Martial Cultivator Chapter 362.2: Uncle and Nephew - Part 2

The Dean who had sent off two satisfied students one after another slowly walked out of the small courtyard. After walking a few steps in the snowstorm, he contemplated whether to go and check on his youngest disciple. However, after some thought, he decided against it. Instead, he strolled along the lakeside. With no one in the academy, there was naturally no one to witness the sight of the seemingly ageless dean walking alone by the lake.

After walking for hundreds of steps, the Dean suddenly sighed as he recalled many old memories by the lakeside. What Wei Xu had asked was actually something he had been pondering over for the past few days. In his early years, he had been rather casual about taking on disciples, accepting them if they seemed promising. Thus, even though he had 72 disciples, there were not actually many who were truly suitable to be groomed as the next dean.

Initially, he had thought that the one he could pass his mantle to was none other than Zhou Guoqi, who was now hiding in a small county town in Wei Prefecture. This fellow came from a prestigious family but did not adopt the traits that he did not like. He was free-spirited and straightforward, much like the Dean in his younger days. Consequently, during his teachings, the Dean had harbored many ulterior motives, wanting to see if this fellow could handle great responsibility. In the end, this fellow indeed showed promise and satisfied him greatly. But later on, who would have known that this guy actually caused such a huge trouble? That incident was so severe that even the Dean himself, the head of the academy, found it difficult to protect him. In the end, it took a Herculean effort to save that guy's measly life, and he had to leave the Divine Capital, never able to use his real name again.

Naturally, he could not make him the next dean anymore.

Whenever he thought about this matter, the Dean felt a sense of regret. In the end, it was his own failings as the teacher. He could not even protect his own student.

After Zhou Gouqi, the sec

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