My Ambition Was Never to Be a Disciple!!

My Ambition Was Never to Be a Disciple!!

Ancient gates, blue stone steps, all carved with the wear of time—the vast Jia Nan Academy exuded an air of solemn sanctity.

Countless powerhouses had risen from here, their brilliance illuminating the entire continent. Whenever they recalled those glorious years of the past, no one forgot the birthplace of the strong—Jia Nan Academy.

For thousands of years, every peak powerhouse to emerge from this place had earned a resounding reputation across the continent and made a name for themselves.

It was also Jiang Han's true first stop!

Because everyone here was a good person!

Once one stood at the pinnacle of Jia Nan Academy, one could truly touch upon a corner of this world's powerful figures.

Jia Nan Academy made no distinction between races. Countless people took pride in being admitted to this ancient academy, but its enrollment requirements left many staring helplessly at the sea.

Before the age of eighteen, one had to reach the eighth stage of Dou Qi.

Outside the academy was a plaza, a testing ground specifically established for those who wished to enter the Outer Academy.

At the center of the plaza stood six open green tents side by side.

At that moment, orderly lines had formed before each tent.

There were both boys and girls in the lines, most around seventeen or eighteen years old.

Jiang Han picked a nearby tent and joined the queue.

"Everyone outside, come in."

Before long, a gentle voice came from within the tent.

Inside, a woman around twenty-four or twenty-five years old, dressed in green, sat before a counter. A gentle smile rested on her beautiful face as she assessed the sixteen people who had just entered.

"Hello, everyone. I am Teacher Ruo Lin of Jia Nan Academy. Since you have come here, I assume you all wish to become students of the academy."

"However, the academy's enrollment standards are quite strict. The minimum requirement is the eighth stage of Dou Qi before the age of eighteen."

"Whether you can enter the academy depends mainly on your potential rating. That rating is assessed according to your age and cultivation. For example, being eighteen years old with the ninth stage of Dou Qi counts as a Yellow Rank potential rating, which is also Jia Nan Academy's enrollment threshold."

"Now, I will conduct the assessments in order of entry. First, your bone age will be tested, then your cultivation."

With that, Ruo Lin raised her slender hand. The light from the Storage Ring on her finger passed through each of the sixteen people in turn.

Each time the Storage Ring's light passed through someone, another line of blue writing appeared on the green parchment scroll atop the counter.

Three minutes later.

Ruo Lin began reading out the results based on the names registered by the sixteen people and the green parchment scroll.

"Tang Kong, bone age eighteen. Ninth stage Dou Qi, Yellow Rank."

"Zhou Lexin, bone age fifteen. Ninth stage Dou Qi, Yellow Rank."

"Nanmen Feng, bone age seventeen. Eighth stage Dou Qi, Yellow Rank."

"Lei Shui, bone age eighteen. Sixth stage Dou Qi, failed the assessment."

"Zhao Wei, bone age nineteen. Eighth stage Dou Qi, age does not meet the academy's admission requirements."

"Jiang Han, bone age twenty-one. Detection failed, age does not meet the academy's admission requirements."

In only a few seconds, Ruo Lin finished announcing the assessment results for all sixteen people.

Nine had passed and seven had failed. The highest potential rating belonged to a sixteen-year-old girl who had reached the one-star Dou Zhe realm: Profound Rank.

"I passed the assessment! I'm going to be a student of Jia Nan Academy too!"

"Haha, I didn't expect several people to falsify their ages. Did they really think the academy couldn't detect it?"

"I heard the senior sisters at Jia Nan Academy are all gorgeous. I have to bring one home with me, heh heh."

The nine who had passed gathered together, each of them brimming with excitement.

As for those who had failed, especially those who had falsified their ages and did not even get their cultivation tested, they covered their faces in embarrassment and slunk out through the back entrance.

"How does he still have the nerve to stay here?"

"If I remember correctly, isn't he the oldest among those who falsified their ages?"

"He seems to be twenty-one already."

Inside the tent, the young men and women pointed at Jiang Han and whispered among themselves.

"Do you still need something?"

Ruo Lin spoke up. She had been paying attention to Jiang Han.

During the assessment, his bone age had exceeded eighteen, but his cultivation had failed to register.

There were only two possible explanations. One was that the assessment Storage Ring had malfunctioned. The other was that his cultivation had exceeded the Storage Ring's upper limit—nine-star Dou Zhe.

"Teacher Ruo Lin, I'm here to apply for a position as an academy instructor."

Jiang Han's words were like a massive boulder crashing into still water, stirring up a storm within the tent.

Ruo Lin froze as well.

The academy's current instructors were either Inner Academy disciples who had stayed on or people recommended by veteran academy instructors.

It had been so long since anyone had applied to become an academy instructor through the plaza's assessment that she had forgotten this place could assess not only students, but instructors as well.

It was just that she was not qualified to assess instructors.

"Please wait!"

After coming back to her senses, Ruo Lin quickly left the tent. Before long, she returned with a middle-aged man.

"My name is Qian Cheng, a Profound Rank Instructor of the academy. I will be in charge of your assessment."

The middle-aged man took out a Storage Ring, and a streak of black light passed from it through Jiang Han.

In an instant.

A line of information appeared on the black scroll in the middle-aged man's hand.

When he saw its contents clearly, his wrist stiffened and a flash of astonishment crossed his eyes.

After steadying himself, the middle-aged man took a deep breath and read aloud, "Jiang Han, bone age twenty-one. Peak Dou Ling."

One sentence stirred a thousand waves!!

"He's a Peak Dou Ling!"

Everyone inside the tent stared blankly at Jiang Han, their mouths hanging open and their faces filled with shock and disbelief.

Ruo Lin in particular looked as though she were staring at a freak that appeared only once in a thousand years.

As an instructor of Jia Nan Academy, she understood even better what it meant to be a Peak Dou Ling at twenty-one.

With such age and cultivation, he could have become an Inner Academy disciple—and a terrifying existence within the top five of the Strong Ranking at that!

"Brother Jiang, why don't you consider entering the Inner Academy first? With your talent, isn't becoming an instructor now a little too early?"

The middle-aged man could not help trying to persuade him. He was already over forty, yet he was only a two-star Dou Ling.

"Brother Qian, my ambition was never to be a disciple."

Jiang Han suddenly raised his head at a forty-five-degree angle, his expression incomparably solemn. "An instructor is the most glorious profession in the world. Not only can one teach disciples the methods of cultivation, one can also teach them how to conduct themselves and guide them into becoming people who can contribute to this world..."

After a righteous speech, Jiang Han slowly said, "As for the Inner Academy, once my cultivation reaches the required level, I will join as an elder."

"Good! Good! Good!"

Qian Cheng excitedly said "good" three times in a row. He then turned to Ruo Lin and said, "Arrange accommodation for Brother Jiang within the academy first. Once he meets with the Vice Dean tomorrow, he will definitely become a Profound Rank Instructor."

"I apologize for earlier. I truly didn't expect that you had come to apply as an instructor, especially at such a young age."

Along the way, Teacher Ruo Lin led Jiang Han while explaining the ins and outs of Jia Nan Academy to him.

"I'll be relying on your care in the future."

Jiang Han's residence was located halfway up the main peak, a refined little courtyard.