A Dark-Type Superpower That Grants Invisibility

After following his homeroom teacher into the office.

His homeroom teacher suddenly asked, "Qin Hao, how come you're still F-rank after going to the Martial Artist Research Center for a test?"

"Ahem, teacher, what can I do? My talent is F-rank. I told you that before, but you wouldn't believe me!"

"Hmph, did you say your talent was only F-rank? You said it was S-rank that day, but what was the result? F-rank. So which is it?"

"Teacher, I was afraid of losing face, so I made up the S-rank thing. Hehe!"

"Qin Hao, stop pretending. I heard all about it. You sparred with Zhao Hu, and he was no match for you at all!"

"Ahem, teacher, that's because Zhao Hu lost to me on purpose. Didn't I buy him a Lightning Fist cultivation manual? I sold it to him cheap, so he owed me a favor. To repay me, he deliberately let me save face!"

"All right, all right. I was going to give you an E-rank cultivation manual if your talent was S-rank, but since it isn't, forget it."

Hearing that, Qin Hao felt he had missed out, but he still said, "Teacher, I really am F-rank. I'm not lying. You can still give me your manual!"

"Dream on! With your F-rank talent, why would I give you a manual? Go back and study on your own!"

"Oh!"

Qin Hao pursed his lips and left.

Watching Qin Hao walk away, the homeroom teacher looked puzzled.

"Strange. The testing device clearly malfunctioned. That should mean he has a rather unusual superpower, or that his talent rank exceeds the device's range. So why did the result from above say F-rank?"

After turning it over in his head, the homeroom teacher said, "Sigh, forget it. Looks like I was daydreaming when I thought I could teach a student with super talent."

Back in the classroom, Qin Hao made up his mind. He had to come in dead last on this mock test, or he would easily arouse suspicion.

Sigh, it's all those old geezers' fault. They just had to put F-rank in my file. They could've at least put S-rank. Wouldn't that have explained everything?

Qin Hao shook his head helplessly, then began reviewing his theoretical knowledge.

Besides a practical combat test, the exam also tested theoretical knowledge.

Generally speaking, students with lower talent ranks could only rely on theoretical knowledge to make a living.

If they couldn't become martial artists and their theoretical knowledge was a mess too, they probably wouldn't even be able to find a job out in society.

Before long, the day was over.

After school that afternoon, Qin Hao left the classroom with Cao Shuai.

The two parted at the school gate.

Cao Shuai and Qin Hao lived in different directions, so they always had to part at the school gate.

Originally, Qin Hao had planned to make money by selling cultivation manuals at the cultivation manual market.

His family was still very poor, after all. Of the 1.9 million from last time, one million had gone toward treating his mother's illness. He had kept only 100,000 of the remainder and converted the other 800,000 into Great Dao Crystals.

And now he had only 8,000 Great Dao Crystals, nowhere near enough to create a high-rank cultivation manual.

If he created low-rank manuals, he could only take them to the market to sell.

But with Song Xing watching from the shadows, Qin Hao didn't want to expose his ability to create cultivation manuals again.

Those big shots, Song Xing and the others, really had given him some cultivation manuals, but he couldn't sell them. He had to return them after learning them, and besides, he hadn't fully learned them yet.

D-rank cultivation manuals were difficult, after all.

Unfortunately, all the manuals they had given him were for superpowers he had already mastered. There were none for other attributes.

For example, after seeing the big shot Song Xing turn invisible, Qin Hao had really coveted a dark-attribute superpower.

A dark-attribute superpower came with a shadow ability, allowing its user to hide in shadows or in the darkness of night.

And every object cast a shadow. As long as there was a shadow, one could hide in it.

Sigh, it looks like, for now, my plan to make money by creating cultivation manuals and get more Great Dao Crystals won't work. I can only make an E-rank dark-attribute manual and learn it first.

After returning home, Qin Hao immediately began creating a dark-attribute cultivation manual.

He wrote, "Hide in the shadows, kill without a trace."

[Ding: detected that the host has written a passage of cultivation guidance. Generate a cultivation manual?]

He silently answered, Yes.

[Ding: spending 1,000 Great Dao Crystals to generate a cultivation manual...]

[Ding: congratulations, host has obtained "Shadow Kill Art"]

[Shadow Kill Art]

[Type: dark-type offensive]

[Rank: E-rank]

[Function: allows the user to control shadows and unleash shadow power to form blades for killing enemies. (Note: only suitable for those with a Chaos Dao Body or an awakened Dark-Type Superpower)]

Qin Hao picked up the manual and began reading and cultivating.

Before long, a system notification sounded in his mind.

[Ding: congratulations, host has obtained a Dark-Type Superpower of legendary quality and the skill "Shadow Kill"]

Qin Hao was delighted. He really wanted to test his ability to hide in shadows, but he didn't, because Song Xing was hiding in the shadows in the corner.

Now that Qin Hao had mastered a Dark-Type Superpower, and his talent was legendary-rank, he could naturally sense the fluctuations of dark-type energy in the corner clearly.

Generally speaking, someone with a high talent rank could easily detect the superpower energy fluctuations of someone with a lower talent rank.

Before he had a Dark-Type Superpower, Qin Hao hadn't known where Song Xing was hiding, so everything had carried on as usual.

But now that he had discovered Song Xing hiding in the corner of his own bedroom, Qin Hao felt ill at ease and couldn't even sleep soundly.

Early the next morning, Qin Hao got up to use the toilet and relieve himself.

Just as he was halfway through, he suddenly sensed Song Xing hiding in his shadow. It startled him so badly that he sprayed the pale yellow liquid directly into the shadow.

Since the direction of the light didn't change, neither did the direction of the shadow.

And Song Xing ended up covered in urine, even on his face.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey! Fuck, what are you doing, brat? Isn't the toilet right in front of you?"

Song Xing cursed as soon as he revealed himself.

Seeing this, Qin Hao looked embarrassed.

At the same time, he thought, Good thing Bai Bing doesn't have a Dark-Type Superpower. Otherwise, if it had been Bai Bing...

Shaking his head, Qin Hao promptly put those wicked thoughts aside.

"Senior Song, I'm really sorry. I was startled just now. I felt an energy fluctuation to my side, so..."

On hearing that there had been an energy fluctuation, and that Qin Hao himself had sensed it.

Song Xing was stunned. His mouth fell wide open, and the pale yellow liquid on his face ran into it.

But Song Xing couldn't concern himself with that now. Instead, he looked at Qin Hao and said, "Don't tell me you have a Dark-Type Superpower too, brat?"

Hearing that, Qin Hao finally realized what he had done. I'm still not fully awake, and I accidentally let a secret slip.

With no other choice, Qin Hao had to admit that he also had a dark-type superpower.

The reason he gave for not mentioning it was that he had wanted to keep it as a trump card.