"Master... is this really a legendary manual for a supreme divine ability?!" Cui Hao's eyes widened as he turned the Jade Slip in his hands this way and that. He looked up, his tone slightly puzzled.
"But why did all my senior brothers and sisters get books, while I got a Jade Slip?"
Chu Xingchen glanced around, confirming that only this beloved disciple remained nearby before speaking calmly.
"Because yours is new."
"New?!" Cui Hao looked up at his master. Although he was somewhat touched that his master hadn't fooled him, that blunt explanation... was a little too blunt.
Chu Xingchen raised an eyebrow. "Look at you, such a country bumpkin. Do you think cultivation is archaeology, and the older the manual, the better?"
"Even Confucian cultivators advance with the times, discarding the old and bringing forth the new. Could cultivation possibly be inferior to Confucian cultivation? Sometimes, new things are better at embracing a hundred rivers and drawing on the best of every school."
"Haven't you heard that the cultivation method your Eldest Senior Sister practices was revised a full eighteen times by various big shots?"
"You ought to read some cultivation histories and the like when you get back, so you don't go out and make a spectacle of yourself."
Cui Hao pressed his lips together slightly at those words. Once his master put it that way... he suddenly felt that his master was quite right.
Naturally, the longer people cultivated, the more experience they accumulated. By drawing on strengths and making up for weaknesses, newer methods should theoretically be better.
After all, standing on the shoulders of those who came before let one see farther and higher, and know how to follow the road ahead.
Besides, the rumors that Eldest Senior Sister's manual had been revised eighteen