Chương 78: War God’s : — Chapter 78 - This Doesn't Count as Fulfilling the Promise

Wang Xian looked at Ye Miyue, caught between laughter and tears. Wait. The promise was that if you awakened a King-tier Talent, you'd kiss me. But I never said you had to do it in front of everyone. Zero mental preparation. And besides, a kiss on the cheek? What's that supposed to be? Wang Xian knew why Ye Miyue had done it. Probably saw he hadn't awakened a martial talent and wanted to console him? But being bold enough to go this far really exceeded his imagination.

Given Ye Miyue's socially anxious, shy personality, in private, getting her to do anything was fine. But making her do it in front of so many people... If you're not socially anxious, you have no idea how much courage that takes. Ye Miyue buried her head against Wang Xian's shoulder, heart pounding wildly. The moment she saw Wang Xian walk off the awakening platform to total silence. She didn't know why, but the thought just appeared in her mind. She wanted to rush over right then.

But the second she came down, Chen Yuting called him away. Her heart clenched. Until she saw Wang Xian walk back, completely composed. Then she couldn't hold back the excitement, elation, and worry flooding through her. From somewhere came the courage and confidence to break through the restraints inside. The moment she kissed him, her mind went blank. When she came to her senses, she was already too shy to face anyone. Good thing she was wearing shoes.

No one could see the three-bedroom apartment her toes were digging out.

"Ye and I had a promise." Wang Xian coughed once, looking around at the silent crowd.

"If she awakened a powerful talent, she had to let me witness it immediately."

"No other meaning."

"..." Everyone. Who witnesses a talent by kissing someone? Anyone who didn't know better would think Ye Miyue awakened a body talent related to her mouth. Please. She awakened a sword body. Letting you witness it shouldn't that mean swinging a sword at you?

"As the saying goes..." Wang Xian knew roughly what the teachers and students were thinking. He explained with a straight face, "Honey mouth, dagger heart. A sword body's manifestation isn't limited to using a sword. Spitting sword qi from the mouth is also a form of expression."

"Just now, Ye was demonstrating her sword body for me."

"Right?"

"You little punk!" Cui Sanyan pointed at Wang Xian. Quite the smooth talker. Grandmaster Bai couldn't help giving a thumbs-up. No wonder Xiao Xi likes him so much. Ye Miyue let out a soft whimper, not daring to respond. Still, listening to Wang Xian's nonsense made her feel less awkward. In the crowd. Li Zihang watched Wang Xian with extreme envy. Honestly. When he saw Wang Xian walk off the awakening platform earlier, looking like he hadn't awakened any talent. He felt pretty gleeful inside.

He'd wanted to mock him a couple times. But a flash of inspiration hit him, and he reconsidered. How exactly would he mock him?

'Haha, Wang Xian, so this day has come for you! A martial artist with no talent, a fallen genius! What a pity!' But if he said that...

'Wait, I only awakened a mid-tier talent. Even adding yesterday's score, I still can't reach most of his 723.' The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.

'Wouldn't that just make me pure trash?' A martial artist who awakened a talent, scoring lower than one who didn't. After all, Wang Xian's talent test score was zero. That's like scoring zero on the single most important subject. And even so, he still couldn't match the guy's score. Was even 100 or 200 points behind. That would be way too pathetic. Didn't dare open his mouth. Absolutely didn't dare. Li Zihang looked around at the silent classmates. And at the students from No. 4 High and No.

1 High outside who'd awakened long ago. He understood. Why none of these students dared discuss it. Who the hell would dare? At No. 1 High, He Yiming had 630 total. Plus his high-tier talent bonus, only 750 total. Then Lin Ao, 561 total plus King-tier talent bonus, reached 861. And Chen Yuting, 450 plus King-tier talent bonus, hit 750. Only these three had totals exceeding Wang Xian's. Only these three were qualified to speak.

As for the rest, a whole group who couldn't catch up even after adding talent scores, who would dare say anything? And looking again. Ye Miyue, who possessed a Taboo Talent and was practically the most dazzling martial light in all of Western Shu, had thrown herself right into his arms. Li Zihang had thought that when Chen Yuting called him away alone earlier, she must have mocked and ridiculed Wang Xian harshly. However. Before Ye Miyue at this moment, any voice was pale and powerless. But...

'Who asked him to get so close to Ye Miyue? For their relationship to already reach this point?' As for Ye Miyue, during first year, second year, even first semester of senior year. Her liberal arts grades were just very good. Her martial studies were clearly average. Her life force hadn't improved at all in 2 years. In a sense, she was even more useless than Wang Xian. Only her other halos covered it up. Yet after getting close to Wang Xian, she shot up explosively.

Martial training progressed faster than Xia Sichen's. Pretty absurd. After all, before talent awakens, it has zero effect on a person's life force.

"Ah..." Li Zihang sighed. For Wang Xian, what did it matter whether he awakened a talent? His worst option was still a 985-tier first-rate martial university. And that kind of university might already be his own limit. Even the limit for most students. Thinking of this, a vast chasm filled Li Zihang with deep powerlessness. A sense of 'he merely makes a slight move, and it's already the limit of my ability', that gap made him feel like he couldn't breathe. Yesterday, the 723 score had only shocked him.

But today, once talent scores came out and even adding them still couldn't compare, that score finally took on tangible weight. As for the road ahead. Without martial talent, becoming a high-realm martial artist above fifth realm was nearly impossible. But. Even with a high-tier talent, who could guarantee becoming fifth-realm, sixth-realm, or even seventh-realm Great Grandmaster? In the end, it was all the same anyway.

"For people like He Yiming, Lin Ao, Tan Tianze... only when their final combat scores surpass Wang Xian's."

"Will they dare say they've truly surpassed Wang Xian, right?" Li Zihang had a realization. Talent is fixed, unchanging. Cannot be altered. And true geniuses are proud. You say I surpassed you by relying on talent score bonuses, you might not accept that. I wouldn't acknowledge it either. Like Lin Ao right now. By virtue of his King-tier Talent, he leaped to the highest score. But.

"Let the combat assessment reveal the truth!" Lin Ao smiled faintly. His gaze took in He Yiming, Xu Rong, and Wang Xian at the deepest point.

"If I don't surpass you all in combat, I wouldn't dare claim I'm better."

"This, after all, is my strong suit." He Yiming beside him smiled but didn't speak. He didn't know what battles Lin Ao had gone through during his disappearance this semester. But it definitely wasn't as many beasts as he'd killed.

"His mentality is really strong..." Xu Rong looked at Wang Xian in the distance, pondering.

"From the moment he walked off the awakening platform, his expression didn't change at all. Look at our No. 1 High martial class, there are a few students who didn't awaken talent."

"Their faces look like the sky is falling."

"Come to think of it, my score plus talent bonus seems to only be 720."

"Actually 3 points lower than his..."

"..." At this, she suddenly rubbed her cheeks with both hands.

"If my combat performance is weak too, my total might still be lower than his..." Xu Rong's expression changed.

"If that really happens, my dao heart will shatter."

"Not to that extent." He Yiming said thoughtfully.

"His life force is 100 points, martial realm returned to simplicity, fourth-stage techniques. If we make good use of our talents going forward, we'll be stronger than him at least in life force output."

"At the same time, with talent supplementation, we can offset the gap in martial realm and technique."

"In other words..." He Yiming looked at the others seriously.

"In the upcoming combat assessment, we should be on the same level as Wang Xian. Unless he teams up with Ye Miyue."

"A Taboo Talent is no trivial matter."

"He won't team up with Ye Miyue." Lin Ao said.

"Why?"

"Intuition. The intuition of the strong." Lin Ao smiled coldly and proudly.

"Throughout history, very few men have wanted to rely on women to accomplish things."

"What kind of stinking feudal machismo is that?" Xu Rong spat.

"Our Dragon Country also has female Martial Gods. They have husbands and children whose strength isn't high. By your logic, their husbands and children don't count as men?"

"Uh... that's not what I meant..."

"I say Wang Xian should team up with Ye Miyue and fight the combat assessment together!"

"He won't." He Yiming said.

"Once a Taboo Talent appears, Ye Miyue might not even need to participate in combat. Moreover, Dragon Country has precedents, those with Taboo Talents are prohibited from casually teaming up with others for battle."

"Especially right after awakening, when they haven't grasped the talent's power yet."

"If control slips even slightly, what gets hurt isn't the beasts. It's the teammates." Xu Rong thought for a moment and smacked her head.

"Forgot about that." No helping it. This Taboo Talent was too strong. If control slipped even a little, you really could end up killing your own people. Behind these regulations were precedents. In fact. If not for these regulations. Wang Xian would actually quite like to team up with Ye Miyue. Not that he wanted to live off her. Purely because he worried this girl didn't have much experience facing beasts. Might not use this power well, making it hard to score high.

In the early stages of a Taboo Talent, because the talent is too strong, using it once or twice might completely drain the body's primeval energy. If not used well, then... So during this period, in terms of practicality, it's actually inferior to some mid-tier and high-tier talents. In combat assessment, actually harder to get a high score. Unless there's someone guiding her. Of course, once you have a Taboo Talent, combat assessment is just a formality. Going or not doesn't matter.

Though being able to do some combat is definitely still good. He figured tonight, the phones from Dragon Country's top 5 admissions offices would be ringing on Ye Miyue's phone. As the sun set, this day's talent awakening drew to a close. That evening. Every student received an email sent by the Western Shu Military District. The email contained detailed information about the combat assessment 1 day later. Including combat assessment location, various requirements, scoring calculations, and so on.

Combat assessment is basically initiated by the military departments of each major region, organized jointly with schools as the final unified exam content. Relatively speaking, it could be considered the last exam given to students about to become martial artists. ➤ Next: A Kiss, You Kissed the Face, Not the Mouth