How, though? There are really only two ways I can see for how it synergises with our other arts.
Breath of Stygian Depths creates low light, improving Sable Crescent Step. Except we have multiple other sources: Mist of the Vale, which is cheaper and has other effects that mean it's always the better choice, and the Violet Lotus Gown's Twilight Beauty.
Crawling Horror's worms can be improved through multiple support arts. Except they'll still be shit because we'll be up against Green opponents and they're Early Yellow and they only last five turns at maximum.
On top of that, it's going to be a lot of actions on training and meridians if we want to bring that up to the level of our current main arts (that already do strengthen each other) that would serve us much better going towards our other arts, Frozen Soul Serenade in particular.
AE is likely to be one of our fastest art to get to AE4 (so early green). AE5 is sadly unlikely, but AE4 should be enough to have Late Yellow worms, as well as a third tech (maybe a fourth). While the aesthetics of worms are really not liked in the playerbase, hopefully the new techs would be better for that.
I am also hopeful that new techs would all focus on summons, simply because AE, FVM, FSS all share very similar first techs, so it appears this is basically a "lung meridian" thing.
Now that I have dealt with the emotional response to the passive-aggressive implications that my argumentation regarding tutoring for meridians was done in bad faith, let me attempt to explain the mechanics of why such argumentation was not done in bad faith, and what needs to happen should you wish to continue a debate/argument regarding tutoring meridians.
The claim that tutoring for meridians is the worst use of tutoring is, and has been conceded to be, false. The argument I used pointed to examples that tutoring for something else was worse than tutoring for meridians. The examples that were used were rational examples of something that we might consider tutoring depending on how we would want Ling Qi to progress, they were carefully chosen for the plausibility of occurring and not simply for being the worse things I could think of. There are plenty of worse things, as you have pointed out yourself, than physical/spiritual tutoring.
Tutoring's primary purpose is to fundamentally increase the chances of a cultivation action taking 1 less turn to achieve. In this way, if done correctly, we can spend two actions to reduce the action required of two arts by 1, necessitating an equal trade. We gain from this through stealth successes, and more fundamental rewards done from missions, as well as the overlap from doing multiple 20 point missions to accomplish tutoring.
At the moment, we have 48 sect points that are doing absolutely nothing. Rather than sitting on them for an indefinite period of time, thus creating no value from them for as long as we hold on to them, it is better to spend them in order to get some return on our investment. As we can not be sure at this stage whether a tutoring of a specific option ( i.e. arts) will save us a cultivation action regarding said arts the next best thing is to use the tutoring for its immediate mechanical effects, gaining a cultivation action during a week.
However, without arts, spiritual, or physical cultivation that would benefit from such an extra action (as meridians are needed for equipping, learning, or progressing in various fundamental arts of our build) that leaves functionally, meridians or qi. Qi cultivation with a tutor is... not what we need right now, and will probably never need it. However, we do need the meridians to equip, learn, or progress arts that we value (such as AM, AE, FSS, and possibly PLR). In that sense, tutoring meridians jump starts that progress while still leaving open four other actions for other cultivation.
If you wish to actually debate/argue this point, then you are going to need to rationally with articulation explain how tutoring meridians is an inefficient use of stored up sect points.
But none of this is true, though.
Tutoring for meridian
is the worst use of Tutoring we can plausibly get unless we are going for SLP week. You didn't try to go for plausible use of tutors, there, you tried to go for use of tutors that would be literally useless... and even then, are arguably not as bad as meridian tutoring. Hence my sarcastic answer.
Tutoring is important in order to a°) make contacts in the inner sects that share our focus (so tutoring in expression, or archery, or moon, or whatever), b°) to gain a major action, c°) to get art goodies that we couldn't get otherwise when impressing tutors.
Tutoring meridian means not being able to find a tutor that shares a focus with us, it means
losing an action (as we are close to the threshold of double meridian opening with white room, and we can't do it with tutoring), and it means we can't easily get art goodies from tutoring. We are flat out
better at opening meridians without tutors currently.
So, yes, if we choose to take tutoring in something like "learn to fight with only one leg by cutting off our right leg" it's worse, but arguing this is bad faith.
In order to get anywhere by the tournament, we are going to very likely try for 2Tutor/3weeks or some such. Argent Tutor, Music Tutors, Movement Tutors, Defense tutors, Support Tutors, we are going to see them all. Tutoring for something we are
better at without tutoring, and that doesn't make us meet someone sharing our interests, however, is ridiculously ineffective.
