1: Don’t bully the poor old people?

“Creak…”

Liu Jiangyi pushed open his front door.

But before he could take a step, his smile froze on his face.

The energy stones he had brought back from the radiation zone scattered across the floor.

Facing him,

a vibrant young girl saw him, disheveled and covered in dirt.

She asked the boy next to her, quite surprised,

“Liu Zhi, who is he? Why is he in your house?!”

“Didn’t you say this house was yours, and that you were the only one in your family?”

The boy was Liu Jiangyi’s son, Liu Zhi.

At this moment, he also looked at Liu Jiangyi with surprise in his eyes, a hint of embarrassment on his face.

Seeing this,

how could Liu Jiangyi not understand his son’s predicament?

So he immediately put on a smile, squatted down to pick up the scattered energy stones.

And said with a placating smile: “I’m sorry, I’m… here to sell energy stones. These are newly mined, defective energy stones, with a purity of over eighty percent…”

“Eighty percent purity?”

The girl looked at the energy stones scattered on the ground and asked Liu Zhi: “Liu Zhi, aren’t you preparing to Breakthrough to Third Realm and need a large quantity of energy stones?”

In this world, energy stones were a hard currency more valuable than money.

Martial Artists absorbed the energy from energy stones to strengthen their physique and improve their Martial Arts Realm.

The higher the purity, the better the effect, and naturally the higher the price. There were also even rarer energy liquid, a few grams of which could sell for an astronomical price!

Liu Zhi’s face flushed red, and he quickly pulled the girl’s hand, saying: “Xiaoya, let’s go out first. I’ll help you call a car.”

As they passed by Liu Jiangyi, the girl quietly asked: “What about him…?”

Liu Zhi vaguely said: “It’s fine, I’ll talk to him when I get back.”

Watching his son and the girl leave, Liu Jiangyi sighed, a mix of emotions in his heart.

He had Transmigrated to this high-Martial world, invaded by Dimensional Beings, at the age of eighteen, and it had been thirty years since then.

When he was young, he had a child with a woman, who probably thought he was incompetent and abandoned the father and son.

These past years, his son was the only motivation that kept him alive.

He had also tried hard to Cultivate, wanting to create a better life for his son, but his Aptitude was mediocre, and his progress was slow. Now, he was still a low-level miner digging in the radiation zone.

Not long after, Liu Zhi returned, with an apologetic look on his face: “Dad, I’m sorry…”

“What are you sorry for? It’s Dad who came back early and didn’t have time to tell you…” Liu Jiangyi quickly said.

Liu Zhi felt a bit guilty: “That’s not what I meant. I mean… please don’t go digging in the radiation zone anymore. It’s too dangerous, and your body won’t be able to handle it!”

Hearing his son’s caring words, Liu Jiangyi’s heart warmed, and he said with a smile: “Don’t worry, I won’t go anymore.”

Over the years, he had saved a large sum of money by being frugal.

He had planned to help his son enroll in the best Martial Arts Academy in the city, to give him a surprise.

He had no hope in Martial Arts himself, only hoping his son would not follow in his footsteps.

Because of his years of working in the mining area, he missed a lot of his son’s growth, and the relationship between father and son was not intimate.

Thinking about these things, Liu Jiangyi suddenly felt a dizzy spell, and a sharp pain suddenly came from various parts of his body.

“Damn it… my old ailment is acting up again!”

Liu Jiangyi had long developed a chronic illness from years of mining in the radiation zone. He had been relying on painkillers to persevere, and now he feared his days were numbered.

As the pain intensified, large beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

“What’s going on? This time, it seems like…”

He found that this pain had reached an unprecedented level.

It felt as if every part of his body was tearing apart.

Was his time already up so quickly?

Just then,

a heavenly voice sounded in Liu Jiangyi’s mind:

“Ding-dong! Searching for a suitable System…”

“Detecting that the host’s vitality is weak, elderly, and on the verge of death. The ‘Don’t Bully the Old and Poor System’ is binding.”

“Considering the old man’s poor health, System task difficulty is reduced—”

“What? What is this… what old man?”

Liu Jiangyi desperately blinked his eyes, trying to stay awake, “I’m only almost fifty, at most I’m a middle-aged man!”

Just then, the System’s first task was released: “Newbie Task: Blink five times—”

“Congratulations, Host has completed it!”

“Reward received: Pupil Technique: Tsukuyomi!”

In an instant, a massive stream of information flooded into Liu Jiangyi’s mind, like a sudden enlightenment, nearly making him faint again.

Tsukuyomi, a unique pupil technique of the Mangekyo Sharingan, could drag an opponent into a Mental Energy world created by the caster, tormenting and destroying the opponent mentally, causing their Mental Energy to collapse.

What surprised him even more was that the powerful Mental Energy brought by Tsukuyomi actually suppressed the rampant radiation energy in his body. The fatigue accumulated over many years vanished, replaced by an unprecedented sense of ease and vitality, as if he had become twenty years younger!

He felt like he could punch a Dimensional Being to death right now!

Liu Zhi frantically helped Liu Jiangyi up, continuously shouting: “Dad! Dad! Wake up!”

Seeing Liu Jiangyi open his eyes, Liu Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes a little red: “Dad, are you okay? You scared me to death!”

Liu Jiangyi patted his son’s shoulder: “It’s fine, it’s fine, just a little tired. I’ll be fine after a rest.”

He secretly sensed his eyes. Was this the legendary Sharingan?

Unfortunately, there was no mirror to see his changes.

While comforting his son, he felt the power surging within his body.

As a half-baked Martial Artist, he keenly noticed the changes in his body.

This power far exceeded his previous understanding.

It seemed that the voice that sounded in his mind just now was not an illusion.

“Holy crap, this couldn’t be… a System, could it?!”

Thirty years, and it only came now?

He thought back to when he Transmigrated, he had hoped for the System to arrive every day, but he ended up despairing. He never expected it to activate at this moment!

“If I had known it would only come when I was about to die, I would have just smashed my head and died as soon as I Transmigrated!”

Liu Jiangyi cursed inwardly, “If I hadn’t chickened out back then and gone to the Dimensional Trial Grounds, I might have activated the System long ago and reached the Peak of my life!”

The Dimensional Trial Grounds was a treasure trove for obtaining energy stones and opportunities in this world, but it was also full of dangers.

Liu Jiangyi had the chance to enter the Trial Zone back then but gave up due to cowardice.

This also became one of the reasons his wife looked down on him, ultimately leading to his wife abandoning him and young Liu Zhi.

Seeing that Liu Jiangyi seemed genuinely fine, just a little dazed, Liu Zhi’s worried heart finally settled.