Everyone present pointed at Qin Hao. "Hmph, a pervert! He looks pretty handsome, but he's a bit, you know!"
When Zhao Hu saw this, he hurriedly joined in. "You pervert, you bastard! How dare you do something like that in front of so many people?"
Hearing the accusations from the students below the stage, Qin Hao was even more bewildered.
"Hmph, what do you have to say for yourself now? And you said you were petting a cat?"
"Ahem, actually, I wasn't petting a cat, but how does that make me shameless and depraved, or a pervert? I was just touching..."
Qin Hao glanced at Qian Li and said, a little embarrassed, "I was just touching... touching a little fox, that's all. What's wrong with that?"
It would have been better if Qin Hao hadn't explained. Once he did, the misunderstanding only grew deeper.
To everyone else, it sounded like Qin Hao had been touching Qian Li, and what he'd been touching was...
After all, Qian Li's Beastification turns her into a fox girl!
"You bastard, I'm going to kill you!"
Qian Li, still on the stage, completely exploded. She ran toward Qin Hao, ready to pound him.
Seeing this, Qin Hao hurriedly surrendered.
"I, I-I surrender! I surrender!"
With that, he jumped off the stage.
The teacher serving as referee was speechless as well. He wondered what was going on with this year's students. They were so precocious! They didn't look that old, so how could their desires already run so deep?
Seeing him jump down, Qian Li stomped her feet on the stage in fury.
"Qin Hao, was it? I'll remember you! Just you wait!"
Fine, I'll wait. What are you going to do, eat me?
Qin Hao thought that he just happened to like foxes. What was wrong with touching one? Did they have to call him a pervert and a shameless, depraved scoundrel?
"H-Hao, Brother Hao, you didn't do that to Qian Li in your hallucination, did you...? Ow! Brother Hao, why did you hit me?"
"Fatty, do you think I'm some kind of pervert too?"
Cao Shuai hurriedly shook his head. "No, no! You're a super invincible handsome guy. How could you be a pervert? Haha!"
"There's no need to exaggerate that much, although I am a tiny billion points more handsome."
Qin Hao proudly ran a hand through his hair as he spoke.
Hidden in the shadows, Song Xing's mouth twitched. He wondered how the kid could be so narcissistic. The important thing was, he was also a little lecherous. This wouldn't do. He'd have to say more bad things about the ice girl to him from now on, or he'd definitely choose Nine Palaces Academy.
And so, because of Qin Hao's match with Qian Li, every boy and girl at school wanted to beat him up whenever they saw him.
On the stage, Qin Hao had originally intended to hold back as much as possible and not reveal his strength.
But everyone who came up seemed to want nothing more than to give him a good beating, forcing him to display astonishing strength.
Song Xing, hiding in the shadows, was speechless. He had clearly told Qin Hao to hide his strength, yet he still hadn't managed it.
Fortunately, every time Qin Hao got off the stage, he pretended to faint and endured the pain of biting his tongue until it bled, making people think he had fought for his life to win. Only then did he manage to get away with it.
But as for the students who faced Qin Hao, every one of them had wanted to beat him up, only to be beaten up by him instead.
Though none of them went so far as to faint like Qin Hao, every one of them limped off the stage.
"Hmph, that pervert. He may be a pervert, but I didn't expect him to fight so hard."
Luckily, everyone who faced Qin Hao had only F-Rank or E-Rank Talent. Otherwise, someone paying close attention really might have discovered the truth about him.
In this way, Qin Hao made it safely through the school's mock test.
He had originally planned to place near the bottom, yet he somehow fought his way to three hundredth from last.
Many students with E-Rank Talent ranked lower than him.
When Qin Hao returned home that evening, Song Xing came out at once.
"Ahem, Qin Hao, this won't do. If the ice girl were protecting you instead, I reckon you wouldn't escape a good beating from her. Especially with those movements you made during your match with Qian Li on the stage—you might have ended up lying in a hospital for six months to a year!"
Song Xing's words left Qin Hao stunned. Was Sister Bai Bing, who seemed so warm and kind, really that violent?
Seeing Qin Hao's expression, Song Xing nodded in satisfaction.
"So you absolutely mustn't reveal your strength again next time. Otherwise, if the ice girl finds out, she might even come straight over and skin you alive!"
"Senior Song, is Sister Bai Bing really that terrifying?"
"Heh, what else? Back then, a student refused to listen to her, and he accidentally beat that student into a seriously injured coma. The student lay there for three whole years before waking up!"
Qin Hao swallowed. He thought he had better behave himself the next time he saw Bai Bing, or it would be bad if he got beaten up.
After the mock test, there were only ten days left to prepare before the real college entrance exam.
The real college entrance exam didn't just test combat strength; it was a comprehensive assessment.
For example, leadership, social skills and strategic ability came first, followed by individual strength.
Many people had only F-grade talent and weren't strong individually.
But because they possessed exceptional leadership, social, or strategic abilities, even though they wouldn't be admitted to a Martial Artist academy after the college entrance exam, the relevant departments would still recruit them early for related work.
During those ten days, Qin Hao didn't think about what the college entrance exam would test. Instead, he trained hard in the techniques he had obtained earlier, including Spatial Slash and Cut, the Time-Speed Art and the Shadow Kill Art.
Apart from Spatial Slash and Cut, he cultivated all the other techniques to the Great Accomplishment Realm.
As for the C-grade techniques that big shots like Dai Jun had given him, he hadn't even had time to cultivate them yet.
Even a D-grade technique like Spatial Slash and Cut was extremely difficult to cultivate, let alone a C-grade one.
Soon, the day of the college entrance exam arrived.
After ten days, Qin Hao was completely cleared of suspicion.
After all, no expert had been found protecting Qin Hao. Although his former homeroom teacher had died, Song Xing and the other big shots had found the leader who had ordered the teacher to assassinate Qin Hao and taken the opportunity to eliminate him.
Thus, foreign suspicions about Qin Hao were completely dispelled, and he was soon forgotten.
As for Song Xing, he had important matters to attend to and left Qin Hao's shadow.
"Phew, freedom feels great!"
With that, Qin Hao began using the system to create techniques.
After spending all seven thousand Great Dao Crystals, Qin Hao created seven E-grade techniques.
"Hehe, I can finally go back to making big money."
Since the Icebound Art had sold for the high price of 1.5 million last time, all seven techniques Qin Hao created this time were control-type techniques.
There were three ice-element control techniques, three wood-element control techniques, and one Lightning-Type control technique.
Because Lightning-Type Abilities were extremely rare, Lightning-Type techniques were very expensive, but also very difficult to sell.
Qin Hao thought that if he couldn't sell it, he would cultivate the Lightning-Type control technique himself.
Once he had finished everything, Qin Hao took the seven techniques and hurried to the technique market.