Was he planning to plot against her openly? Shen Qingmang pinched the booklet in his hand, curling his lips into a smile, feeling as if he had pinched a snake's vital point.
After exchanging teaching experiences that day, a few days later Shi Mingli gave her a book of his own teaching experience. The binding style was the common sutra-folding style of the Taichu School, while An Yanxiang's book imitated the teaching plan that Shen Qingmang showed them and was designed as a thread-bound book.
This shows that he is very attentive to her.
She suddenly understood why Li Shutong said he liked a character like An Yanxiang, a person who was moody and could not be controlled by anyone, but who would go to great lengths for you. It would give people a sense of accomplishment like taming a vicious dog.
But she didn't like it and had no interest in it. She even wanted to discuss with An Yanxiang's father what went wrong that made him educate his son like this.
An Yanxiang's plan was actually unnecessary. She originally wanted to take the children to travel to various peaks and experience different ways of cultivation firsthand. Even if he didn't mention it, she planned to take her disciples to Wuwei Peak for a short stay when teaching Wuwei Sect's techniques.
Shen Qingmang's long-term teaching plan called for the children to learn the Wuya Sect's techniques for the first five years, laying a solid foundation for their own sect. From the sixth to the tenth year, they would travel to various peaks, learning from the strengths of others. After that, they would establish their own primary focus and continue to deepen their skills. Everything went smoothly as she had hoped, and she also provided even more attentive guidance to her inner disciples. However, her focus was on correcting Hao Xin's weaknesses in fighting and improving Si Rong's learning efficiency, with the least attention paid to her eldest disciple.
Shen Qingmang thought that Gu Suihan had studied magic for sixty years, and he had mastered it even better than herself who had just arrived. He was qualified to become a master and no longer needed her guidance.
When she was busy with work, she would ask Gu Suihan to help look after the students and tutor his junior classmates. He agreed and did a good job, so she became more and more confident in him.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and everyone had made significant progress. Ah Niu, who had always been at the bottom of the class, had greatly boosted his confidence and motivation after his victory against Huaining, and was now in the upper middle of the class. Lin Wei became the first outer disciple to reach Foundation Establishment, and his parents were so excited that they set off fireworks in the town for three nights. Si Rong was in his tenth year of Foundation Establishment, which was slow compared to his senior and junior brothers, but it was considered very fast in the world of immortal cultivation, and Master Yiqing was very pleased. Hao Xin remained in the late Foundation Establishment stage, on the verge of breaking through to the Golden Core stage.
The only variable was Gu Suihan. Shen Qingmang thought that since the eldest disciple had mastered so much and was the first in the sect to reach the foundation stage, his cultivation speed must have been rapid. However, he did not expect that he would remain in the foundation stage, even slower than Hao Xin, which led to Hao Xin becoming more popular than him.
The situation, similar to the original novel, made Shen Qingmang feel a sense of crisis. She always advocated for happy education and never put too much pressure on her apprentices, but she finally couldn't help it and found Gu Suihan one day.
During the past ten years, the boy had grown a few centimeters taller. She saw that he had to raise his head with great effort, but his body was still thin. He was obviously not fasting, but he just couldn't gain weight.
"Sui Han, have you encountered a bottleneck in your cultivation recently?"
She sat in his courtyard, took the teacup he handed her, and stroked the rim of the cup with her hands.
"No." Gu Sui Han stared at her jade-white fingers and smiled imperceptibly.
He knew that she had the habit of touching something when she was thinking, so he specially prepared warm tea instead of hot tea for her to avoid burns. Now it really worked.
Shen Qingmang, unaware that her subtle actions had been seen through, wondered how to subtly trick him into sharing the truth. She knew Gu Suihan was several years older than the other two disciples, and more savvy. She knew she couldn't coax him, or even guide him, the same way she'd treated those two children.
"It's like this. The day before yesterday, Xin came to me and said he dreamt of a faint golden glow in his stomach. I guess it was the effect of the golden elixir about to form."
"Then congratulations to my junior brother. This time we must set up a good formation to help him." Gu Sui Han said gently.
"Master has always believed that you are the most talented and hardworking among the three of us. I have been preparing for your Dan formation for the past two years. I didn't expect that you would have to use it on Xin first."
Shen Qingmang sighed.
Something flashed across Gu Suihan's eyes, and he spoke softly again, "Master, you overestimated me. This situation is the best I can do. I'm sorry to disappoint you."
"No, no, no, don't think like that." Shen Qingmang said quickly, "I'm not disappointed in you. Your current cultivation level is already the best in the sect. Among your disciples of this class, only you and Axin have reached the late stage of foundation building. I'm so happy for you."
"Thank you for your comfort, Master."
"Have you really not encountered any problems?" Shen Qingmang stared at his brows. "Although Master can't teach you much about magic, I am several levels higher than you in cultivation, so I still have a lot of experience."
"No."
"Okay." Shen Qingmang said, feeling somewhat frustrated. "Ten years have passed, and you've become increasingly difficult to understand."
"Ten years have passed..." Gu Suihan repeated this sentence and asked again: "Master, don't you plan to take action against Master Fengchun?"
"Take action? What kind of action?" Shen Qingmang asked in surprise.
"Prepare for a rainy day and cut off the possibility of him endangering the sect."
Shen Qingmang stretched out his hand and cast a soundproof shield over the courtyard before speaking, "I've been observing him all these years, especially when we went to Wuwei Peak to study two years ago. I carefully observed whether he and Asin had any private dealings. But perhaps because Asin is so different from his previous life, or perhaps the timing is not right, the two haven't crossed paths yet. He hasn't made any suspicious moves at other times, and I'm starting to doubt he's the mastermind. How did you determine that?"
"Disciple, I can't reveal too much." Gu Suihan coughed a few times. "Disclosing the way of heaven will backfire."
Shen Qingmang stared at him in silence for a moment before a light bulb went off in his head. "Backlash... have you already suffered a backlash?"
Gu Suihan's eyebrows twitched, he avoided her gaze and said nothing.
Shen Qingmang became more certain of his thoughts. "You said a lot when you first revealed your identity. If you think about it, your cultivation has slowed down since then. I should have thought of it earlier. Even she would... let alone you."
"Who is he?" Gu Sui Han asked.
Shen Qingmang hissed.
Oh no, she almost exposed Li Shutong by accident. This absolutely cannot be told, but how should she explain it?
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