If there was one thing Di Tou could do to help them, or something he wished that he could do it was to provide them medicines and elixirs that might help prolong their lives and restore their health, but once more Di Tou came upon the problem of not having access to such a thing.
Perhaps it was true he could try introducing cultivation to them, but who knew what sort of aptitude they had, and if they could even successfully cultivate at such an age. The fact that he had begun cultivating at such an old body age with great success could only be attributed to the Heavenly Mandate, and folks like Old Gao and his friends back at the Academy were the exceptions, not the rule. And even then, in the Academy, the holy land of cultivation, how far had they gotten? To the Peak of the Body Tempering stage at best. It really couldn't account for much.