"The Immortal Path holds all manner of dangers, but the greatest danger is impatience."
"Growing anxious because your cultivation has stalled, growing resentful when you see others break through."
Zhang Miaoyu stood with her hands behind her back, Zhou Ping and Ye Wanzhou sitting quietly before her as she instructed them in a calm voice.
The Outer Sect was flourishing now, its numbers having doubled-though they could still be counted on two fingers.
At least she was free of providing careful, one-on-one instruction.
Zhang Miaoyu had mostly only guided his cultivation, but she seldom had to answer his questions. For one thing, Zhou Ping's cultivation was still in its early stages; for another, cultivation itself was tedious, a matter of doing the same thing over and over.
Until he reached the next realm or encountered a problem, he was essentially left to grow on his own, with only the occasional guided sparring session.
Zhou Ping, meanwhile, devoted himself to pills, something Zhang Miaoyu was not skilled in. He mostly went to the Heavenly Derivation Sect's Pill Peak to study. Fortunately, their Sect Leader carried enough clout that merely giving his name earned Zhou Ping quite thorough instruction.
As a result, however, Zhang Miaoyu had few opportunities to guide him through sparring either.
Zhang Miaoyu had not really experienced what teaching a disciple actually felt like.
Though supposedly an Outer Sect elder instructing disciples, she spent most of her time serving as Li Yingling's little secretary.
The job was quite nice, but her title of Outer Sect elder had become somewhat hollow.
Fortunately, Ye Wanzhou was an entirely different story.
She really let Zhang Miaoyu experience what it was like to teach disciples as an Outer Sect elder.
Though the first step was not teaching Ye Wanzhou how to cultivate, but