Innate half-Rank Soul Power didn’t look very good, but if it were Innate Rank 1, that would look much better.
After all, Nuoding Academy was just an Elementary Spirit Master Academy in a small city, and most of the working students in the academy were just little losers with Innate Rank 1 Soul Power.
“Innate Rank 1?” Director Su arched his eyebrows, feeling somewhat skeptical.
It wasn’t that he thought Innate Rank 1 Soul Power was high; on the contrary, he thought it was low.
After all, the Innate Rank 1 Soul Power had come from the Dean’s own mouth, and judging by the current situation, it seemed inconsistent with his actual talent.
With this preconceived notion, Director Su concluded that Chu Chengzhou’s talent wasn’t bad, and it was even highly likely that it was Rank 5 or higher.
Otherwise, why would the Dean hide it?
This was definitely to protect Chu Chengzhou, preventing him from being harmed by villains due to having too good a talent!
As for it being less than Innate Rank 1?
The probability of that was too small!
With such trash talent, what kind of Spirit Master could he be?
He might as well just lie at home and wait to die!
Giving the grandfather and grandson a meaningful glance, Director Su didn’t say anything more and began processing Chu Chengzhou’s enrollment.
Su Nan: ???
As for Chu Chengzhou’s tuition?
Just kidding—as the Academic Director, how could he possibly ask the Dean for tuition?!
It was only one gold coin for tuition, wasn’t it?
He could just report a bit more in teaching equipment damage, right?
It wasn’t that Su Nan had intentionally failed to pay Chu Chengzhou’s tuition; rather, as a ‘big shot,’ how could he be expected to remember such a trivial matter?
“Little Chengzhou, you are a first-year student, so you will live in Dormitory Room 1.” After finishing the registration, Director Su said to Chu Chengzhou, taking the opportunity to hand him two sets of school uniforms.
Although it was only an Elementary Spirit Master Academy, Nuoding Academy had very strict requirements for its students.
Even if their homes were right next to the academy, students were required to live on campus and accept unified management; Chu Chengzhou, whose grandfather was the Dean, was no exception.
Of course, living on campus didn’t mean they couldn’t leave the academy; it just meant they had to stay on campus at night.
“Director Su, could I live in the working students’ dormitory?” Chu Chengzhou asked.
There was a saying: when Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it first exhausts their mind, labors their muscles and bones, starves their body, and leaves them destitute.
There was also a poem: The sharp edge of a sword comes from sharpening; the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.
Although the living conditions in Room 1 were definitely better than those in the working students’ Room 7, was he the type of person to focus on external material comforts?
Hmm, Chu Chengzhou swore that this was absolutely not because a bunny-eared girl would be coming to Room 7 next year.
“Room 7?” Hearing this, Director Su cast a surprised glance at Chu Chengzhou.
Changing dorms was simple enough, but the Dean’s wishes… Director Su immediately looked toward Su Nan.
Seeing Director Su’s questioning gaze, Su Nan pondered for a moment and nodded.
In Su Nan’s view, since his grandson’s talent was lacking—uh, actually, it was terrible—due to the malignant mutation of his Spirit, it was better not to have him compare himself with noble children or second-generation Spirit Masters who had slightly better talent, lest his self-confidence be crushed.
After all, it was better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix!
Although, with Chu Chengzhou’s Innate half-Rank Soul Power, there was basically no hope of him becoming the ‘head of a chicken,’ it was still better than being guaranteed to be at the bottom, wasn’t it?
“Fine!
Little Chengzhou, I’ll arrange for you to be in Room 7.” Since the Dean had nodded, Director Su naturally had no objections.
Besides, he wouldn’t need to report extra teaching equipment damage anymore, since working students were enrolled for free anyway.
As for the working students’ chores?
This was the Dean’s grandson; he certainly didn’t need to do chores at the academy to earn money to support himself, and nobody was blind enough to make him do so.
After completing the enrollment procedures, Chu Chengzhou followed Su Nan toward Room 7.
Although the two had arrived empty-handed, that didn’t mean they hadn’t brought anything; Chu Chengzhou’s bedding and other necessities were all inside Su Nan’s storage spirit tool.
For a Spirit Master of low Rank, a storage spirit tool was definitely a rare item and extremely valuable.
Generally speaking, a storage spirit tool with one cubic meter of internal space sold for as much as tens of thousands of gold coins, and the larger the space, the higher the price.
It was only because Su Nan was a ‘big shot’ in Nuoding City and the Dean of the Nuoding Primary Spirit Master Academy that he could obtain one; otherwise, getting a storage spirit tool would be truly difficult.
Even the Dean’s wife, Li Wan, didn’t have one, so Chu Chengzhou, being a little loser, naturally didn’t have such a ‘high-end, classy, and sophisticated’ gadget.
There was only one dormitory building, which was easy to find, as all the academy’s students and teachers lived there.
The total number of students and teachers in the academy wasn’t large—adding up to only about three hundred people—so a single dormitory building was more than enough.
Within the dormitory building, Room 7, where the working students lived, was a relatively unique existence, and its conditions were comparatively worse.
After all, working students were enrolled for free, so the conditions naturally couldn’t be on par with the other student dormitories.
Rooms 1 through 6 were the exclusive dormitories for the six respective grade levels, while Room 7 was a mixed dormitory for all six grades where all the working students resided.
Just as he reached the doorway of Room 7, which stood wide open, Chu Chengzhou heard the raucous noise coming from inside.
Looking inside, he saw a spacious room of nearly three hundred square meters.
It contained fifty beds in total, but there were only beds; only twelve of them had bedding.
At that moment, six or seven half-grown children were making a ruckus inside.
Su Nan didn’t pay any mind to the noisy children in the dormitory and asked Chu Chengzhou, “Little Chengzhou, which bed are you planning to sleep in?”
“That one!” Chu Chengzhou pointed to the bed in the corner by the window.
A three-hundred-square-meter room was not small, and naturally, there was more than one window, so the good spots by the windows hadn’t all been taken yet.
The two’s conversation attracted the attention of the working students in the room.
“Ah—Hello, Dean!” A working student of about ten years old was the first to react and hurriedly greeted Su Nan.
“Hehe—hello, everyone.
Don’t mind me.” Su Nan didn’t put on any airs as the Dean when dealing with children, appearing very easygoing.
“Grandpa, give the things to me.
I can handle it myself,” Chu Chengzhou said to Su Nan.
“Fine!
Little Chengzhou, remember to get along well with your classmates.” After taking out the daily necessities, Su Nan patted Chu Chengzhou on the head, not forgetting to urge him.
“Mm-hmm!” Afterward, Su Nan didn’t linger in Room 7.
Today was the enrollment day at Nuoding Academy, and he, the Dean, certainly wasn’t without other things to do.
After Su Nan left, the several working students in Room 7 exchanged glances, and then a sturdy-looking working student walked toward Chu Chengzhou.
“Hello, my name is Li Erniu.
Black Bull Spirit, Rank 9 Spirit Scholar, and a sixth-grade student at the academy.” As the ‘boss of Room 7,’ Li Erniu introduced himself to Chu Chengzhou.
“Chu Chengzhou.
Spirit: Summoning Flag.
I just finished my Spirit Awakening not long ago.” Since someone had taken the initiative to greet him, Chu Chengzhou naturally wouldn’t refuse to give them Face.
Of course, he intentionally ignored the question regarding his Soul Power Rank.
Otherwise, having less than Rank 1 Soul Power—how embarrassing would it be to say that out loud?
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