The Temptation of Returning to the Village

After bidding farewell to Bu Yi and the other Seven Sisters, Zhou Qing set off with Tang San and Xiao Wu to return to Holy Soul Village.

Romantina followed.

During the winter break, she had been given a task by Zhou Qing, and since she wasn't an orphan, she had to spend the New Year with Romanyac...

It's summer vacation now, and Zhou Qing will need to retrieve data from her Brain Martial Soul for his research project, so she naturally needs to come along.

Moreover, for Romantina personally, after spending so much time in the city, it's nice to occasionally enjoy the rural scenery.

In particular, Romantina's efficiency improved since she started cultivating with Zhou Qing. In addition, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also learned the basic theory of meridian circulation, and with its powerful Spiritual Power as an aid, Romantina was able to perform internal vision ahead of time.

In just one semester, Romantina's Soul Power increased by four levels, reaching level seventeen.

Therefore, she also plans to work harder and advance three levels this summer, hoping to reach level 20 and catch up with Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu's cultivation progress.

After these three reached the Soul Grandmaster, the speed at which they leveled up slowed down because the quality and quantity of Soul Power required for each level increased.

Zhou Qing: Level 24.

Tang San: Level 22.

Xiao Wu: Level 22.

However, this is also because the three of them usually have their own things to do.

He might study Martial Soul cultivation, Soul Power cultivation, or Aura Field cultivation, or spar with others to improve his combat skills and experience— Zhou Qing.

Or forging and manufacturing Soul Palace, Soul Conductor, and Hidden Weapon in the Blacksmith Shop — Tang San.

Or she could help Bu Yi host the Nuoding Academy arena, go shopping, drink and brag with the adventurers in the Nuoding Guild — Xiao Wu.

Certainly!

Xiao Wu wasn't always playing around. In her spare time, she would also settle down to study writing. At Zhou Qing's suggestion, she started writing a diary, recording what she saw and heard each day, and repeatedly reviewing and reflecting on the differences between human civilized society and the natural world of Soul Beast.

And they pondered how to avoid the rejection of humanoid Soul Beast that choose to transform into humans, and how to integrate transformed Soul Beast into humans.

After all, once Soul Beast takes human form, it is no longer recognized by other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, unless they have a sibling relationship like hers with Da Ming and Er Ming, which they have cultivated since childhood.

Ultimately, under Zhou Qing's guidance, Xiao Wu also reached a preliminary conclusion:

It's not that Soul Master crave the Soul Ring and Soul Bone of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast; ultimately, it's the Soul Master' desire for power, a basic instinct of Life, and that's true.

So what went wrong?

The world's fault!

When Soul Beast dies, it will produce Soul Ring and Soul Bone, both of which can be absorbed by humans... This seems like a huge problem!

Either the Douluo Continent favors the human species too much, making all other creatures in the world stepping stones for human growth, progress, and development.

Or perhaps some unseen entity altered the rules of the Douluo Continent, preventing beings of non-human lineage who wield extraordinary power from ever becoming truly powerful again.

Influenced by Zhou Qing, she felt that the latter was the most likely possibility!

Therefore, Xiao Wu also had a goal to strive for besides hatred.

However, because these three people also needed to spend time on other things in addition to their cultivation, their speed of increasing their Soul Power actually slowed down.

Romantina's goal for the next three years is to diligently cultivate her Soul Power, catch up with Zhou Qing and the others, and, in her spare time, as a teacher at the Nuoding Academy, publish the general theory of "Secondary Soul Ring Refinement" compiled by Zhou Qing. This will provide a foundation for them to showcase Soul Ring rings at the Continental Elite Tournament three years later.

However, Romantina was not merely a tool. In "perfecting" this theory, she also had to describe in as much detail as possible the process of using the innate ability of her Brain Martial Soul to explore the Martial Soul itself and the inside of the Soul Ring, in order to enhance its credibility.

In other words, she must also continuously improve her knowledge, at least to the point of recording all the knowledge related to Martial Soul, Soul Beast, and Soul Ring in Nuoding City.

Even if Romantina cannot cultivate her Brain Martial Soul into a "Simulator" or "supercomputer" in a short period of time, she can only settle for second best and develop her Brain Martial Soul into an information storage library that can store a large number of memories.

Romantina, on the other hand, is currently positioned as a "mobile Library" with an overly distinctive personality...

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"The roads leading from the village to the outside world are also much wider."

Ten kilometers away from Nuoding City, on his way back to the village, Tang San noticed that the closer he got to Holy Soul Village, the wider and flatter the road became.

It's obvious!

Over the past six months, the residents of Holy Soul Village, along with villagers from other villages, have also repaired the road leading to Nuoding City.

At the village entrance, only Uncle Wang and a few elderly villagers were chatting. Next to them were three baskets about half a person's height, filled with large, red-tipped, white-skinned peaches the size of a fist.

"My kid has been doing Broadcast Gymnastics every day lately, and he's getting stronger and stronger!"

"My family is the same... we just eat too much."

"What's wrong with that? Being able to eat is a blessing! I've heard that Soul Master have big appetites. Maybe if they eat a lot, they'll have Innate Soul Power when they awaken their Martial Soul."

Just then, Uncle Wang noticed people coming from outside the village. Seeing that it was Zhou Qing and Tang San, he immediately got up to greet them, "Xiao Qing, Tang San, you're back! Come on, try some of my peaches!"

After saying that, Uncle Wang immediately led the two of them to the three baskets filled with peaches, saying that he knew they would be back in the next couple of days, so he had been waiting there for them.

"Thank you, Uncle Wang."

Zhou Qing didn't stand on ceremony and accepted a basket of peaches from Tang San. The remaining basket was taken to Xiao Wu by Uncle Wang, who hoped she would also eat as much as she wanted without being shy.

After all, Xiao Wu had helped him get his wife back to the village safely, and she was also one of the teachers who taught them how to exercise.

Only--

Uncle Wang had miscalculated. He hadn't expected Romantina to come back with Zhou Qing this time, so he only prepared three baskets of peaches... So he said, "I'll go pick some more," and without waiting for Romantina to speak, he ran straight to the field to pick another basket for her to eat.

The remaining villagers also stuffed sausages and vegetables into the baskets carried by Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to express their gratitude.

Zhou Qing accepted them one by one, then asked, "Uncles and elders, where is Grandpa Jack?"

"Old Jack, ever since the farmers' Vegetable Market opened over there at the Worker-Peasant Council, most of the villagers have been going there. After all, our village is the closest to it! Haha!"

"Who can argue with that?"

"And that big tortoise, it's become Jixiang now..."