"During the first month of high-intensity combat, don't be afraid of students getting hurt. Remember this in particular: in fights between opponents with comparable cultivation, if quick defeats or serious injuries occur frequently, the loser must have a major flaw or be making a fatal mistake."
"The aim of the first month is to prune and correct-to straighten out all these crooked saplings and set them right... But don't force your pruning on students with particularly strong personalities. Simply let their personalities grow wild!"
"Even if it kills you, within the first week, you must master every piece of information about every student. Don't just know it by heart-engrave it in your mind and in your heart!"
"Back then, I watched my own disciple fight an enemy on the battlefield. He should have won... but a habitual movement his teacher had overlooked exposed an opening, and he ultimately died at the enemy's hands... A lifetime of guilt! A lifetime of regret!"
"You must put your heart into it! You can be stern, you can beat and scold them, you can mock them, you can use every means at your disposal. But whatever means you use, you must put your heart into it-into correcting your students' flaws and remedying their shortcomings!"
"Give your students your whole heart, because what you hold in your hands is the future of the entire continent!"
The old teacher's words from all those years ago echoed in Wen Xingtian's mind, day and night.
After his Qi Vein had been injured in a battle at Sun Moon Pass all those years ago, he had felt that he had no hope of reaching the pinnacle in this lifetime. Yet, thinking of his knowledge and combat experience, he had been unwilling to let them be buried on the battlefield