Madame is Pretending to be an Academic Slacker Again!

In front of the white jade stele, the whole place fell utterly silent.

Even when Qin Xin lifted both hands from the stele, no one dared say a word.

The stele, now entirely emerald green, had firmly seized everyone’s gaze. At this moment they only wanted to know: just how many points was this terrifying ability?

After all, among the girls the top score was Ding Yu’s, and she only had 11 points, with pink light rising up to her knees.

Among all the freshmen the best was Jing Zhichen, only 59 points, with deep white light reaching the top of his head.

And yet right now, this ugly girl had actually turned the ten-meter-tall white jade stele completely emerald green.

After a long moment.

They finally heard the mentor stammer out, ”This... this is...”

He was so shocked that his tongue trembled and he couldn’t get the score out for a long time.

It was Jing Zhichen who raised his voice and finished for him: ”This is full score, right, Mentor?”

The mentor’s lips quivered: ”It should... be, right?”

In his entire life he had never seen such a terrifying innate ability, much less in such a slender girl with such plain, unremarkable origins.

With that one ”full score,” the crowd below seemed to take a blow to the head and finally snapped out of their shock:

”That ugly girl actually got full score?”

”Does that mean she’s stronger than the mentors?”

”I don’t believe such a talent exists. If it did, what do we need the Divine Academy for? What do we need mentors for?”

”I seriously suspect she cheated again! This time, could it be the mentor is helping her cheat too?”

”Hmph, they never should’ve let her test a second time. That’s exactly her scheme!”

People have this kind of mindset: when faced with someone stronger than themselves, they must find some reason to overturn the fact that the other person is stronger, so they can regain psychological balance.

Qin Xin had tested out a full score, and the vast majority refused to accept it.

Only a few of the ones who had been in the Life and Death Forest back then, who like Jing Zhichen had personally seen Qin Xin hunt the Silver Bear, suddenly understood why Qin Xin had been so badass at the time.

They all started arguing and explaining to the other students.

But how could just a few voices possibly overpower the majority’s doubts?

What’s more, Ding Yu in the middle kept tossing out a few lines that sounded fair but were actually provocative, fanning the flames:

”I think we have to admit, Lan might really be very strong. With a score like that, once she enrolls, she probably won’t even be on the same level as us classmates anymore. Who knows, we might have to address her as a senior by then.”

”It’s just that there’s one tiny thing that’s a bit strange. Since she’s so strong, why was her first time zero points? Was she joking around with us? I just think it’s strange, I’m not questioning her or anything, okay?”

”Oh right, did she actually put both hands on the stele just now? It seemed like the test only lasted a few seconds before she took them off. Is there some trick to it?”

”I don’t think the mentor would help her cheat. After all, if they found out he helped a student cheat, he’d go to jail...”

Ding Yu was different from the others. The others were just venting emotions and dissatisfaction; she, on the other hand, hit the mark with every sentence, a velvet glove hiding needles.

Even the mentor on stage, who had been planning to just smooth things over, started to doubt whether Qin Xin might have touched the stele wrong just now, causing the stele’s sensing to go chaotic and messing up the result.

No, they had to redo it.

If he reported this against-the-heavens score of 100, and it turned out to be wrong, then the higher-ups would think he’d helped a student cheat. Just like Ding Yu said, he’d end up in jail.

”Lan, test again,” the mentor ordered.

Qin Xin had already withdrawn her hands from the stele. Hearing this, she glanced at him coolly, displeased: ”Why should I?”

Mentor: ”...”

What the hell, how can a freshman be this cocky?