Author’s Notes:
PS: This is a new book asking for your support. It has already passed 500,000 characters, and the plot is continuous up to the latest chapter, so you can read with confidence. It is pure power fantasy, with at least 3 chapters updated every day and extra chapters added irregularly, plenty to binge on. The early part is a bit slow-burn; if you do not like that, you can skip straight to Chapter 3. Please at least read 2 more chapters to give it a try, QAQ.
PS again: All characters in this book are already adults, all of them are adults!
PS once more: If you occasionally feel that some parts of this book read a bit off, it is most likely because those bits have been dragged into the black room for forced revision; dear readers, please cherish what you are seeing…
Nowadays, society, school, and family pressures are heavy, so I hope this little author’s novel can help you relax and get a good night’s sleep~
On a summer afternoon, the vicious sunlight seemed about to ignite the air itself, mercilessly baking the plastic track of Lanjiang No. 3 High School, while a pungent smell of rubber filled the air.
The sports field was a boiling sea of voices.
As the last student completed his class transfer, all Grade 12 students of this year at Lanjiang No. 3 High School had finished their transfers.
Yet the crowd in front of the transfer platform had not completely dispersed, and everywhere were young faces filled in turns with excitement, disappointment, and nervousness about the future.
However, at the edge of the area for Class 2 of Grade 12, the atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing point, completely out of tune with the surrounding clamor.
“Lu Sheng! Let’s break up!”
Qin Yanran, dressed in a white long dress, folded her arms across her chest, and at this moment her delicate oval face was covered with a layer of frost. She lifted her chin slightly and, with an aloof posture, ordered the handsome boy in front of her.
“Now that I have transferred into the A-rank talent class, the Holy Light priest, we will be people from two different worlds from now on.”
Her voice suddenly rose, full of obvious disgust, and carried clearly in all directions. “Do not come pestering me again in the future!”
As she spoke, Holy Light particles gathered at her fingertips. “See this? A-rank Holy Light! A high-grade skill that you, a mere ant, will never touch in your entire life!”
Qin Yanran’s voice instantly caused an uproar in one corner of the sports field.
“Look! It is Qin Yanran, the class beauty of Class 2, and Lu Sheng, breaking up!”
“What do you mean breaking up? Is it not obvious that Qin Yanran is kicking Lu Sheng to the curb? Tsk tsk, first thing after getting ashore, she cuts down the man she fancied! The ancients did not lie to me! She just awakened an A-rank combat-type talent class and she is already in a hurry to sever ties with her E-rank loser boyfriend!”
“What is strange about that? Our Yanran is now an A-rank class holder with boundless prospects! Is she supposed to keep following a loser who only awakened an E-rank life-class profession? Would that not ruin her future?!”
“Exactly! If Lu Sheng had any self-awareness, he would be sensible enough to let go on his own. Yanran already gave him the most beautiful 3 years of her youth, that is a huge blessing for him! If he has any conscience left, he should not drag Yanran down when she flies toward a wider world!”
“…”
The harsh gossip buzzed like countless flies circling around his ears.
Lu Sheng raised his eyes in a daze, the massive influx of information crashing into his chaotic thoughts.
“Class transfer… class?”
“Where the hell did I get thrown to? Is this still Great Xia?!”
It was as if the afterimage of the Pal Sulfur Mine in Palworld still lingered before his eyes. “My Pal base just finished building the generator!”
One second ago, he had still been in Palworld, incarnated as a capitalist whipping his black-slave miners to work 007 shifts.
The next second, accompanied by a tearing headache, a huge flood of memories surged into his mind.
“I… transmigrated?!”
“A parallel world… Blue Star, class holders, invasion of alien races…”
After the shock came a surge of indescribable ecstasy that rushed up in Lu Sheng’s chest.
Transmigration! The standard package of countless webnovel protagonists! What did that mean? It meant that Lu Sheng was chosen by destiny, bound to be extraordinary!
“Let me see what class I awakened?”
Lu Sheng’s heart was surging. “As the chosen one, at least I should start from A-rank, with SSS-rank as the ceiling, right? At worst it should be some kind of hidden class!”
In this world, the class level division was extremely clear.
E-rank was at the very bottom, D, C, B, and A went up step by step, S-rank was already the dragon among men, SS-rank was as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns worldwide, and SSS-rank existed only in legends!
Having read a lot of webnovels, Lu Sheng firmly believed that he was that child of destiny! Otherwise, would this trip of transmigration not be meaningless?
Otherwise, why would he be sent over for no reason? To suffer?!
Did they really think every protagonist had to start with a hell-difficulty opening like Fire-bro?!
With absolute confidence, he almost instinctively called forth the basic ability every awakened person possessed… class panel inspection.
『name: Lu Sheng』
『Gender: Male』
『age: 18』
『Class: Seeker (E)』
『level: LV1』
『Four attributes: strength 3, intelligence 5, agility 3, constitution 2』
『Class skill: Basic Detection』
『Basic Detection (E): Can detect the target’s name and age.』
『Note: Because detection consumes a huge amount of energy, it can only be used once per day!』
“666!!”
The smile on Lu Sheng’s face instantly froze, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over him from head to toe. A suffocating sense of frustration clogged his chest, and he nearly exploded on the spot.
“Damn! What kind of trash is this?!”
He ranted madly in his heart.
E-rank?! Seeker?! It could only detect name and age?! And only once a day?! How was this any different from being useless?!
Hell-difficulty opening! This was absolutely a hell-difficulty script!
“Lu Sheng! I am breaking up with you! Are you deaf?! Do not play dumb with me!”
Qin Yanran’s voice became even sharper and more piercing. She felt extremely humiliated and displeased with the confusion and distraction Lu Sheng was showing right now.
“The man of Qin Yanran must at least be an S-rank class holder. What kind of thing are you?!”
The cold rebuke yanked Lu Sheng brutally back from the huge psychological gap to reality. Only then did he clearly see the girl standing in front of him, and in her eyes was undisguised disgust, as if she was looking at garbage.
All around them were countless gloating, mocking, and teasing gazes, everyone waiting to see him make an even bigger fool of himself.
Lu Sheng suddenly raised his hand, cutting off Qin Yanran’s ceaseless belittling of him.
“Shut up and be quiet, stupid woman! You are too noisy!”
From the memories, he had already learned the identity of the girl before him.
She was the original body’s ex-girlfriend, who at first had gone for him because of his looks, then fallen for his special talent (reader’s minimum requirement), and in the end had dumped him without hesitation like trash just because he had only awakened the lowest E-rank talent.
The original guy was pure doormat as well; he actually let this woman infuriate him so much that his lungs almost exploded and he literally suffocated himself to death, which then led to his own transmigration.
“Looks like there is no hope of counting on this crappy talent in this life…”
Lu Sheng’s heart went cold, but his inherently optimistic nature quickly gained the upper hand. “I can only rely on my past-life knowledge and experience to carve out another path in business or other fields. A person has to have some dreams, right?”
“First set a small goal and earn 100 million before anything else!”
Just as Lu Sheng was psyching himself up and drawing the blueprint of his future business empire, a sudden mutation occurred!
A line of tiny golden words, shimmering with faint light, appeared in front of his eyes without any warning:
『Detected that the host’s soul inside the body has changed and meets special conditions! Second class is about to awaken!』
『Because the host’s soul nature is special, the second class will awaken in conjunction with the host’s core experience from his previous life!』
『Warning: As soul fusion is about to be fully completed, the host must reach the transfer platform within 10 minutes to carry out the second awakening ritual! Otherwise, the qualification for awakening will disappear permanently!』
『Remaining time: 00:09:59』
Damn!
This sudden prompt made Lu Sheng’s mind crash for a moment, then a wave of wild joy immediately surged up from the bottom of his heart!
A sudden turn for the better! Light at the end of the tunnel! The golden finger arrived late but still arrived!
“Lu Sheng?! Has your brain flooded? You actually dared to shout at me?!”
Qin Yanran, who had been loudly told to shut up by Lu Sheng, was stunned for a full 2 seconds before she reacted, and a huge sense of shame and rage instantly swallowed her.
For 3 years, Lu Sheng had catered to her in every way and had not even dared to say a single harsh word! Now that she had just mentioned breaking up, he actually dared to yell at her in front of so many people?!
“I knew it, you men are all scum! We just broke up and your true colors are already showing!”
Qin Yanran was shaking all over with anger. Instead of backing off, she escalated and shrieked even more vicious insults at Lu Sheng.
“Today you dared to shout at me, tomorrow you will dare to hit me! Luckily I broke up with you, or sooner or later I would be a victim of your domestic violence!”
The more she spoke, the more worked up she became, as if she had already seen a miserable scene of herself being abused. Her eyes turned red, her voice choked, and she acted so aggrieved it was unbearable.
It was as if the scene she imagined had really happened.
No! She could not let this scumbag act so arrogantly! Even if they had broken up, she still had to teach him a lesson!
With that thought, a cold gleam flashed in Qin Yanran’s eyes. She suddenly raised her arm, fingers spread, and swung her hand toward Lu Sheng’s face.
“I will give you a slap so you will remember this!”
A hint of satisfaction flashed through Qin Yanran’s eyes.
However…
“Smack!”
A crisp and loud slap exploded across the sports field!
A burning, searing pain instantly spread from her cheek to her entire brain. Qin Yanran’s head was knocked sharply to one side, and her carefully styled hair became a mess plastered across her reddening, swollen face.
She froze on the spot, covered her cheek, and stared at Lu Sheng in disbelief. Her mind went completely blank, leaving only a buzzing in her ears.
Lu Sheng… had actually beaten her to it and given her a solid slap first!
“I already told you to shut up, and you still dare to plot against your emperor?”
Lu Sheng shook his slightly numb hand and grimaced.
This woman was indeed worthy of being an A-rank Holy Light priest; her constitution attribute was far higher than his, as if she were wearing a thorns armor that reflected damage. That slap almost shook his hand bones to pieces.
“You… you… you actually dared to hit me?!”
It took Qin Yanran a long time to recover. Her body trembled violently from sheer rage.
Lu Sheng had actually dared to lay a hand on her?!
He was practically overturning heaven itself!
The surroundings instantly fell deathly silent, then erupted into an even greater uproar! All the onlookers sucked in a cold breath, their eyes almost popping out!
Although on the surface Lu Sheng and Qin Yanran were boyfriend and girlfriend, under Qin Yanran’s manipulations she had long since wrapped Lu Sheng around her little finger so much he was one step away from calling her mommy, and by now he had already become a complete simp in her shape.
And today this simp actually dared to hit his master?!
With Qin Yanran’s proud personality, plus the fact that after awakening an A-rank talent class she became even more arrogant, Lu Sheng’s slap was undoubtedly poking a hornet’s nest!
Everyone’s mind flashed the same thought: the show was about to begin!
As countless gazes, some shocked, some teasing, some gloating, swept over the two of them, Qin Yanran felt the burning pain on her face magnified a hundredfold, and in her heart a nameless fire roared up.
“Lu Sheng!! I am going to kill you!!!”
Qin Yanran let out a hysterical scream. The initial attribute bonus from her A-rank talent class far exceeded Lu Sheng’s; she had only been caught off guard just now and gotten ambushed!
She raised her palm again. This time, holy white light faintly flowed in her palm, and she poured in all her strength, determined to completely smash Lu Sheng’s hateful face!
However, it was as if Lu Sheng had expected this. His body swayed in a strange way and he easily slipped past this rage-filled strike.
He did not even bother to glance at Qin Yanran again. Without the slightest pause in his steps, he rushed straight toward the transfer platform.
“Get out of my way! I will deal with you after I finish awakening!”
Seeing that the countdown had already lost 1 minute, Lu Sheng dashed anxiously toward the transfer platform.
At this moment, all Grade 12 students of Lanjiang No. 3 High School had finished their class transfers.
On the transfer platform, the old principal Chu Jianghe, whose hair was grizzled, was about to put away the crystal ball that was nearly out of energy. He looked down at the sparse students under the platform, his eyes full of lingering disappointment and fatigue.
“Sigh, this year we only have 2 A-ranks again… In the grand exam for new class holders, it seems our Lanjiang No. 3 High School is destined to come in last again…”
The heavy pressure of coming in last for 5 years in a row had almost crushed this selfless old principal.
What pained him even more was the genius girl He Wanying from Class 1 of Grade 12, in whom he had placed high hopes.
In cultural subjects she had long dominated first place in the grade, and in combat class she swept her peers, even taking first place in this year’s citywide joint combat exam!
Yet in the end… the class she awakened was an E-rank life-class profession… the masseur!
He could not forget the girl’s eyes in that instant, as lifeless as death.
The sight of her wandering away like a lost soul afterward was like a thorn driven hard into Chu Jianghe’s heart.
“Such an outstanding child… how unfair fate is!”
Chu Jianghe’s heart was filled with the great powerlessness of a hero growing old.
“Forget it, I am old too; it is time to retire…”
Although he comforted himself this way, Chu Jianghe was still unwilling at heart, yet there was nothing he could do.
Just as he was about to close the protective case…
“Principal Chu, wait!”
An urgent voice rang out.
Chu Jianghe looked up in astonishment and saw the handsome boy Lu Sheng, who had just been the center of that noisy commotion below, now standing in front of him. He was panting heavily from his run, sweat beading on his forehead, but his eyes were shining with an astonishing brightness, carrying an almost fanatical confidence.
Right after that, Lu Sheng continued, his voice not loud but carrying a strange penetrating force.
“Principal, I want to undergo a second awakening!”
Second awakening!
At his words, Qin Yanran, who had just rushed over and was about to explode, suddenly became doubtful and hesitant, her body instinctively stopping. The other students also unconsciously turned to look at Lu Sheng when they heard this.
Time seemed to freeze, and the air over the entire sports field of Lanjiang No. 3 High School solidified. All the focus and all the noise at this moment were locked tightly onto the slim young man on the transfer platform!
However, after that instant of complete silence, no one noticed that, in the narrow gap of the nearly closed protective case, the class-transfer crystal ball flickered once without warning.