Sun Mengyun, Du Kaiyu, and all the other disciples had assumed that if the assistant was an inner sect senior brother, then the instructor ought to be some elder.
But the person who walked through the door next was not some aged, steady elder, but a girl who looked no more than ten or so.
Zhong Wan, now dressed in the Daoist robes of an inner sect disciple of the Imperial Teaching Academy, walked in softly.
The Jia Chen Hall immediately erupted with incredulous voices of doubt.
None of these dozens of outer sect disciples had expected that the person assigned to serve as their instructor would actually be Zhong Wan, who had only just become an inner sect disciple!
Watching the girl of barely ten stand quietly on the platform, everyone wore puzzled expressions. First of all, Class A halls had always been taught by the most senior inner sect disciples who had yet to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm. Newly qualified inner sect disciples had previously taught only the lower-ranked Class Ren and Class Gui halls, at most the middle-to-lower-ranked Class Ji or Class Gengzi halls.
Ordinary inner sect disciples spent their first several decades in the Foundation Establishment Realm, while the outer sect disciples of the Class A halls were all in the Foundation Establishment Realm as well. If they were at the same realm, what qualifications or ability did one have to become an instructor?
Moreover, even senior inner sect disciples whose cultivation was generally at the Golden Core peak or late Golden Core stage had an elder serving as an assistant when teaching a Class A hall. The two taught the disciples together.
In most cases, it was said that the inner sect senior brothers were nominally the instructors while elders assisted from