Chapter 569: Chapter 569 Chi Yang
Among the crowd, Wu Shan was celebrated by everyone.
But the Wu Shan who walked out from the crowd was flamboyant, arrogant, and disdainful.
The pride that belonged to the youth was magnified tenfold in him and, because of his talent, was magnified fifty times, even a hundred times,
Yet no one felt it was inappropriate. If they had such talent, perhaps they would be even more extravagant and unrestrained; he had the strength to justify it.
Wu Shan waved his hand, occasionally greeting others and even blew two kisses, drawing bouts of cheers.
“Wu Shan, you’re amazing!”
“You truly deserve to be number one.”
“Awesome.”
“Did you see? He scored twice as high as the runner-up.”
“My God, that’s truly an unattainable level for us.”
Wu Shan, who had walked out of the crowd, thoroughly enjoyed the compliments, which were all true; he was indeed that impressive.
Generally speaking, reaching the S-level at graduation meant one was an outstanding graduate, but he had been at that level from the moment he arrived.
What right did he have not to be proud?
Here at the new students’ basic test, many were old students assisting the teachers with testing, and they had learned that this year there was an extraordinary student.
In a corner, several older students quietly chatted.
“This Wu Shan is quite flamboyant.”
“His strength is decent, better than ours, but with that personality, he’s only good for the front lines.”
“His ability is not bad, but he might not be the most powerful.”
“Oh? Is there someone else? Do you know something?”
“The news isn’t certain, but I heard that the Chi Family’s prodigy is also enrolling this year.”
“The Chi Family’s never-seen-before prodigy?”
“Yes.”
The conversation subsided for a while as Wu Shan continued to strut around; he did not leave the area of the basic tests because he wanted to know who exactly the Chi Family’s prodigy was.
And more so, he wanted to know the extent of their abilities.
The lines for the hundred tests continued.
The crowd continuously moved forward, occasionally punctuated by shouts, and a few strikingly talented individuals, who, in other years, would also have been remembered as prodigies.
Yet this year’s splendor was somewhat overshadowed by Wu Shan’s presence.
Among the crowd, Fu Yunhe’s position was still a bit far away, and Nian Shutong and others were getting tired, so they found a cooler spot and simply sat on a small stool to wait.
At the same time, in one of the lines, a young boy with a naive face and seemingly harmless demeanor stood quietly, holding his ticket, moving forward little by little.
Soon, it was the boy’s turn.
The boy presented a sun-like smile, handed over his ticket with both hands, and introduced himself, “Hello teachers, my name is Chi Yang, and I’m eighteen this year.”
The person who took the ticket, one of the seniors who had just been speaking, calmly said to Chi Yang, “Test your strength first, then your talent.”
“Let’s begin.”
“Understood, thank you, teacher.”
Chi Yang’s warm smile was like a little sun, a cute and polite child—who could dislike him?
However, among those participating in the test, there wasn’t any special favoritism; could a child from a great family really be this innocent and naive?
It seemed somewhat unbelievable.
At that moment, Chi Yang released his spiritual power, and the cylinder containing beads first flashed a ray of light, a glaring red light.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, with violet at the bottom and red at the top—above red were silver and gold.
As the red light appeared, the testers showed no surprise, only calmly announcing, “Spiritual power S-level, moderate.”
“Push the sphere.”
Chi Yang and the testing officer remained calm, but not so the others behind.
An S-level of moderate quality, higher than Wu Shan’s S-level of initial quality.
After reaching S-level, each small increment was similar to an entire higher level previously, and many were wondering why someone of such level would even attend school.
At this moment, Chi Yang began to push the sphere; the higher the sphere rose, the better your talent was deemed, and the position to which you pushed it represented the minimum achievement you might attain.
Some in the queue and the testers watched the progress of the testing sphere, which easily reached the S-level and continued towards the SS-level.
SS initial, SS moderate, SS high …
At SS high, the sphere’s progress slowed down, and there was a slight trembling struggle; Chi Yang’s face was no longer relaxed.
“Teacher, I’ve done my best.”
Chi Yang withdrew his spiritual power, bowing politely to the several testers.
“Well done,” the main tester, a teacher, said. With such talent surpassing even his own, he had no grounds for criticism.
However, he still felt that this Chi Family prodigy was just this much after all; he had expected that their long-hidden prodigy would achieve an SSS-level talent, but it seemed he had hoped too much.
So far in the entire interstellar, only Admiral Yun He had a proven SSS-level talent.
At this point, Chi Yang moved aside to make way for the next students, modest and polite, more popular than the Wu Family’s Wu Shan.
Meanwhile, in the middle of the square, the large screen flashed golden light, and an announcement reached everyone’s ears.
“Chi Yang, first place.”
Five simple words, and everyone understood one thing—the first place had changed.
Wu Shan stared intensely at the figure on the large screen. Was this the Chi Family’s prodigy? S-level moderate strength, SS high talent, both slightly higher than his own.
His tenure as first place hadn’t even warmed up before slipping to second place; this was a blatant slap in the face. Was this Chi Family member really doing this on purpose?
Wasn’t suppressing their Wu Family always the Chi Family’s intention?
As Wu Shan indulged in his conspiracy theories, Chi Yang also received many congratulations. He adorably thanked each person and instantly won many people’s affection.
Chi Yang, when unseen by others, glanced toward Wu Shan of the Wu Family, a sneer at the corner of his mouth that did not match his typically pleasant demeanor.
The Wu Family, have they sent another brute?
This first place was now securely Chi Yang’s.
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