Using Abundance Power Independently
After Ye Shaojie's harassment, it quickly became evening, and the two returned to the front of the third-year teaching building.
Students from each class emerged one after another. As time went by, fewer and fewer people came out, and at this Yao Shi finally saw Yao's figure.
Yao seemed to sense something and turned to look.
"Little boy?"
"Grandpa!"
The two of them, beaming with joy, immediately ran towards each other.
"Little boy!"
"Grandpa!"
Yao and Yao Shi ran and shouted, and soon they were embracing each other.
"Grandpa, it's been so long! It's so good to see you."
Yao Shi spoke first.
"Haha, it's been almost two years since we last met. You've grown quite a bit taller since you were little!"
Yao Shi left Bluestone Town, he was only a little over 1.7 meters tall. Now, almost two years later, he is almost 1.8 meters tall.
At this moment, Meng Hongchen also came over and sweetly called out, "Uncle Yao."
Yao turned around upon hearing this, and chuckled, "Haha, Xiao Meng, thank you for bringing Xiao Shizi over."
Meng Hongchen immediately shook her head.
"No trouble at all, Uncle Yao. I was just about to come and see you anyway."
In the days immediately after Yao was brought over, Meng Hongchen frequently visited him, specifically to inquire about Yao Shi's childhood.
When Meng Hongchen first visited Yao's shop, and considering Yao Shi's talent and strength displayed in the Soul Fighting Tournament, she originally thought that even if Yao Shi's childhood wasn't very wealthy, it wouldn't be too bad either.
Who would have thought that this glamorous junior brother in front of her now had such a difficult childhood?
He was always hungry, so he started earning money at the age of three or four to improve his life and prepare for the Martial Soul Awakening...
As Meng Hongchen listened, her eyes began to blur with tears. She wondered, if she were living in that kind of environment, could she have survived?
Obviously not.
Fortunately, her junior brother successfully awakened his Martial Soul, and even Innate Full Soul Power, so things gradually started to get better.
What struck Meng Hongchen as odd was that Yao had described her junior brother's awakened Martial Soul as a tree branch, but according to his student records and performance in the Soul Fighting Tournament, his martial Martial Soul should be Snow Woman, not a tree branch.
It was only later that Jing Hongchen told her that Yao Shi actually possessed Twin Martial Souls.
"This isn't the place to talk. Let's go back and discuss this further."
Meng Hongchen then made a suggestion.
Although there are indeed fewer students around now, Yao Shi and Meng Hongchen's striking good looks still inevitably attract the attention of passing students.
Seeing that a crowd was about to gather around him again, Yao Shi scratched his head.
"Yes, indeed, haha."
"Let's go, let's go back to Uncle Yao's house now."
Without saying a word, Meng Hongchen took Yao Shi's hand and headed towards the teachers' apartment. Yaoshi's residence was arranged by Jing Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen also knew the location of the place since she often went there before.
Seeing the two of them doing this, Yao couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.
"By the way, Grandpa, what made you decide to study to become Soul Engineer?"
On the way, Yao Shi couldn't help but ask with some doubt.
"Hehe, wasn't it because I was amazed by the outside world when I first arrived here?"
"Back in our Nameless Village, I thought people outside were just a little better off than us, with better food. But after moving to Bluestone Town, I realized that's what life was like for those noble lords."
"And now, after being taken here by your teacher, Dean Jing, I realize that this old man, who has spent most of his life holed up in the mountains, has ultimately been like a frog at the bottom of a well, only seeing the sky from the bottom of a well."
Yao Shi and Meng Hongchen followed on either side of Yao, listening silently.
"After I arrived here, I couldn't stay idle, so I used the identity token that Dean Jing gave me to go to the academy's library every day to read books about the basics of Soul Tool."
"At first, I recognized all the words in the book, but I didn't know what they meant when put together. Later, thanks to Xiaomeng and Xiaoxiao's explanations, I finally got a clue. Then I became interested in it, so I asked Dean Jing to arrange for me to enroll in school to systematically learn this knowledge."
At this moment, Meng Hongchen covered her mouth and laughed, "Junior Brother, you don't know, Grandpa was shocked when he heard Uncle Yao say he wanted to learn about Soul Tool."
Yao laughed and said, "Yes, Dean Jing told me that I couldn't become Soul Engineer because I hadn't awakened my Martial Soul and didn't have Soul Power. I was just trying it out, thinking that even if I couldn't succeed, I should at least learn about it. So Dean Jing had no choice but to put me in the first year."
"And guess what happened next? This old man tried it, and it actually worked! It took me almost four months to go from an ordinary person to a Level 1 Soul Engineer."
"Haha, it seems you're quite talented, Grandpa," Yao Shi.
"Haha, that's true. When you were teaching me to read when I was little, didn't you tell me that you should learn as long as you live? Now I'm young again, and it's the perfect age to take risks."
Yao Shi then asked, "Grandpa, how do you activate these Soul Tool?"
It is true that people without Soul Power cannot become Soul Engineer, as Jing Hongchen said. Putting aside whether they can even make them, Soul Tool require Soul Power to activate. Ordinary people without Soul Power would be no different from scrap metal even if they had the most basic Soul Tool. Although they now have the technology of Milk Bottle, it is not very mature yet, and the main users are still Soul Master.
For an ordinary person like Yao, who has no Soul Power, to become Soul Engineer, and now even Level 2 Soul Engineer, is nothing short of a miracle in the world of Soul Masters.
"Oh, you mean this?"
Yao then extended his right hand and placed it in front of Yao Shi, and a green light slowly appeared.
"That's what propelled me forward."
The Abundance Power!!
Yao Shi stared in astonishment at the green light in Yao's hand, for it was none other than his own Abundance Power!
Grandpa can now actually control this power on his own?
He was filled with doubt. Although everyone in the Douluo Plane had been endowed with Abundance Power by the Jianmu he planted, they only possessed passive Immortal Regeneration, and longevity, and practically none of them could use it autonomously.
Unexpectedly, besides Tang Ya, who had already embarked on Path of Abundance, the first person she met who could independently use the Abundance Power was actually her own grandfather.
That's absolutely outrageous.
Then Yao continued, "After that Divine Tree appeared a year ago, I think that's when I started being able to use this power, but I always get hungrier after using it."
It matches up perfectly. Abundance can generate life energy out of thin air, but when operating at high intensity, it will frantically plunder matter and living beings to replenish itself. The more powerful the creation, the more terrifying its need to devour.
People like Yao are currently using relatively basic methods, only creating level one and two Soul Tool, which doesn't consume much energy. So for now, they're just feeling hungry. However, the higher the level of the items they create, the greater the energy consumption will be in the Future...
Thinking about it, Yao Shi exclaimed in surprise.
"Grandpa, you should try to use this power as little as possible in the future. If you feel increasingly hungry when you become a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or even higher-level Soul Engineer, stop using it immediately!"
Yao Shi's exclamation startled both Yao and Meng Hongchen.
But seeing Yao Shi's serious expression, he nodded.
"I understand, little one. I'll try to use it less or not at all in the future."