"Are you really not going to tell our son... the truth?" Yang Lixia was shocked after learning that their son had awakened the Soul Devouring Spider Martial Soul and possessed innate soul power of level eight.
"Let's wait until he's a bit older. I'm afraid he won't be able to handle it right now," Zhou Shijie said, shaking his head. He planned to tell his son about what happened back then when he was older.
Who was so cruel as to bury a child alive!
The main reason Zhou Shijie took out the Wuhun Hall token was that he didn't want his son's news to be leaked.
After all, the brutality of the person who buried a living child was extraordinary.
This child was either a disciple of a large family who had been framed, or his parents had been killed, and the enemy had done it on purpose to torment the newborn child.
This was the real reason why Zhou Shijie didn't hesitate to reveal his high-level Wuhun Hall identity to make Matthew Nuo and Su Yuntao keep quiet.
"In three months, Notting Elementary Soul Master Academy will start its new term. I plan to let our son study there," Zhou Shijie suddenly suggested.
Yang Lixia thought for a moment and said, "Notting Elementary Soul Master Academy is at the top in Notting City, but on Douluo Continent, it's only third-rate."
He knew what his wife meant.
"I understand. Don't forget, both of us once studied at Notting Elementary Soul Master Academy. We were commoners and couldn't compare to those noble lords. But also remember, it's because we didn't believe in fate and worked hard to cultivate after joining the Spirit Hall that we eventually reached high positions. Although we've been away from the Spirit Hall for many years, some Title Douluo elders in the Spirit Hall still have old connections with me. I plan to take our child to Heaven Dou City to find a teacher after he graduates from Notting Elementary Soul Master Academy."
Hearing her husband finish, his wife, Yang Lixia, could only nod helplessly.
Notting Elementary Soul Master Academy was not satisfactory in Yang Lixia's eyes; she naturally hoped her son would go to a higher academy.
But their roots were here.
However, after thinking about it, her husband's teacher held a high position in the Spirit Hall in Heaven Dou City. After their son graduated from Notting Academy, it would be a good choice to have him introduced by his teacher.
Outside the house.
Xiao Xue and Zhou Sidong were listening attentively.
The two exchanged a look of understanding and then slowly retreated.
After closing the door tightly.
"I told you, my dad wouldn't hurt me." Zhou Sidong felt incredibly fortunate to have such caring parents, a blessing from his previous life.
"Your father's arrangements are excellent. After you graduate from Notting Elementary Soul Master Academy, your family will move to Heaven Dou City. Then, you can go find your sister, whom you've never met," Xiao Xue said, playfully winking.
"Sister... Qian Renxue."
Mentioning this sister he'd never met, Zhou Sidong was quite looking forward to it.
A sister born of the same mother, conducting a covert mission in Heaven Dou City, and furthermore, the Crown Prince of Heaven Dou Empire—her status was high! This was a thick thigh to hold onto!
What surprised Zhou Sidong the most was what he learned from Xiao Xue last night: his own sister apparently didn't even know he existed.
He really looked forward to the two siblings meeting!
Thinking of this, Zhou Sidong's face flushed red. He heard his sister was also a great beauty, hehe.
"Hell Devil Cultivation, begin now!"
Xiao Xue suddenly became ferocious. She and Zhou Sidong were, in a sense, "one." The stronger Zhou Sidong became, the better it would be for her.
Zhou Sidong was full of confidence about this. He had the advantage of a full twenty points of innate soul power, and his soul was as strong as a Title Douluo. Although his body was a bit weak, he could supplement that with medicine later.
He no longer hesitated and, following the cultivation method provided by Xiao Xue, he focused on it wholeheartedly.
Half a month had passed since his martial soul awakening.
During this half-month, Zhou Sidong would run around Notting City three times in the morning. His three meals a day were supplemented with medicine. His body was actually seventeen years old, but due to being frozen at a young age, his body was no different from that of a six-year-old child.
Zhou Sidong's physical potential was great. At first, he couldn't even lift a hundred-pound dumbbell. But after subsequent medication and conditioning, his physical fitness skyrocketed, and lifting a hundred pounds became effortless.
At the same time, Zhou Sidong also vigorously developed technology.
Zhou Sidong naturally had to forge a major weapon like the Fragmentation Grenade. The thousands of tiny steel balls contained within were an absolute nightmare for Soul Masters below the fortieth rank.
As for soul beasts, imagine throwing a grenade and having the soul beast swallow it whole, only for it to explode inside!
From now on, the cost of hunting soul beasts would also be greatly reduced.
Not far from Notting City was Holy Soul Village.
Today was the day that the children of the village would awaken their martial souls. The Notting City branch's deacon had come to Holy Soul Village to awaken the martial souls of the children from these poor families, a tradition that had been going on for over a decade.
Old Jack, the village elder of Holy Soul Village, was deeply moved by this year-round perseverance.
Long before Su Yuntao arrived, Old Jack, the village head, had already informed the children to gather at the place in the village entrance where the Soul Saint's handprint was.
There were only seven children in the entire village, varying in height and build.
Among them, a skinny six-year-old boy standing at the edge seemed unremarkable.
He wore coarse cloth clothes and was only six years old, yet his body was a head shorter than other children his age, perhaps due to malnutrition.
Before long, Su Yuntao arrived.
After exchanging a few pleasantries with Old Jack, the seven children lined up and entered the wooden house in an orderly fashion.
The children stood side by side, and on their faces, Su Yuntao saw anticipation.
From a young age, they had been influenced by whispers and sights, and they were particularly憧憬(longing) for martial souls.
Seeing the innocent smiles on the children's faces, Su Yuntao couldn't help but sigh inwardly. In the past, when he awakened the martial souls for these children in the villages, ninety percent of them had no soul power. Not only were their martial souls useless, but they also lacked soul power, meaning they could only live as ordinary people.
Su Yuntao sighed softly, "I hope things are better this year."
He felt regret for the child with innate soul power of rank eight; not being able to recruit him into the Spirit Hall was Su Yuntao's biggest regret.
"Children, my name is Su Yuntao. I am a twenty-seventh rank Great Soul Master, and my martial soul is the Lone Wolf."
He took out six stones from his backpack and arranged them in a six-pointed star formation. The thin, small boy among the seven watched with utmost seriousness.
When Su Yuntao's body became covered in gray wolf fur, and his hands transformed into sharp claws and teeth, with the single-eyed Lone Wolf appearing behind him…
The children, who had been smiling, suddenly changed their expressions. They began to wail and cry, thoroughly frightened.
You can't blame Su Yuntao, though. It's just that his Lone Wolf martial soul's appearance was, well, a bit ugly. It had scared quite a few children in previous years.
Su Yuntao's gaze landed on the slender boy. "This child..."