( He's more lifting eyebrows here because there's apparently been no sign of any formal termination, just... deciding that a disciple achieving too much? (Or being too demonic, that's apparently True in this case.) Meant they rose above their master?

Wei Wuxian gives Shen Qingqiu a pitying sort of look. )

Ones with long histories and bloodlines, though they're not the only kinds. Just more powerful than the rest, at the moment. Master Shen, forgive me for asking, but why are you so quick to dismiss your standing with your student? As a teacher, isn't it natural to find that one day, he surpasses you? Or is it that he does so as a member of a different yet apparently compatible species that makes it hard to swallow?