Profound Heaven Skill First Level Complete! Innate Full Soul Power! (1)

At noon the next day.

Li Changsheng had not slept well the previous night. The sense of excitement weighed on him, keeping him awake until nearly dawn, and he only opened his eyes when the scorching sun shone through the window.

After tidying up and eating some food at the hotel where he was staying, Li Changsheng stepped out while yawning, listening to the many people discussing the events of the previous night.

In this world, six-year-old children all awaken their martial souls. Therefore, even children of six or seven possessed a strong sense of independence. No one was surprised to see someone like Li Changsheng living in a hotel on his own.

Once outside, Li Changsheng headed toward the slaughterhouse in Spirit Soul City, as remembered from his memories.

Due to nearly ten thousand years of development, Spirit Soul City, built around Spirit Soul Village, was home to many soul masters and ordinary people. They all believed that cultivating here would earn them the protection of the Seagod.

In the center of Spirit Soul City stood two statues, each a hundred meters tall.

Their existence held the same significance as the golden village plaque in Spirit Soul Village.

The Seagod! The Sea Mother! These two statues were erected by the royal family of the Heaven Dou Empire after Tang San attained godhood, symbolizing that the Seagod would stabilize the world and the empire would be as vast and enduring as the boundless blue sea, flowing on for generations...

However, wishes always lead to disappointment.

While the statues remained, the Heaven Dou Empire, which had once stood supreme and guarded the Douluo Continent, had split into the two empires of Heaven Soul and Dou Ling.

Li Changsheng passed through the square of Spirit Soul City.

His gaze fell directly upon the two statues in the center of the square.

A man and a woman. A masterpiece of craftsmanship. Exquisitely beyond compare.

The male had long hair flowing behind him, his iconic features naturally imposing. A pair of eyes inlaid with fine blue diamonds contained a divine spirit, as if gazing into the distant sea. One hand held the woman's waist, while the other gripped the Seagod Trident! The eight wings spread behind him contained many soul tools, causing him to emit a blue-gold radiance. Beneath his feet, a large amount of crimson-gold Blue Silver Emperor Grass coiled around the area; these were not sculptures, but truly living Blue Silver Emperor Grass! Ten-thousand-year level!

The female leaned into the male's embrace, her almond-shaped eyes highlighted by crimson fire-crystal flames, looking delicate and charming. Her slender hands caressed the man's chest, and a pair of ears grew from her head. Her beautiful face was slightly raised, looking at the man with deep affection.

This was the statue of the Seagod and the Sea Mother, which had stood here for ten thousand years.

At this moment, it was noon, and the scorching sun beat down on the ground, yet many soul masters were still there, paying their respects to the two statues.

Li Changsheng also paused to look from afar. Even though he had seen them thousands of times, he still felt immense envy whenever he saw this true divine couple.

He had once had a wife, only one. Their relationship hadn't been deep; it was more a case of reaching the right age and agreeing to settle down. She had been beautiful and a soul master, but she had long since passed away. Although he had descendants, ten thousand years had passed; the cruelty of time could erode even the bonds of blood.

If I had obtained the sign-in system back then, everything would have been different. I might have had a wife I loved and who loved me, and I could have brought her to godhood with me.

Thinking of this, a bitter expression appeared on Li Changsheng's youthful face.

Longevity was good, but to live forever truly sapped one's motivation for life. Even if Li Changsheng only had a sickle martial soul, he could have used cultivation to pass the time.

Since he had transmigrated, he had never thought about competing for women with the Shrek Seven Devils. He admired their bond and envied it. Between any two of them, if one were missing, the entire story would become imperfect, with Tang San and Xiao Wu at the forefront.

"But it doesn't matter. This time, if I work hard and push myself, with the help of the sign-in system, I, Li Changsheng, will definitely succeed. It's been ten thousand years, and I am no longer the 'Li Gou-dan' who was mocked ten thousand years ago, but the Li Changsheng who has lived for ten thousand years! I will be the man who suppresses the continent in the future!"

Li Changsheng smiled slightly. His gaze finally rested on the statues of Tang San and Xiao Wu. He slowly closed his eyes, then opened them again, his bright eyes filled with a new, firm resolve. With a smile on his lips, he said:

"Hello, Seagod. Hello, Sea Mother. I am Li Changsheng..."

With those words, Li Changsheng walked toward the direction of the slaughterhouse.

The slaughterhouse.

Because many people lived in Spirit Soul City, along with visiting tourists, the demand for ordinary meat was quite high.

Chicken and duck were the primary staples.

In this world, not all animals were soul beasts. Just like a person's martial soul, some animals were born with the mission of being eaten rather than cultivating, and they were incapable of cultivation anyway.

The slaughterhouse was located outside Spirit Soul City. Because of what happened yesterday, the city gates were guarded by more city defense troops today, but they mainly screened soul masters. They didn't even look at children like Li Changsheng, letting them pass directly.

Furthermore, many children left Spirit Soul City, all around the same age as Li Changsheng. The city defense troops knew well that most of these children were going to the slaughterhouse outside the city to work and earn the one gold soul coin needed to awaken their martial souls.

One gold soul coin was not a small amount; it was enough for an ordinary family to live on for several months. It was impossible to come up with that much money easily, and since there was no guarantee what kind of martial soul would be awakened, many parents let their children, who were about to awaken their martial souls, find work to earn some money themselves as a supplement.

Helping with martial soul awakening was a very lucrative business. Ever since the fall of the Spirit Empire, the Spirit Hall soul masters who initially helped awaken martial souls for free began to charge fees, and the prices had only grown more expensive.

Li Changsheng was actually quite speechless. Although Spirit Hall had had its own motives for providing free awakening services back then, at least it had been free. Now, it had turned into this mess. A martial soul was the foundation for many to soar, yet now there was a disparity—it was truly pathetic...

From a distance, Li Changsheng could smell the blood permeating the air.

At the same time, as he walked toward the outskirts of the city, there were more than a dozen children of the same age as Li Changsheng on the road. They were dressed simply, with rustic smiles on their faces, chasing and playing with each other as they headed toward the slaughterhouse.

Li Changsheng stood out significantly. After all, he was dressed cleanly, and there were no traces of labor on his fair, delicate face. This was clearly the standard look for the nobles who had moved to Spirit Soul City, so the other children fearfully kept their distance from him.

Li Changsheng was actually relieved; he didn't want to mess around with little brats.

At this moment.

There were already many carriages outside the slaughterhouse, all there to make purchases.

One after another, many six-year-old children were carrying slaughtered chickens and ducks in groups of two or three, their faces filled with a sense of happiness.

Li Changsheng walked straight into the walled slaughterhouse. Inside, the sounds of chickens and ducks overlapped, and the foul odor made Li Changsheng feel a bit nauseous. He identified a tall, burly man in the crowd who was giving orders, lowered his breathing frequency, and walked over.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! You little brats, you can't even catch a chicken! How do you expect to awaken your martial souls?"

"You kid over there, are you playing with the chicken? If you like chickens so much, aren't you afraid of awakening a 'grass chicken' martial soul?"

"Hurry up, didn't you eat this morning? Did you drink the chicken giblet soup for nothing?"

The tall, burly man scolded the group of children catching chickens as if he were laughing at them.

Li Changsheng watched it all.

These children were all here to work. Although they were only six years old, children of this age in this world grew quite tall and possessed a fair amount of strength, making such labor feasible for them.

The burly foreman was a decent man; he only had the children catch chickens. It was said that children who hadn't eaten could receive free chicken giblet soup, and they could take some meat home when they finished their shift in the evening. The wages he paid the children were also quite high.

However, this situation only occurred annually, just before the time for Martial Soul awakening.

It was his way of helping the children out.

The burly man sensed Li Changsheng's arrival. He appeared to be a Spirit Master with keen senses; he suddenly turned his head, his large eyes fixed on Li Changsheng.

Bloodlust.

Li Changsheng stopped two meters away from the burly man. He could feel a sense of bloodlust radiating from him, though it wasn't caused by killing humans, but rather by the sheer number of chickens and ducks he had slaughtered. Looking at his calloused, greasy hands, one could guess that he was quite skilled at his craft.

"Looking for work?" The burly man looked at Li Changsheng's appearance, paused for a moment, and asked tentatively.

Li Changsheng shook his head. Before transforming into this appearance, he had taken quite a few Gold Spirit Coins from the Li family and hidden them away, which was enough for his expenses. Besides, the environment here was completely unsuitable for him to wield the Night-Startling Spear.

After what happened yesterday, someone who had fled must have seen him use the Night-Startling Spear.

"No, I want to buy chickens. One hundred, alive." Li Changsheng replied flatly.

However, his delicate, high-pitched tone sounded somewhat exaggerated.

The burly man was stunned for a moment. Buying chickens was normal—the child might be placing an order for his family—but asking for live chickens was quite extreme.

"Alive?" The burly man confirmed.

"Yes..."

Li Changsheng pondered for a moment and silently recited in his heart: "God of Wisdom, if I have these people leave the chickens half-dead, will their blood essence be lost?"

If he had to catch one hundred lively chickens himself, it would be quite troublesome for Li Changsheng.

<Answer: Yes. However, you only need to kill one hundred and fifty to compensate.>

Li Changsheng nodded and said to the burly man, "Make it one hundred and fifty. I have a request, and I can pay extra."

The burly man was taken aback. He felt as though this child was speaking with the air of an old, experienced man pointing out the world's affairs, but he nodded nonetheless. The customer was king.

"I need you to leave these one hundred and fifty chickens half-dead, pack them into a single large cage, and then prepare a cart for me. I will cover the costs."

If he gathered all the chickens together, couldn't he just use the Night-Startling Spear to destroy them all at once?

The Night-Startling Spear definitely possessed such power.

Based on Li Changsheng's observations, the thrust of the Night-Startling Spear was an area-of-effect attack, not a concentrated point. He only needed to prepare a cage small enough to fit all the chickens.

The God of Wisdom had not mentioned this, perhaps because Li Changsheng hadn't asked.

The burly man was surprised again, but after Li Changsheng urged him and handed over a Gold Spirit Coin, he didn't slack off. This was a big customer with strange habits!

He hurriedly gathered the working children and began preparing for Li Changsheng.

The children caught the chickens while glancing from time to time at Li Changsheng, who was sitting in a nearby tea pavilion drinking tea, their faces filled with astonishment.

They seemed to be thinking: "Why isn't he catching chickens? Does he not want to awaken his Martial Soul? He really doesn't know how to strive for success!"

About an hour later, the burly man walked into the tea pavilion with a beaming smile.

"Little... no, Boss, the chickens are ready. Where should I have them delivered?"

Li Changsheng stood up, looked at the cart parked at the entrance and the cage he had requested, and saw that the chickens inside were all on the verge of death. He nodded in satisfaction, then took out another Gold Spirit Coin and handed it to the burly man.

"Boss, this—this is too much! One Gold Spirit Coin is enough!"

Ever since the great war between the Sun-Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent thousands of years ago, currencies had gradually been unified. A Gold Spirit Coin might look like it was made of thin metal, but its value was terrifyingly high. From this, one could see just how profitable those Spirit Masters who helped with Martial Soul awakenings were.

Li Changsheng didn't care; he pointed at the children who had been catching the chickens. "Consider it a tip for them."

Under the burly man's astonished gaze, Li Changsheng took out the Night-Startling Spear, which was now wrapped in cloth strips, and used a rope to hitch the cart to the spear.

Once hung on the Night-Startling Spear, the heavy cart suddenly felt as light as a feather. Li Changsheng pulled it away without the slightest effort.

The children carrying wooden crates on the road were stunned.

They looked at the cart Li Changsheng was pulling, then at the crates they were carrying together, and were even more dumbfounded.

Li Changsheng did not return to Spirit Soul City, but instead dragged the cart toward the forest outside the city.

Rumor had it that a group of near-century-old porcupine-type spirit beasts lived deep in the forest, so few people came here. It was convenient for Li Changsheng's work, and at the same time, the spirit beasts could take care of the damaged chickens. It was very convenient.