Holy Soul Village.
Inside the wooden house known as "Spirit Hall."
A muscular, heavily built middle-aged man stood in the center of the wooden house, silently looking down at eight trembling children, yet his heart was filled with confusion and helplessness.
His name was Su Yuntao.
Compared to ten years ago, he had matured considerably. His beard had grown longer, and wrinkles had appeared on his face.
More than ten days ago, an order from the Pope had crossed thousands of miles from Spirit City overnight and reached the head of the hall master of Notting City Spirit Hall Branch—which was him, Su Yuntao.
When he opened the order in utter panic, he found it completely baffling.
It actually required him to go to Holy Soul Village and preside over the Spirit awakening ceremony!
One had to know that he was now a Spirit Ancestor-level powerhouse, the esteemed hall master of Notting City Branch, and had long since stopped going to each village to awaken Spirits.
However, this order came from the very top. Even if he did not understand the reason, he had to carry it out to the letter.
"Could it be because of the former Heaven Dou rebel, the Blue Sky King?"
For some reason, the image of that youth named Tang San surfaced in Su Yuntao's mind.
Although he had possessed Innate Full Soul Power, his Spirit had been the universally acknowledged trash Spirit, Blue Silver Grass. Yet that youth had risen all the way at an astonishing speed, reaching a status ordinary people could scarcely attain. He had become regent of Heaven Dou, been granted the title of Blue Sky King, and had actually become the greatest obstacle to the Spirit Hall Empire's unification of the continent.
Thinking back to what he had heard back