Chapter 1: Fallen Genius
Dragon Country, Huainan Province, Huayang City.
Zhiyuan High School.
The morning sun shone through the classroom window like a cicada’s wing, and the heat slowly began to brew.
“Has everyone’s coagulated blood reached fifty percent? The higher the coagulated blood, the richer the inherited bloodline. Only by reaching fifty percent can one awaken as a low-level warrior. During the awakening ceremony in a few days, you will inherit the strongest bloodline from your paternal or maternal lineage.”
Following the sound, a teenager in a Zhongshan suit, about sixteen or seventeen years old, walked leisurely back and forth on the podium with his hands behind his back, his aura lazy, wearing gold-rimmed glasses.
In the back row by the window, Su Jiu lay on the desk like a salted fish, and gently opened her eyes.
She covered the light with her hand, lowered her head slightly, and looked at the hot pants under her ripped white short-sleeved shirt. She couldn’t help but sigh in her heart: “It’s summer again without realizing it. Has a year passed since I transmigrated into this villainous young lady? The male protagonist should be getting his golden finger soon.”
Yes, Su Jiu was a transmigrator.
Her transmigration, rather than being ordinary, was peculiar. In her previous life, she was diligent and hardworking, choosing a normal university according to her parents’ wishes. After graduation, she obtained her teaching qualification and became a homeroom teacher in a key high school for several years. As time went by, she became a middle-aged suave man.
Facing a mundane teaching life, confiscating novels secretly kept by students became a solace.
One night, after finishing grading assignments, she went to the restroom and casually picked up a newly confiscated novel. She transmigrated halfway through reading it.
She transmigrated into this male-oriented cool novel “Global Upgrade” and became the tea-drinking villainous young lady who bullied the male protagonist’s sister in the early stages. That novel had become a ring, tightly fastened on her index finger.
Initially, Su Jiu didn’t believe it until the original owner’s memories pressed down on her like the sea. She had only tried out the magic and skills a little, not really expecting to release them.
Although they were very small and insignificant.
She felt a slight joy, then realized it was deep fear!
Because another memory was that the original owner had sent someone to put a sack over the male protagonist’s sister and beat her severely, even breaking her front teeth.
What? You ask for the reason?
The male protagonist, already a university student, needed to train his body to enter the ranks of high-level warriors, and a bottle of body-training fluid was equivalent to the annual salary of the male protagonist’s blue-collar father. His father had to repay the mortgage and couldn’t afford it at all.
Therefore, the male protagonist’s sister tried every means to raise money to buy the body-training fluid for the male protagonist. She gambled with her silly brother and easily won… Although this was the male protagonist’s sister’s own doing, this was the male protagonist’s sister in the novel!
An existence above everyone else under the male protagonist, whether or not she had the protection of the Heavenly Dao, Su Jiu was a little scared.
For this reason, Su Jiu thought of a way – to take a different path from the tea-drinking female villain, to completely give up, and to lower herself to the dust, becoming indistinguishable from the crowd.
Only in this way could the trajectory of the male protagonist’s sister and the male protagonist completely deviate from hers.
“Su Jiu! If you keep zoning out, I don’t mind calling your father over.”
Lu Nan adjusted his glasses, put down his book, and looked at his once promising student with some disappointment.
He didn’t know what had happened. For the past year, Su Jiu had transformed from a well-behaved good student into a student who knew nothing and was a bad student. She didn’t wear the school uniform, and in class, she was reading monster introduction books outside of the curriculum.
“Uh, my dad is not free today. A while ago, something came up during construction in the eastern suburbs of Huayang City. As the mayor, he naturally had to investigate. Old Lu, I’ll treat him to tea another day…”
Su Jiu reluctantly stood up, her waist-length green silk hair flowing freely. Her long short-sleeved shirt covered her hot pants, and her plump thighs, like radish roots, stood straight, perfectly concealing the disadvantages of her petite body.
Before she could finish speaking, a burst of laughter came from below. But as Su Jiu turned her head, the laughter immediately ceased wherever her dead fish eyes could see.
“Alas… Su Jiu, if you continue like this, even if you inherit your father’s Ice Chih bloodline, if you don’t work hard afterward, others will easily surpass you. After all, it’s just the most ordinary A-class bloodline.”
Lu Nan said with his usual stern face, but his words made the students below fill with inexplicable envy, and they started whispering and discussing among themselves.
“It’s actually the Ice Chih bloodline, a bloodline that textbooks call rare. You know, excluding Bai Ming, who went to Magical Capital University a year ago and is an S-class bloodline, and his sister Bai Qianyu in the next classroom, there are very few high-level bloodlines at our Zhiyuan High School.” A girl wearing glasses kept looking at Su Jiu with admiration.
Then, her eyes dimmed, and she sighed softly: “Perhaps even if we cultivate diligently every day and reach seventy percent coagulated blood, we still won’t be able to compare with these talented idlers on the day of the Gaokao.”
“Don’t even talk about S-class bloodlines, I’m afraid our school doesn’t even have many A-class bloodlines. After all, our Huayang City is not a big city…” The girl’s deskmate was a boy with a slicked-back hairstyle. He slowly put away his smile, looked at Su Jiu with a hint of disgust, and finally clenched his fists tightly, whispering:
“The teacher said that bloodlines can be improved afterwards. We will definitely have a chance to improve them after we go to college… Moreover, as long as we reach seventy percent coagulated blood before the awakening, we are already better than many of our peers.”
“Indeed, seventy percent is already a genius. I really don’t know what kind of existences can reach eighty percent.” The girl shook her head, quickly took out her notes, and started recording what Lu Nan had written on the blackboard. She had already reached sixty-eight percent coagulated blood, so these key points from Lu Nan were still very important to her.
Similar scenes to that of this pair of deskmates occurred to varying degrees in this class.
Although A-class bloodlines were not much in big cities, after all, there were S-class, SS-class, and SSS-class top-tier bloodlines above them. However, for them, whose parents were ordinary people, it was already an existence to be looked up to.
Although they knew that people were different from each other, they were also very disdainful of the behavior of others who possessed excellent talent but squandered it!
“Are you really not going to study seriously? You know the Gaokao is coming soon. Without fifty percent coagulated blood, you can’t awaken, and you can’t take the Gaokao.”
Seeing that Su Jiu didn’t speak, Lu Nan put down his book and asked her very seriously again. This was his responsibility to himself and his students for more than ten years. If the other party answered “no,” he could only give up.
Even if her father was the mayor, it wouldn’t be an exception.
“Old Lu…” Su Jiu wanted to end the conversation with a few casual words, but when she met Lu Nan’s eyes, which were very similar to her own past self, the teasing words turned into a few soft words: “Don’t worry, I won’t disappoint you.”
Lu Nan’s eyes lit up slightly at this, thinking that this once exceptionally outstanding student had a change of heart.
But Su Jiu sat down straight the next moment, picked up a book that looked like an encyclopedia of low-level monsters from her drawer, and started reading.
Seeing that she was no longer sleeping, Lu Nan sighed softly and could only pick up his book and continue his lecture, letting Su Jiu slack off.
Lu Nan had wanted to inspire Su Jiu’s ambition more than once and help her get back on her feet, but after several conversations, Su Jiu remained the same. She slept in class, and disappeared without a trace after class. She no longer cultivated diligently, as if she had completely lost the drive to improve.
“Riiing!”
As the class bell rang, Lu Nan saw Su Jiu, who had been reading a comic book, suddenly sit up straight with renewed vigor, slowly wander out of the classroom, and sighed to himself with even more disappointment: “What is this different from Zhong Yong in ancient times? He possessed the rare Red Dragon bloodline from birth, wandered around without cultivating, and in the end, his strength was not as good as that of a Battle General with ordinary bloodlines.”
Su Jiu ran all the way and quickly left the teaching building, arriving at a secluded corner within the school, and sat under a decorative tree.
Su Jiu was not unaware of the strange looks from teachers and other students in the school, but this was exactly the effect she wanted to achieve. Only in this way could she feel at ease doing her own thing.
Others only thought that Su Jiu was lazy to study because of her good talent, but Su Jiu herself knew very well that she had never been lazy. Although sometimes for the sake of the performance, she did read comics very seriously, she had a reason that she couldn’t tell.
She gently bit her finger, squeezed out a drop of blood, and dripped it onto the ancient, luminous white dragon-patterned ring on her left index finger. Soon, the ring slowly absorbed the blood, and a blue-white light flashed.
Her body leaned against the foot of the tree unconsciously, and her consciousness felt like a phantom. The surrounding scenery changed like a reflection on a lake, finally arriving at a place that resembled an arena.
The floor tiles were pale and covered with spiderweb-like cracks, and the surroundings were stained with blood. Besides a few loose railings, there was nothing else. In the center stood Su Jiu’s slender figure, facing off against a giant wolf with fiery red fur nearly two meters long.
Standing in the center of this place, Su Jiu held an iron sword, gently breathing the rusty-scented air, and looked up at the immense body opposite her, slowly speaking, “Low-level warrior-class monster, Scarlet Flame Wolf. If I kill you, I wonder if I can raise my coagulated blood from ninety-five percent to one hundred percent.”
Thinking of this, a spark of heat appeared in Su Jiu’s eyes. One hundred percent, that was an absolute realm that monstrous male protagonists could reach!
“Come on, little wolf wolf.”
