Chapter 294: The Teacher Learns To Break Rules

Taking a deep breath, Kong Ye spent a large number of points he had painstakingly accumulated over the past years to buy a high-grade single-use scanner from his System’s Shopping Window.

This scanner could be used on potential disciples who hadn’t yet recognized him as their master, digging out stats that ordinary scans couldn’t detect or measure. Due to how overpriced the item was, buying it more than once would simply wipe out the entirety of his savings.

Since the boy had forced his hand, Kong Ye was determined to redeem his dignity in all its glory! He’d make Han Xuhan regret his greed. Not even his deepest cultivation secrets would remain hidden today!

Hopefully, it would teach this brat a good lesson.

’’Scan potential disciple Han Xuhan. Authorizing the use of the high-grade scanner,’’ He ordered the system in his mind.

Lines of prompts began to appear in a frenzy immediately.

[ Initiating Scan ]

[ 5%... 10%... 25%... ]

[ Scan Completed. Creating Profile... ]

[ Presenting Profile ]

[ Potential Disciple: Han Xuhan ]

[ Race: ? ( Cannot process data due to the lack of data ) ]

[ Ancestry: ? (No matches found) ]

[ Cultivation Assessment:

Mystic Path: Peak of the Third Layer of the Physique Transformation Realm

Martial Path: Peak of the Third Phase

Monastic Path: No foundation detected ]

[ Comprehension: B+ ]

[ Law Affinity: C-]

[ Qi quality: C- ]

[ Dao Heart: C- (Unawakened) ]

[ Foundation Tower quality: D+ (Anomalies Detected) ]

[ Elemental Affinity : D ]

[ Growth Potential : D ]

[ Expand this column to see the rest of the characteristics ranked lower than D (Not Recommended) ]

[ Existent Issues That Require Immediate Guidance :

< 1 > This potential disciple’s foundation tower has recently experienced terrible mutations, resulting in a hodgepodge of an anomaly that’ll never pass the heavenly tribulation. The issue must be resolved before further mutations take place.

< 2 > This potential disciple practices a very poorly created Mystic Art as his major cultivation technique. It has no effect on nurturing his Dao Heart at all. Neither does it benefit his spiritual development. Further practice will eventually lead to an unbreakable bottleneck in the soul reformation realm. Not even the host himself can remedy it when that time comes.

< 3 > This potential disciple’s meridians were damaged since birth. So his initial attempts at cultivation, combined with his recent extravagant usage of external resources without caring about the consequences and the lack of customized, sophisticated techniques, have led to hidden injuries that are increasing with every qi cycle. By a rough estimation, his meridians will end up damaged beyond repair within a year if this continues.

[ Expand this section to see the rest of the issues (Highly Recommended) ]

[ Current Impression of Host: Mildly Favorable, Cautious ]

[ Overall Potential: B+ ]

[ Deeper insights, reward system for guidance, and the disciples’ perks can be unlocked upon recruitment and gradual development of the bonding. ]

Kong Ye froze as he took in the overflowing information, full of confusing details. Things didn’t quite seem right.

He had just boasted internally that he’d broaden his disciple’s horizons. But now... it looked like his own horizons were being broadened.

Race cannot be identified? Ancestry cannot be identified? How was that even possible? His System could even identify and classify creatures invisible to the naked eye, a thousandfold tinier than the tip of a needle!

This was the first time he had seen it fail!

Nevertheless, these weren’t particularly important in his eyes for a potential disciple. He’d even accept dogs and snakes if his system allowed it, let alone a human with a vague lineage.

Disciple Xuhan’s highest talent was his comprehension. That, Kong Ye could understand. But the rest were downright awful. Even after expanding the column to see the rest of his talent section, he couldn’t find anything worth investing in.

Most of those ’talents’ were defective or recessive too, increasing the hassle involved in nurturing them...

But even these problems could be shelved for another day. Right now, the biggest issue was the imminent threat of Xuhan being crippled.

According to the list underneath the attributes, it looked like Han Xuhan was intentionally seeking his own destruction. Every path he took as a cultivator was leading him towards a dead end!

If seeking death were a talent, it’d probably stand at the top of his profile, shining arrogantly with a golden S-grade ranking...

But Kong Ye couldn’t let a potential disciple waste away just like that! He needed to meet the requirements of his system to avoid penalties. He needed to recruit as many disciples as he could find.

But the brat hadn’t accepted him as his master yet. How was he supposed to find a suitable technique for him to remedy the issue?

Could so many issues even be remedied?

Eyes flashing, Kong Ye’s face hardened as he contemplated his choices. In the end, there was only one solution he could think of right now.

It’d be a daring path, filled with ambition and hardships. But if Han Xuhan wanted to continue his life as a cultivator, this might be one of the few options left.

Even if the boy chose him as his master, Kong Ye doubted that the solution issued by the system would be more effective. However, the terrifying karma he’d incur by getting involved in it...

Briefly, he remembered what Xuan Zi told him the day he had expressed his intention to take in apprentices from the Salted Fish Mountain Peak.

’Think about it, really, Little Ye. When your family made the decision to exile you here, they were abandoning you for good. What use could there be in obeying the rules they set for you?’

Kong Ye’s heart trembled.

’Old geezer, did you foresee this situation already? Is that why you brought up the rules of my exile?’

"Disciple Xuhan, do you trust me as a mentor?"

Gritting his teeth, Kong Ye asked the question in full seriousness. Perhaps his mental state was reflected on his face and in his tone, because Han Xuhan suddenly grew rather solemn as well.

"Yes, Elder. I trust your teachings."

Kong Ye grabbed a quill and a stack of papers from the floor and started writing furiously. He didn’t need the system to generate a technique, not this time.

This was a Mystic Art he was far too familiar with... more than he’d have liked to.

[ The Serene Garden Of Heavenly Dao ]