Chapter 7: Horned Rhino Group

Inside a conference room in a building outside Ten Thousand Beast Mountain.

The principals of the five major high schools of Tianyun Shi were seated in their places, along with two officers from the Military Department.

The large screen in front of them was broadcasting the situation inside the mountain range in real-time, divided into several zones, with the position in the very center reserved for Jiang Qin.

Although the assessment regulations stated that one must be responsible for their own life and death.

That applied to ordinary people; if an SSS-grade Talent like Jiang Qin were to fall inside, it would absolutely be a huge loss for the human race.

Everyone present, every last one of them, would have to bear the responsibility.

A burly man with a face full of scars wore a military uniform, his entire body exuding a murderous aura, his eyes fixed straight on the large screen.

He was the person in charge of the Tianyun Military Department, Li Wei.

"This year has actually produced a few good seedlings. In previous years, it was hard to produce even one student with A-Class Talent, but this year there are five, and what's more, an S-Class Talent and a heaven-gifted prodigy like Jiang Qin."

"It seems this year won't repeat the miserable situation of last year."

The five principals were silent, some unpleasant memories surfacing.

There are rankings among schools, and the same goes for cities.

In order for talented students to obtain more cultivation resources, nearby cities would join together to hold a campus arena tournament; the rewards were generous, and at the same time, the students' rankings also represented the face of their schools and their respective cities.

And last year, in the Four-City Arena Tournament, their Tianyun Shi returned in a crushing defeat!

Never mind the top three, there wasn't even a single student who could break into the top twenty... it directly caused the five major high schools of Tianyun Shi to become a laughingstock, unable to hold their heads up.

"Speak up, who do you think will take the top spot today?"

Upon hearing this.

The principal of First High School proudly raised his head and smiled confidently:

"That goes without saying. Although Jiang Qin has SSS-Class Talent, as far as I know, his talent is of the auxiliary type. It is of great benefit to a Martial Artist's cultivation in the early stages, but its effect in actual combat is negligible. Meanwhile, the S-Class special talent 【Mad Body】 awakened by Li Yunyan allows her to go head-to-head with the Spirit-Drawing Realm while still in the Mortal Embryo Realm!"

"Plus, among the five A-Class Talent students this time, three are from my First High School. As long as they coordinate, taking first and second place will be no problem."

Seeing this guy's smug, petty appearance, the three principals beside him curled their lips.

The old bastard can really put on a show!

However, they also felt helpless in their hearts. Every year, First High School is allocated the most resources, which leads to any student whose family has a bit of resources wanting to send their child to First High School.

There is simply no competing with them!

"Tch."

The principal of Third Middle School curled his lips, not bothering to retort.

Let you show off for a while; I hope you can still smile this happily when Jiang Qin starts slaughtering later.

Currently, he was the only one present who knew that Jiang Qin had dual talents.

…

At this moment, inside Ten Thousand Beast Mountain.

The students had already chosen their equipment and weapons to enter the mountain, forming teams to hunt Fierce Beasts.

After all, since it concerned the Academy selection, everyone was putting in their full effort to charge inside, wanting to secure a good ranking.

And Jiang Qin and Zhang Le were currently approaching a river channel.

The surrounding tree shadows swayed, the soil was damp, and the weeds were a meter high; it seemed danger could appear at any moment.

"It's right up ahead, Brother Qin."

Zhang Le walked in front, constantly looking at the watch-like detection instrument on his wrist.

The latest model of Fierce Beast detector could detect the location of Fierce Beasts within a 1-kilometer radius. It was expensive to build; just this one piece cost over a million Huaguo coins.

It was originally bought by Zhang Le's father for him to avoid Fierce Beasts during the assessment.

After all, Zhang Le only had C-Class Talent, he usually slacked off in class, and his combat skills were almost zero; once he encountered a Fierce Beast, there was a high probability he would provide the opponent with a full meal.

Unexpectedly, it was coming in handy right now.

The two walked for a while, and the view before them suddenly opened up.

They saw a clear river a hundred meters away, the water flowing with a gurgle, and most importantly, there were a dozen or so Horned Rhinos by the river, lowering their heads to drink water.

Horned Rhinos were considered relatively troublesome among Mortal Embryo Realm Fierce Beasts.

Their entire bodies were covered in a layer of black scales, and beneath their foreheads was a thick, sturdy rhino horn that shimmered with a metallic luster; they breathed heavily from time to time, full of aggression.

Even while drinking water, their eyes remained vigilant of their surroundings.

"Brother Qin, the highest of these Horned Rhinos has already reached the sixth level of the Mortal Embryo Realm. Should we fight?"

Zhang Le pointed at the group of Horned Rhinos not far away; encountering Fierce Beasts for the first time, he felt a bit unsure.

"Of course we fight, otherwise why would we have run all the way here."

Jiang Qin's expression did not change as he raised his arm.

From here to the Horned Rhino group was less than a hundred meters, completely within the coverage of his Slash Domain.

With a thought, one Slash after another was unleashed.

The Horned Rhino group, which was drinking water, had not yet realized that danger was coming; a thin red line appeared on their necks, and then one head after another fell into the river.

The clear river water was dyed red, the Horned Rhino carcasses fell to the ground, the cuts clean and smooth.

Zhang Le watched, dumbfounded, unable to help but rub his eyes; he hadn't even blinked.

What just happened?

"Let's go, to the next place."

"Ah... oh, oh."

…

In the monitoring conference room, it was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.

The principals of the other high schools were likewise staring at the large screen, dumbfounded, not understanding what exactly had happened in that instant.

Jiang Qin just raised his hand, and those Horned Rhinoceros heads were sliced off by something?

Is this right? Are you sure this is a student who just awakened?

"Oh my, I'm getting old and my ears aren't working so well. Old Deng, what was it you just said? I don't think I heard you clearly; why don't you repeat it?"

Principal Wang Defa of Third Middle School laughed smugly.

You little punk, trying to play me?

Scared silly, aren't you!

If he hadn't received inside information from Ji Xue beforehand, he would probably be staring blankly just like these people right now; after all, a dual talent is too shocking, and one wouldn't dare to even associate it with that.

Li Wei looked at Wang Defa, his brows slightly furrowed.

"Stop showing off, explain what is going on here?"

"Ahem, actually it's very simple..."

Principal Wang spoke about Jiang Qin's dual talent; after all, such a big matter couldn't be hidden, and as long as these people had the mind to investigate, they would find out sooner or later.

Upon learning that Jiang Qin was actually an extremely rare dual talent, Principal Deng of First High School had a face so dark he couldn't speak.

Thinking back to the bold words he had just uttered, he felt his face being slapped soundly.

This thing... he really knew how to hide! To think he could hold back until now.

Having dealt with the Horned Rhinoceros herd, Jiang Qin and Zhang Le kept searching the mountain range for traces of Fierce Beasts.

Although they had detection equipment, the detectors could only detect Fierce Beasts and could not distinguish whether they were solitary or herd-dwelling, but since they had encountered them, Jiang Qin naturally left none behind.

After all, even a mosquito is meat, no matter how small.

Less than 2 hours into the assessment, Jiang Qin's points dominated first place with an absolute advantage.

This left those below him unable to even catch a glimpse of his back.

Killing and playing along the way, as they neared the core area, the ground trembled slightly.

This movement certainly couldn't be an earthquake; the only possibility was... a beast herd!

And there were quite a lot of them.