Free Martial Soul Awakening? Who Could Possibly Do Something So Stupid?

Within the sky screen, Qian Renxue, who had nearly suffered internal injuries from holding it in, finally managed to speak:

"Got it."

"Louder."

"Got it! Got it! I'll go back and slaughter that Tang San, and I won't be love-brained anymore, all right?!"

Both embarrassed and angry, Qian Renxue sprang to her feet, planted both hands on the table, and glared "fiercely" at Ye Guyi.

Are you the ancestor, or am I?

How dare you talk to me like that!

Ye Guyi stuck out her tongue, finally feeling a little embarrassed.

The events of the day had shocked her so much that she could no longer tell who was in charge.

"Hmph!"

Qian Renxue gave a delicate huff and sat back down.

Glancing at the Soul Tool in Ye Guyi's hand, she asked in some puzzlement:

"When did you look that up? How come I didn't know?"

Except when they were fighting the Evil Soul Masters, the two of them had been together all day, and she hadn't heard Ye Guyi call her own name into the Soul Guidance Communicator.

"Oh, that? You don't have to use voice input."

Ye Guyi returned to her usual lively self, pulled her chair over, and taught Qian Renxue hand over hand how to enter text using the keyboard, handwriting, and other methods.

As someone from Sun Moon in the Douluo II era, even if she hadn't eaten pork, hadn't she seen a pig run?

Soul Tools were advanced nowadays, but she could still figure out their basic functions.

Qian Renxue couldn't help clicking her tongue in wonder, as though the door to a whole new world had opened before her.

"Honestly, that guy didn't explain anything clearly. We have to learn everything ourselves."

She couldn't help grumbling about Su Tianxuan under her breath. If Ye Guyi hadn't been smart, she would have missed out on so much!

"Given His Eminence Time Douluo's strength, he's actually quite easygoing, isn't he?"

Ye Guyi spoke up briefly in Su Tianxuan's defense.

Among the powerful people she knew, even a Soul Saint would be full of himself and look down on others.

Su Tianxuan's personality was a little strange, but at least he didn't have the nasty tempers of those minor characters, and he could even joke with them from time to time.

Qian Renxue curled her lip:

"What do you mean? My grandpa's on the same level as him, and he's much nicer."

Hearing that, Qian Daoliu, twenty thousand years in the past, trembled and nearly dropped the Awakening Stone.

Xiao Xue, please say no more. How could your grandpa possibly compare to that guy?

Qian Daoliu doubted that even he and Bo Saixi together could defeat Su Tianxuan.

After all, Su Tianxuan hadn't even used that armor just now. Relying on his own strength alone, he had thoroughly beaten an opponent on the same level while supporting the battle between opponents of the same level on the other side.

Within the sky screen, Qian Renxue had successfully made Ye Guyi laugh:

"Ancestor, is it possible that your grandpa was simply doting on you?"

Qian Renxue pouted and decided not to stoop to her junior's level.

Since they were talking about Qian Daoliu, she instinctively searched for her grandpa's name on the Soul Guidance Communicator.

She actually found him.

But there was only one short sentence:

"Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue's grandfather. Life unknown."

Twenty thousand years had erased all his strength and accomplishments.

Qian Renxue fell silent.

Just then, Ye Guyi suddenly brought her Soul Guidance Communicator over and asked curiously:

"Ancestor, can you tell me about the real Spirit Hall?"

The information about Spirit Hall online either said that it persecuted civilians and oppressed the people, or that it had abandoned its original purpose and tried to destroy the two great empires...

In short, there was nothing good said about it.

But from Su Tianxuan and Qian Renxue's words, it wasn't hard to tell that Spirit Hall had done many good things.

So Ye Guyi was truly curious: what had the real Spirit Hall been like ten thousand years ago?

"The real Spirit Hall..."

Qian Renxue was stunned for quite a while.

It was something she was so familiar with that, at first, she didn't know how best to describe it.

After gathering her thoughts a little, she said:

"Spirit Hall started out as a religious order that worshipped the Angel God. As the order developed and grew, it had more and more things to do and responsibilities to bear.

"Eventually, it became Spirit Hall, which covered the entire continent. Our main duties were to protect the cities and drive away Soul Beasts and Fallen Soul Masters.

"We also mediated disputes between Soul Masters and organized competitions and the like. Every Awakening Day, we sent people to help others awaken their Martial Souls for free..."

Before she could finish, Ye Guyi interrupted her, her face full of shock:

"Wait! What did you say? Martial Soul Awakening? For free?"

Qian Renxue was a little puzzled. Was such an ordinary thing really that shocking?

"It was free. What else would it be? We just didn't have enough people, and it took quite a while to reach those remote villages, so sometimes we were a little late handing out money to Soul Masters."

"Huh? Wait, you even gave Soul Masters money?!"

"Mm. I've forgotten exactly how much, but we gave it out every month. Anyone who became a Soul Master could come to Spirit Hall to collect a subsidy."

After hearing that, Ye Guyi raised her head and stared at the ceiling expressionlessly.

"****! (Sun Moon profanity)"

Outside the sky screen, while people twenty thousand years in the past were still wondering why Ye Guyi was so shocked, the Douluo Continent ten thousand years in the past had already erupted.

"Free Martial Soul Awakening! Free! It didn't cost anything!"

"I could have had a chance to awaken my Martial Soul too? Why did you only tell me when I'm about to die?!"

"So Soul Masters got money? I wonder if it would have been enough to buy another sesame flatbread. I'm so hungry."

Voices like these rang out one after another across the four countries of the Douluo Continent.

Commoners made up the majority of the world.

There were those who had spent everything they owned to awaken their children's Martial Souls, those who had never managed to save enough money in their entire lives to awaken their Martial Souls, and those whose Soul Power was so low that they could only make a living like ordinary people...

Their voices were faint individually, but together they could shake heaven and earth.

At that moment, a wish welled up in all their hearts:

"I want Spirit Hall back."

Shrek Academy.

The Sea God Pavilion Elders didn't feel much sympathy about this. They certainly didn't lack the money to awaken a Martial Soul.

Someone commented critically:

"What a way to buy people's loyalty. No wonder they became our ancestor's great enemy."

Xuan Zi was even more disdainful:

"The two great empires clearly paid for it, yet somehow they ended up being the good guys? Ha!"

As an organization that had been around for ten thousand years, they weren't like others who knew little about Spirit Hall.

Of course, there had been plenty of deletions and alterations to suit their own interests.

Yan Shaozhe frowned slightly:

"This sky screen is being broadcast to the whole world. I'm worried that people who don't know the truth will be misled and damage our academy's reputation.

"Mm, let's do this. Release some of the academy's records, especially the part about the two great empires paying while Spirit Hall took the credit. Let them know who was truly good to them."

A pavilion elder departed to carry out the order.

Mu En had a vague feeling that something was amiss, but since the reputations of their predecessors and the academy were at stake, he could only give his tacit consent.