I Will Become a Good Soul Master

At dawn, the golden rays pierced through the clouds in the east, illuminating the white frost on the rice stalks along the edge of the fields.

Zhou Qing got up early in the morning and went to the Martial Soul Hall Office in the village.

The uncles, aunts, and older women in the village, who are already early risers, brought their children with them.

With winter approaching, the crops in the fields had long been harvested, so the villagers were quite free. When they learned that Zhou Qing and Tang San were going to teach them to read and write, they dared not slack off.

Although the villagers were somewhat fearful of the city because of the Wang Shi incident, they still yearned for a better life, so they would certainly not give up the opportunity to learn to read.

"Xiaoqing, what about the tuition fee? Can we use chicken instead?"

A villager, holding a large hen, said somewhat embarrassedly, "My wife is three months pregnant. Most of the money from selling grain this year went to buying her supplements. The rest is for emergencies, so I can only use this old hen as tuition."

Not only these villagers, but others were in similar situations, mostly carrying farm products such as rice cakes, grains, and sausages.

Seeing that the scene was about to become noisy, Zhou Qing shouted loudly, his voice carrying throughout the entire room, before saying, "Everyone, there's no need to be so polite! My teaching is free!"

Immediately, the villagers present were in an uproar.

Free!

That's definitely a good thing!

However, they felt a little embarrassed if they didn't leave anything behind.

When granaries are full, people know etiquette; when food and clothing are plentiful, people know honor and shame.

The area around Holy Soul Village has a lot of fertile farmland. In addition, a Soul Saint once appeared in the village, so the taxes paid each year are much less than those of other villages. As a result, every household has surplus grain, which can even be sold to the Two Great Empires.

This also makes the villagers of Holy Soul Village even more concerned about saving face.

However, Zhou Qing didn't care. Instead, he separated the men, women, and children among them and arranged them in order from low to high.

The first lesson was to teach them how to do Broadcast Gymnastics.

The Broadcast Gymnastics movements are simple. After the villagers followed Zhou Qing and did it once, they remembered the general movements. However, when they tried to do it on their own, their limbs swayed and their heads shook.

Zhou Qing didn't mind, but instead told them to stop and called out Uncle Wang's son—he was quite clever and not as mischievous as the other children, and he would get it right after the first time.

Therefore, after class, Zhou Qing would lead the other villagers to learn with him, and every morning Zhou Qing would also lead everyone to do two rounds of Broadcast Gymnastics to deepen the villagers' memory.

Unlike the work-study students at the Nuoding Academy, the villagers of Holy Soul Village have no concept of discipline. Moreover, the age range is too wide, from three-year-old children to seventy-year-old elders, so it's not good to force them to obey. At first, the only way is to let them learn by doing.

After all, he had no experience in implementing reforms, so he could only learn through trial and error, essentially learning alongside everyone else...

Originally, the villagers of Holy Soul Village thought the movements of the Broadcast Gymnastics were a bit strange, but after doing it for half a month, many young and middle-aged people who often had back pain found that their backs and waists felt much more comfortable.

Uncle Wang has even lost his crutches, and now when he walks, you can't tell he's lame unless you look closely.

Moreover, since the movements of the Broadcast Gymnastics are not strenuous, even Old Jack learned them together. Despite his advanced age, he was still in good health. After learning the Broadcast Gymnastics, his hunched back straightened up a bit, and even his complexion became much rosier than usual.

This is the effect of Broadcast Gymnastics, and also because this rural area has a more natural atmosphere and a richer Heaven and Earth Energy compared to the city.

With this most basic method of strengthening the body, the residents of Holy Soul Village naturally enjoyed the benefits brought by the omnipresent Heaven and Earth Energy.

Although they cannot cultivate Soul Power in a short period of time, they will inevitably be able to sense the existence of Soul Power over the years.

In terms of physical strength, Zhou Qing used Broadcast Gymnastics to lay the foundation for the villagers of Holy Soul Village.

In terms of enriching their minds, they were taught to read, write, and write articles, and even composed simple and easy-to-understand folk songs.

In particular, folk songs have brought villagers a unique kind of enjoyment, and many people even enjoy singing battles, which are a contest of both talent and strength.

After all, the Scream folk songs requires more than just a good voice; it also requires good lung capacity.

Subsequently, Professor Zhou Qing's courses, apart from extremely basic subjects such as arithmetic, physics, and chemistry, focused on history—the history of Two Great Empires.

He thoroughly analyzed the inner workings of the aristocratic and commoner classes, and openly and subtly told the villagers of Holy Soul Village about how the nobles oppressed and exploited them, and how they ensured that commoners like them could never rise above their circumstances.

After learning the general idea, many Holy Soul Village initially realized the truth, and then began to berate the nobles.

After all, the villagers of Holy Soul Village also have close ties with other nearby villages: intermarriage. A village that only engages in intermarriage within itself cannot last long.

Based on this, the villagers of Holy Soul Village also have many relatives in other villages, or have heard about the experiences of other people in those villages, or their own experiences.

Therefore, they are able to empathize.

This is also the purpose of Professor Zhou Qing and his classmates in learning to read and write.

How can someone who is illiterate become part of the founding team of an uprising?

How can one correctly understand the world if one cannot read?

Only by recognizing characters and reading books will one truly be willing to understand the world and have the idea of resisting a fate from which one can never change.

Moreover, this is also Zhou Qing's first step in uniting the people of the entire Holy Soul Village.

The remaining task was to find a way to spread his ideas to other villages, especially those villages that were living in extreme poverty, where the desire to change their situation was much stronger than that of the villagers of Holy Soul Village!

"But, as long as you become Soul Master, you can become a big shot, right?" someone couldn't help but ask.

Zhou Qing was actually pleased about this issue, which could potentially change the villagers' mindset, because it meant that they truly had their own thoughts, rather than being puppets who only obeyed his ideas.

The world he wants to build requires that, as a whole, everyone's beliefs and goals be unified, but each of them must also possess their own independent soul capable of independent thought.

But now, Zhou Qing had to explain, "If you became Soul Master, a big shot, what would you do? Would you be willing to give up the power, the glittering Gold Soul Coin given to you by the sect, the alluring beauties, and the tall, beautiful houses, and return to live in this Holy Soul Village?"

Money, beauty, status...

The person who asked the question fell silent, and so did everyone else.

If they really had these things, why would they go back to Holy Soul Village?

Seeing this, Zhou Qing knew what most of them were thinking, so he continued, "After this, you will go from commoners to nobles. Then, you will forget your commoner status and even follow those nobles to make life difficult for other commoners. This is the method of the upper-class nobles!"

"If I had Soul Power and could become Soul Master, I definitely wouldn't do this!" The person who raised the question immediately Proving the Dao the others, "I will become a good Soul Master!"