Tang San's Concealment

Outside the Martial Soul Hall, Old Jack was pleading with Su Yuntao to issue soul master certificates for the two children who possessed Innate Soul Power.

With these certificates, they would be able to use the village's work-study student quota to attend the Notting Academy.

Su Yuntao did not refuse; issuing a certificate cost him nothing, and the two children would owe him a favor.

Little did he know that according to the original arrangement of fate, Tang San, whose martial soul he helped awaken, would not only fail to owe him a favor but would eventually destroy the Martial Soul Hall!

As Su Yuntao filled out the certificates for the two children, he kindly reminded them, "Old Jack, your village only has one work-study quota, but there are two children who can cultivate!"

"That's right, our village only has one quota!"

Old Jack had been so excited that he had completely forgotten about this.

In Old Jack's eyes, Tang San's family was poor, but Li Ping'an's family was no better off; neither family could afford the exorbitant tuition fees of a Soul Master Academy.

"Does this mean one of them has to use next year's quota?"

"But what if another child capable of cultivation appears in our village next year? And if they wait a year, will it delay their cultivation?" Old Jack muttered to himself, feeling quite troubled.

However, having lived for decades, he possessed enough experience to handle the situation at hand.

Old Jack did not notice that as he spoke these words, Tang San cast a secret glance at Li Ping'an.

Tang San was sharp-eared and keen-eyed, so he had naturally heard Old Jack's words clearly.

"There is only one work-study quota for the Soul Master Academy?"

Tang San was determined to secure this quota; if Li Ping'an stood in his way, then he had invited his own death!

It was not that Tang San was cruel, but he now had a reason why he must leave his father, Tang Hao.

Because of the system's prompt, he knew that he and his father were likely enemies; staying by Tang Hao's side was too dangerous for him.

Tang San did not know that the ruthlessness he inadvertently revealed had been sensed by Li Ping'an's system.

[Sub-system host Tang San sensed to harbor malice toward the host. Increasing task difficulty for sub-system host Tang San and reducing rewards.]

"Huh? What the hell? Tang San just had malice toward me?"

Li Ping'an looked back at Tang San, but he couldn't see anything unusual.

However, the system's warning could not be groundless; perhaps Tang San really had wanted to do something ruthless to him just now.

"No, Tang San is too dangerous; I must stay away from him!"

However, Li Ping'an did not intend to let it go just like that; he planned to use the system secretly in the future to find an opportunity to give Tang San a taste of his own medicine.

"Sigh, but what about the reduced rewards? I was hoping to release a task for Tang San to improve the quality of his Blue Silver Grass as soon as possible!"

If the rewards were reduced, then a task of that level would likely have to be postponed.

"Master Deacon, I wonder if there are any children in the neighboring Emperor Soul Village who can cultivate this year?" Old Jack asked.

Su Yuntao shook his head and said, "Among all these villages, only your Holy Soul Village has produced two children with Innate Soul Power!"

Old Jack breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this: "That's good. Emperor Soul Village once borrowed a work-study quota from Holy Soul Village; it's just the right time to have them return it!"

The work-study quota was not being used, and lending it out would cost nothing; besides, being able to befriend a future soul master was a win-win situation.

"Arrange these matters yourself. I still have other villages to visit, so I'll be leaving now!"

Su Yuntao sighed, and thinking of Tang San's Innate Full Soul Power, he felt a sense of resentment.

Why couldn't the person with Innate Full Soul Power be himself?

If his Lone Wolf martial soul were paired with the aptitude of Innate Full Soul Power, he might already be a Soul Ancestor or even a Soul King by now.

As for that Blue Silver Grass martial soul, even if it were cultivated to the level of a Soul King, it probably wouldn't have any combat power, right?

Su Yuntao shook his head, put the matter behind him, and headed toward the next village.

Old Jack took the two soul master certificates and prepared to go to the neighboring village to borrow a work-study quota, so he told Tang San and Li Ping'an to go home first.

Seeing that the matter was resolved, Tang San also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He did not want to kill anyone, as doing so might expose some of his secrets.

Especially now that he knew his father was a Title Douluo; if Tang Hao were to notice something wrong with him, he wouldn't know how to handle it.

Seeing that the matter had reached a conclusion, Li Ping'an quickly pulled his parents of this life away from the Martial Soul Hall's wooden house and returned home.

Once they were back home, they finally realized that their own Ping'an could actually cultivate soul power.

Li Ping'an spent a great deal of effort before he finally managed to appease them.

"Dad, Mom, since I can cultivate, why don't you have a few more children? Maybe they can cultivate too?"

"I've asked around; being a work-study student at Notting Academy earns five copper soul coins a day, which is one hundred and fifty a month."

"When the time comes, I'll send the money I don't spend back to you, so you won't have to work so hard!"

Li Ping'an used gentle persuasion, hoping to get his parents of this life to have a few more children to fulfill his filial duties for him.

"You child, what nonsense are you spouting?"

The two felt a bit embarrassed, so they lost interest in chatting with Li Ping'an about martial souls.

After dismissing the two, Li Ping'an left the house, found a place dense with Blue Silver Grass, and began his journey of cultivation.

"Although I have a system that can grant me soul power rewards, I cannot afford to slack off on my own cultivation!"

Tang San returned home and went straight into Tang Hao's room.

Tang Hao was drunk at the time, and seeing Tang San return, he didn't even bother to get up.

"Why are you only just getting back? Get to the kitchen and make me some food!"

Tang San opened his mouth, cautiously explaining, "Dad, I went to awaken my martial soul today! It's the Blue Silver Grass martial soul."

"Hmm," Tang Hao grunted in response.

For some reason, Tang San actually detected a hint of disappointment in that sound.

Tang Hao was indeed a bit disappointed; although he didn't think Tang San could avenge him, if Tang San had awakened the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul, he could at least return to the clan in the future and atone for his sins.

But the martial soul he awakened was Blue Silver Grass, which could accomplish nothing.

It seems the only way to redeem even a fraction of my sins is to have Tang San awaken the Blue Silver Emperor martial soul!

It is fortunate that I did not send Ah Yin's seed back to the Blue Silver Forest!

In the Douluo Continent, only one Blue Silver Emperor can exist at any given time.

If the Blue Silver Emperor were to revive, his son Tang San would have no chance of awakening the Blue Silver Emperor martial soul.

"What is your Innate Soul Power?" Tang Hao asked.

He wanted to know how far his son's Blue Silver Grass martial soul was from the Blue Silver Emperor.

Tang San answered truthfully, "I have Innate Full Soul Power!"

Tang San had actually awakened a second martial soul, but for some reason, he felt a strange impulse to keep it hidden.

"Innate Full Soul Power? Show me your Blue Silver Grass martial soul!" Tang Hao climbed off the bed.

Under the pressure, Tang San had no choice but to manifest his Blue Silver Grass martial soul.

"This isn't right. This is just Blue Silver Grass, not the Blue Silver Emperor martial soul! How could it possibly have Innate Full Soul Power?"