Chapter 50 What a fucking beast! (Ch 50)

Jiang Nannan walked forward in a daze.
The light in her beautiful eyes gradually dissipated.
She was certainly not clueless about what was going to happen next, and from the way the housekeeper looked her over, she felt like she was being sold like a commodity.
Powerlessness and humiliation filled the girl’s mind.
She was unwilling, but for her mother, she had to do so…
The brightly lit streets were crowded with people.
Today, the Xuanming Sect has set up banquets and put up pink lanterns everywhere. According to the shopkeeper, there is a happy event and the whole world is celebrating, just like a festival. Many civilians can only have a few full meals this way, so even though it is getting dark now, there are still many pedestrians on the road.
“Hey, what big happy event did you say happened in Xuanming Sect?”
“I don’t know. I guess it’s some young master from the Xuanming Sect. It’s his wedding night tonight!”
“Perhaps an elder of the Xuanming Sect has achieved a breakthrough in his cultivation?”
“…”
On the street, many people were enjoying a good meal and a few drinks, chatting and talking.
Jiang Nannan walked by silently.
She didn’t want others to know that the protagonist they were discussing was her…
But an inopportune voice sounded.
“Hey, have you heard of the Holy Spirit Church?”
An uncle with simple clothes and civilian appearance suddenly lowered his voice.
“Holy Spirit Church? Never heard of it.”
“What sect? Is it as powerful as the Xuanming Sect?”
“…”
“Tsk tsk tsk, you are so ignorant!” The uncle looked mysterious and waved his hand, motioning the people around him to listen closer.
“You must have heard of the evil soul master!”
“Hey, you!”
“Don’t scare me!”
“Just tell it as a ghost story. I’ll go back and scare others.”
“You are ignorant!” The commoner uncle waved his hand calmly, “This Holy Spirit Church is a sect of evil soul masters, but… it is also a sect for us common people!”
“That’s all nonsense! I’m just an ordinary civilian, so I’m also an evil soul master?”
“Just listen to me!” Despite being interrupted repeatedly, the uncle still maintained his smile, neither impatient nor anxious.
This caused Jiang Nannan to stop unnaturally.
Although the other party’s voice was very small, she was a Soul Master after all, and her hearing was far superior to that of ordinary people.
Doubts arose in the girl’s mind.
Evil soul master? Under the influence of Shrek Academy, he is the most hateful villain, killing innocent people and bullying civilians everywhere.
But why did this person say…
“Hey, then you better listen carefully!” The uncle rolled up his sleeves and took a gulp of wine. There was a hint of drunkenness on his face, but his voice became louder and louder.
“I’m asking you all, you all know the Spirit Hall, right?”
“I’ve heard of it, but ten thousand years ago, it seemed like they committed unforgivable crimes, burning, killing and looting, and were finally destroyed by our ancestor Tang San and the Heaven Dou Empire…”
“Bullshit, you are an unforgivable criminal! Did you see the burning, killing and looting?” The uncle glared at the person who answered.
“That’s not true…” the man said awkwardly, and then tried to argue: “But that’s what the history books say.”
“Haha, history books, those are all used by the nobles to deceive us!”
“Let me ask you, how much money does it cost for a civilian family to awaken their martial arts spirit power?” the uncle continued.
“I heard that the Zhang family did this. They said… asking nobles to help with awakening required at least a hundred gold soul coins. Even if it was Old Zhang who had to awaken his son’s martial soul once, it would have cost him everything. The most important thing is that the martial soul his son awakened was a hoe. I heard that Old Zhang fainted from anger at the time. What a good family! Tsk tsk tsk…”
At the side, an old man who looked like a shop assistant sighed.
After all, the monthly expenses of a civilian family of three is just one gold soul coin, and one would have to go without food and drink for at least ten years to save up a hundred gold soul coins.
“Yes, if you win, the nobles will reimburse you for the money, recruit your child, and provide you with resources. But if you lose the bet… then you lose everything.”
Hearing this, everyone shook their heads.
This is just an expression of emotion, not a complaint.
After all, for an ordinary family, being able to live in peace is already a blessing, let alone anything else.
“But ten thousand years ago, the Spirit Hall, which you call evil, helped every household awaken their spirits for free without charging any fees. Once they found that you had talent, they would automatically reimburse you and send you to the local academy. After that, whether you joined the Spirit Hall or not was entirely up to you…”
“What?!!”
The people around were all stunned.
In this century, awakening martial spirits is something that only noble lords can enjoy. If you are a commoner and you say you want to awaken your martial spirits, then you are a complete prodigal!
But ten thousand years ago, it was free!
The gap is imaginable…
“Is your news true or false?”
A farmer wondered.
“Is there such a good organization in the world?”
“Hehe, more than that…”
The uncle’s face became increasingly red, and it was obvious that he was drunk.
“The Spirit Hall was committed to the unification of the continent at that time. Let me ask you, if the continent is unified now, do we still need to recruit soldiers from house to house? Do we still need to fight a war?”
“Then why did Tang San’s ancestor… prevent the Spirit Hall from unifying?”
Some people were puzzled.
“Because his mother is a soul beast Blue Silver Grass, his father was a murderer… ahem, and at that time he was hunted down by the Spirit Hall because of the Blue Silver Grass, and his mother died as a sacrifice, so he has always been hostile to the Spirit Hall.”
“So that’s how it is!” someone suddenly realized.
“His father’s taste is really…”
“Not only that, here comes something even more interesting.” The uncle was almost asleep, but he still managed to stay awake and said, “It is said that when Tang San was a child, his father ignored him completely. A four or five-year-old child had to cook for himself and for his father. His father was an alcoholic. If he couldn’t cook, he would starve to death!”
“Isn’t it said that his father, Haotian Douluo, is very powerful?” someone asked.
“He’s strong, but his character is not good. Especially since he sacrificed himself again. He drinks all day and is decadent. It is said that if his fellow villagers hadn’t helped him, Tang San would have starved to death long ago!”
“I’ll go on.”
“At that time, he was young and his father ignored him. Even when he was six years old, the best time to awaken his martial spirit, he did not express any opinion and just looked like a dead pig…”
“So guess who awakened his martial spirit?”
The uncle gave a mysterious smile.
“Could it be…the Spirit Hall?!” someone said with a look of disbelief on his face.
“Hmm, you guessed it right, it’s the Spirit Hall,” the uncle shook his head and sighed, “After awakening, he relied on the monthly subsidies given to spirit masters by the Spirit Hall to get through the most difficult period in the early stage…”
“What a fucking beast!”
“Isn’t this just cursing after eating and smashing the pot after dinner? How can he be such a person!”
“…”
In an instant, the crowd was outraged.
In other words, I can endure the darkness because I have never seen the light.
But just because of a stupid Tang San, my original happiness is gone!