Spirit Hall.
A place devoted to awakening martial souls for commoners?
Every year, Spirit Hall sent dedicated deacons deep into these remote, impoverished villages and towns to perform martial soul awakenings for every child of the right age?
After hearing this, Huo Yuhao was utterly dumbfounded.
What?
Spirit Hall actually sent people specifically for this?
They traveled all that way to remote villages and towns to awaken the martial souls of ordinary commoner children?
How was that possible!
But then Huo Yuhao's thoughts instantly took a turn.
The knowledge he had learned at Shrek Academy in his previous life immediately put a wary look in his eyes.
"So that's it!"
"I understand now!"
This was nothing more than a crude trick Spirit Hall used to rake in money or brainwash people!
In his previous life, he had lived ten thousand years in the future.
In that era, people from major factions and academies also went out into local communities to awaken children's martial souls.
But every time, they charged those families exorbitant fees.
And whenever someone awakened a suitable martial soul,
they also had to sign an extremely harsh contract of indenture, becoming the private property of the major sects and nobles.
Over time, awakening a martial soul had all but become a privilege monopolized by the rich and the nobility!
Because ordinary commoner families
simply could not afford the huge sum needed to hire a soul master to perform an awakening.
Even if they smashed their cooking pots and sold the iron to scrape together enough money, awakening a trash martial soul would leave the entire family utterly ruined.
Thinking he had seen through the truth, Huo Yuhao asked outright,
"Sir, if I go inside to awaken my martial soul now, how many Gold Soul Coins do I need