Zhou Tian understood the thoughts of those beggars; events like today are rare, and after they finish eating, they will return to their previously harsh days. At that time, for each extra piece of food, they could live a bit longer.

However, while most of the beggars were scrambling to seize the distributed or other beggars’ food, they were unaware that both the ones stealing and those being stolen from inadvertently lost a significant opportunity.

Speaking of the ones seizing food, although Zhou Tian understood their actions, knowing the importance of that food to these beggars and still doing such a thing already indicated that there was definitely a problem with their character. At the very least, Zhou Tian could not guarantee that if they received his inheritance, they wouldn’t betray him at the first temptation.

Therefore, all the beggars who were seizing food, regardless of whether their actions were reasonable at the time, were immediately abandoned by Zhou Tian as soon as they showed that behavior.

Beggars who had their food seized were in the same situation. Although they were victims, they did not resist despite knowing the food’s importance. Zhou Tian never considered such cowardly and weak individuals reliable.

Would beggars really face severe consequences if they resisted at that moment?

Everyone was a beggar; no one was nobler than the other. If a person were killed during a struggle, the murderous beggar wouldn’t fare well either. Additionally, there wasn’t just one or two people who had food then—it’s easier to seize someone else’s food than fight to the death for a little food.

Therefore, Zhou Tian found it difficult to feel sympathy for those beggars who had their life-saving food stolen, let alone consider them inheritors of his strength.

Only those beggars who neither seized others’ food nor had their food stolen passed Zhou Tian’s first trial.

It’s only the beginning; Zhou Tian wouldn’t readily pass on his strength to others so easily. Thus, the beggars who passed the first trial still needed to undergo other trials. Only those whose performance fully satisfied Zhou Tian could seize this opportunity.

After the food distribution event ended, Zhou Tian left a large amount of gold to the wealthy person, then tracked down the beggars one by one by following the spatial mark he left them.

One beggar after another, although their performance allowed them to pass Zhou Tian’s first trial, when Zhou Tian approached them later, he still eliminated them from the list of potential candidates for inheriting his strength.

Most of the beggars who received the allocated food just hid them and ate a little each day to ensure they wouldn’t starve over an extended period. While this behavior wasn’t necessarily incorrect, Zhou Tian wasn’t particularly interested in such ordinary individuals.

As a result of this, many of the beggars who initially passed the first trial were also eliminated at that time. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Originally, there weren’t many beggars Zhou Tian had his eye on, and after a series of trials he administered, most beggars—ninety-nine percent—were eliminated because the trials were too difficult.

However, although the beggars Zhou Tian had initially focused on were mostly eliminated, even when Zhou Tian abandoned most of them, ultimately he chose one beggar.

From the first trial, Zhou Tian had already noticed this beggar. However, he couldn’t simply make a decision based on liking the beggar without conducting other tests. Thus, even though Zhou Tian noticed this beggar back then, he didn’t immediately approach him.

Unexpectedly, the subsequent performance of the beggar who initially caught Zhou Tian’s attention eventually convinced Zhou Tian to decide to cultivate him as his object of focus.

The beggar Zhou Tian selected was only eleven or twelve years old, but due to longstanding malnutrition, he looked as if he was only eight or nine years old.

During the food distribution, beggars like him would naturally be targets first. Yet this little beggar was quite fierce. When other beggars targeted him, he fought till he was seriously injured, blinding one beggar. His fierce attitude scared other beggars away, allowing the little beggar to preserve his food with weak strength.

If it had only been like this, Zhou Tian would simply have remembered the little beggar and would lend him a hand when necessary. But without passing other trials, Zhou Tian still wouldn’t consider him a suitable inheritor.

It was only when Zhou Tian found the little beggar that he was surprised to find that the little beggar hadn’t eaten the food he fought hard to retrieve himself, but instead...