Going to the Welfare Institute and Subduing Hu Liena

The three little kids dressed themselves. At that moment, the morning sun rose and the daylight brightened, scattering orange-yellow sunlight over everyone, making them feel completely comfortable.

Tuoba Yue'er walked in front while the three little kids followed closely behind, until they reached the most bustling street in Spirit City.

The street was decorated with lanterns and colored banners. Various red lanterns hung from every shop, and numerous vendors set up stalls there.

These were all soul masters from other places, and the items sold on their stalls were mostly soul beast materials, such as fur and claws.

There were also people selling fresh soul beast meat, but not many.

After all, the cost of transporting soul beast meat to Spirit City was too high, requiring at least experts of the rank of soul ancestor or above to hold the line, and it did not yield much meat. It belonged to the category where prices were high but goods were scarce, and ordinary families would not buy it.

Since Qian Renxue and Jin Chen were only six-year-old children after all, after witnessing this lively scene on the street, they quickly blended in.

Qian Renxue held a candied hawthorn in her left hand and clutched a freshly roasted, expensive aikun chicken leg in her right hand, taking a bite from the left and a bite from the right with great satisfaction.

As for Jin Chen, he only picked meat dishes to eat. Anyway, Golden Crocodile Douluo had never been short with him regarding gold soul coins, and casually taking out a little bit was enough for him to stuff his face and gorge himself.

Ling Feng did not do this. Instead, he kept observing the street, and even intentionally or unintentionally walked toward less bustling places.

Naturally, his actions caught Tuoba Yue'er's attention. Xiao Feng, is there a problem?

"Mom, are there any places in Spirit City that take in orphans?"

"Places that take in orphans? There are some a few streets away from here. It's the Spirit Hall Welfare Institute. Most of the children inside are descendants of Spirit Hall soul masters who died in accidents, and they are taken care of there."

"The dean is a soul sage, and His Holiness the Pope attaches great importance to this, personally allocating funds for these children. Generally speaking, these children lack nothing in terms of food and clothing."

"Once they reach the age of six, Spirit Hall will also arrange for them to awaken their martial souls. If their soul power level meets the required standards, they can join Spirit Hall Academy to study."

"As for those who fall short, the orphanage will continue to provide them with food and clothing. Once they have the ability, they will be assigned down to various grassroots levels for practical training."

Upon hearing this, Ling Feng nodded inwardly.

The era with Spirit Hall was still quite good. At least their most basic livelihood and the right to awaken their martial souls could be guaranteed.

As for ten thousand years later, after the destruction of Spirit Hall...

A genius with Innate Full Soul Power actually needed to sell her body in exchange for lifesaving money for her mother.

If this were placed in this era, as long as an Innate Full Soul Power appeared, let alone lifesaving money, there would even be a Titled Douluo to personally instruct them.

Of course, many people after ten thousand years did not even have the right to awaken their martial souls.

Awakening a martial soul required paying a sum of gold soul coins, which was nothing to the nobility, after all, they could just exploit the commoners.

However, commoners who originally had hope of changing their fate with the help of a mutated martial soul could only stay at the very bottom for a lifetime because they could not afford the expensive awakening fee.

That hypocritical Tang God King who speaks of boundless mercy is truly a sanctimonious fellow.

But having met me in this lifetime, you can forget about those crooked ideas. You might as well honestly go die together with those rats.

Ling Feng muttered to himself. Although there were quite a few problems of corruption and bribery within Spirit Hall, those were all in the middle and upper ranks, dealing with various nobles and city lords, and very few targeted the common people.

The various deacons and branch hall masters of Spirit Hall were still quite good.

After all, this could be seen from the original work where Su Yuntao, a Soul Grandmaster, visited various villages to awaken martial souls for them.

"Right, Mom. Does the welfare institute have an adoption mechanism? For instance, after proving one has the ability, can one go to the welfare institute to adopt children?"

"I haven't looked into this aspect too much, but the probability shouldn't be high. The parents of these people sacrificed themselves for Spirit Hall, and Spirit Hall will not let anything happen to any of the children."

"Of course, this is from the surface. The interests behind the scenes are even more complex. Since these people joined Spirit Hall as soul masters, at the very least they started as soul grandmasters, and most of their descendants also possess soul power. This is an indispensable backbone of Spirit Hall."

"Furthermore, after these people grow up eating Spirit Hall's food since childhood, they are naturally incomparably loyal to Spirit Hall. If some family were to adopt them at this time, it is estimated to be quite unlikely."

Tuoba Yue'er analyzed.

These people all took orders from the Pope alone, and it was probably unlikely for them to be taken in and adopted by other families in Spirit Hall.

"However, it's not entirely impossible. After all, our family's relationship with His Holiness the Pope is truly extraordinary. Since it's just a few children, they should be able to bend the rules."

"What's the matter, Xiao Feng? Do you want to recruit your own loyal subordinates? I remember that in two days it will be the day for the welfare institute to uniformly conduct martial soul awakenings. Going over at that time couldn't be more appropriate."

Tuoba Yue'er merely thought that her son wanted to pick a few followers with good talent.

After all, this was an unavoidable matter. A person's energy was limited, and Ling Feng's future energy would definitely be placed on cultivation, so someone had to be arranged to handle other trivial matters.

"No, Mom. We are not looking for those who have lived in the welfare institute for several years."

"I want to find those who have just entered the welfare institute not long ago, such as children of two or three years old. The number won't be large, just around two or three."

"I will personally cultivate them and make them loyal only to myself, existing similarly to death shadow guards."

"After my martial soul awakened, I seemed to have developed some kind of special induction, able to roughly sense a person who has yet to awaken their martial soul, their martial soul strength and soul power level."

"In other words, the talent of the people I pick will naturally be good."

Ling Feng told another lie. Any talk about martial soul talent was bullshit. If he hadn't read the original work, he wouldn't have gone to the welfare institute to bring Hu Liena and the other two over.

"Then are you going now?"

"That's right, going now is best. In a few days, it will be the Mid-Autumn Reunion Festival. Although these children of two or three years old have a good life, their inner emotional needs must surely go unsatisfied."

"This Mid-Autumn Festival is the best way to win their hearts, treating them like family and integrating them into this home."

Hearing this, Tuoba Yue'er gasped softly. Her son was simply too suited to be someone in a position of authority.

Such a scheme, being so calm and even carrying a hint of exploitation, was not something a six-year-old child could think of.

With such a temperament, his future achievements would certainly not be low.

What's more, Ling Feng possessed the Twin Sacred Dragon martial soul.

"Then let's make a trip. Anyway, it won't take long. As for a few children, we can still afford to raise them."

Subsequently, Tuoba Yue'er called Qian Renxue, Jin Chen, and the others to leave this street together and walk toward the street where the welfare institute was located.

Upon reaching the destination, this street no longer had its previous hustle and bustle.

Even there were not many shops.

After all, this was a welfare institute, mostly consisting of young children, so naturally there was no use for so many things.

The welfare institute was very well built, so the few of them quickly arrived at the entrance of the welfare institute.

At the entrance, there was an elderly guard emitting soul power fluctuations.

"Halt, whoever comes. This is the welfare institute, and idlers are not allowed to approach."

Tuoba Yue'er stepped forward and pulled out a token.

"Your Eminence the Bishop!"