Moving House

After seeing Supervisor Zhuge Tao off, the headmaster brought Xia Zhi to his office.

Sitting behind his desk, the headmaster kept looking him up and down.

After a long while, just as Xia Zhi was about to speak, he finally said, "Kid, you're really about to soar."

"Our entire Limitless Martial Arts School worldwide signs only a few A-level contracts each year. Judging by the Supervisor's attitude toward you, he thinks very highly of you. He even paid out of pocket to give you extra credit for purchasing manuals."

"Wasn't that too expensive for the Supervisor?" Xia Zhi could not help asking after hearing this.

The headmaster shook his head. "Money means different things to people at different levels."

"An ordinary person can live on an annual income of a hundred thousand or so, but a warrior can earn more than that just by leaving the city and hunting a Beast Soldier level monster."

"Not to mention hunting Beast General level monsters, or even Lord level monsters."

"This is just pocket money to the Supervisor, but for a newcomer like you who has just started down the path of a warrior, it is critically important. Just remember this kindness."

"I'll remember it." Xia Zhi also knew that once one's strength reached a certain level, money no longer meant much.

So he said nothing further, but he deeply remembered this kindness in his heart.

Opening the drawer beside his desk, the headmaster took out a file and handed it to him. "Starting today, you can officially move into our martial arts school's villa community."

"All the warriors of Yangzhou Martial Arts School live in Mingyue Residential Area. The facilities there are better, and your family's safety will be guaranteed."

"There is also a dedicated warriors' hall in the community. Everyone living there is a warrior, so the atmosphere is better too. You should move over as soon as possible."

Xia Zhi took the file and looked through it before handing it back to the headmaster. "All right, Mingyue Residential Area it is. I can move today when I get back."

"Fine. I'll arrange for people to go over. Focus on preparing for the assessment these next few days. Don't let anything else distract you," the headmaster agreed.

"Come on. Call your instructor over at noon, and we'll celebrate together."

At noon, Xia Zhi was enthusiastically treated by the headmaster to a lavish lunch in the instructors' cafeteria at the martial arts school.

Meanwhile, in the west of Yangzhou City, within a residential compound spanning dozens of acres.

Villas dotted the lush landscaped gardens of the compound. Among them, one four-story villa occupied the highest ground in the entire neighborhood.

The surrounding villas encircled it from afar, highlighting the extraordinary status of the four-story villa's owner.

On the fourth floor of the villa.

Inside the lavishly decorated room, the once exquisite and expensive appliances, tea sets, and other items had all been smashed to pieces, their fragments scattered across the floor.

A handsome young man with slightly light-yellow hair stood amid the mess. His violently heaving chest showed the rage burning in his heart.

The half-closed door was gently pushed open, and a pretty girl of only sixteen or seventeen poked her head inside.

Seeing the state of the room, she said fearfully to the young man within, "Young Master..."

"Get in here!" The young man spun around and roared furiously. His vicious gaze fixed on the girl like a Hungry Wolf spotting its prey.

Under that gaze, the girl trembled. Her entire body shook as she slowly walked in.

Before she could approach, the young man stepped forward, grabbed her arm, and flung her onto the sofa in the room. Then his entire body pressed down on hers.

"Xia Zhi, you trash-picking lowlife."

"During the Combat Assessment, I'll make you understand that a lowlife will always be a lowlife."

This young man was none other than Li Wei, the one who had previously led people in beating up the original owner of Xia Zhi's body, ultimately causing the original owner's soul to dissipate.

He thought of the call from his lackey Li Qiang and what Li Qiang had said about today's assessment.

He remembered how, over the past few years at school, Xia Zhi had been a year younger than him and had come from a vastly inferior background, yet was always compared to him because of his martial arts talent.

And there was also that person's figure.

The rage in Li Wei's heart intensified, and his movements became even more violent.

"You're feeling pretty pleased with yourself now, aren't you? During the Combat Assessment, I'll make you die. I'll make you die! Ah!"

At five in the afternoon, the scorching weather showed no trace of coolness.

Outside the scrap collection station in Huainan District, Yangzhou City.

Some pulled handcarts, some rode tricycles, and some carried sacks on their backs.

More than a dozen people in worn clothing gathered here from all directions.

Yangzhou City had a population of twenty million and was divided into sixteen districts.

Each district had a scrap collection station, giving the city's unemployed, income-less people at the bottom of society a chance to survive through the work of their own hands.

A tricycle loaded with several old refrigerators and televisions came rolling over from afar.

Folded cardboard boxes were piled atop the old appliances, and the weight had flattened the tricycle's tires.

His pants were rolled up to his knees, exposing taut calves. Each time he pressed down hard on the pedals, his whole body swayed from side to side. His right hand gripped the handlebars tightly, while his empty left sleeve swung with his movements.

It was Xia Zhi's grandfather, Xia Dahai.

After quite some time, Xia Dahai emerged after selling his things, pushing the now-empty tricycle.

Bent over after a hard day's work, he sat on the seat and used his only remaining hand to pound his waist, letting out a long sigh.

At that moment, a motorcycle sped down the road in the distance.

From far away, the rider shouted at him, "Old Xia, hurry home! Your Xia Zhi passed the Quasi-Warrior Assessment, and the martial arts school sent people to move you!"

Seeing that it was a neighbor from his building and hearing what he said.

Xia Dahai's hunched body immediately straightened. Excitement flushed his sunburned, purplish-red face.

"Haha, he really passed. Good, let's go home, go home."

As he spoke, he grabbed the handlebars with one hand, rose to his feet, and pedaled the tricycle hard, ready to head home.

Seeing Old One-Arm still intending to ride that tricycle home, the neighbor who had come to deliver the news anxiously said, "Why do you still need that junky cart? Xia Zhi is a warrior now. You'll be living in a villa, and you still want to collect scrap?"

Hearing the neighbor's words, Xia Dahai turned sharply to the side and parked the tricycle directly beside the entrance to the collection station.

"That's right, that's right. No more, no more. Xia Zhi is a warrior now. I can't embarrass him."

"Get on. I'll take you back," the neighbor called out.

Xia Dahai hurried over and swung himself onto the motorcycle.

From his movements, he looked ten years younger.

At that moment, the area beneath Xia Zhi's apartment building was packed with curious onlookers.

When a box truck bearing the Limitless Martial Arts School logo drove into the compound and stopped downstairs, the whole neighborhood was stirred up.

An ordinary person had risen in status and moved from low-rent housing into a warriors' villa community.

It was something that made people intensely envious every year, yet only ever seemed to exist in legends.

No one had expected such a legend to unfold right beside them.

The crowd chatted continuously. Those who knew Xia Zhi loudly greeted him.

Whenever he looked over, all he saw were smiling faces.

When Xia Dahai arrived, this was the scene that greeted him.

When the crowd saw him return, they became even more animated.

"Brother Xia, your Xia Zhi is a warrior now! Look, the martial arts school even sent people to move you."

"Uncle Xia, I always said Xia Zhi was going places. I could tell since he was little. See? Didn't I tell you so?"

This was Fat Auntie, who lived upstairs from Xia Zhi's family. She had once looked down on the grandfather and grandson, complaining that Xia Zhi's training on the rooftop was too noisy and interfered with her drying clothes.

Whenever she saw them, she would mock them sarcastically. She had called them old bastard and Old One-Arm countless times behind their backs.

But today, Fat Auntie's face was blooming with smiles, and her tone was filled with flattery.

Still somewhat dazed from hearing the news, Xia Dahai unconsciously responded to the greetings from the crowd.

When he walked over to Xia Zhi, it seemed Xia Zhi said something to him, but he did not really react.

He merely stood there with Xia Zhi, watching several young men from the martial arts school's logistics department, dressed in matching black uniforms.

They efficiently packed up the belongings, quickly carried them downstairs, and loaded them onto the truck.

Anything they were not taking, Xia Zhi simply gave away to the neighbors watching on-site.

Even after Xia Zhi and his grandfather got into the vehicle sent by the martial arts school and left the compound together with the truck.

The gathered crowd continued to sigh in admiration.

"When I get home, I need to make my boy train properly too. Once he becomes a warrior, the fate of the whole family changes."

"Good people are rewarded. This is the blessing Uncle Xia accumulated."

"He raised an abandoned child as his own and worked hard for so many years to bring him up. Old Master Xia will enjoy a good life from now on."

What happened today would undoubtedly become fresh gossip for everyone this year, continually inspiring and encouraging more young people.

To work hard to change their fate.

Effort would eventually be rewarded!

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