Two Old Men Catch Up

Su Yuntao and Mashuno left in satisfaction.

Before leaving, Mashuno told Lin Bei that in at most a month, someone would come to take him to Spirit City, and told him to get ready during that time.

Lin Bei naturally had nothing to say to that.

A month it was, then. In any case, he had nothing much to do.

Every day, aside from simulations, he did a restrained amount of physical training.

He had to restrain himself.

Hadn't that avatar who awakened the Pangu Creation Axe ended up leaving hidden injuries in his body because he overtrained, which made him unable to withstand the power of his martial soul, and he exploded to death?

Lin Bei had no desire to repeat that mistake.

So when he trained, he was extremely careful. The moment he felt something was even slightly wrong somewhere, he immediately stopped to rest.

Before he knew it, a month had passed.

Lin Bei's body had become strong enough. Some of that was certainly the result of his own training, but most of it came from the simulator.

Over the past month, he had run a simulation punctually every midnight.

In each simulation, the achievements were usually not high.

In most of them, he died right after crossing over.

Watching them made Lin Bei's scalp go numb: all sorts of unimaginable ways of transmigrating, all sorts of unexpected moments of death.

Sometimes he even felt that transmigration was truly too hard.

It was nothing like how novels described it, where after crossing over, you could do whatever you wanted.

Aside from the majority of simulations where he died as soon as he transmigrated, in a small number of simulations, Lin Bei successfully crossed over and survived, but the martial souls he awakened were ordinary as well. After cultivating to level ten, he died at the hands of various soul beasts or soul masters.

From these simulations, Lin Bei selected rewards that improved his physical fitness.

These rewards were not particularly good, but fortunately, something was better than nothing. Little by little, under the constant rewards that slightly improved his physical fitness, Lin Bei's physical condition gradually grew stronger.

Of course, among the rewards from these simulations, there would occasionally be Soul Power rewards.

However, when Lin Bei chose Soul Power as his reward, his own Soul Power did not increase—

Lin Bei felt that it was probably because he had not yet obtained his first soul ring. The bottleneck had not been broken through, so his Soul Power could not increase.

So in the simulation rewards afterward, Lin Bei no longer chose Soul Power as his reward.

He only chose rewards that increased his physical fitness.

A powerful body was extremely important.

Just look at Tang San in the original work. The reason he could absorb the soul bone Eight Spider Lances and all kinds of soul rings beyond his level was because he relied on powerful physical fitness.

And as his physical fitness grew stronger, Lin Bei could now also maintain the appearance of the Pangu Creation Axe for about ten seconds.

That day, Lin Bei and Old Adam got onto Uncle Luo Ya's ox cart and headed for Notting City.

When they arrived at Holy Soul Village, they discovered that there happened to be an ox cart here as well, also heading to Notting City.

Old Adam knew the old man on the ox cart. It was Old Jack, the village chief of Holy Soul Village.

"Jack, where are you headed?"

"Adam? I'm going to Notting City, of course. What about you? Where are you taking the child beside you?"

"We're going to Notting City too."

Old Adam and Old Jack started chatting.

The two old men had been good friends when they were young, often visiting each other to drink and brag together. It was just that after they grew old, moving around became inconvenient, and only then did they gradually lose contact.

They had not expected it to be such a coincidence today, running into each other here.

The two ox carts slowly rolled along the small country road.

Old Jack sat on the ox cart, straightened his somewhat stiff knee joints, then asked, "Adam, what are you going to Notting City for?"

Adam glanced at Lin Bei, smiled proudly, and said, "This child has joined Spirit Hall. I'm taking him to Notting City to meet the soul master lord from Spirit City. Before long, this child will be heading to Spirit City."

Old Jack looked at the well-behaved Lin Bei in surprise and said, "So the genius youth who joined Spirit Hall that people have been talking about lately is this little fellow beside you."

He took a bite on his dry tobacco pipe, his expression both envious and somewhat helpless. "Originally, Tang Hao's child—that Tang San, you know him, right?"

"I know. I heard that child is very obedient, and that he started cooking for his father when he was four."

"Right, that's the child. Originally, the soul master lord from Spirit Hall also invited Xiao San to join Spirit Hall, but Tang Hao refused no matter what. It made me so furious!"

At the mention of Tang Hao's stubbornness and obstinacy, Old Jack was still somewhat angry.

Old Adam asked in surprise, "Why wouldn't Tang Hao let Tang San join Spirit Hall?"

He found it very strange.

Spirit Hall was one of the most powerful organizations on the continent today. How could there be anyone who did not want their child to join Spirit Hall?

"Could Tang Hao have a grudge against Spirit Hall?"

Old Adam couldn't help asking.

Old Jack bristled, glaring. "What kind of grudge could a blacksmith like him have with Spirit Hall? In my opinion, he just drank too much and ruined his brain!"

Lin Bei raised an eyebrow off to the side and muttered inwardly.

Tang Hao really did have a grudge against Spirit Hall.

And it was a grudge over his wife's death, at that.

The former Pope had forced that beautiful wife of his to sacrifice herself.

Like hell he would let Tang San join Spirit Hall.

The two old men chatted along the way. Lin Bei said nothing from the side and simply listened in silence. Before long, they arrived at Notting City.

"Then, Jack, you go handle your business. I'll take this little fellow to Spirit Hall."

"Go on, go on."

Old Jack gave the smug Old Adam an envious look, waved his hand, and followed the ox cart off to sell the vegetables and fruit from his village.

Old Adam, meanwhile, took Lin Bei toward the city center.

At the entrance to Spirit Hall, Su Yuntao had been waiting there for a while. Beside him stood a young, pretty woman.

"Uncle Tao."

"Lord Soul Master."

After Lin Bei helped Old Adam down from the cart, he greeted Su Yuntao.

"Yuntao, this is the genius you mentioned?"

The woman glanced at Lin Bei, then asked.

"Yes."

Su Yuntao first smiled at Lin Bei and Old Adam, then nodded to the woman beside him.

The woman raised an eyebrow, bent down, and smiled at Lin Bei. "Hello, little brother."

"Hello, Auntie."

"What did you call me?"

The woman's brows visibly furrowed.

Lin Bei tilted his head, looking innocent and adorable. "I called you Auntie. Is something wrong with that?"

Su Yuntao was puzzled too. "Yeah, Si Si, he calls me Uncle, so there's nothing wrong with him calling you Auntie."

"Auntie, my foot!"

Si Si punched Su Yuntao in the stomach and sneered, "Do I look that old?"

Su Yuntao cried out in pain, his face twisting as he looked at Si Si in confusion.

When did I say she was old?

Old Adam watched from the side, dumbfounded.

Why had the two lord soul masters suddenly started fighting?

"Grandpa, let's go in first."

Seeing Su Yuntao explaining to Si Si that he hadn't called her old, only for Si Si not to believe him, and the two of them arguing for ages, Lin Bei, the culprit behind it all, quietly said this to Old Adam.

He helped the old man into Spirit Hall.

Behind them, the two young people were still bickering and messing around.