the gap between them is as vast as heaven and earth."

Yulizi explained.

A lecture on dharma meant a teacher expounding, fulfilling the saying of transmitting the Dao, imparting knowledge, and resolving doubts, slowly explaining your questions and uncertainties. Demonstrating dharma, meanwhile, meant using one's profound cultivation to directly reveal your future path, together with all the barriers you might encounter along the way.

If one looked purely at efficiency, demonstrating dharma was undoubtedly superior.

For one thing, it