Soul Hunting Preparations

Having decided which Spirit Beast to hunt, Wu Tong no longer hesitated and immediately began preparing to obtain his Spirit Ring.

The first thing he needed to do was acquire enough Gold Soul Coins. Only with sufficient wealth could he make those who pursued profit risk their lives for him. Whether recruiting Spirit Masters for the Spirit Ring hunt or obtaining information on the Mind's Eye Golden Fox, both required a large amount of Gold Soul Coins.

That would not be difficult. Wu Tong's mind contained detailed knowledge he had searched for online in his previous life. From extracting soap and making snacks to firing porcelain... he had everything. Any one of them could bring in enormous profits once introduced.

Once he had enough money, finding the Mind's Eye Golden Fox's location would become another major problem. Wu Tong needed to contact an intelligence organization to help him locate it. As for intelligence organizations, there were some outside the Soul Hunting Forest; this had already become an established industry.

Fortunately, the Mind's Eye Golden Fox was not an especially rare Spirit Beast. It had traces even within the Soul Hunting Forest, so it would not take long to find. During that time, Wu Tong could make some weapons for self-defense.

For men, weapons truly held an immense allure. No man could resist the charm of firearms, and Wu Tong was naturally no exception.

In his previous life, Wu Tong could also be considered a firearms enthusiast. He often searched Douyin for gunfight videos and inevitably came across videos explaining how firearms were made. Those memories still remained in Wu Tong's Brain.

Every detail of that knowledge was crystal clear. Wu Tong believed that as long as he followed the steps, he could manufacture firearms. Once the guns were made, even the most ordinary pistol could break through the defenses of a Four-Ring Defense-Type Soul Master, let alone the fact that Wu Tong intended to make far more than ordinary pistols.

Besides, Wu Tong only needed to hunt a Hundred-Year Spirit Beast. As long as he had a gun, this Spirit Beast hunt would be as good as secured.

After all, the strongest Spirit Beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest were only a thousand years old. At regular intervals, Spirit Masters from Spirit Hall cleared out the Soul Hunting Forest to prevent Ten-Thousand Year Soul Beasts from appearing.

Therefore, the firearms were mainly meant to guard against those ill-intentioned Spirit Beast hunting teams.

With his plan in place, Wu Tong began to act.

The next day, before dawn had fully broken, Wu Tong crawled out of his warm bed. After getting himself ready, he took the leave note he had gotten approved by his teacher the day before and headed outside the Academy.

However, Wu Tong had not expected that after he got up, another boy would wake as well. Watching Wu Tong's departing figure, the boy was surprised, but he could not help feeling disdainful. "Hmph, so what if he gets up early? He neglects his studies and wanders around outside all day. He'll never amount to anything."

That boy was naturally our Great Buddha Tang, the future ruler of the Tang Family Continent, holder of the dual God Positions of the Sea God and Asura God, God King Tang San.

After Tang San asked his teacher about the Body Martial Soul, he learned that it was merely a Useless Martial Soul. Naturally, he no longer focused his attention on Wu Tong.

After all, just as his teacher Yu Xiaogang had said, Wu Tong was the owner of a Useless Martial Soul. Even with such excellent talent, he could never surpass Tang San in the future, so there was naturally no need to care about him.

Meanwhile, Wu Tong had no idea Tang San was criticizing him behind his back.

After arriving on the streets, Wu Tong found the most successful restaurant in the city. He traded several Chinese recipes from his memories to the owner and received a hefty reward.

He then used the money to hire a group of people and teach them how to make street snacks. Next, he had a carpenter custom-build a batch of mobile food carts. After purchasing large quantities of ingredients, he had them sell the snacks throughout the city. This way, even if Wu Tong did nothing each day, Gold Soul Coins would still continuously come rolling in.

After settling those matters, Wu Tong took the firearm component blueprints he had drawn the night before to a blacksmith shop. He handed the dimension-marked designs to the blacksmiths and asked them to forge the parts. After arranging a collection date, he left the shop.

After leaving the blacksmith shop, Wu Tong used his remaining Gold Soul Coins to find the Notting City branch of the Soul Hunting Forest's intelligence network and commissioned them to search for traces of the Mind's Eye Golden Fox.

By the time he finished all that, dusk had already fallen.

Beneath the crimson glow of the sunset, Wu Tong walked back toward the Academy. Fragmented golden sunlight fell across his face, making that incomparably handsome visage seem like a Godhood Inheritor who had stepped out of a painting. He possessed a fatal attraction, and the young girls passing nearby all found a blush coloring their faces.