Seeing how He Kao speaks and handles things with cleverness, he doesn't seem innately dim-witted.
He does put in effort, attending classes and completing assignments, yet he just can't learn.
Or perhaps he seems to learn, but when it's time to answer exam questions, he still gets most of them wrong.
Huang Xiaopang brings up this example to tell He Kao that in the face of entry-level Technique requirements, most people in this world are like He Kao.
He Kao is considered decent, can't learn is can't learn, but what's worrisome is when someone can learn and glimpse the way in.
Trying to enter cultivation requires passing a test, traditionally known as the ordeal of desires, a natural filtering mechanism.
The term desires encompasses more than just sexual desire, broadly referring to any describable longing in the world.
The test for entering cultivation first makes a person extremely sensitive, where even the slightest stimuli become unusually intense.
