That year, on that day, a small team of deacons departed from the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City with several ordinary Spirit Hall staff members. Their hands were laden with large and small packages as they made their grand way to Spirit Scholar Village.
There was no need to go into the specifics. In short, after that day, Old John, an old man who had lived simply all his life, thoroughly became a "successful person" in the eyes of many people from other villages.
Afterward, Spirit Scholar Village, which had already enjoyed considerable fame around Nuoding City, rose another level in status. As its village chief, Old John's reputation naturally soared as well. Though he was a lonely old man without children or descendants, people had often enthusiastically visited him over the past few years to chat.
Having lived to such an age, Old John could, to be honest, still sense that something was slightly off about all this.
If he had truly received such treatment because of the number of commoner Soul Masters who had emerged from Spirit Scholar Village, then he should have received it long ago.
Something beyond his expectations must have happened, or perhaps among the promising Soul Masters who had emerged from Spirit Scholar Village over the past few decades, there had been some "great figure" who was secretly showing such favor toward both the village and him.
Though he had thought of these possibilities, he had never intended to investigate them.
Sometimes, it was best to be muddled.
Old John often missed the pitiful three-year-old child from Spirit Scholar Village whose parents had both died, whom he had happened to take in around ten years ago. If that child were still by his side, then with his current "prominent" status, even if the