Chapter 22: Advancement! Intermediate student!
By the time Li Weiyi returned home, it was already dark. Li Tianhai and his wife were on the day shift, so they got home early, prepared dinner, and waited for Li Weiyi to come back to eat together.
"Click!" The door opened.
Li Weiyi had the key with him, but he didn't knock on the door again.
Li Weiyi limped into the house and closed the door.
“Hiss~!”
Li Weiyi took a deep breath. Now that he was home, the tense nerves in his body relaxed. The wound that had not hurt before suddenly started to hurt.
Waves of pain spread to Li Weiyi's mind, causing cold sweat to appear on his forehead.
"Yiyi is back? Come and have dinner!" Zhang Xiaoxia came over with a plate of hot food, but suddenly saw Li Weiyi with a painful expression on his face.
I couldn't help but ask worriedly, "What's wrong, Yi Yi?"
As soon as she asked the question, she suddenly noticed that Li Weiyi's pants on his right leg were torn. Then, Zhang Xiaoxia's eyes were fixed on the blood-stained white bandages tied around Li Weiyi's right thigh.
"Bang!" The plate of hot food fell to the ground and spilled all over the floor.
Zhang Xiaoxia ignored the hot dishes and plate fragments on the floor and hurried to Li Weiyi. She squatted down and gently touched the bloody bandage on Li Weiyi's leg. Tears welled up in her eyes and tears fell one by one.
"What happened! Wasn't he fine when he went out in the morning? How come he became like this when he came back in the evening!?" Zhang Xiaoxia said while sobbing.
"Mom! I'm fine, it's just a minor injury. I'll be fine after a few days of rest!" Li Weiyi hurriedly bent down and helped Zhang Xiaoxia up.
"What happened?"
At this time, Li Tianhai heard the sound of a plate breaking and ran out of the bedroom in a hurry.
Just now, he was sorting out the documents that needed to be submitted tomorrow. When he heard the noise , he immediately put down his work and ran out.
As soon as he went out, Li Tianhai saw the mess on the ground. Then, he asked, "Yi Yi is back? What happened? Xiao Xia?"
Because Zhang Xiaoxia was blocking the way, Li Tianhai did not see the injury on Li Weiyi's leg.
"Dad! It's okay! My mom was a little worried when she saw that I was slightly injured." Li Weiyi smiled at Li Tianhai.
Then, Li Weiyi wiped away Zhang Xiaoxia's tears and comforted her: "Mom! Look, I'm standing here fine now. This little injury is not a big deal. Even if there are a hundred or so ferocious beasts, your son can beat them one by one with one punch!" As he said that, Li Weiyi gestured as if he was relaxed.
“Puff~!”
Seeing Li Weiyi's somewhat funny gestures, Zhang Xiaoxia burst into laughter, stretched out her fingers, rubbed Li Weiyi's forehead, and said: "You are the only one who talks nonsense!"
"Huh? Hurt? Where?"
Li Tianhai's eyes widened, and he walked over quickly. Then, he saw the bloody bandage tied around Li Weiyi's right thigh.
"How is it? Is it serious?" Li Tianhai asked worriedly.
"Dad! It's okay! It's just a minor injury! It will be fine after a few days of rest!" Li Weiyi smiled easily.
"Oh! Mom! Dad! Let's not stand here as a family! We didn't have a good meal at noon, and I, your son, am starving now, just waiting to eat the delicious food made by mom!" Li Weiyi smiled and hugged Li Tianhai and Zhang Xiaoxia.
"Let's go! Let's have two cups of wine!" Li Tianhai said with a smile.
"Two cups? If you want to punish someone, do it yourself! Can't you see that Yi Yi is injured?" Zhang Xiaoxia stared at Li Tianhai.
"Hehe!" Seeing Zhang Xiaoxia's rising anger, Li Tianhai shrank his neck with a wry smile, touched the back of his head, and said a little embarrassedly: "Forgot! Forgot! I won't drink today! I won't drink today! I'll drink after my son's injury heals! Hehe!"
"Hmph!" Zhang Xiaoxia glared at Li Tianhai again, and then said softly to Li Weiyi: "Wait a minute, I'll cook you another dish!"
After saying that, Zhang Xiaoxia went back into the narrow kitchen to cook, while Li Tianhai quickly cleaned up the mess on the floor.
After a while, a plate of steaming and fragrant fried celery and meat was ready.
The family of three happily sat in the narrow space and had a delicious dinner...
“Beep, beep, beep…!”
Early the next morning, the communicator distributed to Li Weiyi by the Practitioners Association rang.
Li Weiyi answered the call immediately and Long Tian's voice came from the communicator.
"'Weiyi'! How is your injury? Can you come to the association?"
"It's just a minor injury. Instructor Long, if you have any instructions, just let me know."
"It's like this. In view of your performance in the mission yesterday, the association has decided to upgrade your student level. If it's convenient for you, it's best for you to come to the association."
"Oh? To upgrade the trainee's level?"
"right!"
"Okay then! I'll be there in a minute!"
"Then I'll wait for you at the association!"
"Thank you, Instructor Long!"
"Hey~! You fought for this yourself, why are you thanking me? Okay, I won't say any more. Remember to come here. I'm hanging up now!"
"Goodbye, Instructor Long!"
After hanging up the phone, Li Weiyi smiled lightly. After having breakfast with his parents, he took a taxi to the East District Practitioners Association, which was a rare luxury.
Li Weiyi's home was not far from the East District Practitioners Association, so in less than five minutes, Li Weiyi arrived at the door of the East District Practitioners Association.
After paying the fare and getting off the car, Li Weiyi ran into Hu Tongshan, who had also just got off the car and was coming to the Practitioners Association.
"Brother Hu!" Li Weiyi called out with a smile.
"Yeah!" Hu Tongshan nodded, and looked at Li Weiyi limping over. He frowned slightly and said, "You are injured, and you don't know how to rest at home. Why are you running around?"
Li Weiyi looked at Hu Tongshan's serious face, listened to the concern in Hu Tongshan's tone, smiled warmly, and said: "Brother Hu! Instructor Long asked me to come here. He said he wanted to upgrade my trainee level."
"Upgrade the students' level?" Hu Tongshan was a little surprised.
Li Weiyi had just joined the Cultivator Association yesterday, and had just joined the Liuguang Team, and it was his first mission yesterday. Li Weiyi got all three firsts, and just with this, Li Weiyi was promoted from a junior student to an intermediate student. It would be strange if Hu Tongshan was not surprised!
You know, except for Lin Bao, who is a senior student, the rest of the Liuguang team are intermediate students. Moreover, they were promoted to intermediate students after completing many missions.
Li Weiyi, however, successfully advanced to an intermediate student after just this one mission, which was his first time to perform the mission.
"However, considering the situation yesterday, Li Weiyi was able to kill the iron-armored rhinoceros and repel the group of ferocious beasts. He deserves to be promoted to an intermediate student." Hu Tongshan thought again.
"Yes! What are you doing here so early, Brother Hu?" Li Weiyi asked with a smile.
"As for me, I have nothing to do, so I came to the association's practice room to practice!" Hu Tongshan said as he stepped forward and supported Li Weiyi.
"Brother Hu, it's just a minor injury. I can walk by myself!" Li Weiyi smiled and tried to pull away Hu Tongshan's arm.
"What does it look like to limp? You are a member of my Liuguang team. Do you want others to say that my Liuguang team doesn't know how to take care of their brothers? Let them laugh at you!?" Hu Tongshan said seriously.
"No, Brother Hu, I..."
Li Weiyi wanted to say something but was interrupted by Hu Tongshan.
"Since it's not the case, then isn't that enough? Let's go!" Hu Tongshan said as he held Li Weiyi's arm and walked into the gate of the East District Practitioners Association.
Feeling Hu Tongshan's concern for him, Li Weiyi felt warm in his heart.
Hu Tongshan walked all the way to the door of Long Tian’s office, and then he left, saying, "Come to the practice room to find me if you have any problems!"
"Brother Hu, it's not cold!"
Looking at Hu Tongshan leaving, Li Weiyi smiled lightly and knocked on the door of Long Tian's office.
"Come in!" Long Tian's voice came out.
Li Weiyi pushed the door open and walked in.
"Instructor Long!"
"You're here!" Long Tian was sitting at his desk looking at documents.
"Yeah!" Li Weiyi limped forward.
"How's the leg injury?"
"It's nothing serious, it will be fine after a few days of rest!"
"Well! Let's go! I'll take you to upgrade your student level!" With that, Long Tian stood up and led Li Weiyi to the archives room.
The promotion system of the Practitioners Association is very strict, and one must come to the association in person to handle it. This is also to prevent favoritism and fraud.
Moreover, the promotion of students' levels is not only based on the students' points in the association, but also based on the difficulty of the tasks and unexpected situations as a reference for promotion.
If things had developed normally, without the Earth-level beast Iron-Armored Rhinoceros and the momentum of one man repelling the group of ferocious beasts, it would have been simply wishful thinking for Li Weiyi to be promoted to the student level just by relying on an ordinary mission yesterday.
In addition, junior students do not have any privileges; intermediate students can attend a practitioner improvement class once a year organized by the survival base branch; senior students can attend two practitioner improvement classes each year, and can also get a chance to study cultivation once a year with the branch director explaining it.
"Okay! You are now an intermediate student of the Practitioners Association!" The staff member said to Li Weiyi after recording Li Weiyi's information.
"Congratulations! Weiyi! In just one day, you have been promoted from a junior student who has just joined the Practitioners Association to an intermediate student!" Long Tian congratulated with a smile.
"Thank you, Instructor Long! If it weren't for Instructor Long, I wouldn't have been promoted !" Li Weiyi thanked with a smile.
Li Weiyi knew that even if he had performed exceptionally well in yesterday's mission, he would not have been promoted to the trainee level so quickly without Long Tian's help. Therefore, Li Weiyi sincerely thanked Long Tian and thought that if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely repay Long Tian.
As they were talking, the two of them had already walked out of the archive room and chatted for a while. Then Long Tian let Li Weiyi walk around the association on his own while he went to take care of his own things.
Li Weiyi had a leg problem, so he didn't go out to stroll around. He originally wanted to go see Hu Tongshan, but when he came to the outside of the practice room and heard the shouting of the practitioners inside, Li Weiyi didn't go in to disturb them.
So Li Weiyi went downstairs and prepared to go home to recuperate.
