Li Dai listened to his words with an expressionless face, though in her heart she agreed with him. Put yourself in their shoes: if she were an alchemy apprentice at Tongtian Gate wanting to learn alchemy, she probably wouldn't choose a completely unknown newcomer either. Trying things blindly without understanding them comes at a price.
Similarly, whether in cultivation or the four arts, if one does not have absolute certainty about what they are imparting, it is better not to teach and thus mislead the students. The identity tokens of Tongtian Gate also state that if a mentor teaches something incorrectly more than three times and is found out by a student, they will likely be stripped of their position immediately and can no longer serve as a mentor. Naturally, their fixed monthly stipend will also decrease by a vast amount. After all, such courses at Tongtian Gate count as small-scale Dao-preaching assemblies; the merit of teaching others is naturally great, so otherwise the compensation wouldn't be so generous.
Moreover, the teaching duties at Tongtian Gate were not heavy. At first, it was one class every seven days; after a year, it could be once a month; after ten years, once a year. After a hundred years of teaching, the monthly stipend would also rise to a terrifying figure, and with such seniority accumulated, coming to teach a hundred years later would purely depend on whim and mood.
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