With the 7 silver coins I had in the first month, I mainly ate regular meat and bought some protein bars that I always found delicious.
During these days, I realized what life is like without the internet and electricity, and I can assure you it's very boring. With nothing to do, like watching movies, series, or even taking care of someone else's life, the only thing left to do was train and use the money I had to eat well.
Because even though 7 coins isn't much, I could eat a lot of delicious things, just nothing supernatural that could strengthen me significantly. So, I started walking near the village and learned that I could sell all kinds of physical items to the system store. I began to approach every plant I saw to see if I could sell it and make some extra income.
I could venture into the forest looking for valuable herbs, but at just 5 years old, I wouldn't take that risk. Even though the chance of wandering close to the village was minimal, I knew that as long as I survived, success was guaranteed; I just needed to be patient and save a lot of money.
After awakening my martial soul, buying a pistol with a laser sight would allow me to explore better and see if I could make some extra income.
I had no desire to go to primary school and be stuck with a bunch of annoying kids. My goal is to strengthen myself here in the village, and as I get stronger, explore the nearby forest in search of herbs or even weak beasts, like the boar that killed my father, to sell to the store.
This would give me much more money than going to school in exchange for some common knowledge and snake coins for poorly nutritious meals. I truly believed that with the system, I would find many herbs in the nearby forest that would earn me much more money than school and prepare me for when I reached level 20. If I felt confident in my strength, I would go to the arena to fight and bet on myself to make a fortune.
And so a year flew by, and I would finally awaken my martial soul.
One day before the awakening, I decided to buy a nourishing potion that appears in the world of Reincarnation of the Strongest Sword God.
After covering my food expenses with the 2 gold coins I had each month, I could only afford a rank B potion. I imagined that at the moment of awakening, the martial spirit or martial soul would need energy from the body to awaken, and the more energy, the better my awakening would be. Believing this could make a difference, I decided to take the risk.
Five other children and I were in line for the awakening, and unsurprisingly, none of the five children were lucky; all had 0 soul power. The master of the Spirit Hall who would oversee the awakening was an old man in his 40s with only two rings, one white and one yellow, wielding a simple iron sword.
When it was my turn, my heart raced with anxiety and anticipation.
When the awakening began, I felt nothing in my right or left hand, but I sensed something special from my body—not just my hands or feet, but my entire body. I realized I had awakened a full-body martial soul, and I was very happy because, although I hadn't witnessed the other awakenings beyond the first, I knew that in the future there would be a super strong sect with martial souls that had parts of the body. I believed that a full-body martial soul could have multiple awakenings, improving talent and strength, as well as making it easier to absorb soul rings beyond the conventional limits of that time. With my system and enough money, it would be easy to buy soul rings of any age I wanted, and I also believed it would be easier to control my own body and soul power to create or simply purchase techniques from the system.
After a while, the sword master of the Spirit Hall noticed something strange because my martial soul still hadn't appeared.
Sword Master: "Young one, are you alright? Why isn't your spirit appearing?"
After pretending to be confused, I said, "I don't know, sir, I feel my body is different."
After the sword master thought for a moment, unlike Su Yuntao, he seemed to guess.
Sword Master: "I've heard of something similar before, about some people who haven't awakened any spirit."
I pretended to cry and asked, "Sir, can I become a soul master?"
Sword Master: "I don't know, my young friend. This is the first time I've seen this. Let's test your soul power first."
He placed the crystal ball in front of me, and when I put my hand on it, it filled up to 35%.
Sword Master: "Congratulations, my young friend, you have soul power, but without a spirit, I don't know if you can cultivate and level up."
Not wanting to go to elementary school, I asked, "Thank you, sir, for helping me awaken. Even without a spirit, I would like to try. Could you tell me how I can cultivate and level up?"
After thinking for a moment, he took a thin book out of his pocket about how to meditate and said, "This book explains how to meditate to level up. I always carry one of these in case a civilian awakens soul power and can cultivate before entering school. I'll leave it with you.
I bowed ninety degrees and thanked him, "THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I won't give up on becoming a great master like you!"
The sword master smiled and said, "Good luck, young one. Even if you can't cultivate, just having soul power puts you ahead of most ordinary people. I guarantee you'll be able to find a job in many places if you need to. Since you don't have a spirit, do you want to attend elementary school in Notting City?"
I replied, "I think it's better not to, sir. Without a spirit, I'll just embarrass myself going to school. I'll try to practice meditation at home, and if it works out in the future, I'll look for a job at the Spirit Hall."
The sword master laughed and said, "Good luck, young one. Now that I've fulfilled my duty in this village, I'm off to the next one. Goodbye."
Arriving home, despite having a soul power of only 3.5, I was very happy. I think the rank B potion had an effect on that extra 0.5 percent, and with my system, it would be easy in the future to buy treasures to awaken my corporeal spirit. Now, all that's left is to practice, and I've always wanted to practice chakra control from the Naruto world to see if it would have an effect in this world as well. So, I sat down to read the book on meditation, and after reading the very simple book, I began my first meditation in this world.