After awakening a talent ability, a person's senses became extremely sharp.
The man in black had followed Qin Hao all the way, so naturally, Qin Hao had noticed him.
Because of what had happened last night, Qin Hao didn't dare take any secluded routes this time. After all, he had no idea what the other person intended.
Qin Hao soon arrived at the school gates, where a security guard stood watch.
These days, even security guards were martial artists, and the minimum requirement was above Martial Artist Third Tier.
With the guard there, Qin Hao grew bolder.
"Hey! You've followed me all the way here. Come out!"
Qin Hao shouted, but after waiting a long time, he still didn't see anyone come out.
"Hey, student, what are you yelling about? Can't you see what that sign says?"
The middle-aged guard pointed to a sign that read, "School zone. No honking. No loud noise."
"Ahem. Sorry, sir. It definitely won't happen again."
Qin Hao apologized, then walked into the school.
Meanwhile, in a corner, a large black dog was staring toward the school gates.
That doesn't make sense. He's only a student. Even if he's awakened a talent ability, he's just an Apprentice First Stage rookie. He couldn't have killed Second and Third, could he?
The black dog transformed into the man in black and reasoned, "Maybe it was one of his elders?"
With that, the man in black vanished.
Meanwhile, in the classroom.
Class had just ended a short while ago. As soon as Qin Hao walked through the door, Cao Shuai hurried over.
"Brother Hao, you finally made it. You might be in trouble."
"What do you mean?"
"The homeroom teacher said to find him in his office when you got back!"
"Fatty, can you stop making a fuss over nothing? I'm just going to see the homeroom teacher. What trouble could I be in?"
"Uh, true. But what if something's wrong? After all, you're the only person in history whose awakened ability had a talent level of zero!"
"Okay, I got it!"
With that, Qin Hao headed for the homeroom teacher's office.
"Reporting!"
"Come in!"
In the office, the homeroom teacher was looking through one document after another.
He looked up and said, "Qin Hao, what ability did you actually awaken?"
Qin Hao looked completely bewildered. "Teacher, didn't I awaken the Chaos Dao Body? It showed up clear as day on the testing instrument yesterday!"
"Qin Hao, just tell me the truth. The school will keep it confidential, so don't worry!"
Qin Hao was utterly baffled. Although he had gained several abilities through cultivation techniques, only he and his parents knew about them.
He had already killed the two people who had found out last night. There was no way anyone else could know!
"Ahem. Teacher, I don't understand. What do you mean?"
"Look, several teachers at our school spent the entire night studying these materials, right up until now. We reached one conclusion: it's simply impossible for an ability like the Chaos Dao Body to exist."
"But teacher, I really do have the Chaos Dao Body. The testing instrument showed it yesterday!"
"Hmph, don't even mention it. The testing instrument malfunctioned yesterday. Starting with the students after you, none of their results were accurate."
Hearing that, Qin Hao was completely dumbfounded.
If the testing instrument broke, why was it still able to detect my ability as the Chaos Dao Body?
After all, the system clearly showed that my physique is the Chaos Dao Body. Huh, wait, the system said physique, not ability!
"Teacher, do you mean the students after me didn't awaken abilities?"
"No, they awakened abilities, but their talent levels were wrong."
As it turned out, after Qin Hao's awakening yesterday, the lowest grade of ability awakened by the students after him had been A.
The highest was SSS, and most were S.
Those results had delighted the principal and the education bureau officials.
After all, at the neighboring First Middle School, the highest talent awakened was only SS-grade, and there were two of them.
But their own school had produced one SSS-grade, five SS-grades, as many as 270 S-grades, and 50 A-grades.
That was simply too staggering, so it alerted the higher-ups, who came in person that very night to select promising people.
But when they tested them, everyone's talent levels were wrong.
Chen Bin, the SSS-grade student, had only awakened an SS-grade talent, while the other five SS-grade students were all only S-grade.
After retesting, they found that F-grades alone numbered 213.
So the school concluded that the instrument had broken after Qin Hao awakened his ability.
It wasn't as though this had never happened before. According to reliable information, four people abroad had experienced similar incidents.
They were Rex of Meifulia, Fast of Oluoke, Yin Wenjielin of England, and Morris of Fatemixius.
The instruments had been damaged when those four awakened their abilities.
The talents those four awakened were Epic Rank talents. At the time, that version of the testing instrument could only detect talent levels up to SSS+, and the two grades above it had yet to be established.
It was precisely because those four had such extraordinarily high talent levels that the epic talent grade was established.
Three years ago, the testing instrument underwent another major upgrade, and the legendary talent grade was established outright.
But no one had ever surpassed SSS+-Rank Talent, so the instruments had never malfunctioned afterward.
Yet it had happened at Jiangnan City No. 6 Middle School: the instrument malfunctioned after Qin Hao awakened his talent.
So the officials suspected that Qin Hao had awakened an extraordinarily high-grade talent, and the light of his talent had burst the instrument apart.
After learning all this, Qin Hao wasn't very shocked.
The system had already made it clear: the Chaos Dao Body's talent had no upper limit.
That meant his talent couldn't be measured. It might not exist, or it might surpass the Legendary Rank.
"Teacher, so my talent caused the instrument to malfunction?"
"That's right! So after discussing it, we've decided to take you to the testing instrument research center and carefully test your talent level. Maybe your talent will be the first Legendary Rank one!"
Hearing that, Qin Hao was finally a little stirred. After all, if he went for another test, they would discover he had more than one ability, that they were all Legendary Rank, and that one even surpassed the Legendary Rank.
What am I supposed to say then?
Judging by how a malfunctioning instrument had led to a trip to the research center, he was afraid he would be sliced up for research.
"Teacher, actually, I only have a lightning-type ability, and my talent is S-grade. So there's no need to test me again, right?"
As he spoke, Qin Hao immediately released a bolt of lightning into his hand.
"The instrument really did malfunction. It even displayed your ability incorrectly. Your talent level has to be tested. Otherwise, how would you know it's only S-grade?"
"But teacher, I really don't think another test is necessary. There's no way I could have awakened a legendary talent, really, I..."
"Enough. All of us teachers, the principal, and the education bureau officials have already decided."
Qin Hao had wanted to say that he didn't want to go, but his homeroom teacher's words cut him off.