[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-global-psychic-powers-starting-off-with-the-awak":3,"chapter-global-psychic-powers-starting-off-with-the-awak-global-psychic-powers-starting-off-with-the-awak-chapter-11":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Global Psychic Powers: Starting Off with the Awakening of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2358512,4613,"Chapter 11: Has Xu Jingming Been Hiding His Strength? The Curious Homeroom Teacher","global-psychic-powers-starting-off-with-the-awak-chapter-11",11,"\u003Cp>\"The top-ranked student, Zhou Mingyang, scored 412—he must already be slaughtering across the central zone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"His Light Wind Technique is excellent for travel; his speed rivals even the best in the provincial capital’s Wu Ke exam.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Speaking of which, Principal Liu is truly impressive—almost all of the top ten are from your school.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"......\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the ruins town, on an open field, ten massive projection screens displayed live footage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were captured by military drones tracking the top ten candidates’ scores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath these ten large projections lay thousands of smaller, densely packed projection screens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were feeds from fixed cameras placed throughout the ruins town, only enlarged to the main screen when needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside the projections stood a ranking list, detailing each candidate’s score and position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the temporary seating erected below the projections, education bureau officials and school principals and teachers were commenting on the students’ rankings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, a middle-aged man in a suit with short hair was the center of attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was Liu Hang, principal of Jiangcheng No. 1 High School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the top ten in the Wu Ke rankings, all except one student from No. 3 High School were from No. 1 High School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhou Mingyang is our Jiangcheng’s ace; this Wu Ke exam, he should break into the top 100 of Jiangnan Province.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the front row of the audience seating sat a short, stout middle-aged man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Zhou Mingyang slaughter his way across the first projection screen, he nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was Zhang Wenshan, director of the Jiangcheng Education Bureau.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s been many years since Jiangcheng last produced a student who made the Jiangnan Province top 100.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Hang, principal of No. 1 High School beside him, also felt a pang of nostalgia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiangnan Province was one of Daxia Nation’s most populous provinces, containing 24 prefecture-level cities and nearly 34 county-level cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiangcheng lay in the remote northernmost region of Jiangnan Province, resource-poor and among the lowest-ranked in economic development among the 24 prefecture-level cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, the annual education funding allocated by the provincial capital, Ning’an, was minimal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of this, Jiangcheng consistently performed poorly in the annual Wu Ke exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its best historical result was seven or eight years ago, when a student awakened an A-rank ability and broke into the top 100.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since then, though Jiangcheng has produced other A-rank ability users, none have managed to enter the top 100.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this year’s Zhou Mingyang has reignited their hopes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve always been satisfied with the education at No. 1 High School.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Zhang Wenshan nodded. \"Also, No. 3 High School did well—finally someone cracked the top ten.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But No. 2 High School fell short—its best student is only ranked 18th.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiangcheng No. 1 High School was the best middle school in Jiangcheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 High Schools were far inferior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In past Wu Ke exams, the top ten were always monopolized by No. 1 High School students—No. 2 and No. 3 students never appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This year, we’ve indeed had several students with notable talent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The principal of No. 3 High School couldn’t hide his smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By contrast, Yang Yao, principal of No. 2 High School beside him, looked embarrassed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In past years, No. 2 High School had always overshadowed No. 3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This year, the situation seemed reversed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But our school’s performance this year really has been poor...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Principal Yang Yao scanned the score rankings for a long time and found only eight No. 2 High School students in the top fifty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Li Ming, Yang Jian, Tang Ju... these are all students from Class One’s Rocket Class—but who is Xu Jingming? I’ve never heard this name before.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Ke exam scores directly determined each school’s education funding allocation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Yang Yao was somewhat familiar with his school’s top students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he had never heard the name 'Xu Jingming.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Probably a hidden student from another parallel class. I’ll ask the homeroom teachers later.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Yao didn’t give it much thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, No. 2 High School had so many students; it wasn’t unusual for one or two to conceal their true strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Principal Yang Yao paid it no mind—but in the back row, Chen Fan, homeroom teacher of Class 5, Grade 3 at No. 2 High School, was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew Xu Jingming perfectly well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boy was only an E-rank ability awakener—how could he rank in the top fifty?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, Xu Jingming was the highest-ranked student in their entire Class 5!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was unbelievable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Could he have concealed his true strength?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But no matter how much you hide it, an E-rank ability is still an E-rank ability—can it suddenly become an S-rank?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Then how did he get such a high score?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Homeroom teacher Chen Fan was utterly baffled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wu Ke exam involved real, direct combat with ferocious beasts—there could be no cheating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the main screen above only displayed the top ten scores; the thousands of fixed-camera feeds below were too dense to distinguish clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Fan had no chance of locating Xu Jingming’s footage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to see the footage, unaware of how Xu Jingming achieved such a high score, homeroom teacher Chen Fan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Felt like a cat that smelled catnip but couldn’t reach it—itching with frustration...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the ruins town, after half an hour of sprinting, Xu Jingming finally entered the central zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Roar~~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Howl~~~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the outer zone, the central zone had far more ferocious beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xu Jingming walked, he could hear distant roars and howls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air seemed thick with blood and savagery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Crack—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jingming carried his spear, a nutrition bar between his teeth, his combat boots crushing a rusted plastic basin by the roadside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once sturdy plastic, after decades of wind and rain, had become as brittle as instant noodles—crumbling to dust under a single step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he walked, Xu Jingming observed his surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The former Weiyuan Town had held nearly 100,000 people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the beasts breached the city’s defenses, many hadn’t evacuated in time—some 50,000 to 60,000 perished in the beasts’ jaws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the town, in the suburbs, there were few obvious traces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once he entered the area equivalent to the ruins town’s urban center,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he saw abandoned cars, dried dark-red bloodstains on the cracked ground,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and scattered, partially fossilized human skeletons—testaments to the bloodshed and brutality of that day.\u003C\u002Fp>",1057,"2026-06-21T05:33:57.936Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","be5f33970cc1410914f7698098f89399d3bba17d4948af15efd2e46a0f610bce","global-psychic-powers-starting-off-with-the-awak-chapter-12","global-psychic-powers-starting-off-with-the-awak-chapter-10",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fglobal-psychic-powers-starting-off-with-the-awak-cover.jpg"]