At Jianzhong's testing venue, Jin Zhanpeng slammed his fist down, so frustrated he could hardly bear it.
Of course, he had passed the Mind Test, but his name had not appeared on the district-wide top hundred list.
Ranked 255th in the entire district—on anyone else, that would have been cause to treat everyone to a celebration. To him, it was a crushing defeat.
"Zhanpeng, what happened today? You capsized in a gutter?" Several scions from prominent families, all ranked in Jianzhong's top ten, walked over.
Jin Zhanpeng had always been proud and arrogant, yet before these elites among elites, he did not dare reveal the slightest resentment.
There were always greater people beyond people, and greater skies beyond the sky. His father might have been a sniper-type Transcendent, and his family might have owned a firearms club, but these fellows' backgrounds were even more unfathomable than his.
Take the leader, "Luo Hai." He was Jianzhong's student council president, and his father was the Six-Star Extraordinary, "Soul Severing Blade" Luo Wu!
How could Jin Zhanpeng afford to provoke him?
"I had high hopes for you. I thought you could contend with those people from First High School and Second High School in the National College Entrance Examination's practical test. I never expected your psychological fortitude to be this lacking. What a waste of the resources I fought to secure for you!" Luo Hai rebuked him coolly.
"It was all because of that brat..." Jin Zhanpeng's face reddened, but he did not dare explain further.
"Hm?"
Luo Hai glanced over the rankings, and his eyes suddenly lit up. "What's with this brat? How did a Ninth High School student make it into the district's top thirty?"
"He actually..." Jin Zhanpeng was stunned.
"Could this Meng Chao have been born dull-witted? Maybe his