Chapter 1

"Andro!"

A thunder-like voice reached Andro's ears.

He woke up with a start from his desk. Sweat streamed down his head, terror still lingering in his eyes.

He quickly looked at the people around him, then at the middle-aged woman on the podium. The terror in his eyes turned into confusion.

"I usually wouldn't bother with you, but there are less than a hundred days until the national exam. From now on, no one is allowed to sleep in my class!" Seeing Andro's blank stare, the middle-aged woman spoke sternly, as if frustrated with Andro's attitude.

But Andro didn't hear a single word she said. Only after a long while did he snap out of his daze.

"I've transmigrated!" He realized with a start.

He was in a parallel world. The people around him were the same classmates as the ones in his previous life, and the middle-aged woman on the podium was his homeroom teacher.

But this world was different from the one he came from. Here, technology was not the main focus.

300 years ago, a great change occurred in this world. Various grotesque and terrifying monsters appeared, and the weapons humanity had been so proud of were proven mostly ineffective.

Perhaps due to the immense threat of extinction, humans underwent a miraculous transformation. Certain people's sensitivity to the various elements in nature greatly increased.

From then on, humanity entered the era of Martial Artist cultivation.

Anyone who became a Martial Artist would earn respect.

Possessing strength meant possessing endless wealth and even overwhelming authority.

Martial Artists were divided into nine tiers, from 1-star to 9-star.

However, to become a Martial Artist, you first had to have the talent for cultivation. Second, you had to undergo the Body Tempering phase.

In the memories of this world's Andro, he had no cultivation talent at all. He was only sensitive to the fire element, but the sensitivity was only 0.9. Cultivation was impossible because his sensitivity was below 1.

The most infuriating part was that he was only short by 0.1.

[Ding! Host detected. Activating Divine Martial Artist System…]

[Ding! System activation successful. System menu generated.]

"Suit yourself!"

Seeing Andro still spacing out, the homeroom teacher on the podium shook her head helplessly.

The other students stopped looking at him too. Only the chubby boy next to him whispered, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing." Andro shook his head.

The chubby boy was named Hank Wilder. When he saw that Andro was fine, he turned his attention back to his phone.

Andro checked the system menu.

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Name: Andro Cunningham

Fire Sensitivity: 0.9

Combat Power: 5

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[Ding! The host does not meet the cultivation talent requirement. Awarding one starter pack. Do you wish to reject it?]

Andro was stunned when he heard the system's prompt.

"Heck no!" He could not help but curse in his mind.

The system was so sneaky. It asked if he wanted to reject it instead of if he wanted to accept it. If he were not paying attention, he might have just said yes.

"I want to use it!"

Andro could not help but feel nervous. He did not know whether the starter pack would be useful. If it still could not let him reach the cultivation talent threshold, then he was done for.

If he could not cultivate, he could only become an ordinary person, and in this world, ordinary people do not live easy lives.

[Ding! Congratulations, the host has obtained one Fire Sensitivity Enhancement Pill.]

Andro instantly saw a fiery-red pill in the system space.

With a thought, the pill materialized in his palm. He swallowed it without any hesitation.

The pill dissolved the moment it entered his mouth. Immediately after, a warm current flowed throughout his body, continuously transforming it.

He could clearly feel that his sensitivity to the fire element was rising at an extreme speed.

[Ding! Your fire sensitivity has increased to 9.]

[Ding! Your fire-element talent has been upgraded to SSS-rank.]

Hearing the prompt, Andro impatiently checked the menu.

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Name: Andro Cunningham

Fire-Element Talent: SSS

Combat Power: 5

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"It worked!" Andro was overjoyed. The improvement was simply immense. It had directly turned him from a piece of trash into a genius.

Talent is divided into nine ranks, from the lowest F-rank to the highest SSS-rank. The higher the rank, the faster one's cultivation speed.

He quickly circulated the "Elemental Comprehension Mental Art" and was delighted to find that his comprehension speed was indeed very fast.

He wanted to continue comprehending but the system's prompts interrupted him.

[Ding! Congratulations, the host has obtained a talent skill: Devour.]

[Ding! Congratulations, the host has obtained one Wind Element Enhancement Pill.]

"There's more!" Andro was overjoyed. There was more stuff in the starter pack.

"Aren't talent skills supposed to awaken only after becoming a Martial Artist?"

After calming down, Andro felt puzzled.

Apart from learning martial arts, humans could also awaken talent skills. To awaken a talent skill, one has to be at least a 1-star Martial Artist. He had never heard of anyone awakening a talent skill before even starting the Body Tempering phase.

He immediately checked the system menu, and sure enough, there was an extra line of information.

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Talent Skill: Devour (The host can devour certain energy objects and convert them into his own power.)

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Upon seeing "energy objects", Andro immediately thought of Beast Crystals.

Certain Fae Beasts had Beast Crystals inside them. After killing them, humans could extract these crystals. Through a special forging process, the crystals could be turned into weapons or equipment to increase a person's strength.

But in Andro's memories, devouring a Beast Crystal would have an adverse effect on human cultivation. After all, human cultivation is different from beast cultivation.

Therefore, there was a consensus among the humans: Beast Crystal could not be devoured, no matter what kind of Beast Crystal it was.

"Never mind. I'll know once I get a chance to try it!"

After making sure that no one was paying attention, he swallowed the Wind Sensitivity Enhancement Pill.

The familiar feeling appeared again, and he soon felt his sensitivity to the wind element rising rapidly.

[Ding! Your wind sensitivity has increased to 7.]

[Ding! Your wind-element talent has been upgraded to S-rank.]

"Only S-rank?" Andro frowned.

[The host's original wind sensitivity was only 0.7, so it could only be raised to S-rank. The host may try raising it through other means.]

The system's voice said, but it did not explain what the other means were.

"I see!" Andro nodded and decided not to dwell on it.

S-rank was already pretty good. In his memories, he didn't know anyone who had S-rank talent.

Of course, maybe some did, and he was just unaware of it. But anyone whose talent reaches S-rank is absolutely a one-in-a-million genius.

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When class ended, Andro walked out of the classroom and rushed out of school.

"Andro, I found a good restaurant. Wanna go? My treat. Let's have a good meal, just the two of us!"

Hank caught up with Andro and said, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"I can't. I have to go home!" Andro shook his head.

Hank was one of the few friends he had. The two often went somewhere for a meal after school.

Hank's family was rich, but his cultivation talent was poor. Therefore, he just wanted to enjoy life.

As for Andro, before this, he felt that life was hopeless and had somewhat given up on himself.

But things were different now. Now that he had the system, he urgently wanted to get stronger.