Chapter 22
The Dean's Shock

A week later, Ning An finally stabilized the energy in his body.

Now, Ning An could finally fully experience the abilities brought by the fourth-rank martial arts level.

His spiritual power began to extend!

Unfortunately, his spiritual power was still extremely weak.

Legend has it that some powerful martial artists can materialize their spiritual power.

They can suppress countless other martial artists with just their spiritual power.

To reach this level, one must at least be a high-grade martial artist, right?

“With a cheat, maybe I can go further,”

Ning An murmured softly.

In just a few months, he had consecutively broken through the third and fourth ranks.

This greatly boosted his confidence.

After all, the previous Ning An had planned to lie flat!

His martial spirit was basically extremely lackluster.

Fortunately, Ning An quickly checked the information he received during his seclusion.

He wanted to see if there was anything important.

Fortunately, nothing major had happened!

But there was one thing that caught Ning An’s attention.

“Seven of the eight students have reached the martial arts exam cutoff score,”

“They should be able to get into the university I mentioned before.”

Unbeknownst to him, this year's martial arts exam had already arrived.

With the help of the latest research and technology, the entire Shen Xia Federation completed the statistics in just two days.

Naturally, the cutoff score was quickly determined.

“Why is one student failing?!”

“Logically, that shouldn’t happen.”

Ning An murmured in confusion.

Logically, these eight students had all received his special training.

Wen Zhi Qiao had later reported that their blood energy cultivation was going well.

How come one of them didn’t pass the exam!

Without hesitation, he decided to ask Wen Zhi Qiao for clarification.

He immediately sent Wen Zhi Qiao a message.

After sending the message, Ning An prepared to visit the Dean’s office to ask about his future arrangements.

He also needed to report his breakthrough.

The salary and benefits for a third-rank and a fourth-rank were completely different.

After more than a month, Ning An met the Dean, Jiang He Kang, again.

Even Ning An’s face couldn’t help but show a hint of confusion.

“Logically, the Dean shouldn’t be so busy.”

“Why has he been in his office for several months now?”

“You know, before, it was rare to see him even once a year.”

He couldn’t help but mutter to himself, something’s fishy.

“Xiao An, are you surprised to see me?!”

Jiang He Kang also saw the surprise on Ning An’s face and couldn’t help but smile.

He had already encountered more than one instructor who had shown similar reactions.

Ning An nodded directly!

“This year, the school is planning to reform the academic system,”

“We’re going to add some elimination mechanisms and concentrate resources.”

Jiang He Kang said calmly, not hiding anything.

His words were indeed quite cruel!

But it was also a way to increase the students’ strength.

As an instructor at Nan Jiang Martial Arts University, Ning An had the right to know.

Furthermore, with the martial arts exam over, the new students of Nan Jiang Martial Arts University would arrive soon.

At the martial arts university, there was no concept of summer or winter vacation.

There was only one month of vacation, and leave could be taken according to personal plans.

That was how Ning An had been in the past!

“By the way, what are you doing here, you little rascal?”

“Don’t you have time to cultivate during this period?!”

“You instructors are going to be very busy soon.”

Jiang He Kang almost forgot to ask Ning An and continued to speak.

“Dean, I want to register my cultivation level!”

Ning An couldn’t help but smile slightly, his energy slightly radiating.

“Fourth-rank?!”

Jiang He Kang couldn’t help but be a little startled.

Although Ning An had said that he was going to break through to the fourth rank!

He didn’t think Ning An could break through in such a short time.

The gap between the third and fourth ranks was not small.

Moreover, Ning An had only broken through the third rank not long ago.

Even if his cultivation level had improved, Jiang He Kang still didn’t trust him that much.

Furthermore, in the entire Shen Xia Federation, there were many martial artists stuck at the fourth-rank.

Martial force creates spiritual power!

Many martial artists were clueless about the mental aspect.

In his original idea, Ning An would probably need a few years to reach the threshold of spiritual power.

However, he didn’t expect that Ning An, who was not favored, would actually succeed in breaking through.

He had stepped into the ranks of middle-grade martial artists.

Ning An was very pleased with the Dean’s surprise.

Because he rarely saw such an expression on the Dean’s face.

After his breakthrough, Ning An had also summarized the reasons why he was able to succeed.

On the one hand, it was because his talent had doubled, and on the other hand, it was due to the combination of his two souls.

The birth of spiritual power was closely related to the soul.

In other words, Ning An’s talent in spiritual power might be better than his talent in martial arts cultivation.