Chapter 12: When the Rabbit Kicks the Hawk and Heaven-Tearing Order Is Reversed! A Red Talent!

Chen Guorong had always had an excellent relationship with Fang Qingchen’s father, the Martial God Fang Zhenhai.

When they were young, the two of them had been classmates. They had slain aberrant beasts together and even gone out for a soak together.

It was only because of the limitations of his martial talent that Chen Guorong had gradually fallen behind Fang Zhenhai in cultivation, and was eventually forced to withdraw from the front lines.

Still, the old fellow loved putting himself in the spotlight more than anything.

So he had taken the initiative to apply for a post back at his alma mater in Linjiang City and become the school principal.

The two families had always been on good terms, and Chen Guorong often went to drink with Fang Qingchen’s father.

He was also the only person in the entirety of Linjiang No. 7 High School who knew Fang Qingchen’s true identity.

It was only because of Fang Zhenhai’s deliberate instructions that he had not given Fang Qingchen any special treatment at school.

He had not even let him enter the martial arts elite class.

A heroic father and a son who was a hopeless lapdog—being Fang Zhenhai’s old friend, Chen Guorong naturally carried a sense of disappointment that iron had failed to become steel when he looked at him.

When he drank with Fang Zhenhai, he had said more than once that if Fang Qingchen were his son, his legs would already have been broken several times over.

Because of that, in his previous life, the person Fang Qingchen feared most at Linjiang No. 7 High School was precisely this Principal Chen.

Chen Guorong’s imposing gaze swept across the many students on the field.

But when it landed on Fang Qingchen, he discovered that the boy was looking at him as well, and with a very strange expression.

A half-smile that was not quite a smile.

“Hm?”

He froze slightly.

Something was off!

Whenever Fang Qingchen saw him in the past, he had been like a rabbit spotting a hawk.

He would have wanted nothing more than to bury his head in the ground and walk.

So what was with him today?

He was actually bold enough to look straight at him?

Not only that, under Fang Qingchen’s gaze, Chen Guorong vaguely felt as though his thoughts had been seen through.

The rabbit kicks the hawk; heaven’s order is turned upside down!

The moment that thought surfaced, his heart jolted.

“Hiss!

“No way. How could Old Fang’s lapdog of a son possibly have such a sharp gaze?

“Have I gotten too carried away today? Are my eyes playing tricks on me?”

The eyes were the windows to the soul. Only true powerhouses with formidable willpower could make him feel as if he were being seen through.

Fang Qingchen was obviously not qualified.

If it were the boy’s father instead, that would have been possible.

He shook his head. By the time he looked toward Fang Qingchen again, Fang Qingchen had already moved his gaze away and was chatting and laughing with the students around him.

He still looked as careless and unserious as ever.

“How strange.

“Why has this brat been acting with such a huge contrast over the past two days?”

He looked at Fang Qingchen in puzzlement.

As principal, he naturally knew what had happened at the school gate yesterday.

In fact, at the time, he had been standing in his office and had personally watched Fang Qingchen defeat Li Jiangnan in a single move.

Strength like that would have been considered extremely formidable even among the martial arts elite class.

Compared with the level of strength Fang Qingchen usually displayed, it was practically like comparing two entirely different people.

But there was no time to dwell on it now.

He gathered his thoughts and swept out a hand.

His booming voice spread out once more.

“Students on the Talent Awakening Platform,

“steady your minds, clear your hearts of distractions, and place both hands on the metal sphere in the center.

“Quietly feel the flow of energy inside it!”

Whoosh...

After hearing the instructions, the ten students who had stepped onto the platform immediately raised both hands and pressed them against the metal sphere at the center of the Awakening Platform.

In the next instant, streams of azure light rose from the metal sphere and spread along their palms.

Gradually, the light enveloped their entire bodies.

It was almost as if it were scanning them.

Their bodies seemed as though they were about to become data.

They actually began flickering without end.

Gulp!

Seeing the changes in them, the atmosphere across the entire field instantly grew tense.

Everyone lifted their heads and stared with complete concentration at the ten enormous screens ahead.

The results of the talent test would appear on them in thirty seconds!

At that point, whether one was dragon or worm would be laid bare.

At a moment like this, even close friends who usually got along very well

could not help but harbor all sorts of mixed thoughts in their hearts.

They feared that the other person’s talent might be too poor and leave them heartbroken, yet at the same time they feared that the other person’s talent might be too great and leave them far behind.

It was deeply contradictory.

The thirty-second wait felt both quick and unbearably slow.

By the time the foreheads of the first batch of ten martial arts elite class students on the platform were about to break into cold sweat, the thirty seconds finally came to an end.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

A burst of sharp mechanical chimes rang out.

At once, the watery azure light covering the ten students began to change in different ways.

Three of them gradually turned deep blue, while four of them slowly faded into green.

As for two others, all color faded from their bodies entirely, and they stood there blankly in a daze.

Only one tall boy was wrapped from head to toe in red light.

He was dazzlingly conspicuous.

The Talent Awakening Platform would display different colors according to the tester’s talent grade.

Those with no martial talent whatsoever would display no color at all.

Lower-grade E-rank and D-rank martial talents would appear in light green and dark green.

C-rank martial talents would appear as deep blue.

B-rank martial talents would appear as red.

Generally speaking, a B-rank martial talent was already extremely impressive.

The probability of awakening one was also astonishingly low; even among ten thousand people, there might not be a single one.

As for an A-rank martial talent, that was even more extraordinary.

A striking violet radiance would appear around the awakener’s body.

The probability of awakening one was so low that only one might appear among several hundred thousand people.

As for S-rank martial talents, they were rarer still.

Every single S-rank martial talent could be described as overwhelmingly powerful.

Any student who awakened an S-rank talent could be called a favored child of heaven.

As long as they trained diligently, at the very least they could become a powerhouse on Principal Chen Guorong’s level.

But figures of that sort were so rare that in the entirety of Jiangnan Province, only a few might appear in a year.

The moment one did appear, they would inevitably be listed as a priority target for cultivation.

The Four Great Top Martial Arts Academies of Great Xia would throw olive branches at them without hesitation.

They would do everything in their power to fight over such a student!

Of course, above S-rank talents, there were even more heaven-defying SS-rank and even SSS-rank talents.

But the probability of awakening them was so abysmally low as to be downright horrifying.

Across the whole of Great Xia, and even the entire world, there might not be a single one in a year, or even in several years.

Setting aside those absurdly unattainable heaven-defying talents, as a rule, anyone who awakened an A-rank or B-rank talent could basically be counted among the pillars of humanity.

It was a guaranteed leap across social classes.

When the crowd saw that someone on the platform had awakened a B-rank talent, cries of shock erupted at once!

“My God! This is only the first batch of testing, and someone already awakened a B-rank talent!”

“Incredible. That’s Zhang Changhao, the student ranked fifteenth in our grade. I never would have thought he’d awaken a B-rank talent.”

“He’ll probably have no problem entering the top ten the next time exams come around.”

“Quick, look! His talent description is out—it’s a combat talent!”