Chapter 4314 — The Three Fairies
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"Hahaha! The old man at home was right—I really am a child of destiny. This time our Qiu family has hope of rising again!" The man had a head of short, spiky hair and a lean, wiry physique with muscles on display. Though his clothes were clearly worth a fair sum, his whole person exuded the thick air of a nouveau riche, and one could not tell from what backwater village he had sprung. Now, hearing all at once that he was a genius with four spiritual-root attributes, he promptly let success go to his head.
Seeing this, the crowd below could not bring themselves to look down on him. Even knowing full well that he was a country bumpkin, he was a country bumpkin with four spiritual-root attributes! That was a gift they dreamed of having, and they simply had not been born with the luck for it. At a moment like this they had no time even to envy him—so what grounds did they have to despise him?
If anyone truly let disdain show on his face, he would only be accused of being driven by jealousy and would end up mocked by the others. And even if the man was a bumpkin now, a gift like that destined him for soaring success; the heights he would reach in the future were far beyond what the crowd could ever attain. Why go looking for trouble?
With a four-attribute genius bursting onto the scene so suddenly, even the academy bigwigs on the high platform now fixed their eyes on the spiky-haired man one after another. The third test had not even begun, and already several gazes had grown rather eager, as though they wished to take him under their wing.
The spiky-haired man wore a look of smug satisfaction. To be noticed by so many great figures at such a moment did not make him shrink in the least; he walked straight up to the formation array for the third test, and without waiting for the examiner to speak, gathered his true qi and threw a mighty punch.
The examiner's expression shifted at the sight, but he did not rebuke him. Instead, just as with Chu Muqing before, he turned to look up at the platform. After all, with a four-attribute spiritual root on display, the spiky-haired man's strength—though not so formidable as Chu Muqing's, who could fight across levels—was still a cut above the average expert of the same rank.
With Chu Muqing's admission as precedent, the crowd below had more or less caught on, and they knew this meant the spiky-haired man would certainly be able to enter Morning Star Academy. It was only a question of whose tutelage he would fall under, which depended on whether these academy bigwigs took a liking to him.
Of the three giants of the Foundation Establishment stage, Dean Ling Yuanqing showed no intention of declaring anything. The Divine Nun of the East Sea, meanwhile, was saying something to Wang Xinyan and did not even glance at the spiky-haired man. That left only Wei Hebei.
Wei Hebei sized the spiky-haired man up and down. The four-attribute spiritual root did stir him somewhat—if properly trained, the man might not become a top-tier expert of pillar-of-the-state caliber, but his strength would not be too shabby either. On that point alone, he was worth taking in; one more would make no difference anyway.
Yet the temperament and breeding the spiky-haired man displayed hardly looked like the makings of greatness. Had he carried himself with the same poise as Chu Muqing, Wei Hebei probably would have decided on the spot. But seeing this smug, success-drunk manner of his, if he took him in rashly and the man turned out to be mud that would not stick to the wall, or worse, became the laughingstock of Morning Star Academy, would that not ruin Wei Hebei's lifelong reputation?