Second Soul Skill: Spirit of Blue Silver

No, you won't.

Zhou Qing shook his head. "As long as you accept benefits from the powerful and wealthy, whether it's wealth, beauty, or status, those expenses are all taken from us commoners—the luxurious palaces where nobles live and the gorgeous clothes they wear are all paid for with the blood and sweat of us commoners!"

"Once you accept their benefits, whether you do so unintentionally or not, whether you are aware of it or not, it does not change the fact that you have become their accomplice."

"You think that when you become Soul Master and accept invitations from sects and nobles, everything you enjoy is earned through your own efforts, but in reality, you are just helping them exploit the rest of the common people."

For a moment, the entire room fell silent.

The person who raised the question also fell silent, having figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

This was also Zhou Qing's goal—to plant a seed of mutual supervision in their hearts.

Of course, this does not mean that cooperation with the nobles and sects of the Two Great Empires is impossible to some extent in the future; it simply means laying a foundation.

They must always remember where they come from!

Benefits from the nobility—

Yes, you can eat it!

But we must never be tempted by the enemy and betray the class we belong to!

Then, Zhou Qing continued, "After spending a semester at the Nuoding Academy, this is the truth I learned. Therefore, I will not join any faction in the future. Instead, I will always remember that I come from Holy Soul Village. I want to make you stronger and smarter, and declare to those nobles: We also have human rights! We are not cattle to be bleed at will!"

"From now on, when we go to sell grain, we must let those officials in the city know that we are human beings too, and that they cannot bully us just because we are from the countryside!"

And speaking of selling grain—

The entire population of Holy Soul Village resonated strongly with this sentiment.

After all, Zhou Qing's words really struck a chord with them.

Whether they went to Nuoding City or Falling Star City, the people in the city, especially the soldiers and officers, were extremely arrogant towards them and didn't treat them like human beings at all!

In fact, the last time, if Wang Shi from the village hadn't been rescued by Zhou Qing and Tang San, she and her unborn child would have surely died! Back then, her family was destroyed, and no one stood up for justice!

Although it wasn't to sell grain, it wasn't much different.

Don't the lives of country folk matter?

They are human beings too!

After the initial excitement subsided, everyone's stomachs started rumbling.

"Haha! Time to eat!"

Zhou Qing laughed and walked out of the Martial Soul Hall Office with the others.

Outside the office, long tables and benches were set up, and several large pots were placed nearby. The food for everyone was the "tuition fee" they had brought.

It could be rice, chicken or duck, pickled vegetables, or sausage, etc.

The villagers insisted on paying Zhou Qing's tuition, so Zhou Qing had no choice but to accept it. However, he took it from the people and used it for the people, directly feeding his lovely and simple students.

Zhou Qing also invited Tang San and Xiao Wu to come and eat with the villagers, treating them without discrimination.

Xiao Wu was so beautiful that the villagers were initially hesitant to sit with her. But once Xiao Wu opened her mouth, they realized that this pretty girl was not much different from them, even though she spoke with a very authentic accent.

Gradually, they got used to it.

This made the villagers respect Zhou Qing even more—after all, Xiao Wu didn't look like a farmer at all... They never expected that Zhou Qing and Tang San would "lure" her back.

After lunch.

Once the villagers had mostly digested their food, they continued their lessons.

The instructor changed from Zhou Qing to Tang San.

The main knowledge he imparted consisted of practical life skills, such as:

Treatment methods and folk remedies for various common diseases.

What should I do if I am bitten by a venomous snake?

Furthermore, at Zhou Qing's suggestion, Tang San even taught forging techniques to villagers who were interested in blacksmithing after class.

The Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer originated from the Clear Sky Sect. To avoid any accidents, Tang San dared not teach it. However, ordinary forging techniques, or even the forging techniques of the Tang Sect in his previous life, were irrelevant.

After all, Tang San, who already had a specific goal of surpassing the Tang Sect, had already included all the farmers and workers on the continent in the Tang Sect he wanted to establish in the future.

In addition, Tang San also made use of Zhou Qing's fertile land. Following Zhou Qing's suggestion, he built a greenhouse on the outside of the land to create a warm and humid environment.

Then, he used his Second Soul Skill, his Martial Soul trembled, and a phantom appeared, curling up into a seed of Blue Silver Grass. He planted it, and Blue Silver Grass that was exactly the same as his Martial Soul grew.

This Second Soul Skill was named by Tang San: Spirit of Blue Silver.

With the amplification effect of the First Soul Skill Soul Skill, Life Accumulation, the perception effect brought by the Spirit of Blue Silver was directly increased by 80%.

After all, Tang San's First Spirit Ring had also completed its Secondary Refinement. The age of Soul Ring can increase with the growth of Martial Soul. The age of the First Spirit Ring was close to nine hundred years, so its amplification effect on Soul Skill naturally increased from fifty percent to about eighty percent.

With such a terrifying amplification of perception, Tang San, relying on his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, was not only able to sense the Blue Silver Grass throughout the entire Holy Soul Village and within a certain range, but also to perceive the resonance between other plants and his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.

The closer the plant's form is to that of the Blue Silver Grass, the stronger the connection between it and one's own Martial Soul.

Especially Wolf Bristle Grass.

This weed, which was almost as numerous as the Blue Silver Grass, was the plant that resonated most strongly with his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, besides the Blue Silver Grass itself.

Moreover, apart from growing downy spikes like wolf hairs, having green leaves, and being more slender, Wolf Bristle Grass is almost identical to Blue Silver Grass.

Perhaps, Wolf Bristle Grass and Blue Silver Grass are close relatives among plants.

The second plant that resonated with Blue Silver Grass was rice. In Tang San's view, this plant was not much different from Wolf Bristle Grass, except that its leaves were wider and its spikes were larger and fuller, but the grains were far inferior to those of Wolf Bristle Grass.

For some reason, Tang San thought of "Grafting"—not Grafting Soul Ring onto Martial Soul, but actually Grafting a plant!

Perhaps, Blue Silver Grass, Wolf Bristle Grass, and rice are close relatives in the plant kingdom!

Tang San couldn't help but find Uncle Wang and ask him about the techniques of plant Grafting. After all, the reason why Uncle Wang's peach trees could grow large and plump peaches was because Grafting with other varieties of trees.

Therefore, he wanted to try to see if the stems of the Wolf Bristle Grass Grafting onto the roots of rice, or if rice seedlings Grafting onto the roots and stems of the Wolf Bristle Grass, and whether they could survive and even increase grain production.

Tang San even wanted to try sowing rice pollen onto the female flowers of Wolf Bristle Grass, or Wolf Bristle Grass, and then planting the resulting seeds to see if more rice ears would grow.

In the process of cultivating this New Rice, a little girl of the same age from the village was also attracted to join in— Xiaolan.

The girl who awakened her Martial Soul in the same batch as Zhou Qing and Tang San has the same Martial Soul as Tang San, which is Blue Silver Grass, but her Innate Soul Power is zero.

She was actually able to sense the Blue Silver Grass created by Tang San with his Second Soul Skill, and also sense other plants, all thanks to her own Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul!