"Sect Master Fang, what are you joking about? How could I dare to order around your personal disciple? Rest assured, I will definitely treat her like a precious treasure."

Du Zhong teased her, and Ling, unaware of their relationship, felt a sudden joking shock and believed him.

Fang Ruotang rolled her eyes nonchalantly.

"Anyway, I've taken excellent care of your precious disciple. Now that I've handed my precious disciple over to you, you can decide what to do! We each have hostages in our hands." As she spoke, Fang Ruotang proudly raised her chin.

Du Zhong raised both hands and said, "Alright, alright, I will definitely use all my skills and impart all the knowledge I have learned in my life."

"That's more like it." Fang Ruotang was satisfied and turned to Yi Ling, saying, "Just follow Valley Master Du with peace of mind. He and I are close friends despite our age difference. His dearest disciple is also cultivating by my side. Just follow him and study for as long as you want. After the sect competition, you can go to Medicine King Valley with him. Anyway, his disciple will stay in my Tianyi Sect."

As she spoke, Fang Ruotang greeted Xun Zhu inside the Emperor's Banner, then invited him out and introduced him to them.

Xunzhu cupped his hands to Yiling and said politely, "Junior Sister Yiling, please guide me in the future."

Ling knew Xun Zhu; he was extremely talented and became famous at a young age. She just never expected to meet him one day, and nervously replied.

"Senior Brother Xunzhu, you flatter me. I am not very knowledgeable and I hope you will not find me unworthy."

"How could that be? Being a disciple of Sect Master Fang is already an extraordinary achievement. Junior Sister, please don't underestimate yourself."

Yi Ling was stunned for a moment, then her mind suddenly opened up.

During this period of time, she was looked down upon and made things difficult for. She never thought that it was because those people were jealous of her, rather than because they really thought she was incompetent and unworthy of her position.

"Um?"

Fang Ruotang looked at the sudden surge of spiritual power on Yi Ling's body with puzzlement.

Before she could even ask, Du Zhong had already given her the answer.

"Your disciple has suddenly had an epiphany."

"What did I just say? And she suddenly understood?"

Fang Ruotang was puzzled, but now was not the time to ask for an answer. She quickly took out a handful of spirit stones and gave them to Yiling, telling her the answer.

"Go back and go into seclusion to cultivate diligently."

Yi Ling also noticed the changes in herself and heard Du Zhong's words. Without saying a word, she rushed back to her residence.

"I've already taken her as my disciple, isn't that more effective than Xun Zhu's simple words? Why don't I see her have any sudden enlightenment when I talk to her?"

【It's different! Xunzhu is the path she follows, an idol in the words of a storyteller, while you, to her, are someone she schemed to obtain. She only took you in because she wanted to help the Emperor Emeritus cover up his scandal. Haven't you noticed that she never comes to your side?】

Fang Ruotang was stunned; she really hadn't noticed.

While flipping through the plastic mirror to understand Yi Ling, Xiao Jingzi answered Fang Ruotang.

[You're usually not at the sect, but whenever you return, all your other disciples come to pay their respects, right? Only Yiling is always in seclusion whenever she comes back.]

Fang Ruotang had too many things to do and too many apprentices; she really hadn't noticed these details before.

She was never good at teaching disciples, let alone caring about their cultivation progress. The only person she could ask a few questions about was Tao Su.

Firstly, whenever she comes back, Tao Su is in charge of all three meals. Secondly, she can clearly see Tao Su's progress, after all, it's food that needs to be eaten.

"If you're saying that, does that mean Jiang Zao is in the same situation? After all, she's a pitiful little thing too."

[Oh, no, Jiang Zao is indeed in seclusion cultivating. After all, she has an innate Dao physique, and once she gets on the right track, her cultivation speed is much faster than that of ordinary geniuses. In addition, with the instructions you gave her when you accepted her as your disciple, she will take the initiative to get close to Shishi and your fourth sister. With their care, she is becoming more and more confident and powerful, and she has no chance to experience these evils.]

Oh, that's good.

Fang Ruotang felt somewhat guilty when she saw Yi Ling being ostracized by the inner disciples, since she had taken Yi Ling in as a disciple but hadn't taken care of her afterwards.

In fact, every time she took in a new disciple, she would tell them to go and find their senior brothers and sisters. Not to mention that the eldest senior sister, Shishi, was a kind-hearted person, even the second senior brother, Yan Yan, no longer acted alone after avenging his great enemy.

Because Li Mingyu was always by his side, and Li Mingyu was a bright and generous woman who was Fang Ruotang's close friend. She would warmly accept any new disciple that Fang Ruotang accepted.

Needless to say, the third senior sister Qin Bao'er and the fourth senior sister Lu Ling have been training disciples since they entered the sect. They do more work than the eldest senior sister Shi Shi. After all, their cultivation levels are the highest among all of Fang Ruotang's disciples, so they are the ones who are more capable and do more work.

Therefore, as long as they dare to speak up, whether they are newly accepted male or female disciples, as long as they take the initiative, they can be guided by them to integrate well into the sect.

Fang Ruotang was therefore quite at ease, but she never expected a loophole to appear.

But considering her special spiritual constitution, which makes her habitually detached from people, it seems understandable that she is not good at taking initiative.

"Your disciple is a bit too calculating," Du Zhong commented, watching the direction Yi Ling had left in.

Fang Ruotang could not possibly tell others about Yi Ling's experiences, but simply said, "In the future, I'll trouble Valley Master Du to give her more guidance. If she encounters any problems, please remember to let me know."

"Sect Master Fang values ​​her so much?"

"If you accept someone's offer, you have to be responsible for them!"

Although Fang Ruotang could not offer much help in teaching, she would not hesitate to do what she could in other ways.

However, she also had to admit that she had a lot of things to do herself. If Yi Ling remained the same as before, she could hardly guarantee when she would think of Yi Ling again. So she entrusted her to Valley Master Du.

“Alright, since Sect Master Fang has spoken, how could I refuse such a small matter?” Valley Master Du agreed with a smile.

The two chatted for a bit, then Fang Ruotang left the master and apprentice alone and left on her own.

After thinking for a moment, Fang Ruotang was a little worried, so she said to Rong Xing beside her, "Since I have nothing else to do, I'll go check on my disciples."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

"Uh-huh."

The two went to Shishi's place first. She lived with her fourth sister, and the two shared a courtyard. It wasn't that the Jian Ge area was too small, but rather that the two were used to doing everything together.

She ran over excitedly, only to find that she hadn't come across anything.

Later, he went to Yan Yan's place. He wanted to share a courtyard with Li Mingyu, but Li Mingyu disagreed. So the two lived close by, but not together.

The courtyard was empty again, and even Li Mingyu, who lived nearby, was nowhere to be seen.

Qin Bao'er and Lu Ling were even busier, so busy they barely had time to breathe. If they were in the sect, they would have come to greet her long ago.