"Grandpa, taking a stroll?" Ling Yi greeted him.
"What the hell am I supposed to do? We're out of salt at home, Laozi going out to buy a bag. This crappy place doesn't even have a supermarket."
The old man was clearly not in a good mood.
"Back then, they built some kind of the Invincible High Martial Arts First Academy here, thinking that this academy would boost the surrounding land prices."
"It turned out to be a huge pitfall. That lousy director went bankrupt in less than a month."
" My Laozi fortune is tied up in this; it's just bad luck."
Turns out he was a speculator, but he failed and got trapped!
No wonder the old man was so angry.
Ling Yi scratched his head, pointed to the side, and said, "Grandpa, isn't that the supermarket?"
"Old man, I'm not blind, of course I know that's a supermarket, but go and see if they still have any stock left?"
Ling Yi looked closely and realized it was true. Although the supermarket was open and the lights were on, the Huo Family's residence inside was completely empty.
The old man walked a few steps quickly, then suddenly stopped.
He turned to look at Ling Yi and asked, "Who are you, kid? This old man has never seen you before."
"Me?" Ling Yi pointed in the direction of the academy.
"The Dean of the Trash Academy."
"Wo Cao, that Trash Academy, is it yours?"
"Haha!" The old man suddenly burst into laughter.
" Trash Academy, I said before, what decent person would name a school like that?"
"Hey kid, what were you thinking? Who would sign up with a name like that? Aren't you just admitting you're a loser?"
Ling Yi shrugged. "Because my academy only admits useless people!"
"Why don't you give it a try, sir? The first ten students at our school get in for free."
Upon hearing this, the old man immediately became displeased.
"Hey kid, what do you mean by that? Are you saying this old man is a good-for-nothing?"
"Don't you know in your heart whether you're a piece of trash or not? At your age, your Qi and Blood are less than 2 points. What else can you be but a piece of trash?"
The old man stamped his foot. "Hey you, if you say that, I'm going to argue with you about being an idiot."
"Does being unable to cultivate Martial Dao mean one is a waste?"
"Can't ordinary people live? I feel Laozi ordinary people are doing just fine."
"I'm an old man, I have enough to eat and wear, I own a house and a car, and I have children. How am I a useless person? Tell me, how am I a useless person?"
If you're not useless, why are you getting so worked up?
Excitement means you care, and caring leads to anger.
If she truly didn't care, she wouldn't have bothered arguing with Ling Yi for so long.
Hey, old man!
"Call me 'Grandpa'? Do you think you can call me 'old man'?"
"You call yourself an old man, so why can't I?"
"When I call you that, it's just my way of speaking; when you call me that, it's disrespectful."
"Okay, okay!"
I didn't expect this old man to be so serious.
"Sir, if there were a chance for you to cultivate Martial Dao, would you like it?"
The old man didn't speak, but his expression was complicated.
His gaze was blank and unfocused, as if he were lost in a memory.
After a long pause, he finally said, "If it were twenty years ago, with such an opportunity, I would have been willing to pay any price."
"But now, I'm eighty years old, my Qi and Blood are depleted, it's hopeless!"
"Join my Trash Academy, and anything is possible."
The old man looked at Ling Yi: "Old man, you want them all?"
"So what if he's an old man? I only take in trash, I don't care if he's an old man or not."
Upon hearing Ling Yi use the word "trash," the old man curled his lip, clearly very sensitive to those two words.
"No money? Free?"
"Right!"
"You're not going to trick me into going in, like eating kidneys or something, are you?"
"Sir, your kidneys aren't worth much."
"Ahem, that's true."
"Alright, I'll go check out the academy tomorrow. Hey, an academy that only accepts good-for-nothings, they even take old men. I'd like to see what's so special about this 'Trash Academy '."
Ling Yi only just bound himself to the old man.
It wasn't immediately linked before.
The main problem is that the old man is too old. If something bad happens to him during his training, we'll be in big trouble.
[Ding, target successfully bound, randomizing keywords.]
[Ding! Target obtained the Golden Cesium entry: Growing Stronger with Age!]
[ Growing Stronger with Age: Effect: The older one gets, the stronger the cultivation effect. Starting from age 40, the cultivation speed doubles for each year of age increase.]
Ling Yi did the math: the old man was eighty years old, so that meant 40 years, a 40-fold increase in cultivation speed.
This entry is pretty impressive!
As expected of the Golden Cesium entry.
I opened the system interface and checked the binding list; sure enough, there was a new entry.
[ Good-for-Nothing Binding System Version 1.0]
[Host: Ling Yi ]
[ Qi and Blood: 11.7 ( Body Tempering Realm - Bone Tempering Realm )!]
[Binding List][Click to Expand]
{1. Lin Zihan - Infinite Devouring - Qi 4.5}
{2. Jiang Hong - Dancing Bing Han - Qi and Blood 1.9}
{3. Jiang Lan - Dancing Qingyue - Qi and Blood 1.9}
{4. Zhong Wudi - Growing Stronger with Age - Qi and Blood 1.1}
This old man's name is quite Haki.
Hopefully, in the future, this old man will live up to his name.
"Alright, sir, go buy the salt. Remember to come to school tomorrow morning."
"Knew."
The old man waved his hand, turned, and left.
It seems they didn't take it too seriously.
Once the old man is bound to the bond, he will remain loyal and will not betray the bond.
It simply wouldn't disobey Ling Yi's orders, yet it still retained its idiosyncratic consciousness.
It doesn't mean that being bound to someone means completely losing yourself.
"Great, great! I never expected a stroll could bring such a pleasant surprise."
I just don't know how effective a forty-fold increase in cultivation will be.
You'll see it tomorrow.
Ling Yi continued strolling forward.
I just got a free ride with an old man; I wonder if there will be any more surprises tonight.
In reality, the Trash Academy is not that remote.
If you drive west for about twenty minutes, you will be able to enter the inner ring road.
Various shops and residences sprang up.
Ling Yi randomly entered a supermarket, bought an ice cream, and started strolling back while eating it.
However, after walking for only a few minutes, they heard a muffled thunder-like sound from the sky.
Immediately following, a net Weaving from Lightning appeared out of thin air.
Damn, Lightning can form a net?
Clearly, this is not a natural phenomenon, but rather the work of a master.
Martial Practitioner capable of unleashing Lightning must be a bloodline Martial Practitioner.
Only bloodline Martial Practitioner can unleash attribute skills.
After the Thunder Net effect, nothing happened.
Ling Yi looked up for a long time, and then saw two figures Rapid Speed falling from the sky.
If Ling Yi hadn't already possessed over 11 points of Qi and Blood, he wouldn't have been able to see those two figures clearly.
"Boom, boom!"
A moment later, two figures crashed down in front of Ling Yi.
It smashed two large craters into the ground.
In one of the large pits was a middle-aged man whose shape was no longer recognizable.
Based on the information Probe by the system.
The middle-aged man was clearly dead, completely cold.
In the other pit was a woman wearing red cesium armor.
[ Qi and Blood 0.2/125800, Thunder Dragon Bloodline, Severely Injured and Crippled, Cultivation Technique: Ten Thousand Thunder Force, Martial Arts: Thunder Flash, Thunder Summoning, Thunder Net, Uselessness Value: 92 points!]
Ling Yi blinked. Over 120,000 Qi and Blood, plus Thunder Dragon Bloodline, and a Trash Value of 92?
Is this also waste?
Or does the system consider disability as ineffectiveness?