Borrow my talent? Wood Release Sharingan stuns the school beauty.

"Holy crap! Did you guys hear? Su Muxue is going to kiss Lin Chen in public!"

In the noisy classroom, a somewhat overweight boy wearing glasses suddenly stood up and raised his phone.

Then he shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice so sharp it drowned out the surrounding noise, like a pebble thrown into boiling water, instantly causing an uproar.

The once noisy classroom was now filled with expressions of disbelief on everyone's faces.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Who is Su Muxue? She's the school beauty of Jiangcheng No. 1 High School, and the daughter of the city lord of Jiangcheng. How could she possibly kiss someone she's hardly ever heard of? Especially in public." Someone scoffed, thinking the fat man was spreading rumors.

"real!"

"It's because Su Muxue awakened a talent that requires kissing someone to use it."

"Although his double B-level talent is not bad, he just awakened an SS-level talent. I don't know why the school beauty would approach Lin Chen."

The fat man got impatient and shoved his phone in front of everyone's eyes.

The screen displays a live feed of the area near Awakening Square, where two figures can be clearly seen in the center of the crowd.

The slender and beautiful Su Muxue was walking towards a tall and handsome young man.

A few gossipy people in the classroom immediately crowded around to look at the screen in the fat man's hand.

No one asked the fat man how he got the surveillance footage from Awakening Square.

Awakening Square

On the awakening platform in the center of the square, the faint glow of the talent awakening still lingered.

The area was packed with students from Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School, their cell phone cameras pointing densely at the two people in the center of the field.

Su Muxue stood there, dressed in a clean school uniform, with long hair cascading down her shoulders and skin as white as snow. Her brows and eyes carried an innate coolness, but at this moment, her beautiful face was filled with struggle and confusion.

She could clearly feel the gazes directed at her from all around her—shock, doubt, mockery, jealousy—like countless fine needles pricking her, making her feel extremely uncomfortable.

"School Beauty Su, don't be impulsive! Lend me my talent, I have an S-level lightning talent, much better than that good-for-nothing Lin Chen!" A tall boy squeezed to the front and shouted with a fawning expression.

"Mu Xue! I have an SS-level ice-type talent. Borrow mine, and with us joining forces, we can definitely get first place in the province in next week's martial arts college entrance exam!"

Amidst the shouts that rose and fell, Su Muxue's fingertips curled slightly, her mind already in complete turmoil.

She also felt like she was going crazy.

Not long ago, during the talent awakening ceremony, when golden light enveloped her and the awakening monument displayed that she had awakened the SSS-level talent [Talent Borrowing], she was the most dazzling presence in the entire venue.

[Talent Borrowing]: You can borrow the talent of any target for three months, with a three-month cooldown.

The ability can only be activated by kissing the target being borrowed.

Although she was somewhat resistant to the "kissing" price at the time, she didn't care too much about it.

After all, the martial arts college entrance examination is in a week. As long as she has a strong talent, she can easily get good results and be admitted to a top martial arts university.

She originally planned to find a target among awakened girls, since they would be mostly girls and there would be less awkwardness in kissing.

Moreover, there are quite a few girls with S-level talents, and even SS-level talents, which is more than enough for her.

But just as she was about to choose a target, a desire from the depths of her soul suddenly swept over her, not a desire for those SS-level or S-level talents.

It was directed at a boy in the crowd.

Su Muxue recognized this person; he was her classmate, Lin Chen.

The craving was incredibly strong, like the hunger of someone starving to the extreme, or like a magnet attracting iron filings, making it impossible for her to resist.

She also saw the talent that Lin Chen had just awakened.

It's a B-rank Wood Release and a B-rank Sharingan, a rare dual talent, and neither of them is previously known; they are newly discovered talents.

Su Muxue was puzzled. How could a B-level talent cause her to have this kind of feeling?

She struggled, hesitated, and even tried to suppress this strange desire, but the more she suppressed it, the stronger the impulse became.

In the end, she couldn't even control her steps and walked towards Lin Chen step by step, publicly saying that she wanted to borrow his talent.

These words immediately caused a huge uproar.

As everyone knows, Su Muxue needs to kiss to utilize her talent.

Everyone assumed that Su Muxue must have borrowed her talent from a girl, since she was not only the school beauty but also the city lord's daughter.

When you're out in public, you definitely have to be mindful of your image.

Lin Chen frowned as he looked at Su Muxue in front of him.

After Su Muxue's actions, he became the target of everyone's criticism.

Everyone else thought he had awakened a normal double-B level talent.

But only Lin Chen himself knew that his talent was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

His awakened B-rank talent, Wood Release, is the bloodline limit of Hashirama Senju in the Naruto world.

When he awakened, Hashirama's cells began to fuse with him, but the fusion was not yet complete, and the power of Wood Release was suppressed, which is why he was classified as a B-rank.

Lin Chen knew very well that once the Hashirama cells were fully fused, the level of Wood Release would directly soar to SSS level. At that time, he could easily use True Several Thousand Hands and Advent of a World of Trees.

The other B-rank talent, the Sharingan, although it only has two tomoe, can evolve.

With increased strength and the assistance of special items, one can evolve to the Three-Tomoe, Mangekyou Sharingan, or even the Rinnegan! They can also evolve to SSS-rank talent.

Both of these talents are extraordinary, but they need some time to develop.

Lin Chen didn't care when Su Muxue awakened her SSS-level talent.

Lin Chen figured that Su Muxue, who was a famous school beauty and the daughter of the city lord, must have found a female classmate to borrow her talent.

But to his utter surprise, Su Muxue actually came to him.

Lin Chen didn't know if it was a coincidence or if the other party had a purpose.

Once Su Muxue kisses him and borrows his talent, she will inevitably discover the secrets of Wood Release and Sharingan.

Lin Chen did not want to reveal the secrets of Wood Release and Sharingan.

At this moment, the commotion in Awakening Square grew louder and louder, and countless eyes were focused on him, some filled with jealousy, some with mockery, and some with a desire to see more drama unfold.

As Lin Chen pondered, Su Muxue took a step closer to him, and the two were now very close.

A blush crept onto Su Muxue's cool cheeks, and her eyes held a hint of unease, yet she still bit her lip and said softly, "Lin Chen, I want to borrow your talent."

Her voice wasn't loud, but it carried clearly throughout the entire square. Everyone held their breath, waiting to see Lin Chen's reaction.

After all, being asked to kiss by the school beauty is something many boys dream of.

Everyone thought that Lin Chen would agree without hesitation, and might even be flattered.

But the next second, Lin Chen raised his head, met Su Muxue's gaze, and said, word by word:

"I refuse!"

These three words, like a thunderclap, exploded in the bustling square.

The entire venue fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone was stunned, their eyes wide, unable to believe their ears.