After Old Ji left, Lin Feng returned to the classroom. For him, as long as the price was right, he still hoped to stay at Jiangxin First Middle School. It wasn't about so-called affection or nostalgia—he just found moving troublesome.

Under the watchful eyes of the teacher and classmates, Lin Feng walked back to his seat.

The first period was Demon Beast Combat, about how to hunt demon beasts and their weaknesses. Of course, Lin Feng had no interest in it.

But he didn't sleep either. Instead, he picked up a book and began reading it seriously.

Since he wanted to be the top scorer in the college entrance exam, he couldn't slack off on the cultural subjects with their 200 points. Lin Feng had already forgotten most of the basic knowledge from high school, so he had to catch up fast.

"Huh?"

Once he started reading, Lin Feng was surprised to find his memory and comprehension had improved greatly compared to before. While he still couldn't memorize everything at a glance, reading something two or three times was enough to quickly memorize it.

Obviously, this was a change brought by refining the Nightmare.

Ring, ring, ring.

When the lunch bell rang at noon, Lin Feng had already memorized a thick book on [Spirit Plant Identification]. At this rate, he could finish reviewing all the cultural subjects in less than three days.

After school, Lin Feng felt a little hungry. It was lunchtime now.

"Yang Fan." Lin Feng called out.

"Brother Feng, what's up?"

Yang Fan came over quickly. Quite a few classmates looked on with envy.

Lin Feng had always been a bit of a loner. In Class 7 of Senior Year 3, besides Gao Hai and Ya Ge, he didn't really have any other friends.

But now, with Lin Feng's meteoric rise—especially after he bought Gao Hai an apartment—everyone wanted to curry favor with him and become the next lucky one. But clearly, it was hard to become Lin Feng's friend. Right now, though, it seemed Yang Fan was making progress.

Before, even though Yang Fan was well-known in Class 7, nobody really took him seriously. But now, because of his connection to Lin Feng, not just in Class 7, but in Jiangxin Middle School as a whole, he had become someone to watch.

Now classmates didn't dare call him "Big Mouth" anymore—they'd started addressing him as "Brother Fan" or "Brother Zui."

Just yesterday, Yang Fan had run into Ji Yu at school. Yang Fan simply ignored him, and Ji Yu didn't even dare say a word. Back home, even his usually indifferent father called him over to ask about Lin Feng—all because his little sister had asked for Lin Feng's autograph and their father overheard.

This made Yang Fan realize the kind of deterrence Lin Feng carried as the head of the Jianghu Martial Arts Club.

Lin Feng was only in Senior Year 3, yet he'd already gotten his father's attention. If one day, Lin Feng truly rose up and the Jianghu Martial Arts Club became strong, as a core member, no one would dare ignore Yang Fan's existence.

By then, Yang Fan would prove to everyone that even without martial arts talent, he was second to none.

"Did you finish putting together the list?"

"Did that yesterday already." Yang Fan nodded and pulled a folded sheet of paper from his pocket.

"Check it out, Brother Feng. From Senior Year 3, I picked thirteen people. Six are from major families, five from big corporations, and two from high-ranking officials."

Lin Feng nodded. Choosing from Senior Year 3 was mainly to make sure the Martial Arts Club members could go to the same university together.

That way, the club he painstakingly built wouldn't fall apart halfway, and it could realize its true value.

Thirteen people was actually more than he'd expected.

Out of those thirteen, Lin Feng quickly ruled out two.

In his memory, the companies where these two people's fathers worked would eventually go bankrupt and shut down.

Afterwards, he ruled out three more.

The reason for excluding these three was mainly because Yang Fan's assessment of them wasn't good—either selfish, or hot-tempered.

That left just seven, as candidates for the core member list.

Among them, Lin Feng was most interested in a boy named Yun Kai.

The Yun Family—one of the most famous families in Jiang City, with extraordinary ancestors appearing in their lineage.

Lin Feng wasn't really curious about the past extraordinary powerhouses, but rather about this boy named Yun Kai.

Even if Yang Fan hadn't put him on the list, Lin Feng would have added him to the core candidate roster.

If you asked who was the most well-known person at Jiangxin First Middle School, it was undoubtedly Yun Kai.

His fame wasn't due to outstanding talent, but because he was odd.

According to Yang Fan's notes, Yun Kai had been different since birth—all covered in golden hair, with some beastlike features. Because of this, even though he was from a top family, he'd always been bullied and discriminated against by classmates. Yang Fan's evaluation: "Extremely poor talent, hated and ostracized by his peers, has low self-esteem, cowardly."

Seeing this, Lin Feng couldn't help but want to scoff. Even after refining the Nightmare, he was a little jealous.

The world of Martial Artists has no such thing as fairness. Hard work doesn't guarantee results. Effort can never surpass talent.

Ancestral Demonization, huh!

That's an enhanced version of bloodline awakening—rarer even than natural talent.

A boy who might inherit the extraordinary ancestors, and a super-rare demon spirit talent, yet he's self-abased, ostracized, bullied?

If this were ten years from now, a genius like that would receive the Base City's Guardian Divine Artifact's protection as soon as he was discovered. He wouldn't even need to take the college entrance exam. Any of the Three Hero Academies would take him. He'd be the darling of every Glory Professional Club. Wherever he went, it'd be like he was a superstar, basking in everyone's admiration and envy. Countless girls would go wild for a prodigy with talent like his.

But now, everyone just thinks Yun Kai is some freak with mutated genes. Only in ten years will people find out ancestral demonization really exists. But by then, Yun Kai will have already missed his window for talent awakening—and his best days for cultivation as well. He'll spend his life in mediocrity, scorned forever.

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