CH 5

Chapter 5: Long Aotian’s Talents are Revealed, They’re Off the Charts!

Long Aotian’s world does not need much explanation at all. Long Shiyan knew a lot about it. Let’s not talk about how Long Aotian borrowed a poem to become a child prodigy. What was really incomprehensible was that Long Aotian, who had no possession of the original’s memory, could understand their continent’s language.

Long Shiyan’s heart was completely silent. Because the system was not reliable, the only information sent to her only had details about the general plot, which caused a discrepancy with the memories about the plot she read. Since she couldn’t do anything about it, she could only take the physical book out and read it very carefully. In retrospect, she studied many details from the book.

Now that four months had passed, she had a deep understanding of the story, so she felt it was extremely strange that Long Aotian understood their language.

This protagonist halo…wasn’t it too formidable? Shouldn’t he have absolutely no memory from the original owner? Or, are there some remnants of the original left in him?

Therefore, Long Shiyan had no choice but to make an assumption.

The event of Long Aotian’s memory loss spread quickly and the poetry incident was also frantically spread out. Long Shiyan could not stop it. However, the poem was slightly altered from the original; the original poem’s “North” had been replaced with “East.”

After a full rest, Long Shiyan got up early and was ready for today’s magical attribute test. As soon as she left the door, a little manservant sang, “A rare beauty in the East. She’s the finest lady on earth. A glance from her, the city falls….”

“What are you singing?” Long Shiyan walked over to his side, her voice was not calm nor indifferent in spite of her dazed look. The manservant could not help but feel scared.

Did he see incorrectly?

The manservant wiped his sweat away and quickly settled the doubts within his mind. In front of such a cute girl, how could he suddenly feel fear?

“Oh dear, I have encountered the young miss,” the little manservant quickly composed himself. With a “haha”, he replied, “This is the poem that young master Aotian had offered the second lady. Now, it spread all over the whole capital. How wonderful it is! It’s definitely suitable for the second miss. Only the second miss is worthy of such a beautiful verse.”

“This poem is awful,” Long Shiyan said faintly. Her voice wasn’t flat and was completely different from the tone she used in front of her family. They changed “North” to “East”, causing the poem to sound weird and out of place.

“Yes, yes. It is awful and hard to listen to.” The manservant’s forehead was covered in cold sweat and he could only agree with the young lady. Speaking of this young lady, she appeared to be very soft and cute. But when she spoke, she made people feel intimidated. What she said was obviously very simple and her voice was pleasant to hear. There was no swearing and instead, the feeling her words caused was incomprehensible. No one dared to go against her words.

This kind of feeling only surfaced when he was facing the family head.

“In the future, you are not allowed to sing that in front of me.” When Long Shiyan’s voice fell, she turned and walked through the corridor, moving toward the family hall.

“Yes, yes, I know, I will immediately follow your orders.” The manservant wiped the sweat off his forehead. Although he did not know why this little lady would issue such a strange ban, he can only listen to her because he knew that within the Long family, the favorite of the family was this little miss and he definitely can’t neglect her words.

After Long Shiyan disappeared from sight, his body collapsed in relief.

In the morning, the Long Family’s household was full of family members. In fact, it was said that the number of family members could be counted with ten fingers. The Long family’s bloodline was dying. For the bloodline to continue, it needed this generation’s Long Aotian’s contribution.

In the soundless hall, Long Potian held a crystal and closed his eyes, seemingly waiting for something. Long Shiyan’s grandfather was sitting in the corner silently without moving. Long Batian and his wife led themselves to their seats and sat inside.

After assembling, Long Potian broke the silence, “Shiyan, come over here.”

The hall was dead silent; there was no sound at all. The air seemed to solidify as if they were struck in the world of darkness. If any glass broke loudly, it would be especially shocking.

Long Shiyan had understood that this was all a part of a test where she was not allowed to speak.

Long Potian put the crystal on a forked scepter. Long Shiyan took a step and walked closer. It was needless to say that she would place her hand on the crystal next.

All of a sudden, a breeze suddenly blew up onto her face. Her beautiful black hair became disordered in the gust as the originally colorless crystal ball became dyed in blue.

Everyone in the Long family could not help but secretly nod. The final innate skill test for a 10-year-old child was to discover the route that the child will walk for their future. If nothing special happened, then the child’s innate attributes will not change.

Suddenly, the breeze vanished.

The whole area was quiet, and a strange atmosphere spread amongst the Long family. Then, the lights abruptly disappeared and the darkness from within Long Shiyan’s body slowly emerged. The blue crystal began to become colored in a pitch black hue.

At this moment, the expressions of several elders of the Long family had changed.

Long Zhentian’s scepter knocked the ground a couple of times and the room lit up. He spoke, “Yan Yan has the wind attribute. Potian, proceed with the next test.”

Long Potian knitted his brows as he looked at his grandfather. Without a word, he complied with his grandfather’s decision. He then picked up a bead and kindly took it to Long Shiyan. “Yan Yan, come over and hold this.” After he said that, he took out a small pearl.

Long Shiyan’s face was calm and looked innocent. She ran and stood in front of him as she extended a pair of small hands to take over the pearl. Suddenly, a sharp pain prickled in her mind, but soon, the pain disappeared.

Long Potian then let her pick up a long sword. Long Shiyan lifted it up easily and waved it a few times before putting it down.

After a while, Long Zhentian declared, “Yan Yan’s magical talent is that of the wind attribute, superb spiritual level, and medium Douqi capability.”

Several elders of the Long family smiled and greeted Long Shiyan. Long Shiyan certainly understood that the several elders of the Long family were worried about her because her body also had a talent that everyone would fight for—the dark magic attribute.

It was exactly the same as the original, and she also practiced it recently.

“Next, Long Aotian.” As Long Potian announced, the atmosphere of the whole area solidified once again, even more so than when Long Shiyan’s dark attribute was revealed.

Long Aotian listened to Long Potian and moved in front of the crystal. After hesitating for a moment, he placed his hand on it. Suddenly, the wind swelled, the earth shook, a tsunami fluctuated, the sky flickered, the volcanoes erupted, and the skies flashed with lightning. Then, the scene changed. The scenes of turmoil stopped, and the crystal in the middle emitted a rainbow light.

Long Zhentian’s scepter snapped, Long Batian’s teacup shattered, Long Potian’s teeth trembled, the whole Long family was in shock, but only Long Shiyan was able to understand the phenomenon.

Why must this be real?

Long Shiyan remained silent.

Just proceed with the next innate skill test.

At last, the results of Long Aotian’s innate skill test was revealed. He had a rainbow elemental physique that only appeared once in a million years, amazing spiritual power, and his Douqi capability was also superb, in short, his talents went against the natural order of the heavens.

The whole Long family was completely astonished. They didn’t expect that Long Aotian’s innate skill test results would change so much from last year’s. This child, who originally had trash talents, was suddenly separated from garbage and became a genius.

In the hall, everyone’s face was filled with a delightful expression. They were all brimming with joy, and even worse, tears of happiness flowed out from them. Only Long Shiyan, despite her young age, her face displayed a displeased look as she seemed far more mature than her appearance.

She had the appearance of a small adult.

Long Zhentian’s old face was red, and he couldn’t help but move towards Long Aotian. He carefully confirmed Long Aotian’s results.

“Good, child!” Long Zhentian sighed. Suddenly his face brightened up and he spoke, “Aotian’s innate skill must not be known to the public for a while. We can secretly teach him.”

“My father said that the family is still in a predicament. If Aotian’s innate skill is revealed, then I don’t know what will happen.” QingYu held her husband’s hand with a worried face.

“We can employ bards to conceal Aotian’s talent and then, my father and I will secretly teach Aotian. I believe that after a few years, when Aotian grows up, he will have the ability to protect himself. At that time, even the Shangguan family wouldn’t be able to do anything to him. I also want the name of the Long family to rise up to the heavens.” Long Batian said coldly.

“Under the blessings of the Dragon God, it is impossible for our Long family to fall.”

“Since Batian said so, then it will most likely happen.” Long Zhentian nodded with praise.

“We are fortunate that we did not do the innate skill test in public, otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so easy to hide the results!” QingYu’s heart beat quickly as she tightly embraced Long Shiyan to the point that Long Shiyan could barely breathe.

“I am afraid that the children might not be able to keep this a secret.” Long Yuqing suddenly opened her mouth. Her beautiful face carried a hint of sorrow as she glanced at Long Shiyan and Long Pingtian. Her eyes did not conceal her anxiety.

“Auntie, I understand. I am already 13 years old and I have already surpassed more than twenty of my peers. Of course, I understand the importance of this kind of thing. Even if I were to die, I will never speak about younger brother Aotian’s innate skill,” Big Brother Long Pingtian said with a serious expression.

“This is the son of our Long family.” Long Potian advanced toward his eldest son and patted his shoulder. “In the youngest generation of our Long family, you are the eldest. Aotian and Shiyan are still young. You should protect your younger siblings. Our Long family is very small, so even if you are going to die, you must never hurt your brother and sister. Do you understand?”

“Pingtian understands.” Long Pingtian’s face became red as he understood his father’s intentions. The family’s old teachings could be considered strict.

When Long Pingtian settled the issue, QingYu cast her gaze upon Long Shiyan’s body and asked with a worried look. “Yan Yan, your elder brother Aotian’s innate skill must be kept a secret. Are you aware of this?”

“Grandma, what is brother Aotian’s innate skill?” Long Shiyan’s tensed face smiled, and a pair of pure and innocent eyes looked at her grandmother. “Is it the skill for poetry?”

QingYu paused for a moment and blinked.

“Ha ha ha…” When Long Zhentian heard her say that, he could not help but laugh. Weren’t all his descendants smart and superb? However, he made a miscalculation. In the trio, Long Aotian wasn’t really his true descendant and only Long Shiyan could be counted as great.

QingYu was slightly stunned. Once she comprehended the old man’s intentions, she smiled together with her husband. At this sight, Long Yuqing and others could not help but raise a smile as well.

“Then Aotian will leave with me. Unless necessary, he will not appear. We could claim that he will be in seclusion in order to study poetry verses,” Long Zhentian continued.

“But during the poetry conference, Aotian must participate.” Long Batian suddenly opened his mouth.

“Well, alright.” Long Zhentian stroked his long beard. “Since his identity is concealed, some of his other talents should be shown.” Then, he suddenly turned to Long Shiyan and asked. “Yan Yan, don’t you like the poems made by Aotian? How about you recite them?”