A fucking zero

Qin Hao was used to seeing this. All those stares of admiration and awe...he was already numb. He knew that they only did that because of his talent.

"Greetings Elder Jun." Qin Hao greeted the elder who was presiding over the ceremony. He said it without a trace of arrogance or fawning. Heck, if any one was going to fawn, it wasn't him!

The elder looked at him with fondness. 'Damn, I don't even know you. What's with that look?' Qin Hao cursed inwardly. His face, as usual, looked lazy and expressionless.

The elder snapped back to reality, remembering his status. "Yes, Qin Hao" He turned to the other NPCs...no! Elites. "It is the time you've been waiting for. the day to decide your fate. your future. Would you gain instant success or be lost among the crowds."

He swept his look at the youths. He was pleased to see his speech had no small amount of effect on them. The hot bloodedness in their eyes could not been hidden. He looked at them one by one, then abruptly came to a stop as he met those expressionless eyes. It was Qin Hao. 'Truly, a genius is a genius. What composure!' Elder Jun thought inwardly.

he brought out some stone tablets and introduced. "This is the talent stat checker. Here is where you check your talent grades. It is a one use tablet. Immediately you use it, it will crumble into powder.

With the use of his spirit qi, he threw them all. In a flash, all had one in their hands. He started calling out names.

"Qin Tian, you're up" A fat youth lumbered up the stage. He pressed his finger into the thumb sized dent. A drop of blood came out which let out a release pf white light forming the number 5 in the air.

Elder Jun called out expressionlessly not paying any heed to the happy looking boy on the stage. "You have a grade six bloodline and and a grade four fire affinity. Work hard." Though it was good, that kind of talent was really common in the clan. He was looking for those of grade seven and above!

Others were inspired by those results and went up to try their luck. So there was a series of bad grades." Two, Four, Two again. Four. Three. Five. Five..."

A little girl came up. She had a graceful and noble bearing.

"Look it's Xiaomei. She's the Qin Clan second genius."

"Yeah, She would've been first if not for that monster."

"Huh, even the princess can't compete against Qin Hao?"

"You really don't know? That comprehension ability of his shouldn't be in the world of mortals."

"Ah, too much exaggeration."

"No, they aren't even on the same league."

Qin Xiaomei had already gone up to the stage. She fluidly put a drop of blood on the stone. There was a blinding light." Elder Jun eyes lifted up. 'A genius! That's up to 7.9 meters. Just a little short of reaching grade eight.

The radiance had encompassed a radius of 7.9 meters. That meant it was a very high grade seven.

Qin Xiaomei paid no attention to the cheers or the looks of envy. She walked straight up to Qin Hao and said in a low voice. "I will surely surpass you."

Qin Hao was not even paying attention to the ceremony. He looked at the girl with a lazy expressionless look and said. "Okay".

"What? Is that how you answer a rival? Forget it, this guy is a brick." She thought inwardly. She turned and left to an isolated place. She wanted to know what grade Qin Hao would get.

The onlookers took notice of this and started discussing." See the beauty of Xiaomei and that look of Qin Hao."

"There must be something going on."

One boy stood up and said," I get it they are in a relationship!"

"Oh so Qin Hao is pursuing Xiaomei"

"You're really an idiot. How is it possible for Qin Hao to pursue anybody. It must be Xiaomei who is doing the pursuing."

The people began to chat as Xiaomei began to blush. "He'll be ideal if not for that indifference of his." She thought inwardly. "He would never even look at me straight in the eye though."

After some few more people, Qin Hao's name was called.

Even the Patriarch immediately focused on the screen which was projecting what was going on.

Qin Hao walked up to the stage. He cut his finger to drop the blood. Before half of the blood had been absorbed, it immediately let out a screeching sound. Resplendent white light began to glow as Qin Jun watched from the side.

One meter, two meters.... When it reached seven meters, the elder and the patriarch's faces began to scrunch up in excitement. It had not shown any sign of stopping as it was moving at a fast pace. In fact, the pace was increasing. It reached eight meters and was still increasing. Nine meters, 9.9 meters...their faces started to change to that of shock. It passed into ten and was still increasing.

"Holy smokes, is there a grade 10?" The patriarch jumped from the chair and began racing towards the ceremony.

The radiance had long passed 10 meters and had started to reach 20 meters. The pace was now so much faster than before. It looked as if a bright ball of light was transforming into a divine sun.

The patriarch was about to get there and stopped abruptly in shock when he saw the radiance moving towards him at a terrifying speed. "Truly a monster. A terrifying one", The patriarch murmured in shock.

When the radiance encompassed the whole Qin Clan. The energy shields were activated. It held the radiance in thankfully. But the intensity continued increasing. It stayed for about 10 minutes before dissipating into nothing.

The elder met the patriarch. For a while, they could only stare at each other in shock. The patriarch then swallowed a mouthful of air then said. "Elder Jun, what grade is that?"

The elder was also curious as he glanced at the tablet. He dropped the tablet in shock. The patriarch caught it.

"We are already expecting a heavenly grade nine so why the shock?" The next thing that came was a cry of exclamation that trembled the whole clan.

"A fucking zero????"