I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 444: Chapter 320: Face _1

After returning to the Immortal Gate, Chen Mobai naturally first visited the student council.

This time, Hua Zijing didn’t hold back and directly made him handle the accumulated paperwork.

Chen Mobai also reflected for a moment, feeling it wasn’t right to delegate everything to subordinates. Given that Zijing was graduating this year, he felt a need to be more engaged, to understand what exactly needed to be done in the student council.

His decision delighted Hua Zijing, who promptly began to transfer her burdens onto Chen Mobai one by one.

It was during these days that Chen Mobai understood the true meanings of the comments that Zijing had made about Zhuang Jialan before.

‘High potential for growth’ meant she didn’t yet have any usable skills.

‘Large room for improvement’ meant she was starting from the bottom.

‘Great learning ability’ meant she didn’t know anything.

The matters the student council handled were actually very complex. As a bridge between the teachers and students of the Daoist Academy, they needed to communicate with all the instructors of the 18 major specializations and 72 electives, and even the students.

Zhuang Jialan was good at most things, but her communication and coordination skills were lacking somewhat. However, these were skills that could only be developed with long-term experience.

Hua Zijing also had her share of stumbling when she first began, always relying on her seniors.

Moreover, Zhuang Jialan did have her strengths. She used to be a study committee member in her class, and along with class president Si Guanyu, was responsible for coordinating the entire class’s learning plan. Having liaised with the student council before, she had a foundation to build on.

For this reason, it was somewhat easier for Zijing to guide her. After three months, Zijing even handed over to her the task of coordinating with the teachers and students of the Runes Department and its four elective courses.

Since Zhuang Jialan was most familiar with the Runes Department itself, she was able to handle the task quite well.

“Why is everything dumped on our student council?”

“What on earth are the teachers of the Taoist Academy doing?”

“I think we need to reform the system of the Taoist Academy, and let the teachers participate in its administration again.”

Only a week’s workload had made Chen Mobai feel that the student council was dealing with too many matters. He suggested reducing the workload.

But Hua Zijing just shot him a look and told him not to even dream about it. The teachers, having successfully shaken off these tasks, would not possibly take them back.

The most arduous task of the Student Council within the Daoist Academy was formulating the teaching plan and coordinating interdepartmental courses to prevent conflicts.

As the number of students choosing each major field and elective differed each year, the Academy needed to devise a new teaching plan and assign teaching resources according to the number of students.

This involved a large outlay of credits, which were directly connected to the resources within the Taoist Academy Treasure House, and therefore required utmost caution.

The Dance Tool Dao Academy has a tradition, that after graduation, Foundation Establishment True Cultivators, given that they don’t need to serve in the army, and still want to enjoy the benefits of the Rank-5 Spirit Vein of Crimson Mountain and exchange for Gold Core spiritual material, would directly convert to assistant teachers at the Academy.

All four Dao Academies reserved a chance for their students to reach Gold Core.

Generally, after a ten-year study, those successful at Foundation Establishment would become teaching assistants, continue their cultivation while waiting for the Academy’s arrangement to grind out their seniority, and accumulate the necessary credits to exchange for Gold Core spiritual material. This was the average life of most Daoist Academy students.

A teacher of an elective course could receive 10 credits after a year of teaching in the Academy.

If they were teachers of a major course, they would get double the amount.

With 18 major and 72 elective courses across ten grades in the Academy, if fully staffed, that would mean an annual nominal expenditure of 10800 credits on the Academy’s teachers. The Academy would have to shoulder this expenditure itself.

Compared to that, even though the annual expenditure on students’ credits was also substantial, for this part, the Dao Academy could apply for reimbursement from the Immortal Gate.

The Immortal Gate, in fact, would be more than happy to see the Academy apply for more.

Bigger applications indicated a greater number of new students admitted to the four major Dao Academies, which in turn signified a brighter future for the Immortal Gate.

However, the four major Dao Academies were not enticed by the subsidies from the Immortal Gate. Even though they had been expanding enrollments over the years, they always kept them within a reasonable range.

The reason the Immortal Gate didn’t subsidize the Academy’s teachers was actually to nudge this group of talents stuck on the campus to venture into society and play a more active role in various fields.

Indeed, the Daoist Academy also hoped these people could leave.

But these cultivators didn’t have much desire for material things. Some didn’t even need magic artifacts, focusing only on refining Spirit Qi, upgrading their own realm, and aspiring to have Core Formation or even Nascent Soul Formation.

For these True Cultivators, both the Immortal Gate and the Daoist Academy were on the same page, left helpless.

Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai thought of his batchmate Zha Jianbai, who was actually the top swordsman of the 5012 batch. He had begun to undertake auxiliary teaching tasks in The Sword Control Department quite early on. He seemed determined to become a teacher at the Taoist Academy after graduating.

Even Qu Hongyu, the senior who welcomed new students, and Mi Yudao, the senior he’d encountered at the Treasure Trove, had chosen the same path.

After all, as long as you worked there for sixty years and accumulated enough credits, you could exchange for a Five Elements Gold Core in any of the four great Dao Academies.

Qing Ping was the best example, who achieved Core Formation and even Nascent Soul Formation this way.

Because of this, the burden of supporting so many assistant teachers and teachers placed heavy pressure on the Daoist Academy. As the number of teachers increased, a competition for teaching assignments also began to emerge.