His Highness the Crown Prince Always Wants to Marry Me

Chapter 38: Advice

Gong Hao and Qi Rui had been highly sought after by all parties since they began to show their talents as Spiritual Plant Masters at the age of three. This was the first time they had been given a mental blow.

The most important thing was that they weren’t defeated by advanced-level Spiritual Plant Masters or Body Tempering Masters, but easily by the semi-trash rumoured in the Academy. It truly was hard to accept this reality in a short time.

“Why, does this make you feel lost and despondent?” Yu Qing Qian folded her arms and lazily looked at the two people with low morale, her clear eyes filled with displeasure.

If these two people were unable to extricate themselves from the blow of failure, then they weren’t qualified to be her lackies.

Gong Hao gritted his teeth and sat up from the ground. He raised his head and stared at Yu Qing Qian, asking: “How did you do that?”

Yu Qing Qian’s physical fitness test was only barely qualified, but her current skills completely didn’t match that.

There were only two situations—one was that the test was wrong, and the other was that she concealed her talent in some way.

But either possibility was unlikely, so he couldn’t figure out why her combat power was stronger than them who had been trained since childhood.

After all, they weren’t only Spiritual Plant Masters, but they had also been trained as Body Tempering Masters since childhood, and their physical fitness was tested to be high.

Qi Rui’s eyes also moved to Yu Qing Qian, filled with confusion and curiosity.

“The talent test doesn’t mean anything. You lot believe too blindly in your judgment of talent levels.” Yu Qing Qian sighed: “Human potential is unlimited, it’s undeniable that talent is rather important, but the ultimate explosive power after perseverance is even more important.”

During the apocalypse, a small number of ordinary people persisted in battles with zombies and mutated animals and plants. In the end, they didn’t activate variant powers, but became warriors even stronger than the Variants. This was potential and explosive power.

So nothing was absolute.

People’s potential was unlimited. Yu Qing Qian’s concept of the level of talent was obviously very different from that of most students in the Royal Academy. She would never blindly believe that the results of the talent test would be related to the combat potential and were equivalent.

Just like her body, if it hadn’t been for more than ten years of unremitting and hard training, she might still not have been able to reach the qualification line now. But she persevered, so the actual level of her physical test should be high. 

“What you’re born with cannot be changed, but your strength can be changed through hard work afterwards.” Yu Qing Qian treated the two of them as her lackeys, so she gave them a few words of advice, “The main reason why you failed so quickly is that you underestimated me, your opponent.”

Hearing Yu Qing Qian’s words, Gong Hao and Qi Rui fell into deep thought, their expressions constantly changing.

In the past, whether in the Empire or the Royal Academy, everyone emphasised that the quality of talent determined future cultivation and strength. This was the first time they heard that acquired potential was more important.

“You mean we could’ve won if we didn’t underestimate you?” Qi Rui asked thoughtfully.

“No.” Yu Qing Qian raised an eyebrow and changed her tone: “But if you had first activated the defensive energy of the spiritual plant and paired it with the combat-class spiritual plant and martial arts to fight me, you wouldn’t end up in such a sorry state like you are now, and you wouldn’t lose so quickly either.”

The two nodded in agreement. If they had activated the defensive energy from the beginning, the battle would indeed not have ended so quickly.

“I didn’t expect you to be so strong.” Gong Hao smiled bitterly: “You hid it so well!”

If they went out and told people now that they were defeated by Yu Qing Qian with just a few moves, other students in the Academy would definitely treat this as a joke.

Not only them, but it was also estimated that more than ninety percent of the people heavily blindly believed in the theory that the level of talent tested corresponded to strength and potential.