Finding a suitable cultivation method for Zheng Shuang took Pan Long a great deal of time.
He certainly had superior methods to teach. Both Follow Your Heart's Desire and the Nine-Turn Mysterious Art ranked among the finest methods in the entire Nine Provinces World. One could even say that either could carry a cultivator across every hurdle between ordinary mortal and Demon God. As for becoming one of the Immortals and Buddhas, that was three parts luck and seven parts brains; the method had little to do with it.
The problem was that neither of these supreme methods suited Zheng Shuang.
When it came to cultivation methods, the highest-ranked was not necessarily the best. The best was the one that suited you.
There had long been a saying: "It isn't the disciple who finds the master, but the master who finds the disciple." Even for an accomplished elder, finding a disciple whose temperament and aptitude perfectly matched his method was no easy task.
Of course, that only mattered to those with lofty ambitions. If you did not care how much your disciple learned, or only expected him to reach the Innate Realm, you could probably ignore it.
But if you wanted your disciple to have any hope of reaching the True Person Realm, compatibility between person and method could not be overlooked.
Zheng Shuang's temperament was ordinary, and his aptitude below average—even after Pan Long had used Spirit Medicine to cleanse his body. He had begun martial training too late. His innate Primordial Qi had long since dissipated, and years of hard labor had left many injuries on both his body and mind.
Injuries could be healed, but the aptitude lost because of them was much harder to restore.
Finding a suitable method for a disciple like him was genuinely