As far as I know, Bailu wasn't given meds to suppress her aging. She has a physical lock on her tail, but that's for suppressing her powers (the lightning part). And she was also given the memory potion, but it didn't do much for her / she didn't tell anyone about her dreams either.
> I thought Dan Feng named her the successor?
Sure, but there's a log of wiggle room to interpret when it happened, because it was all so vague and mysteriously stated.
Like, we don't know if she was an egg at the time, hatched, or some other weird state...
> If her becoming the successor was automatic due to having powers
No, it's not automatic. Dan Feng naming her successor was important, in terms of internal Vidyadhara tradition/law/whatever. That action has to be locked in, for her to have the current high elder position. It's not something anyone else other than Dan Feng can confer, and it was specifically Dan Feng who conferred it.
> If Dan Heng is only 30 years old, then Vidyadhara development is much faster than fans thought
Or has greater variation in growth rates per rebirth...
I mean, there was one readable who had a dude complaining about being defeated by a fellow Vidyadhara cloud knight trainee who only came up to his chest (so child-sized similar to Bailu), but was over 80 years old. But if Dan Heng is only in his 30s, he's definitely not child-sized.
There's also a kid-sized Vidyadhara on Herta's Space station, a fully accredited researcher and everything. But I find it hard to believe she's actually a kid (mentally), since I doubt the Xianzhou would've allowed actual minors (mentally) to go off-world by themselves without a chaperone.
Let's throw Taoran in there while we're at it... He presumably went through natural rebirth some time after Dan Feng's molting. But he now looks older than Dan Heng. *shrug*
> I don't think it's likely, but then again, I don't think miHoyo themselves know when any of this stuff happens either
Yes, I expect we will end up with self contradictory timeline in the end. Maybe it's best they stop trying to fill in the blanks. -_-
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Date: 2024-09-14 01:18 (UTC)> I thought Dan Feng named her the successor?
Sure, but there's a log of wiggle room to interpret when it happened, because it was all so vague and mysteriously stated.
Like, we don't know if she was an egg at the time, hatched, or some other weird state...
> If her becoming the successor was automatic due to having powers
No, it's not automatic. Dan Feng naming her successor was important, in terms of internal Vidyadhara tradition/law/whatever. That action has to be locked in, for her to have the current high elder position. It's not something anyone else other than Dan Feng can confer, and it was specifically Dan Feng who conferred it.
> If Dan Heng is only 30 years old, then Vidyadhara development is much faster than fans thought
Or has greater variation in growth rates per rebirth...
I mean, there was one readable who had a dude complaining about being defeated by a fellow Vidyadhara cloud knight trainee who only came up to his chest (so child-sized similar to Bailu), but was over 80 years old. But if Dan Heng is only in his 30s, he's definitely not child-sized.
There's also a kid-sized Vidyadhara on Herta's Space station, a fully accredited researcher and everything. But I find it hard to believe she's actually a kid (mentally), since I doubt the Xianzhou would've allowed actual minors (mentally) to go off-world by themselves without a chaperone.
Let's throw Taoran in there while we're at it... He presumably went through natural rebirth some time after Dan Feng's molting. But he now looks older than Dan Heng. *shrug*
> I don't think it's likely, but then again, I don't think miHoyo themselves know when any of this stuff happens either
Yes, I expect we will end up with self contradictory timeline in the end. Maybe it's best they stop trying to fill in the blanks. -_-