After finding the life spirit flame, Xiao Yan did not rush to leave Ye City. Instead, he stayed in the little medicine shop and devoted himself to teaching Ye Lingyu. What gave him some comfort was that, although she put little effort into studying alchemy, her Dou Qi cultivation advanced at a respectable pace, and she also had a distinctive talent for Dou Techniques.
Xiao Yan had actually noticed this in his previous life, but back then, he had not had the leisure to teach a disciple. In this life, he put some thought into it and passed on several cultivation methods and Dou Techniques to her. Within just a few days, she had already achieved minor mastery of those techniques. Even in Starfall Pavilion, such talent would have placed her among the top three.
Ye City was simply too small a place, however, and it had limited her talent. With proper nurturing in the future, she would surely become a top-tier expert.
Of course, her biggest problem remained her habit of fishing for three days, then drying her nets for two. Whenever she felt tired, she began slacking off, wasting her talent outright. When he had met her in his previous life, she had not been like this at all. On the contrary, she had been extremely diligent.
Xiao Yan thought it over carefully. When he had met Ye Lingyu in his previous life, she had been considerably older than she was now and must have been through quite a lot, which had shaped her later personality. The current Ye Lingyu was still a pampered young lady living in comfort, so naturally, she could not have the same temperament as the woman he had met in his previous life.
Thus, to cure her of this sly, shirking disposition, Xiao