A hundred years ago, a gate opened in the sky, leading to the descent of Vicious Beasts and Essence upon the earth.

In the beginning, humans have yet to realize the existence of their innate skills and feared the Vicious Beasts. Only after discovering their newfound talents did they dare to spark a war with the Vicious Beasts. Little did they know that they bit off more than they could chew, posing little to no threats against the Vicious Beasts with their immature skills; consequently, resorting to the creation of multiple bases around the world and fending the Vicious Beasts off from within.

"..."

East Base City, Anyue Academy.

Ye Chen sat under a crooked tree with a small blade of grass dangling from the corner of his mouth. Despite his lazy appearance, his handsome face made up for his flaws.

"Students, the body forging technique can enhance the foundation of a martial artist's body, it's …"

Some of the students, possessing faces filled with eagerness for more knowledge, listened and digested their teacher's explanation of the body tempering techniques.

On the other hand, Ye Chen's expression depicted a boy tired of living his mundane life. Having transmigrated from another world, he had been living life in another dimension different from his own. Aside from that fact, his body only possessed weak talents, that of Weak Inherent State, the weakest of all the talents.

To cultivate in their life, one must first possess innate talent. Thus, untalented youths would not be able to get very far in the path of cultivation, much less becoming a true cultivator in their lifetime.

Having that lazy personality and weak body of his, Ye Chen was widely known as the infamous trash student by everyone in Anyue Academy.

Ding!

"Translating System Binding."

"10%... 30%... 60%... 100%."

"Replication System Binding completed."

System?

Ye Chen, upon hearing that voice in his head, was stupefied.

"Hello, Host. I am a Replication System, and I will be serving you from this moment onwards."

Hearing the voice of the system, Ye Chen couldn't help but burst into a loud laughter.

Three years... For three years, he had been transported into this world and lived his boring life, wasting away in the body with talents of the Weak Inherent State.

"That's senior Ye Chen, right? Why is he laughing like a lunatic?"

"Who knows? I think senior Ye Chen must have finally gone insane."

"It is what it is... Not only does Senior Ye Chen possess talents of the Weak Inherent State, but he is also just at the second layer of Body Tempering despite being in this academy for so long. There's no longer any hope in his life."

Some of the first-year students in the plaza started to badmouth Ye Chen while looking in his direction.

As he looked back at their gazes, Ye Chen realized that he had somehow been given the ability to see the talents of the students within a certain vicinity to him.

"Secondary Inherent State"

"Secondary Inherent State"

"Secondary Inherent State"

At a certain point, however, he would not be able to see the information of the students that were further away. He figured that this new ability would be limited to a particular range. At that instant, several words appeared before his eyes:

"Do you want to replicate their talents?"

Naturally, Ye Chen chose to reject the option for these Secondary Inherent State talents would prove to be useless even if he replicated them.

Talents were divided into several different levels: Weak Inherent State, Secondary Inherent State, Inferior Intermediate State, Advanced Inherent State, and Transcendent State. Legend has it that an even greater level lies beyond that of the Transcendent State. Nevertheless, that topic was currently beyond Ye Chen's knowledge of this world.

In addition, there were also some attribute talents, such as water, fire, earth, wind, rain, lightning, metal, wood, and so on. These attributes could only be awakened by specially-gifted individuals.

"Ye Chen."

A feminine voice sounded past Ye Chen's ears. Upon looking in the direction of the voice, he saw a fifteen to sixteen year old girl walking towards him.

"Who is this beauty?"

"Do you not recognize her? She's the pride and joy of our Anyue Academy, Liu Qianqian."

"What? Senior Liu? I heard that Senior Liu has already achieved the level of an Intermediate Reserve Martial Cultivator."

Some of the freshmen in the plaza were dumbfounded upon hearing those words.

"Name: Liu Qianqian."

"Cultivation Talent: Advanced."

"Level: Intermediate Reserve Martial Cultivator."

Within Ye Chen's field of view appeared Liu Qianqian's information regarding her talent and cultivation level.

"Do you want to replicate her talent?"

"Yes."

Without a moment's hesitation, Ye Chen copied the talents of an Advanced Inherent State's.

Ding!

"Replication successful."

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining a legendary treasure chest."

Ye Chen's mood brightened up immediately. It is that simple to replicate someone else's talents from myself?

"Ye Chen, why are you here instead of going to class?"

Liu Qianqian's long raised her long, straight brows as her face filled with disappointment.

"I learn nothing from those classes anyways... " Ye Chen said, twitching his mouth.

"You!" Liu Qianqian shouted as she locked her furious gaze towards Ye Chen.

Liu Qianqian looked at Ye Chen anxiously and announced, "Ye Chen, you will have to be in the same group as me in the field exam in a month's time, whether you like it or not!"

After her brazen declaration, Liu Qianqian stomped away from the square, leaving nothing but a tense atmosphere and dumbfounded looks in her tracks.

All the students on the square looked at Liu Qianqian's leaving figure with dumbfounded expressions, inevitably staring into each other's gazes upon her departure.

"Why did Senior Liu ask Ye Chen to join her group?"

"What do you know? I heard that Senior Ye Chen once saved Liu Qianqian's life."

With these words, the students could not help but be shocked yet again.

Ye Chen could not care less about the stupefied expressions of these students and, instead, opened his attribute panel:

"Host: Ye Chen."

"Cultivation Talent: Advanced."

"Cultivation Stage: Body Tempering Second Layer."

"Skill: None"

Looking at his newly-acquired cultivation talents, Ye Chen could not resist to express his newfound ambiguity.

Ding!

"As this would the first time that the Host replicated a talent, the Host has obtained a chance to level up their talent. Would the Host like to use it?"

"A chance to level up my talent?" Ye Chen was astonished. "Doesn't that mean I can upgrade my talent to the Transcendent State?"

"Use."

And just like that, Ye Chen's talent increased from the Advanced Inherent State into the Transcendent State in a mere few seconds.

Looking at the Transcendent State Talent on his attributes panel, Ye Chen felt overwhelmed by his surge of emotions. However, he felt that his happiness had come too much of a sudden manner.

"Oh right, the system also gave me a legendary treasure chest."

Ye Chen opened his the Legendary Treasure Chest.

"Obtained Legendary Body Tempering Pill x1"

"Obtain the Profound Rank skill: Mighty Demon Bull Fist."

Legendary Body Tempering Experience Pill? Mighty Demon Bull Fist?

Ye Chen's eyes lit up as he realized the true value of the items he received.

Without a moment's thought, Ye Chen used the Super Body Tempering Experience Pill. In a snap of a finger, Ye Chen felt an overwhelming presence emanating from his internal organs.

"Body Tempering Third Layer."

"Body Tempering Fourth Layer."

"…"

"Body Tempering Tenth Layer."

It was only after the tenth layer of Body Tempering that the immense aura in his body finally dissipated.

There are clear divisions between the martial artists of this world:

Body Tempering Tenth Layer, Reserve Martial Cultivator, and Ten-star Martial Cultivator. As for what is superior to the Ten-star Martial Cultivator, Ye Chen required an answer for that question.

He was currently at the tenth layer of Body Tempering. Among the students of Anyue Academy, he could already be considered a genius since most of them only range from the fourth to sixth layer of Body Tempering.

What was even more frightening was that there were no students at the level of the Transcendent State in the entire Anyue Academy.

Judging from the notifications sent by the system, they indicated that Ye Chen would need to wait another month before replicating another talent again.

As for Profound Rank Skills, Mighty Demon Bull Fists, they could only be learned by Primary Reserve Martial Cultivators.

"One month later, the third-year students will be undergoing a field training session. During this period, they will supposedly have the opportunity to reach the level of a Reserve Martial Cultivator." Ye Chen muttered.

And with that, Ye Chen walked towards the school's Cultivation Chamber.

Not long after, Ye Chen arrived, for his first time, at the school's Cultivation Chamber.

Within the Cultivation Chamber, there were both great chambers big enough for ten people to cultivate in and independent chambers created for the sole purpose of having one person in it at a time. However, all things in this world would come at a cost. In this particular world, the currency is that of crystals. With that, different chambers cost a different amount of crystals for the students to use.

At this time, there were a lot of students within the Cultivation Chamber, and Ye Chen's arrival shocked them greatly.

"Why did he come to the Cultivation Chamber?"

"Maybe he finally decided to work hard."

"What's the point of working hard now? Does no one understand that he's simply a cultivator of the Weak Inherent State? At most, his talent will peak at the Body Tempering Tenth Layer in this life."

Upon that statement, all the students began mocking Ye Chen.

"Yo, isn't he the great genius of our academy?"

An ear-piercing sound shocked passed Ye Chen's ears.

"It's Bai Gang." A student murmured.

Upon looking at Bai Gang, Ye Chen could see all of his information as a cultivator on the system panel.

"Name: Bai Gang."

"Cultivation Talent: Intermediate level."

"Cultivation Stage: Body Tempering Sixth Layer."

Ye Chen had already been ridiculed countless times in Anyue Academy. The main reason being that Li Qianqian, the pride and joy of the school, would always enjoy being around him. Such a situation would inevitably create envy among the student body, especially among the male student body.

It was common knowledge in Anyue Academy that Yang Feng liked Liu Qianqian. Furthermore, it had to be known that Yang Feng was one of Anyue Academy's two great geniuses, and Bai Gang just happened to be one of Yang Feng's many henchmen.

Bai Gang, upon seeing Ye Chen in the training room, naturally began to mock and insult him.

"Ye Chen, you couldn't have possible come to the Cultivation Chamber to cultivate, right?" Bai Gang's face revealed a trace of ridicule as he began mocking Ye Chen.

"Move."

Ye Chen demanded.

Move? You're telling me to Move?!

Bai Gang and the other students were shocked beyond belief, never expecting the weak Ye Chen to convey his words in such an arrogant manner.

"Ye Chen, you do realize that Liu Qianqian isn't with you at this moment, right?" Bai Gang said in a deep, cold voice and gazed intensely at Ye Chen.

The students all began having the same thoughts. Some even spoke evidently, "You still dare to say such words to Bai Gang, even when Senior Liu isn't by your side?! This unreserved confidence of yours will surely send you to hell..."

"The Anyue Academy forbids violence within its campus. Did you think you'll be able to attack me?" Ye Chen said in a cunning manner as he looked at Bai Gang with disdain.

What?

Shocked in place, the students were, unable to comprehend nor understand the source of Ye Chen's confidence and arrogance. Could his actions truly be followed through, or was he simply bluffing?

"Ye Chen... You-!"

Bai Gang, with fire in his eyes, leered at Ye Chen furiously. At that moment, he recalled Brother Yang Feng's orders: "Whenever Liu Qianqian was not by Ye Chen's side, do not hesitate to mock and insult him."

In the past, Ye Chen could not care less about the slurs they threw at him, but now...

Thinking about that fact, Bai Gang's face couldn't help but express his fury on his fuming face.

"Ye Chen, Anyue Academy indeed forbid any form of violence between their students, but only when it's reported by other witnesses... Knowing my position in this academy, no one would dare report me to the teachers."

The mood of the students in Cultivation Chamber had become tense, thinking that Bai Gang will attack Ye Chen any second now.

The students all shook their heads and sighed at the nonsense, Ye Chen, before them. Knowing the status and power that Bai Gang possesses, the students would not dare relay anything to the teachers about Bai Gang beating anyone up, much less the person being Ye Chen. Furthermore, they did not consider Ye Chen to be "one of them," rather considering him an outcast in the academy and of society.

Perhaps this was what they called self-inflicted pain, surely he had to be asking for death itself.

Ye Chen was surprised by the words uttered before him. To think that Bai Gang had the guts to say that in front of everyone.

"Bai Gang, you want to beat me up, right? What are you waiting for then?"

Ye Chen slipped his hands into his pockets as he looked at Bai Gang with a calm, confident expression and a smirk on his face. He thought to himself, "Now that I'm already at the 10th layer of Body Tempering, why should I be afraid of the trash who's still at the sixth layer of Body Tempering?"

Seeing the unconcerned expression on Ye Chen's face, Bai Gang could not hold back his fury any longer.

"You're courting death!"

With that, Bai Gang sent a punch towards Ye Chen.

The eyes of the Cultivation Chamber students, immersed in spectating the battle, were forced wide open as these battles on campus were a rare occurrence. However, they already knew that the end result would not bode well for Ye Chen.

What the students didn't expect was that Ye Chen didn't have any intention to dodge or block at all. Was he scared frozen? But the expression on his face didn't seem like it.

At that instant, Bai Gang's fist closed in on Ye chen's face rapidly and was on the verge of direct contact with it.

Bai Gang let out a sneering smirk, having been wanting to beat this trash up for the longest time!

However, Bai Gang never expected the following sequence to happen. Just as his fist was just a hair's breadth away from Ye Chen's face, his figure vanished into thin air, dodging the assault in an impressive manner.

How could this be?!

The students of Cultivation Chamber exclaimed one after another, in awe on what had just occurred before their eyes.

Just as Bai Gang was about to accumulate his second attack, it was far too late. Without time to spare, Ye Chen had already stockpiled a sucker punch, darting straight towards Bai Gang's face.

In the blink of an eye, their position seemingly switched. Instead of the expected punch to Ye Chen's face, the situation transpired into Bai Gang receiving a powerful yet satisfying blow directly into his face.

Bai Gang, instantly sent flying a few dozen feet away, landed heavily on the ground and fainted.

*Gasp*

All the students gasped in atonishment with gaping eyes. It felt as if they had just seen some sort of miracle that should have never taken place.

Ye Chen... Wasn't he just some trash who peaked at Body Tempering Second Layer for the past few years?

All the students looked at each other in disbelief and could only think of one shocking possibility to explain this situation. Ye Chen...

... had been hiding his true power all along!

Ye Chen had been concealing his true talent and strength. To be able to knock out Bai Gang, at Body Tempering Sixth Layer, with a single punch, one had to be several times stronger than the former. What terrifying strength could he have been keeping a secret from the public?

"So... did anyone witness me hitting Bai Gang?"

Ye Chen glanced at the students and said in a soft, cunning tone.

The words coming out of his mouth sent shivers down the student's spine. Trembling, they looked at each other, as if waiting for someone to respond to Ye Chen's words.

Bai Gang was the subordinate of Yang Feng while Ye Chen had a good relationship with Liu Qianqian. From this spreading rumors, Ye Chen had even saved Liu Qianqian's life.

Ye Chen was not only pretending to be a weakling in the presence of the tiger, but also had Liu Qianqian to back him up.

After weighing the consequences of each decision, all the students shook their heads and said in unison:

"Nope. We didn't see anything..."