Li Yan felt rather gratified by Ding Shuying's ability to adapt, as well as by her reaction to whether he would impart his arts to her. This girl had been unable to cultivate immortality since she was young, so she had always racked her brains for ways to protect herself. The only thing she could use was her own wit.
But how could Li Yan truly let Ding Shuying see through his thoughts all at once? He still wanted to observe her a little longer, and afterward, he still did not teach Ding Shuying any cultivation methods.
It was as if taking Ding Shuying as his disciple had merely been a careless remark he had tossed out back then, and as if he had long since forgotten the matter entirely. If Li Yan started acting, even ten Ding Shuyings would be no match for him.
Several more years passed, and Ding Shuying truly began to drift in a daze. Sometimes she would even think that perhaps her master was not testing her, but had truly gone back on his word. The most likely possibility was that she simply had not passed his assessment, but she did not dare ask!
From this alone, one could see that Li Yan's caution in handling matters had reached a hair-raising degree. Thinking back to when Dong Fuyi had taken him in as a disciple, that had been much faster than this.
Five years after leaving "Star Flame City," Li Yan led the two of them away from the Heavenly Demon Grassland for a time, heading to a nearby market city to visit the "Guiqulaixi" shop there and see whether the artifact-refining art Qianji had intended to buy had arrived.
"Guiqulaixi" was worthy of being a top-tier merchant house. Among the several artifact-refining arts delivered,