Only after asking Xun Hu did Yang Ning learn that student registration really could not be transferred.
Once Xun Hu entered the Ditian Sect, it would count as dropping out. Yang Ning, Ning Rong, and Su Bai could only drop out with him; there was no room to maneuver there.
The room to maneuver came from the Ditian Sect. As a sect under the Taiheng Sect, it was qualified to recommend students to the Ascension Academy. And because of its formidable combat strength, it could recommend two students every year!
But the Ditian Sect's cultivation techniques were rather unusual. Its cultivators spent all year traveling through mountains and forests, keeping company with Fierce Beasts and Demon Beasts, and they also had to preserve their Pure Yang Bodies.
If their pure yang remained unbroken, where would children come from? Without descendants, whom could they recommend to the Ascension Academy? They could not exactly grab some child off the street and send them over.
And so, year after year, the Ditian Sect had actually accumulated quite a few slots!
Yang Ning could use one of the Ditian Sect's slots to enter the Ascension Academy.
"Wouldn't doing this cause problems?" Yang Ning asked with doubt on his face. What if they were found out?
"No problem. Everyone does it this way!" Xun Hu said. "After all, plenty of cultivators do not marry. Many sects already have few people to begin with, and none of them marry or have children. You cannot just cancel their slots, can you? They have people above them too! Not every sect has extra slots, but at least thirty to forty percent do. Those slots are traded to sects that need them in exchange for resources and materials. This is all out in the open at the Ascension Academy!"