3: Chapter 3 The Only One in the Entire School

Early the next morning, the test results were posted for the entire school.

The display screen stood in the center of the main teaching building lobby, three meters high and five meters wide, scrolling through the Awakening results of every student by class.

When the list for Class 7 appeared on the screen, the entire building fell silent for a moment.

Shen Ye!

Divine Kingdom Attribute: Land of Cultivation. Number of Descendants: 1000. Divine Kingdom Area: 100 square kilometers. Talent: S-Rank, Double Time.

Overall Rating: S-Rank.

The only S-Rank on the entire screen.

When Shen Ye walked into the teaching building, the gazes in the hallway all turned toward him as if pulled by a magnet.

Some were whispering, some actively cleared a path, and some took out their communicators to secretly take photos.

He had no expression on his face, and without stopping his pace, he walked straight toward the Class 7 classroom.

Liu Yang was already in his seat, and seeing Shen Ye enter, he immediately leaned over: "Have you checked the school forum today? It is all about you."

"Some say you are the strongest Awakened in Nanjiang No. 7 High School in sixty years, and some say you will definitely be directly taken by the provincial association. Also—do you know Lu Qing?"

Shen Ye said he knew her, the girl with the B-Rank Spirit Bamboo Forest from yesterday.

Liu Yang lowered his voice: "She posted a long article on the forum last night, saying that the gap between S-Rank and B-Rank cannot be bridged by hard work, saying that her ten years of hard study is not worth a single drop of your blood."

There were hundreds of replies arguing below it.

Shen Ye did not respond. He had seen too many things like this.

This is how the Awakening test is—a few drops of blood, a few seconds, dividing eighteen-year-olds into different social strata.

Some accept their fate, some are unwilling to give up, and some vent their unwillingness on those stronger than them.

He was not the first, nor would he be the last.

The first class of the morning was Divine Kingdom Theory Basics, taught by their homeroom teacher, Teacher Zheng.

When Teacher Zheng walked into the classroom, his first glance was toward Shen Ye.

"Shen Ye, the principal wants you to go to her office after class."

Shen Ye nodded.

Teacher Zheng paused, then added: "Dress neatly, there will be media."

Media. Shen Ye sighed inwardly.

Troublesome things are coming.

He barely listened to the morning classes.

His consciousness sank into his Divine Kingdom from time to time.

In the Cultivation Divine Kingdom, the one thousand Descendants had already passed their initial period of ignorance and started cultivating spontaneously.

The Descendants with the Metal Spirit Root found an open-pit mine on that mountain of metallic energy and began mining metal ore.

Those with the Wood Spirit Root discovered a patch of natural spiritual plants in the forest and began attempting to transplant them.

Those with the Water Spirit Root built the first reservoir by the spiritual spring.

Those with the Fire Spirit Root channeled earth fire from the dead volcanic crater.

Those with the Earth Spirit Root dug out the first cave dwelling in the valley.

The Five Elements Spirit Roots each had their own strengths and functions.

And in the Land of Gods and Demons, the changes were even more drastic.

After that Mortal-Grade High-Quality spiritual spring was completed, the angels and succubi began construction simultaneously.

In the area shrouded by holy light, the angels used holy light to condense the first formal building—the prototype of the Holy Light Altar.

Shen Ye could perceive the function of that altar: to convert holy light into storable Holy Light Crystals, while slowly increasing the holy light purity of the surrounding angels.

The succubi built the prototype of an Abyss Altar in an area rich with abyssal aura; the function was similar, but it converted abyssal energy.

Neither altar had officially taken shape yet, but Shen Ye could already see their attribute panels.

Holy Light Altar, under construction, estimated completion in seven days of Divine Kingdom time. Grade: Mortal-Grade Low-Quality. Function: Produces ten Holy Light Crystals daily, increases the holy light purity of angels within the coverage area by five percent.

Abyss Altar, under construction, estimated completion in seven days of Divine Kingdom time.

Grade: Mortal-Grade Low-Quality. Function: Produces ten Abyss Crystals daily, increases the abyssal purity of succubi within the coverage area by five percent.

Seven days of Divine Kingdom time was less than ten minutes of external time.

Shen Ye withdrew his consciousness and looked out the window.

On the playground, a few lower-grade students were running, their sweat glistening in the sunlight.

They did not yet know what they would awaken in the future, and were still giving their all for the physical fitness test.

Shen Ye suddenly felt a bit of emotion.

If they could awaken an S-Rank talent, they would have to thank the heavens.

And himself?

Forget it, forget it. If I say it out loud, I'm afraid it will break their spirits. I, Shen Ye, am a good person; I cannot ruin their Dao hearts!

Hahaha!

After class, Shen Ye went to the principal's office.

The principal's surname was Zhou, full name Principal Zhou Wenyin, 123 years old, True God Eighth Order.

She had been the principal of Nanjiang No. 7 High School for forty years, but these forty years were just a segment of her long divine career.

Her true reputation was known to everyone in the education circle of the Eastern Divine Realm—'The Outcast of the Wanxiang Library'.

One hundred years ago, Principal Zhou Wenyin dropped out of the Divine Kingdom Theory Research Department at Wanxiang University.

It was not because her grades were poor, but because her research direction was judged as 'dangerous' by the academic committee.

She believed that the essence of a Divine Kingdom attribute was not the few words determined by the stone tablet, but that it could be reshaped post-natally.

If this theory were established, it would overturn the entire Awakened ranking system.

Wanxiang University did not give her a diploma, but neither did they stop her from continuing her research.

She took this 'unfinished theory' back to her hometown of Nanjiang, took over an ordinary high school, and spent forty years turning it into a municipal key high school.

Her own Divine Kingdom attribute was 'Analysis'.

It was not a combat-type Divine Kingdom, but it could decompose the structure of any power and see its essence.

Back at Wanxiang University, it was precisely by relying on this attribute that she forcibly parsed out the lost spiritual power operation laws from a fragment of the Twilight Civilization.

Her number of Descendants was thirty million, not combat units, but all researchers—Book Spirits, Analysis Envoys, Knowledge Weavers.

Her Divine Kingdom area was fifty million square kilometers, not a battlefield, but a giant library that never stopped.