If she showed anyone this training log and score sheet, no one would believe Ye Chuqi had achieved those results in a week. Even the students in Class Six didn't realize she had started from nothing. They preferred to believe she had been hiding her abilities, that something else had held her back, or that she'd needed time to adjust to a new learning environment.
Whatever the explanation, they didn't believe she had known nothing about Fighting Spirit before this.
Only Akes knew. She even felt a certain closeness to Ye Chuqi, as though they shared a secret. But Akes also knew Ye Chuqi had never cared about any of that. She hadn't said anything simply because no one had asked.
"Maybe I'm just talented?" Ye Chuqi couldn't explain that she had previously cultivated an entirely different system of power. She was already so familiar with cultivation that this could hardly count as starting from scratch.
Besides, as a member of the Ye Family, she really did have a natural gift for cultivating Fighting Spirit. So she wasn't exactly wrong, was she?
Akes scoffed. "Sure, keep trying to fool me. Afraid I'll overtake you?"
Ye Chuqi smiled and tapped the ranking on the parchment. "Aren't you the one who's afraid I'll overtake you, Akes?"
Akes fell silent. Afraid? Of course she wasn't. But realizing the gap between their abilities had left her with a sudden sense of helplessness. Her voice grew distant. "I've just never come second before."
Ever since she was little, she had pushed herself to be the best. Still, she knew being first in Class Six meant little in an advanced class. Even among the first-years, there were students stronger than her.
Then Ye Chuqi declared with absolute confidence, "Being first in Class Six is nothing. I'm