Chapter 4

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Many people were gloating and discussing Lu Huai’s misfortune when they saw him.

“Isn’t this Lu Huai from class five?”

“Is this the ‘genius’ who did not sense any response from his martial arts talent?”

“He got a three-year scholarship, but he could not even activate his martial arts talent. What a joke.”

“What’s the point of working so hard? I think the school might as well give me a scholarship.”

Lu Huai ignored their words and continued to look for his class.

The teacher on the side could not stand their jeering. He walked to the students with a cold expression and said, “Students, please return to your class area. Our awakening ceremony is about to begin.”

Then, the teacher looked at Lu Huai and pointed at class five. “Student, class five is in that direction.”

Lu Huai nodded in response to the teacher’s kindness. After thanking the teacher, he walked in the direction that the teacher had pointed.

After Lu Huai disappeared into the crowd, the teacher said to the group of people who had just ridiculed Lu Huai.

“Mind your own business and don’t talk about others behind their backs. A martial artist’s job is to fight against demonic beasts and protect their home, not to show off. Moreover, there will always be a need for those who take on life professions and contribute silently behind the scenes.”

Upon hearing the teacher’s words, the group of students revealed expressions of shame and lowered their heads. They said in response, “We’re sorry, teacher. We were wrong in the wrong.”

As for Lu Huai, he did not care about the students taunting at all.

After his blood and qi reached the martial apprentice realm, he now firmly believed that even if he did not awaken any talent, he could still walk the path of a martial artist.

Naturally, he would not care about what they said.

How could a sparrow know the ambitions of a swan?

However, Lu Huai did not know what kind of talent this SSS-grade body tempering art would help him awaken.

He was very much looking forward to it.

The awakening ceremony soon began.

When Lu Huai found the students from class five, some of them had already begun their martial arts talent awakening.

Starting from class one, the students walked in order to the martial arts tablet in the middle of the school field and placed their hands on it.

The surrounding students were all chatting with one another.

“I heard that Li Qinghan from class one awakened an A-grade talent. That light was so dazzling that I felt as if I almost went blind.

“I heard about that too. It would be great if I could awaken an A-grade talent as well…”

“Hah, you should already be happy with a D-grade talent!”

The surrounding students were discussing spiritedly.

The students standing in their respective class areas were called to the martial arts tablet individually.

One by one, they stepped forward to touch the martial arts tablet.

“Xu Zhihua from Class 2 has failed to awaken!”

“Liu An from class two has awakened a D-grade martial arts talent!”

“Xie Xiang from class two has failed to awaken!”

…

“Qiao He from class three has failed to awaken!”

“Wu Linan from class three has awakened an E-grade talent!”

“…”

The martial arts tablet continued to emit all kinds of lights, which would then fall on the awakened students.

The teachers below kept recording the results of the awakening, and most of the students could not make the martial arts tablet react at all, so they left the stage with dejected faces.

Even if there were some students who succeeded in their awakening, they were mostly ordinary martial arts talents.

This was also within expectations. The possibility of a martial artist awakening was usually only one in ten.

Out of the sixty students in a class, it was already not easy to have six or seven awaken a martial arts talent.

That was not even counting awakening a powerful martial arts talent.

Xu Zhichu, the principal of Anyang First High School, looked at this scene and shook his head secretly. “The probability of a powerful martial arts talent appearing is truly low. There actually has not been a single S-grade talent.”

As soon as he finished speaking, another middle-aged man said, “It turns out that the famous principal of the first high school is also quite anxious.”

The middle-aged person who spoke was the principal of Anyang Second High School, Wang Sheng.

As Wang Sheng spoke, he glanced at Xu Zhichu, and a dazed expression appeared on his face as he said, “I heard that there was a student in your school who failed to even activate their martial arts talent. I really did not expect that even with the best educational resources in District 12, a student you trained would be unable to sense the activation of their talent. This was probably a first for your high school, right?”

When Xu Zhichu heard Wang Sheng’s words, his face suddenly turned extremely ugly. He said, “That has nothing to do with you.”

However, Wang Sheng did not let it go. He shook his head again and said, “Moreover, up until now, no one in your first high school has awakened an S-grade talent. It seems that this batch of yours is a little weak.” This time, Xu Zhichu did not respond to Wang Sheng’s words. Instead, he looked anxiously at the martial arts tablet.

In the past few years, Anyang Second High School had begun faintly suppressing Anyang First High School. If they still did not produce high-level talents, the outstanding students next year might all go to Anyang Second High School.

At this moment.

The martial arts tablet in the middle suddenly burst out with intense orange light.

Everyone turned their attention to that position.

The teacher in charge of recording was pleasantly surprised. He swallowed his saliva and said loudly, “Lin Xiaomeng from class three has awakened an S-grade martial arts talent! ”

S-grade!

The entire Anyang First High School was in an uproar.

This was an S-grade talent that only had a one-in-a-million chance of appearing!

And they had actually appeared in their Anyang First High School!

“Not bad,” Wang Sheng, the principal of Anyang Second High School, then said while shaking his head. “It’s a pity that they’re from the Lin family. They have nothing to do with the alliance.”

Xu Zhichu was originally looking forward to seeing who had awakened an S-grade talent.

He was extremely excited, but when he saw that it was the Lin family, his expression fell again.

The awakening of an S-grade talent from the Lin family had little to do with Anyang First High School. The Lin family was only in the school nominally.

The martial arts cultivation of those from the Lin family was all done under the guidance of the Lin family.

The girl named Lin Xiaomeng walked down the stage with a calm face.

It was as if she was not the one who had awakened an S-grade talent. Lu Huai also noticed her, and he was slightly stunned when he saw her face.

Why did this girl’s face look so similar to the girl in Big Black’s memory?

A trace of doubt appeared in his heart.

The awakening continued, and not long after, the teacher in charge of the awakening ceremony spoke.

“Next! Lu Huai from class five!”

It’s finally my turn.

Lu Huai clenched his fists and walked toward the martial arts tablet.

“This is the person who failed to activate their talent, right?” Wang Sheng asked.

Xu Zhichu nodded expressionlessly.

He remembered Lu Huai who had done quite well in the high school examination.

The student recruitment teacher thought that he was a good seedling and specially recruited him into Anyang First High School.

In the end, no one had expected that Lu Huai would not even be able to sense the activation of his martial arts talent.

Lu Huai walked up to the stage amidst the laughter of the surrounding people.

He could be considered a famous person in Anyang First High School. Everyone knew that he faced failure in the activation ceremony, including the teacher that was recording the results of the awakening.

Although the teacher in charge of recording did not show any expression on their face, their tone was cold as they said, “Place your hand on the martial arts talent.”

Being unable to sense the activation of one’s martial arts talent was basically a death sentence on the road of martial arts.

Although he would not mock Lu Huai like the other students, he would not be too friendly to a student with no future in martial arts.

Lu Huai did not mind this at all. He just followed the teacher’s instructions and placed his hand on the martial arts tablet.

The teacher merely glanced at the tablet and was about to note down Lu Huai’s failure to awaken when he noticed from the corner of his eye that the martial arts tablet was actually emitting a faint gray light.

An F-grade martial arts talent?

The teacher was a little surprised. He did not expect Lu Huai to have such good luck. This was something that had an extremely small probability of happening.

Xu Zhichu’s face also looked much better. Although Lu Huai had failed in the activation, he had still awakened an F-grade talent.

It could be considered a blessing in misfortune.

Although it was only the lowest grade talent, it would still increase the record of people in Anyang First High School who had awakened their martial arts talent by one.

The students below also started to discuss.

“He’s really lucky. He did not even sense the activation of his martial arts talent, yet he still managed to awaken a talent.”

“This guy’s luck is too good.”

But then, at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded.

“Strange, the color of the light emitting from the martial arts tablet seems to be changing!”