So since he currently couldn't do anything, he decided to immediately search for his "protege" and departed to the slums.

Just like most cities, Stone Frost City wasn't exempt from having people who lived in dire conditions.

While Yuzhi hadn't personally visited any other city. From what he had read, the slums in Stone Frost City were considerably smaller.

But even when considering that, there were still thousands of people living in the slums of Stone Frost City.

And when he arrived at the slums, Yuzhi felt this wave of nostalgia come over him. While the last time he was in a slum was quite long ago, he had grown up in one.

The roads he was walking on were only roads because so many people had walked on them, the kids looked younger because they didn't have enough food to develop, and the houses might as well already have crumbled.

Yuzhi was searching for someone, preferably younger. He didn't care about gender and someone with nothing.

Partially because people with nothing were easier to manipulate. But also because people with something probably had family or people they loved, and he wasn't in the family tearing business.

Yuzhi kept walking around the slums, meeting many people whose evil/dark thoughts were the biggest he had seen yet.

"You fucking kid, your mother was a whore and your father left you behind, you're worth nothing but you can think you can look at me with those eyes." Yuhzi heard an angry voice from a small alley nearby, and while he wasn't interested in being a hero, he decided to check it out.

And in the alley, he found 4 children. 3 bigger boys hitting 1 smaller boy. What Yuzhi found quite interesting was that the kid who was being mercilessly beaten didn't have a whirlpool of evil thoughts.

Neither did he look at the kids beating him with anger or vengeance. His eyes were dead like emotions didn't exist for him.

"Fucking weirdo, get outta here." One of the kids saw him and came over with a threatening look, trying to scare him.

And to be honest, Yuzhi couldn't blame him for calling him a weirdo. He was wearing a black mantel with a white mask.

The kid then tried to hit him, but how could he compare to Yuzhi, someone who had received professional training these past few weeks? And was also a cultivator who was able to use Qi.

Yuzhi broke the kid's arm without hesitation.

"Get out and the same won't happen to you." Yuzhi purposely made his voice lower, because, with his small build and high voice, even idiots would see that he was a child.

"O-o-o-of-fof c-c-c-ourse l-l-lord cultivator." One of the kids said before quickly leaving. A cultivator like him could kill them and no one would care or dare to avenge them.

After they left, Yuzhi approached the kid lying on the ground whose broken body didn't have enough energy to move.

"Kid, how old are you?" Yuzhi acted like he wasn't probably younger than this kid.

"fjortien (14)."

"What's your name?"

"fLi Mringhzao (Li Minghao)."

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"Do you want to come along with me? I'll give you a place to sleep, food, and water. The only thing you'll have to do is work for me, you won't make a lot of money, but you will be stealing a lot of it from other people."

"fyes(I think you know this one)." Yuzhi liked this kid because despite knowing he was a cultivator, his attitude didn't change.

"Come, follow me." Yuzhi left his crouching position but saw that the kid didn't stand up.

He then helped the kid up, realizing the wounds must be worse than he expected.

"My legs are paralyzed." Li Minhao's words shocked Yuzhi, how could someone survive in the slums with paralyzed legs?

This just made Yuzhi desire more to unravel this kid's potential.

'He might be more useful than I thought.'

Yuzhi put Li Minghao on his back, before setting off to his casino.

There, most of the chaos had already been cleaned up. And Yuzhi sent someone to buy some bandages and food for Li Minghao.

And although he didn't have a wheelchair for Li Minghao, it wouldn't be hard to make one.

But that wasn't currently on his agenda, and he just said that Li Minghao should ask an employee if he wanted to be moved.

And the storage room was large enough and had a lot of free space, Yuzhi decided that it would also become Li Minghao's room.

But that would all come later, and before the casino opened, Yuzhi would train Li Minghao to become a perfect dealer who could make him a lot of money.

"First of all, you want to always have a few, a really small amount of people, that you let leave with more money than they came in. It can be a bit more or 3 times, but don't make it too much.".

"Do you do this so that other people get hopeful emotions?" Li Minghao had an analytical mind and didn't care about cheating people.

"Yes, even smarter people who realize this is a scam can't fight against the emotion of hope."

Then Yuzhi started teaching him about suble marks he had made to cards making him able to know their value.

Then he also taught Li Minghao some tips on how to sway someone to take an extra card or to stay.

And then lastly, he also wanted to teach Li Minghao card switching but he didn't have enough time because soon it was six a clock, and the night began.

Even more than before, business was blooming, and many people exchanged their money for chips.

And due to the alcohol, their mind couldn't even think straight.

Yuzhi was the dealer while Li Minghao watched from the sidelines, learning from his teacher.

The casino was already very popular, and despite the large space of the place, at the peak of the night, it felt like a thousand people were there.

Fortunately, the later it got the fewer people there were, and around 2 o'clock, everyone went away.

Yuzhi then carried Li Minghao to his bed, which was quite shabby, before he found a place that was even slightly comfortable to sleep.

The next day, Yuzhi started by hiring 2 older mercenaries who wanted a job as guards. Their salary for 1 month each was 1 gold Ingot, which in this world was a pretty high salary.

Besides that, for the rest of the day he spent teaching Li Minghao, who was like a sponge sucking up his knowledge.

The more time he spent with Li Minghao, the happier he got that he met and chose to bring along this kid. He would definitely make him a lot of money in the future.

And since today was the last day he could help this kid for a while, he decided to open a second table where more people could now play.This was very useful since quite a lot of people came, so with a second table, the work became less for him. And since more people could play at the same time, the money he was making was also a lot more.

And when the action came to a stop, Yuzhi helped a bit with the cleanup and moved Li Minghao to his bed.

No matter how mature Li Minghao acted, it was clear to Yuzhi that he was still a kid who became tired after such a long day.

He then went to the register and took most of the silver coins.

There were very few ingots and too many bronze coins, so he only took the silver ones, which were also quite a lot.

He then left a note with a few instructions.

Most of them were already clear like Li Minghao was the boss when he wasn't around. But the rest were rules for how to operate when he wasn't around.

They would open at 5 and close at 11. The alcohol would cost slightly more and the fire for the lights would be smaller.

These were all things he did because he wanted to have not too many customers on weekdays.

The biggest reason because he wasn't around. While he did have security guards. The biggest thing holding people back from acting was his status as a cultivator, so if too many people came during a weekday, something could happen and potentially become something too big to handle.

The second reason was that he didn't want Li Minghao to overwork himself. He liked the kid, especially those dead eyes that didn't carry any emotions but at the same time held this indescribable warmth towards him.

And he was someone very smart who Yuzhi could see be useful in the future.

Yuzhi didn't have to hurry since the academy gates didn't close during the weekend. The only thing they had to be sure of was to be there during their first lesson.