The Weakest Talent? Wood Element? Something's Not Right

Zhang Daosheng's voice rang out, and every student in the square froze in shock!

The principal wanted to take a disciple himself?

Lan Lengshuang blinked, her delicate face tightening into a slight frown.

"Sorry... I need to discuss becoming your disciple with my family."

Lan Lengshuang knew that accepting him as her teacher meant following him to his school.

That was no small decision.

Disappointment flashed in Zhang Daosheng's eyes, but it vanished almost at once.

He smiled. "Of course. You should discuss something like this with your family first. I'll wait for your answer."

"Thank you for understanding, Principal."

Zhang Daosheng nodded, then turned to the teacher beside him. "Continue the awakenings."

"Next!"

Ye Chen had lost track of how long his hand had hovered over the awakening orb. He still couldn't bring himself to lower it.

The teacher gave him an odd look. "It's all right, student. Talent is..."

Ye Chen's gaze sharpened, and he pressed his palm against the awakening orb!

"Host has begun awakening a talent. Myriad Worlds System binding automatically."

Time seemed to stop. The teacher stared at Ye Chen in shock!

Nothing? No talent? What the hell? Why do I get all the weird ones?

Ye Chen was just as stunned. A system?! The standard protagonist package?!

"Initial system binding complete. One gold-tier talent will be drawn at random."

"Drawing talent!"

Ye Chen was dumbfounded. I haven't even had time to process this!

A wheel appeared before him, marked with two choices: the myriad heavens and other dimensions.

The wheel stopped on other dimensions.

One Piece, Naruto, Demon Slayer, Dragon Ball, Bleach...

Ye Chen's expression turned strange. Is this system for real?

The wheel started spinning on its own. Ye Chen was speechless. So I don't have to do anything?

"Naruto world selected!"

The wheel vanished. In its place, a capsule machine appeared before Ye Chen...

This system definitely isn't serious!

"Wood Release Kekkei Genkai successfully drawn!"

"Chakra has been converted into this world's spirit qi."

Ye Chen grinned. Wood Release?!

That absurdly powerful Wood Release used by that lovable idiot from the Senju clan?

"Student... this... you..."

The teacher was painfully embarrassed. He had no idea what to say to Ye Chen.

He couldn't exactly say, "Student, you have no talent. Your future's over..."

But the next moment made him question everything!

The awakening orb, which had shown no reaction at all, suddenly shook violently.

A surge of green swept over them!

Like the icy-blue pillar of light before it, a green beam shot straight into the sky.

"Holy shit!" The teacher couldn't hold back the curse.

Green light washed across the entire sky. Even the clouds didn't escape it.

Halfway back to his office, Zhang Daosheng stopped dead.

What's going on? Why is my head green?

No, why is the sky above my head green?

"Holy shit, what a legend! He turned an entire city green by himself!"

"Forget the city! He even turned the exotic beasts green!"

"Wood element! This guy's going to reach the very top of the medical field!"

The green pillar faded, and Ye Chen let out a breath.

He had thought he might become the first person in this world with no talent.

Thank goodness.

Zhang Daosheng came back again...

He looked Ye Chen over with a peculiar expression.

So it was you, kid. You turned everyone in Zanghai City green?

"Elemental type, wood, SSS rank!"

Ye Chen looked up at Zhang Daosheng. Wait, is this big shot going to take me as his disciple too?

"What a shame. You're wood-element. Your combat power is too weak, and I can't teach you medical combat techniques."

Zhang Daosheng shook his head regretfully.

"..." Wood element? Weak in combat?

If that lovable Senju idiot heard this, he'd probably be crying in a bathroom right now.

Ye Chen gave the principal an odd look. "Can't wood-element users fight?"

"It's not that you can't. Once you're strong enough, if you're lucky enough to awaken a second talent and it isn't a support talent, then you'll be fine."

Ye Chen was speechless. Right. This world has the wood element all wrong.

Zhang Daosheng offered him a few earnest words of comfort. "Don't worry. The wood element is quite good. At the very least, you'll never have to worry about making a living. Once your healing ability is strong enough, people may even seek you out to save lives!"

He gave Ye Chen a gentle pat on the shoulder. As he left, he murmured, "Such a promising child..."

Zanghai City was going to be lively this year. First there was Lan Lengshuang, an SSS-rank ice-element talent suited to powerful attacks and control. Now there was Ye Chen, an SSS-rank wood-element support talent.

They might even have a shot at the national top three in this year's college entrance trial!

After all, last year's first-place team had only two SSS-rank talents.

At that thought, Zhang Daosheng's gloom vanished.

He could already picture Lan Lengshuang fighting on the front line while Ye Chen healed her from behind!

His imagination was running wild!

After awakening his talent, all Ye Chen had left to do was collect the Basic Spirit Qi Breathing Method.

It was simply a cultivation technique that would speed up his training.

The Nine Awakening Realms were known as the lower nine realms.

Cultivators absorbed spirit qi to strengthen their bodies, stored it within themselves, and grew more adept at using their talents.

That was exactly what the breathing method was for.

Once he had collected it, Ye Chen went home alone.

Even in his original world, Ye Chen had been a loner.

His parents had died, leaving him with no one to rely on.

Fortunately, they had left him an apartment and savings of a few tens of thousands.

But that money was nowhere near enough for Ye Chen.

He still had three years of high school and four years of university ahead of him.

And now that he was in another world, it would stretch even less.

All Ye Chen wanted was to sleep...

If he woke up and found that the dream still hadn't ended...

If he woke up and was still in this world...

But first, he needed to practice the spirit qi breathing method.

He opened the manual. It contained only a few short sentences and several illustrations.

The text explained how to find spirit qi, while the illustrations showed how to regulate his breathing.

A short while later, Ye Chen could use the breathing method with ease.

He linked the method to his talent, drawing in spirit qi to strengthen both his talent and his body.

"What a strange feeling. I've never felt this good!"

Ye Chen stared at his palm in delighted surprise.

To earn enough to support himself, Ye Chen had started spending time in internet cafés and similar places at an early age.

He stayed up all night playing games, farming equipment to sell, and doing whatever else he could to make money.

His teachers knew about it, but they looked the other way.

After all, it was Ye Chen's source of income. They couldn't very well tell him to stop.

For a long time, though, Ye Chen had felt that something was wrong with his body.

He was weak, his lower back ached, his hands and feet sweated, and he could never summon any energy. Everything exhausted him.

But now it was different!

The instant the spirit qi entered his body, a wave of comfort washed through him.

It strengthened his body, then settled inside him as a small reserve of spirit qi.

And Wood Release... had a passive effect...

An absurd one. It constantly repaired the damage to his body.

Wood Release's extraordinary self-healing, combined with the physical strengthening brought by spirit qi!