Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 3: Becoming an Apprentice

"Ah?" Su Ming looked completely bewildered.

Lin Yu sighed inwardly and began his "First Lesson in Survival," the life-or-death lesson on how to stay alive.

"This ring is a wonder of heaven and earth. My existence is an enormous secret! If it’s exposed, divine punishment will surely fall!" He intensified his tone, "If you tell anyone about this, whether it's your parents or your elder brothers, you will bring death upon them, and upon yourself!" Inner thought: Divine punishment my foot, I’m just worried about the seventh blood streak appearing and everyone being finished!

He deliberately spoke with extreme gravity, even invoking divine punishment.

Su Ming's face drained white. "Death… death? Why? My parents are good people."

"Precisely because they are good people, they cannot guard such a treasure, nor can they bear the cost of knowing this secret!" Lin Yu coaxed in a leading tone, his voice laden with unquestionable weight, "Think about it, if the village finds out your family has a talking treasure ring, what would happen? If outsiders hear about it, what then? What about those immortal masters who can fly and hide across the lands, what would happen then?"

"They… they would come and steal it?" Su Ming was not stupid; he immediately grasped the crux and turned even paler.

"Not steal." Lin Yu's phantom shook its head, the tone grim, "It would be a catastrophe! They would kill to take the treasure, turn your whole family into mute corpses, and then take the ring." Inner thought: Okay, that’s a bit exaggerated, but the consequences of the seal collapsing are pretty much catastrophic too!

how the village butcher, Old Wang, had his hand chopped off by passing bandits for hoarding an extra few pounds of meat. A

tighter as if clutching his own little life."Th-then… what should I do?" Su Ming's voice quivered with

and this ring, you must not tell a single soul. Not one word! It is your greatest secret and

life safe is keeping both our

filled with a solemnity he'd never shown before. "I can! I swear! I won't tell anyone! Not even

strangled his soul ease by

at the nervous yet resolute boy before him, and that thought rose

whose nature was not yet fixed, a blank slate who would obey him completely,

a perfect heir of survival. If the boy grew strong, Lin Yu would be safe. If the boy lived long and steadily, that damned seal couldn't find new nourishment in death! His pension plan… no, survival plan could last a

Yu's tone softened considerably, carrying a faint,

is

the name as if reciting a wish, "Would you be willing to accept me as

Become an apprentice? To an old man who lived in a ring and

the tales told by the village storyteller, but it

How to live longer?" Su