"Gude, you'll never have to take the career placement test again!"
Bang—
With the teacher's furious reprimand, the school gates slammed shut behind him.
Gu Qingshan stood dazed at the entrance for a while.
The testing gate had been destroyed.
No matter how he explained, the teachers refused to believe he had nothing to do with it.
—Then again, he really had destroyed the gate.
It was just that the teachers at this elementary school were too limited to realize he had blown it apart with his mental power alone.
It was hardly their fault.
In this age, no one had ever been able to blow apart a gate with mental power.
—That was the power of evolution.
Gu Qingshan sighed and prepared to leave the school.
"Young Master Gude."
A voice called from a distance.
A carriage came into view, along with a middle-aged man dressed in a black tailcoat.
"Who are you?" Gu Qingshan asked.
The middle-aged man bowed elegantly. "I'm your butler, Young Master. We'd better talk on the way."
He opened the carriage door.
Gu Qingshan looked at him and smiled. "You seem to know a lot."
The butler replied, "Some serve as prophets in the Land of Beginnings; others act as guides in different eras."
"I see," Gu Qingshan said.
He climbed into the carriage, and he and the middle-aged man left the school together.
An hour later.
The carriage stopped at a modest manor.
Gu Qingshan had already entered the house and was standing in the hall, admiring the noble portraits on the wall.
"These are your family's ancestors, passed down through the generations to the present day. You're the only one left," the butler said.
"Was this identity arranged in advance?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"There are two ways to advance through the eras