Blue Star.
Sky City First High School, Class 4.
"Su Zhan—Zhan as in divination—why are your eyes bulging so wide?"
The fat boy waved his chubby hand in front of Su Zhan's face, looking puzzled.
Meanwhile, Su Zhan sat there with a face full of shock, bewilderment, and disbelief.
"Ferocious beasts... Martial Artists... spiritual energy revival... I transmigrated?!"
Su Zhan found it a little hard to accept.
Hadn't he just eaten a few too many skewers and drunk a little too much alcohol?
Did that warrant sending him straight into transmigration?!
"Transmigration?"
The fat boy muttered, "Makes sense. You slept through all four morning classes in one go. That really isn't much different from transmigrating."
As he spoke, the fat boy pulled Su Zhan, who still had not recovered, to his feet. "Come on, come on, it's mealtime! If we're late, there won't be anything left to eat!"
Su Zhan remained dazed all the way there.
Ordinary classrooms.
Ordinary school buildings.
Ordinary students.
But what was not ordinary was that they did not study math, physics, and chemistry in class. Instead, they learned "how to absorb spiritual energy and cultivate," "how to execute cultivation methods," and "how to fight ferocious beasts to the death"!
Cultivation Rooms where people could practice cultivation methods and spar could be found everywhere throughout the school buildings.
The electronic screens displayed news of this student or that student successfully getting into Qing Martial University or Bei Martial University.
Even the students who looked harmless and unremarkable discussed with each other how to practice a certain stance of a saber technique.
On closer inspection, these students held "spirit artifact weapons" that emitted a faint blue glow, each casually weighing over a hundred kilograms.
One could imagine that their fists and kicks likely contained terrifying force measuring hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of kilograms!
This was a real, genuine world of Martial Artists.
Then there was Su Zhan himself.
A second-year high school student. Nothing wrong with that.
Excellent theoretical grades. Not bad at all.
He possessed three cultivation methods. One was the Basic Qi and Blood Method, which specialized in laying a solid foundation and was learned by everyone.
One was the Beginner Grade Technique, Nine Fire Saber, which emphasized offense.
One was the Beginner Grade Technique, Jade Body, which emphasized defense.
Three cultivation methods.
Mm! Pretty good!
The only problem was that a few days ago, he had secretly gone to test his cultivation aptitude.
It was the Lowest Grade... what the hell?!
"The Lowest Grade?!"
It was over.
Barbecue time.
No wonder everyone else had more or less reached the Intermediate Grade or even Advanced Quasi-Martial Artist realm, while he was still only a Beginner Quasi-Martial Artist.
If he could not cross the threshold into Advanced Quasi-Martial Artist and become a true Martial Artist before the college entrance examination, he would not even qualify to enter a Martial Sciences University!
That also meant that in the future, at most, he could get into a liberal arts university and do support work for Martial Artist talents!
A corporate slave in his previous life, and still a corporate slave in this life?!
And at present, he was the only one who knew about this. Once it was exposed, one could imagine that there would be no shortage of mockery and ridicule!
Could the opening of one of those webnovel stories about a useless loser really be descending upon him in such an unadorned, unpretentious way?
"Su Zhan, why do you look so lost, like you've lost several million?" the fat boy asked curiously as he ate. "Are you still brooding over what Lin Jinyu's brother said? Sigh, it's not that I, your brother, want to criticize you, but her brother was right. What status does she have, and what status do you have?"
"Her family has been rich for eighteen generations. Her father is at the Martial Marshal level, her teacher is at the Martial General level, and even her brother is a genius Martial Master... Your father may also be a high-level Martial Artist, a middle-class man earning a hundred gold a year. That's already quite good, but compared to her colossal Lineage, you're one in the sky and one underground. The gap is simply too great!"
"Even if you two were childhood sweethearts, you only knew each other for two or three years. Now, when you run into each other at school, you just exchange greetings at most. Why be so stubborn?"
"And don't be ungrateful. The fiancée your father found for you may be from an outer district family of ordinary standing, but she's pure, pretty, gentle, and especially fond of you. She'll definitely make a good wife in the future. If you ask me, buddy, you should just accept it!"
Those words left Su Zhan even more bewildered and despairing.
All of his memories came flooding back like a tidal wave.
Well then.
Before one wave had settled, another rose.
With his Lowest Grade aptitude threatening to blow up at any moment, he had somehow gained a pure and lovely fiancée, along with an unreachable school beauty from a family rich for eighteen generations. What was all this supposed to be?
Had every melodramatic soap opera come knocking on his door?
Ding! Loading complete. The Cultivation Method Chat Group System has been activated!
All of a sudden, a string of ethereal female voices rang out in Su Zhan's mind.
Su Zhan jolted and abruptly looked up.
He gave the fat boy eating across from him quite a fright.
The essential cheat for every transmigrator had arrived!
Su Zhan's heart surged with excitement, and his confidence swelled to unprecedented heights.
Sure enough, the chosen one was the chosen one.
With a system, from now on he would be like those webnovel protagonists—sweeping across the eight desolations and six directions, looking down upon the world in invincibility, surrounded by countless beauties in his harem... Everything would get better!
However, before the corners of Su Zhan's mouth could even curl up—
Ding! [Cultivation Method Chat Group] successfully created! Ding! Basic Qi and Blood Technique has joined the group chat! Ding! Nine Fire Saber has joined the group chat! Ding! Jade Body has joined the group chat! Group chat slots remaining: 3/4!
A Cultivation Method Chat Group?
What the hell was that?!
Where was his god-tier enhancement?
Where was his one-click cultivation?
Where was his invincible synthesis?
Where was his hundredfold critical strike?
Su Zhan took a deep breath. "Don't rush. Maybe there'll be a surprise?"
Basic Qi and Blood Technique: "I... can talk?"
Nine Fire Saber: "Oh my, I really can talk! The boss must have pulled us into the group, right?"
Jade Body: "Mm~ The familiar aura of the outside world. No need to ask—it must have been the boss who awakened our spiritual intelligence and allowed us to exist here."
Nine Fire Saber: "Thank you, Boss!!"
Basic Qi and Blood Technique: "Mm... There are quite a few elite experts' auras nearby. They are all cultivation methods no weaker than us."
"..."
Watching the cultivation methods chatter away in the group, Su Zhan roughly extracted several useful pieces of information.
First, the cultivation methods possessed intelligence, and their spiritual intelligence was not weak.
Second, the cultivation methods could sense the strength of nearby cultivation method auras.
Third, only cultivation methods that he cultivated and possessed could enter the group.
But... what use was any of that?
What he wanted was to grow stronger, to improve his strength simply and directly!
What use was it for cultivation methods to be able to speak?
"Wait." Su Zhan suddenly thought of something. "Cultivation methods must understand themselves. If they know how to make me stronger, then as long as I precisely meet their needs, wouldn't I be able to grow stronger quickly?"
"Ahem."
The moment he thought of it, he acted. In his mind, Su Zhan symbolically cleared his throat twice.
Nine Fire Saber: "The boss is speaking!"
Jade Body: "I heard it too!"
Basic Qi and Blood Technique: "Be serious. Listen to the boss's instructions!"
Though he could not see their appearances, he could imagine the three cultivation methods sitting solemnly and properly.
Su Zhan: "You should understand yourselves. Do you know how you can cultivate and become stronger quickly?"
"How do we cultivate and become stronger?"
The three cultivation methods were simultaneously puzzled. "Aren't we... cultivating and becoming stronger every moment right now?"
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