Cultivation is an extremely, extremely meticulous matter.
A slight lapse in attention, and problems will arise.
That's why the guidance of a mentor is necessary.
Isn't there a saying, "The master leads you to the door; the practice is up to the individual"?
Some understand it to mean that the master leads you into a certain industry, but your accomplishments within that industry depend entirely on your own abilities.
But actually, the meaning of this saying has been interpreted in a more expansive way.
Applied to cultivation,
it simply emphasizes the importance of a mentor in the early stages of cultivation.
It also subtly indicates the importance of the lineage of cultivation.
For someone like Bei Ling'er, who is clueless and directly adopts a method of cultivation...
it is extremely, extremely inadvisable.
Because such people, under normal circumstances, only have one end, and that is to ruin themselves.
