The Undying Immortal System

While Yan and I were busy teaching entire classes the basics of cultivation, LiTing, JiaQi, and YuLong were hard at work in one one-on-one training sessions. They were teaching students refining, beast taming, and talismans just as Master Tan had taught me formations.

This meant that LiTing had to reveal her profession to her assigned students as she taught them. This worried me, as it could possibly lead to her being targeted by rival factions or the Zhuge Clan, but there wasn’t much we could do other than hope nothing went wrong.

Another problem was the way we were all being evaluated by the Academy this term. Yan and I were evaluated solely based on how well our classes performed, but things were more complicated for the other three. They would only partially be graded on students’ abilities. The larger part of their scores would come from the results of a series of duels they each had to fight throughout the term.

While I wasn’t worried about YuLong’s or JiaQi’s performances in these fights, these duels would be incredibly dangerous for LiTing. If the wrong person learned she was a refiner, they might find a way to assassinate her.

We convinced her to follow a basic strategy. If she could win quickly and easily, she would do so, but if she was in any danger at all, she would forfeit immediately. This wasn’t an ideal situation, but this was a matter of life and death.

From a purely utilitarian aspect, her death could have been useful. We could have learned from it and adjusted things to avoid it the next time around. However, even though Yan and I both knew that death was somewhat transient, we still didn’t want to throw her life away. I could justify this by saying that we could learn more with her alive than dead, but the simple fact was that we just didn’t want to see her die.

LiTing throwing most of her fights early may have saved her life, but it tanked her performance. This would cause problems with her evaluation at the end of the term, but we would find a way to make things work out for the best.

When our second term as Masters came to an end, Instructor Yuan gathered us all in our villa.

“Chai JiaQi, Lin LiTing, Shi YuLong, Zhuge Yan, Su Fang. These last ten years have sometimes been challenging, but I want to congratulate you and thank you all for the work you have put in. As you are about to ascend to Grandmaster, your next step will be to join the Nine Rivers Sect. I will extend an invitation on behalf of Lord Ning. If any of you wish to join his faction within the sect, you will be welcome.”