Chapter 409 - Two Heads of Department Competing For an Apprentice (2/2)

Ferrero smiled and put his legs on the coffee table and gently swayed his toes, purposely staring at the Sakra with a sly look, “What now? Do I need to seek your permission to accept disciples?”

Sakra suddenly sat back to the sofa and slapped Qin Fen’s shoulder with his palm, “Qin Fen, be my disciple!”

What? Qin Fen quietly twitched his mouth uncontrollably. This Sakra did not have a sense of control when he is excited. That slap just now consisted of powerful levels of Sky Thunder Art! If it weren’t for my adequate true energy levels, I should be fainting in shock from his slap by now!

Even with his true energy resisting the thunderous slap, Qin Fen still felt feelings of pain emanating from the sofa under his butt.

The sofa was not a human being, let alone a martial arts practitioner. The moment it shared the pressure of Qin Fen, it collapsed almost immediately.

Qin Fen didn’t care too much about the pain in his shoulders but rather, he was focused on the Sakra and Ferrero. If memory serves him right, apart from the Madman, there were no other cases in the Sacred Martial Hall where two Heads of Department wanted to recruit the same person at the same time.

“I said.” Ferrero also placed his palm on Qin Fen’s shoulder as he smiled slyly at the Sakra, “Remember that you are the Head of Criminal Law Department. Although no rules will be violated from such actions, suspicions of loophole abuse still remain. Thankfully, a principle-abiding person like you does not have the need to do such a thing.”

The Sakra slightly twitched his brows without changing his gloomy expression, “I would not violate any principles, and in this case, there is evidently no violation of principles.”

“I said Sakra, why do you want to fight with me? It is obvious that I am the first to talk to Qin Fen about the apprenticeship…”

“I found Qin Fen first.”

Sakra countered the words of Ferrero with a gloomy face.

Both of the Heads of Department understood that Qin Fen was not interested in joining the Inner Sacred Martial Hall. For the sake of his martial dao improvement, forcibly placing him in the Inner Sacred Martial Hall would indeed impede his progress in martial dao. However, if they gave up right now, causing Qin Fen to miss out on various opportunities such as entering the Secret Art Pavilion, further learning of martial arts, and the help of the medicinal pills; it would be a very regretful event for all.

Since the rules could not be challenged, the only way was to go around the rules.

Sakra had always been thinking about ways to maintain the rules but never about ways to get around it. It had gotten to the point where he had even forgotten about the rules of apprenticeship in the Sacred Martial Hall.

According to some special rules of apprenticeship in the Sacred Martial Hall, the master could freely teach their disciples any form of martial arts. Under normal circumstances, the Sacred Martial Hall would not question the apprenticeship, on the premise that the disciple was also part of the Sacred Martial Hall.

During the inception of this rule, everyone had formulated the rules by taking account of only normal circumstances. For instance, no martial artists would choose the Outer Sacred Martial Hall given the opportunity to enter the Inner Sacred Martial Hall.

After all, there were great disparities in the quality of the facilities in both Inner and Outer Halls. Even if there were rare cases of people refusing to join the Inner Sacred Martial Hall, they would’ve joined the beneficiary division of the Outer Sacred Martial Hall, where they were able to receive some extra benefits. As for the basic division of martial artists in the Outer Sacred Martial Hall that was devoid of many benefits, any martial artist with an ounce of martial dao ambition within them would not even opt for it.

As a result, when the powerful martial artists intend to accept disciples, they would firstly choose from the Inner Sacred Martial Hall. Only after that would they choose from the beneficiary division of the Outer Sacred Martial Hall. As for the basic martial artists in the Outer Sacred Martial Hall…

These were the kind of martial artists that couldn’t even afford to pay for initiation gifts and were also rejected from the Sacred Martial Hall. How would any master choose their disciples from this rabble? They would only humiliate themselves with such sub-par disciples.

The system in practice did not have any loopholes or defects. However, no one ever thought that a freak like Qin Fen would appear in the Sacred Martial Hall – easily qualified to enter the Inner Sacred Martial Hall yet stubbornly chose to remain at the Outer Martial Hall as a basic martial artist.

In doing so, Qin Fen had cut off his path to the Secret Art Pavilion and put himself in a bottleneck. As a result, entering the Sacred Martial Hall for Qin Fen would only mean a platform for him to accumulate battle experience, and also teaching himself of some martial dao knowledge he witnessed to complement his existing skills.

Sakra had to admire his nemesis, Ferrero, for his ability to bring out such an obscure rule, all the while going through loopholes in the Sacred Martial Hall.

Although Qin Fen was merely a basic martial artist of the Sacred Martial Hall, he remained a martial artist of the Sacred Martial Hall. Going by the rules, if one of them became a mentor to Qin Fen, he would then have the right to study and copy the tomes in the Secret Art Pavilion, or even bring them out from the Secret Art Pavilion for his future disciples.

Of course, very few masters treat their own disciples so kindly unless the disciples were the personal favorites of the masters.

For other martial artists, entering the Secret Art Pavilion was not something that they can do anytime. When they wished to enter, they would need to meet certain conditions before being permitted entry.

However, for Heads of Department, this was not a problem at all. Heads of Department in the Sacred Martial Hall bore the absolute right to enter and exit the Secret Art Pavilion at any time however they wished.

At the same time, if the Heads of Department became mentors to other martial artists, the apprentice would also enjoy the same benefits as the Heads of Department. For instance, the Sacred Martial Hall would deliver an additional set of medicinal pills every month as a means of support.