Jin Jianyu

"Trash belongs on the ground"

That's all Jin Jianyu heard before his acne covered face was slammed into the dirt road outside his house.

"Wei Cheng! What have you done?!"

A voice from across the road sounded out with a sharp shrill.

Was today the day someone helped him out?

Jin Jianyu looked up and thought he had gone to heaven as two large bouncing moons riding on emerald cloth floated across the road.

"Ah, Wei Yue. I'm simply putting the trash where it belongs." Wei Cheng said, shrugging.

Wei Yue came to a gentle stop in front of Wei Cheng. She looked down at the bloodied face. She began to laugh.

Wei Yue couldn't believe she'd wasted her time.

"I thought it was someone important! You were right, trash belongs on the ground." Wei Yue said, pushing Jin Jianyu's face back into the ground with her foot.

"Who said trash like you could look at me?" her face now full of scorn "I don't know why the sect elders haven't kicked you out yet. You can't even cultivate."

"Come Wei Yue, let's go before we are too late to class, we have wasted enough time on this trash, we should speak with the elder about removing this piece of worthless trash from the sect." Wei Cheng said pulling Wei Yue away.

"Right. I've wasted enough time on this piece of trash. Hmph." Wei Yue dug her heel into the back of Jin Jianyu's head one last time before being pulled away by Wei Cheng.

Jin Jianyu laid there for a while, his tears mixing with the blood pouring out of his nose. Wei Yue was right. He couldn't cultivate, his body was too weak and frail.

In his 14 years living in the sect, not once could he even refine Qi. Maybe I should leave the sect... Like my father...

*Plink*

「 Previous user has perished. New User Detected 」

"What was that!? New User? Previous user perished!?" Jin Jianyu said as he took a quick breath before raising his head up.

What he saw was way beyond anything he expected.

Jin Jianyu saw a translucent blue box in front of him with the words 「 New User Detected 」written on them.

"What is this... What does 'New User' mean?"

「 Analyzing... 」

"Uh... Analyzing? What are you analyzing?! Please don't analyze me!" Jin Jianyu shouted swiping the air in front of him in an effort to get the box to go away.

"Go away! I don't want anymore trouble! I'm already in enough trouble as it is!" Jin Jianyu said, still trying to get the little blue translucent box to go away. But every time his arms would simply pass through with no effect on the translucent blue box except some slight rippling across the surface.

「 Analysis Complete. 」

「 Please stop and open the status menu. 」

"Sigh. Fine! Show me! Open it!" Jin Jianyu said through the blood, tears and dirt covering his face.

「 Status 」

─ Name: Jin Jianyu

─ Age: 14

─ Gender: Male

─ Title: Social Reject

─ Realm: Mortal

─ Stage: 0

「 Traits 」

─ Eat (Rank SSSS+) (Level 1)

「 Abilities 」

─ None

「 Stats 」

─ User Realm Too Low

Jin Jianyu was stunned. Absolutely stunned.

'Social Reject, Stage Zero. Harsh! Stats too low to show!! Too harsh!!! The system was too harsh!' Jin Jianyu thought as tears began to stream down his face once again. Twice today he had been humiliated beyond repair!

After a while once the tears streaming down Jin Jianyu's face slowed and his vision wasn't blurry anymore he noticed a small line under Traits...

"Eat? Rank SSSS+... System what does this mean?" Jin Jianyu said out loud before he realized that other sect members were starting to stare.

Jin Jianyu hurried back into his small little wooden shack before asking again "System, what is this Eat trait and what does Rank SSSS+ mean?"

Little translucent boxes began to pop into view.

「 Patience. User level too low. 」

「 Also, why are you so loud? 」

「 System can hear your thoughts. You really are an idiot. 」

'Level too low...' Jin Jianyu was about to retort when another box appeared before him.

「 New Quest: Eat the Dirt, Blood, and Sh*t from your face 」

「 Reward: Ability to Refine Qi 」

「 Requires Trait: Eat 」

Jin Jianyu stared at the translucent box for a few seconds...

"WHAT THE H*LL!?" said shaking his head violently "You want me to eat blood and dirt!? No way. Not happening."

Jin Jianyu didn't care if it made him able to be able to Refine Qi. It wasn't worth eating the humiliation he was caused by Wei Cheng and Wei Yue.

*Plink*

「 User has 24 seconds to comply or they will perish. 」

"Ah... What!?"