Golden Finger

As everyone walked out of the Martial Soul Hall, Village Chief Old Jack hurried over. "How was it, Master? Did anyone awaken their martial soul this year?"

Su Yuntao glanced at the village chief and sighed.

"There were two. One awakened level 6 soul power today, and the other has innate full soul power. However, that innate full soul power is a waste martial soul, Blue Silver Grass. Do you understand now? Alright, I have to go to the next village, so I'll be leaving now."

The village chief murmured, "Waste martial soul, Blue Silver Grass?"

"What about the other one? Who is it?"

Seeing the village chief's question, Su Ming quickly replied, "Village Chief Grandpa, it's me. My martial soul is a cloud,"

"The other person is Tang San, and his martial soul is Blue Silver Grass."

Su Ming anxiously checked the information from the furnace in his mind and said to Old Jack, "Grandpa Jack, I just awakened my martial soul and want to test it out, so I'll be heading back now."

With that, he left.

Back home, Su Ming lay on his bed, closed his eyes, and felt the information the furnace in his spiritual sea had just sent after awakening his martial soul.

"Vast Void Creation Furnace"

[Heaven and Earth as the furnace, Creation as the work.]

Function 1: Purify energy or matter.

Function 2: Mediate creation, create all things.

Seeing the description of Function 1, Su Ming immediately thought of countless ways to use it.

He then looked at Function 2, "Mediate Creation."

The Creation Furnace itself would absorb energy and condense it, but the efficiency was too low.

Condensing Creation Qi did not require feeding with other energy or matter; the Vast Void Creation Furnace could condense it on its own, one wisp every 7 days.

It could also extract soul power from the body to generate Creation Qi, strengthening the body and martial soul. It was simply a panacea.

After understanding how to use the Vast Void Creation Furnace, Su Ming was incredibly excited. He calmed his racing heart, extended his right hand, summoned his martial soul, and prepared to strengthen it.

A cloud emerged from his right hand. He began to study his martial soul, realizing that to strengthen it, he first needed to understand in which direction it could evolve. He pondered how clouds were formed.

Clouds were formed by water vapor evaporated by the sun. Clouds in the sky experienced wind, rain, snow, and thunder, possessing quite a few attributes: wind, lightning, water, and ice. Oh, and they could also turn into mist to evade attacks, so there was also a spatial attribute.

He took out the Creation Qi condensed by the Creation Furnace over 6 years, totaling over 300 wisps. He decided to keep 100 wisps, dividing the rest equally into two portions: one for strengthening himself and the other for strengthening his martial soul.

As he took out one portion and was about to strengthen himself, cleansing his marrow and enhancing his innate soul power, Su Ming suddenly remembered something.

"No."

"I can't do it in the village. If I cleanse my marrow, it'll be very painful, and if I cry out, it might attract Tang Hao. I'd better go to the stream behind the village. It'll be convenient to wash away the impurities too."

Su Ming retracted his martial soul, got up, and headed for the stream behind the village.

As he stepped out of his house, he ran into Grandpa Jack, who was returning after dropping off Little San.

Old Jack saw Su Ming rushing out and quickly called out to him:

"Su Ming, where are you going, kid? Don't go yet, I have something to tell you."

Hearing Grandpa Jack call him, Su Ming stopped, turned, and looked at Old Jack.

"Grandpa Jack, I was planning to catch some fish in the water."

"I just went to Little San's house. The Work-Study Student spot for our village this year, I originally wanted to give it to Tang San, thinking you could wait another year. But Tang Hao refused, so this year's spot will be yours."

Su Ming thought for a moment and said, to avoid any accidents, "Grandpa Jack, since Tang San's family doesn't want it, you can give it to me. But what if he changes his mind later?"

"How about this? Didn't Master Su Yuntao say that no other villages awakened soul power this year? Grandpa Jack, could you go and ask the other villages and give this spot to our village?"

Old Jack considered it. He thought the well-behaved and sensible Tang San might indeed persuade Tang Hao to let him go to the academy. After all, as long as he hunted a soul ring, even a ten-year one, Tang San could become a Soul Master.

"Alright then, you go play. I'll go ask first thing tomorrow morning."

Seeing that Grandpa Jack had agreed, Su Ming ran to the stream behind the village. He glanced around after reaching the stream, saw no one, and walked to a calm section of the water. He squatted down in the water, leaving only his head above the surface.

He took out the Creation Qi and began to strengthen his physical body. The expected intense pain did not come. Su Ming only felt a warm airflow nourishing his entire body, making him feel extremely comfortable. Black impurities began to appear on his skin, but they were quickly washed away by the water.

After cleaning himself, Su Ming emerged from the water with skin as white as jade and a translucent body.

Feeling the changes in his body, Su Ming was overjoyed. This golden finger was very useful.

He quickly took out another portion of Creation Qi to strengthen his martial soul. Following the purification and baptism of the Creation Qi.

Su Ming had just recovered from the feeling of cleansing his marrow when he felt his innate soul power rapidly soaring. Level 7, level 8. Nourished by the Creation Qi, his innate level 6 soul power was raised to level 8.

He felt the changes in his soul power and took a deep breath, suppressing the immense joy in his heart. He focused his gaze on his right hand again.

A pale white cloud slowly appeared, floating lightly in his palm. It looked ordinary, even a bit unremarkable.

This was his martial soul—Cloud.

Focusing his mind, he felt the changes in his martial soul. He could summon the martial soul and stand on it to fly, and he could also use lightning.

It also gained a new innate talent function: condensing water elements to summon a cloud above his head to rain and heal.

To test his martial soul's flying ability, Su Ming summoned his martial soul, stood on it, and flew towards the upper reaches of the stream where there were many fish.

At first, he stood on it and fell off crookedly. To prevent accidents during flight, he sat on it to control his Martial Soul, not daring to use wind attribute acceleration, and could only fly upstream slowly.

Not long after, a group of Grass Carp were swimming leisurely in the stream upstream, and not far away, a person on a cloud crashed into the water crookedly.

Su Ming, who hadn't sat steady, crashed into the water. Seeing that the fish were about to scatter, Su Ming summoned his Martial Soul and infused it with Soul Power. A surge of Lightning Power emanated from Su Ming, expanding outwards.

Seeing that some fish were already floating belly-up, Su Ming stopped infusing Soul Power and put away his Martial Soul. He went ashore and saw that more than a dozen fish had been stunned by the electricity. Su Ming picked out the three largest ones and prepared to use his Martial Soul's innate ability to heal the rest to see the effect.

After picking out the fish, Su Ming looked at the stunned fish in the stream and raised his hand. A giant cloud formed above the stream.

Su Ming activated his Martial Soul's innate skill, and sparse raindrops began to fall from the clouds in the sky. The stunned fish, drenched by the light rain, immediately became lively again. After this rain, the grass on the bank turned green, the water became clear, and even the air felt fresh.

Su Ming looked at the area that had been rained on and thought to himself, "My Martial Soul's innate ability is quite good."

Carrying three fish, he summoned his Martial Soul, sat on it, and controlled it to fly towards the village.

It swayed and flew past the west end of the village, arriving at Tang San's doorstep. Seeing Tang San chopping wood outside, he greeted him smugly.

"Tang San, look at my Martial Soul, how's my flying?"

Tang San, who was chopping wood outside, had long sensed something flying in the sky, but seeing it was Su Ming, he was quite surprised.

"Su Ming, is this your Martial Soul's ability?"

"Yes, yes, here, have a fish, I just caught it."

"By the way, did your father agree to let you go to the academy?"