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Back in Holy Spirit Village, Tang San saw a farmer returning home from weeding in the field at a glance. He went up to greet him and said, "Uncle Wang, it's been a while since we last met. How have you been?"
"You are... Xiao San?" Uncle Wang looked at Tang San for a long time before recognizing him. His expression was excited. "Why do you look different? I can't even recognize you."
"Haha, it's mainly because I've already obtained a soul ring and become a Spirit Master. My martial soul has mutated, which has affected my appearance." Tang San explained. "Is Grandpa Jack in the village?"
"He is. He's at home. He even said that he would go and pick you up in two days." Uncle Wang's attitude became a little respectful after learning that Tang San had already become a Spirit Master. He immediately said.
"Then I'll go and find Grandpa first."
After chatting with Uncle Wang for a while and easing his tense attitude, Tang San took Xiao Wu to the village chief's house.
"Grandpa, I'm back!"
"Xiao San is back."
Old Jack immediately opened the door and came out. When he saw Tang San, he found that he had changed, but he still recognized him. He was overjoyed. "You child, didn't I say that I would go and pick you up? Why did you come back by yourself? Did you take a carriage?"
"No, I walked. It's to exercise my body." As Tang San spoke, he released his martial soul. A yellow soul ring appeared, causing Old Jack's tears to flow. "The village has finally produced another Spirit Master!"
After a while, Old Jack wiped away his tears and looked at Xiao Wu beside Tang San. He asked, "Xiao San, who is this?"
Could it be that Xiao San had abducted a little girl to be his wife?
"Grandpa, let me introduce her to you. This is Xiao Wu. She's the same age as me and is also a Spirit Master. Because she's an orphan, she plans to come to my house." Tang San explained the situation.
"Hello, Grandpa Jack." Xiao Wu greeted him obediently, which made Old Jack very happy. "Good, you're both good children. Come in quickly."
After Tang San entered the house, he put down the package on his body and took out many small pieces of furniture that he had bought. He placed them in the house and also gave Old Jack a bag of gold soul coins.
Old Jack counted them and found that there were twenty of them. He was immediately shocked. He pulled Tang San to the side and asked worriedly, "Xiao San, we can't do anything sneaky."
Tang San laughed and said, "Grandpa, don't worry. It's not stolen, and it's not robbed either. It's my savings."
Then, Tang San told him about how he, Su Yuntao, and Matthew Nuo went to hunt soul beasts together, then sold the Thousand-Year-Old Banyan Tree, and divided the gold soul coins.
"That's good." Old Jack was relieved and handed the bag back to Tang San. He said, "You're still growing. Keep it for yourself to buy some delicious food. Also buy some for Xiao Wu. This old man can't use so much."
"No need. Grandpa, keep it. I have enough for myself." Tang San stuffed the bag into Old Jack's arms. "Grandpa, you're old. In the future, you can hire the young and strong in the village to work on the fields. It'll be easier. After I become a Spirit Master, I'll earn more money in the future. I don't lack this. It's just that I spent some on researching my martial soul. Otherwise, I could have brought you more."
"More? I'm already this old. What do I need so much money for?" Seeing that Tang San insisted, Old Jack stopped refusing. However, he still told Tang San not to bring so much in the future. After all, he might not even spend a gold soul coin in a year.
At night.
Old Jack killed a chicken and slaughtered a sheep, allowing Tang San and Xiao Wu to eat their fill.
Old Jack's cooking skills were indeed not bad. Xiao Wu ate with oil all over her mouth. Although she was a rabbit, she didn't hesitate to eat meat.
This also proved one of Tang San's conjectures. That was, after a 100,000-year soul beast transformed, its body was already human. It could eat food that it couldn't eat before, and its taste buds were no different from humans.
The reason why it still hunted and killed soul rings and soul bones was most likely because the 100,000-year cultivation origin was still in its body and had not been completely adapted to its transformed body.
In other words, after a 100,000-year soul beast transformed, it was already a human. Whether it was mature or not, the difference was only whether the 100,000-year cultivation origin in its body was completely absorbed by its human body.
If one looked at it from this angle, as long as there was a method to take away the 100,000-year cultivation origin without harming the transformed soul beast's life, wouldn't the transformed soul beast truly become an ordinary human?
This was a question worth pondering.
If so, then in terms of race, transformed soul beasts could no longer be considered soul beasts.
At the dinner table, Xiao Wu ate happily and became more intimate with Old Jack. She directly called him Grandpa, and Old Jack also accepted Xiao Wu as his granddaughter.
The corners of Tang San's mouth twitched because Old Jack had hinted at him with a glance. This made him understand that Old Jack clearly wanted Xiao Wu to be his granddaughter-in-law, thus trying to find a way to bring him and Xiao Wu closer together.
"Xiao San, you're Xiao Wu's brother from now on. You have to take good care of her." Old Jack said earnestly.
"Grandpa, don't worry. I'll definitely let Xiao Wu become a powerful Spirit Master." Tang San glanced at Xiao Wu and said. The implication was that Xiao Wu had to grow up on her own. He wouldn't spoil her.
Even if she was really his sister, the best way to spoil her was to let her learn to be independent and cultivate a strong heart, not to be protected by him all the time.
That would be no different from bringing a burden with him.
Old Jack didn't hear the hidden meaning in Tang San's words. He thought that Tang San was still young and didn't understand the relationship between men and women, so he didn't say anything more. However, Xiao Wu understood, but she didn't say it out loud. She just looked at Tang San with a smile and said, "I'm your sister. You have to be nicer to me in the future."
"Don't worry. I'll 'take care' of you even more as a sister." Tang San smiled back, causing Xiao Wu to shiver involuntarily, but she still raised her head and chest and said, "Humph, I'll definitely be able to persevere."
The next day, Tang San told Old Jack and went to the blacksmith shop to repair farm tools for the villagers. He also recruited some children who were one or two years older than him, or of the same age, and asked them to go to the mountain to collect firewood. They would be paid three copper soul coins each day.
The children were very happy, and they also became curious about Tang San's identity as a Spirit Master.
Tang San wasn't stingy either. He told them some Spirit Master adventure stories that he had read in books. He even personally released his martial soul and used his soul skills to restore their stamina and heal their hidden injuries.
In an instant, the villagers all respected Tang San.
Xiao Wu was much wilder. She led another group of younger children to play in the fields, catching grasshoppers, frogs, digging wild vegetables, and fishing for crayfish. She did whatever was interesting, and she looked more like a human child.
During this vacation, Tang San didn't conduct any martial soul research. His life was still the same as usual. He cultivated the techniques and skills in the Xuantian Record, used the Chaos Cloak Hammer Method to train his body, and then studied the method of blood and qi circulation and the frequency of vibration. He combined the two with the Chaos Cloak Hammer Method to achieve a better body tempering effect.
Before the New Year, a fifteen-year-old boy from the village found Tang San and hoped to learn blacksmithing from him.
Tang San agreed.
After all, he had become a Spirit Master. For the next six years, he would spend most of his time in Nuoding City. If the farm tools in the village were broken, he would indeed need a blacksmith to help repair them.
However, Tang San wouldn't teach the Chaos Cloak Hammer Method for now. After all, this was something from the Haotian Sect. If someone else learned it and Tang Hao found out, it would definitely cause unnecessary trouble for others.
The female lead has been officially confirmed.
The scenes in Holy Spirit Village will be reduced or even ended.