"Why equip every city with enough public toilets? To spread the faith of me, the God of Shit and Piss, of course!"
Qian Renxing looked at his grandfather as though he were an idiot. "Grandpa, without enough public toilets, how am I supposed to spread the faith of me, the God of Shit and Piss? Just like our Spirit Hall opens branch halls, I'm going to open branch toilets of my public toilets all over the world!"
"As for the toilet chiefs and staff, you can think of them as our Spirit City's branch hall masters and deacons. Easy to understand, right? Besides, there are bound to be people shitting and pissing wherever they please in the cities. That's when my staff will move out and punish those awful people!"
"You can draw that comparison? When you put it that way, there really is a bit of... no, no, no, no! My Spirit Hall isn't a public toilet like yours!"
Qian Daoliu really couldn't keep it together anymore.
Didn't putting it that way make his Spirit Hall seem no different from a public toilet? Even his Spirit Hall's prestige was being dragged down!
Qian Daoliu no longer wanted to discuss this topic at all. The more they discussed it, the more he felt his Spirit Hall was no different from a public toilet.
"Enough of that. We're at the Star Dou Great Forest! Xiao Xing, Grandpa will take you to hunt a soul beast and add your first soul ring!"
Fortunately, they had reached the Star Dou Great Forest just then. Qian Daoliu had finally escaped that den of demons, Spirit City, with his imbecile grandson. Though it wasn't very nice to put it that way, after leaving that place full of imbeciles, he truly felt a lightness from the bottom of his heart.
"Oh-ho, great! Once I've added my first soul ring, I'll be another step closer to becoming a god!"
Qian Renxing immediately brightened at that. "Grandpa, Grandpa, I want to hunt a super-powerful soul beast! That way, my first soul ring will definitely be super-powerful too!"
"Hahaha, Xiao Xing, adding a soul ring doesn't mean you can add the soul ring of whichever soul beast you want!"
Qian Daoliu burst into laughter.
Walking into the sparsely populated Star Dou Great Forest, without those imbecile old brothers of his, without those three little brats whose evil knew no bounds, and without those countless imbeciles from Spirit City, he was in an absolutely fantastic mood.
He explained with a smile, "The information our Spirit Hall has accumulated over hundreds and thousands of years has confirmed the existence of age limits for soul rings. Every soul ring a soul master takes has an age limit. If you exceed that age, you won't be able to withstand refining the soul ring! For example, the age limit for the first soul ring is 423 years, and the age limit for the second soul ring is 764 years..."
"Grandpa, I'm a genius. These soul ring age limits don't apply to me!"
After listening, Qian Renxing said with a look of disdain, "I, Qian Renxing, am someone who's going to become the God of Shit and Piss! Grandpa, don't you think hundred-year soul rings would be too embarrassing to show off as my first and second soul rings? They wouldn't match my prestige as the God of Shit and Piss at all. If you ask me, my first soul ring should be a thousand-year soul ring!"
"No, Xiao Xing, listen to Grandpa! A soul ring's age limit isn't something you can break through just because you want to. This is a conclusion countless soul masters of our Spirit Hall paid in blood to reach!"
Qian Daoliu patiently explained, "Xiao Xing, don't reach for the clouds when your feet aren't on the ground. As the Holy Son of our Spirit Hall, you have no need to take risks at all. Just be good and choose a four-hundred-year soul beast for your first soul ring. Grandpa believes you'll definitely become... a god someday!"
"Grandpa, you don't believe I can refine a thousand-year soul ring, do you? And you don't believe I can become a god either? Fine, I'll prove it to you!"
Qian Renxing was angry. Did his grandfather think he was the kind of noob who could only add a hundred-year soul ring as his first soul ring?
He immediately summoned his beloved little ride. "Come out, little ride!"
As the soul incantation ended, a glittering tricycle appeared before Qian Renxing. He immediately straddled it and pedaled off, vanishing in an instant as he darted into the Star Dou Great Forest.
"No, Xiao Xing, come back! The Star Dou Great Forest is dangerous! There are lots of terrifying soul beasts!"
Qian Daoliu shouted anxiously.
He hurried after the retreating figure of his imbecile grandson on the tricycle, never having expected that his imbecile grandson would vanish the moment he let go of him even in the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Woohoo! Watch me ride my little ride straight toward Zhuge Liang's four-wheeled carriage!"
Qian Renxing was overjoyed. Having finally gotten outside, of course he had to enjoy riding his little ride around in the breeze.
Once he got onto his tricycle, he pedaled furiously. Even in the Star Dou Great Forest, he could still ride a tricycle as though traveling over level ground.
He looked back, stuck his tongue out at his grandfather, and made a face. "Hehe, come catch me, Grandpa! If you catch me, I'll listen to you and add a four-hundred-year first soul ring!"
"Xiao Xing, stop! The Star Dou Great Forest really is dangerous! Even here on the outskirts, there are lots of terrifying soul beasts! Grandpa really isn't lying to you!"
Qian Daoliu was at his wits' end.
Who the hell knew why an imbecile child could shoot off so fast once he got onto a tricycle? For the moment, he couldn't even catch up.
He hurriedly shouted in anxiety, "Xiao Xing, stop running around! Just be good and add a four-hundred-year soul ring as your first soul ring! Grandpa really wouldn't hurt you!"
"Stupid Grandpa, just you wait! I'll add a thousand-year first soul ring and prove it to you!"
Qian Renxing spoke angrily, unconsciously pedaling his tricycle faster. In a flash of lightning, he disappeared into a thicket.
It had to be said that the Star Dou Great Forest really was rich in soul beasts. Combined with Qian Renxing's reckless antics, he really did crash into one.
With a bang, the tricycle beneath Qian Renxing instantly burst apart, scattering into stardust, while he flipped through the air and landed with flair.
"Eh-heh, looks like I hit something again?"
Qian Renxing chuckled, feeling a little embarrassed.
He suddenly felt that something underfoot wasn't quite right. Only then did he realize he was standing on a golden leopard, with a purple soul ring floating in the air.
"Oh-ho, here comes a thousand-year soul ring!"
The sight of this thousand-year soul ring made Qian Renxing's eyes shine. He immediately waved happily at the purple thousand-year soul ring.
Like a puppy, the purple soul ring immediately came into Qian Renxing's hand at his beckoning and merged into his body, wriggling around inside him like a little snake.
"Ooh, this feels so good! It's just like soaking in a hot spring~"
Qian Renxing felt incredibly comfortable. All that talk about how refining soul rings would hurt, how refining one beyond the age limit would be dangerous-his grandfather had just been lying to him.
Just as Qian Renxing was enjoying himself, an angry female voice suddenly rang out:
"You awful bastard! How could you go around killing someone else's soul beast? Grandpa Bone and I spent ages chasing that Golden Leopard!"