Three Million Gold Soul Coins!

After returning to Holy Soul Village.

Zhou Qing discovered that Grandpa Jack had already gathered the village craftsmen skilled in carpentry and masonry. They had put up a small shed near his home and begun planning the construction of the Forge Workshop.

"Grandpa Jack, uncles, I have an idea."

Zhou Qing did not intend to interfere with the Forge Workshop's interior arrangement, but he could offer a suggestion regarding its exterior: it would be best if the Forge Workshop were connected to his house.

Why?

Naturally, he wanted to make full use of the heat from the Forge Workshop's future furnace. Pipes could carry that heat into his home, so when winter came, there would be no need to light a stove in the rooms. They could simply burn charcoal in the Forge Workshop's furnace. It would be safer, and they would no longer have to choke on stove smoke.

"That's a good idea!"

"As expected of Holy Soul Village's Wise Star!"

Old Jack and the others admired the pipes connecting the Forge Workshop to Zhou Qing's home. They even thought they could build similar stoves beside their own houses in the future, guiding warm air into their rooms during winter...

In the blink of an eye.

A month passed.

The Forge Workshop was completed, and Tang San officially began his career as a blacksmith. Before the astonished eyes of Old Jack and the others, Tang San picked up a forging hammer taller than himself and hammered a red-hot chunk of iron. Before long, he had repaired a hoe blade.

Although his craftsmanship was inferior to Tang Hao's, the farmers of Holy Soul Village could not see much difference. They only felt relieved that they would no longer need to ask Old Jack to seek out Tang Hao.

Old Jack himself had never particularly wanted to see Tang Hao. Now that all the village's smithing work could be handed to Tang San, why would he object?

For a time, all the kitchenware and farming tools in Holy Soul Village that needed repairs were sent to the Forge Workshop. Zhou Qing helped sort them so they would not be left in a mess, preventing villagers from taking home farming tools or kitchenware that did not belong to them.

Tang San needed only four days to repair all the farming tools and kitchenware, earning nearly a hundred Copper Soul Coins.

During that time, many villagers brought Tang San gifts as well. For example, Uncle Wang's family brought peaches they had grown themselves.

That day.

Tang San found Zhou Qing and told him that he had gained "Soul Power."

"Soul Power... Soul Power?" Zhou Qing, who was flipping through a book, nodded absentmindedly. Then his hand paused, and he abruptly looked up. "Soul Power! Did your Martial Soul awaken on its own?"

"No, but I really have it."

Tang San began explaining. He said that when he had kowtowed before that Soul Saint's grave, new knowledge had suddenly appeared in his mind. Among it was a cultivation method called the Mysterious Heaven Skill, which could allow someone to cultivate Soul Power even without a Martial Soul.

Zhou Qing: (￣△￣)

"What kind of expression is that?" Tang San also felt that his explanation sounded a little far-fetched, but that was simply where his Mysterious Heaven Skill had come from. He could not think of any other reason.

Besides, his skills would inevitably be exposed to the outside world in the future. It was better to say so now.

Moreover, Zhou Qing was already one of his own.

"Nothing. I just think you seem like the protagonist of a storybook." Zhou Qing was telling the truth. Leaving aside how Tang San had reincarnated with the techniques from his previous life, there was even a Soul Saint's treasure hidden in the mountains near Holy Soul Village.

He truly was a child of destiny!

"Stop joking around." Tang San assumed Zhou Qing did not believe him, so he walked over, raised a hand, pressed it against Zhou Qing's back, and poured his internal energy into him.

In an instant.

Zhou Qing sensed a warm current flowing through his body. His entire body felt incomparably comfortable, as though he were soaking in a hot spring. Even his mind relaxed.

"Do you believe me now?"

Tang San lowered his hand and panted faintly.

Although he had reached the First Layer of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, without awakening his Martial Soul, his cultivation could no longer advance. Controlling his internal energy to circulate through Zhou Qing's body consumed quite a lot.

"I believe you."

Without another word, Zhou Qing pulled open the drawer beneath the table and took out the cloth bag. "Try and see whether you can open it."

"Watch me."

Tang San took the cloth bag and infused it with internal energy. He felt its opening loosen, and then—

Clatter!

A huge pile of Gold Soul Coins poured out, burying Zhou Qing, Tang San, and the desk beneath them. They piled up into a small mountain of gold.

"We're rich!"

Zhou Qing crawled out of the golden mountain. Looking at the Gold Soul Coins that had nearly filled the room, his entire body trembled as he estimated a number. "There are at least three million Gold Soul Coins here!"

The exchange rate between Gold Soul Coins, Silver Soul Coins, and Copper Soul Coins was 1:10:100.

At least three million Gold Soul Coins!

Weren't they rich?

It was also Tang San's first time seeing so much money. For a moment, he stood there in a daze, completely at a loss.

Zhou Qing was the first to recover. He had Tang San figure out how to put the Gold Soul Coins back while he searched through the sea of coins.

Before long, he felt out two silver boxes from among the Gold Soul Coins.

He opened them.

One of them contained a white bug egg the size of a thumb. Under the sunlight, something could be seen wriggling inside.

This had to be the Light Goddess Butterfly's egg.

The remaining box held a Crystal Ball the size of a fist, crystalline blue in color. Looking closely, it was not actually spherical, but an irregular polyhedron. Its surface had at least a thousand facets, making it appear round at a glance.

"Is this the Soul Guidance Crystal?" After putting all the Gold Soul Coins into the bag, Tang San set it on the desk and kept examining the crystalline-blue Soul Guidance Crystal.

"Try injecting Soul Power into it?"

Zhou Qing handed the Soul Guidance Crystal to him and suggested it.

Tang San did as he said.

At once, the Soul Guidance Crystal lit up. A point of golden light burst forth from its center, then spread outward in every direction, connecting to every facet on its surface.

Zhou Qing's eyesight was inferior to Tang San's, so he could only take out a Magnifying Glass to inspect it—the Magnifying Glass had been made by Zhou Qing from a thick piece of glass he had asked someone from Tu Village to bring back from the city.

That piece of glass alone had cost him Two Rings.

Across the crystal's thousands of facets, rings of patterns lit up. Every facet was different, but Zhou Qing guessed that the patterns on each one formed a Soul Tool Core Formation.

If the Soul Saint's diary was accurate, then the techniques required for a spatial-transmission Soul Tool probably included several Soul Tool Core Formations with individual functions.

With his Purple Demon Eye, Tang San also noticed the Soul Tool Core Formations on the crystal's facets. He was deeply fascinated and could not wait to figure out the purpose of the formation patterns on every face.

"We'll have plenty of time to study it later. There's no need to rush." Zhou Qing felt they should first decide how to divide the Gold Soul Coins. "We split them evenly."

"No problem." Tang San nodded, then seemed to remember something and said to Zhou Qing, "Keep this Storage Soul Tool with you for now. You can hold onto my share too. You know, I don't want my father to keep wasting away like this."

"That makes sense. If Uncle Tang Hao got such a large sum of money, he'd definitely buy even more alcohol, maybe even go to Nuoding City to buy..." Zhou Qing did not continue, merely saying, "Uncle Tang Hao really needs to pull himself together..."