Chapter 292 Old Jack's Hatred (Part Two)
Time passed, and the annual day of Martial Soul Awakening arrived once again. As usual, he prepared early to go to the Martial Soul Branch Hall to ask a Soul Master to awaken the Martial Souls of the eligible children in the village.
But when he arrived at the Spirit Hall branch, he found it empty. Old Jack stopped a passerby and asked about the Spirit Hall branch. The passerby gave a bitter smile and said, "The Spirit Hall is gone. How could anyone awaken your spirit for free? By the way, where are you from?"
"I am the village chief of Shenhun Village..."
Before Old Jack could finish speaking, the passerby's face darkened instantly: "Get out of here right now! I can't possibly be associated with your Divine Soul Village!"
After saying this, the passerby hurriedly left, spitting at Old Jack as he went, cursing his bad luck. As he walked, he muttered to himself, "My child is almost six years old. I need to work hard and save up a gold soul coin as soon as possible so those noble gentlemen can awaken my child's martial soul. Ugh! Damn it! I hope those noble gentlemen don't try to raise the price!"
Old Jack was seeing things from a third-person perspective, so he clearly heard what the passersby were muttering. His heart sank. The Spirit Hall was gone, and no one would help them awaken their spirits. As for the so-called noble lords, he had no hope. Having lived for so many years, he naturally knew what kind of people noble lords were. Moreover, although Divine Soul Village was much richer than other villages, it could only barely make a living. A gold spirit coin was an unacceptable price for the villagers of Divine Soul Village. They might not be able to save up a single gold spirit coin even if they worked hard all their lives.
Looking down at himself, Old Jack asked several passersby for help before finally understanding the truth of the matter. At that moment, Old Jack realized that Divine Soul Village had become a notorious village near Notting City. After all, without help to awaken their martial souls, countless people would lose their hope of defying fate, and it was only natural that these people resented Divine Soul Village.
To be honest, if the common people of Notting City hadn't been concerned about Tang San coming from Shenhun Village, Shenhun Village might have been wiped out by the angry common people long ago. However, even though they were concerned about Tang San and didn't dare to go too far, Old Jack already understood that Shenhun Village was isolated by all the villages around Notting City. Otherwise, he wouldn't have only just realized that awakening a martial soul now costs money.
What happened to Old Jack afterward is unknown to Old Jack from a third-person perspective, since the scenery he saw changed after he saw Old Jack return to Holy Soul Village in a daze.
As the scenery changed, he saw a Soul Master slaughter an entire village because the food the villagers had prepared for him was too bland. He also saw a noble lord who no longer cared about anything, wantonly oppressing the common people and treating them as less than human.
He witnessed commoners paying a heavy price to have their children awaken their martial spirits by noble lords. Ultimately, the commoner children without spirit power fared slightly better, simply being driven out by the noble lords' servants. Those commoners with spirit power, however, who refused to submit to the noble lords, were ultimately wiped out along with their entire families.
He also saw a child with innate full soul power. Because his talent was stronger than that of the nobleman, the nobleman resented him and made this six-year-old child suffer all kinds of cruel tortures.
The scene shifts, and he sees two Soul Masters without any special skills whose lives become increasingly impoverished after losing their monthly stipends from the Spirit Hall.
"Alas! With the Spirit Hall destroyed, life isn't easy for us low-level spirit masters either!"
"Yes! Noble lords look down on us Soul Masters who are only at the tenth level or so, and we don't have any special skills. Our family's money is dwindling, and if we don't find a way to make money, we'll run out of food!"
"How about we borrow some from those ordinary people's homes?"
"This isn't right! Life is already hard enough for ordinary people!"
He knew perfectly well what his partner meant by "borrowing" a little money, but he was also from a humble background and knew how difficult life was for ordinary people. Naturally, he didn't want his friend to squander money on those commoners.
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