In Douluo Continent, Tang San raids my base right from the start.

Chapter 373 Another Zhu Wu

"Is this a member of a wealthy family from the city?" As soon as he entered the village, Zhu Wu, who was dressed simply but had a handsome face and an outstanding temperament, immediately attracted the attention of the villagers.

However, they dared not look directly at each other, avoiding each other and whispering among themselves.

Zhu Wu's expression was gentle as he walked in, observing the village environment, a hint of reminiscence flashing in his eyes.

Even after countless years, he still finds the rural life in Holy Soul Village unforgettable.

We're poor, but happy!

Unlike my previous life, where I had no worries about food and clothing but worked 996 every day and was burdened with loans, my life was completely forced upon me and had no joy.

As they walked, they soon approached the wooden house where Zhu Gang lived. It was surrounded by a bamboo fence, and there were many vegetables growing in the yard.

Outside a house on the right, a crowd of people stood, all looking anxious.

Zhu Wu's gaze swept across the room and quickly settled on a man around 45 years old, who was less than 1.7 meters tall but very muscular.

"Old Zhu." Another middle-aged man next to him noticed Zhu Wu and called out softly, somewhat fearfully.

The middle-aged man, who was called Old Zhu, immediately turned around, his expression changing.

For ordinary people like them, being targeted by aristocratic children is not a good thing.

"Ah!" A scream suddenly came from inside the house. It was followed by the woman's terrified cry, "Push! Push!"

The expressions of the people outside changed drastically. They stopped paying attention to Zhu Wu and turned to face the inside of the house.

"Dad, Mom, will Cui'er be alright?" The anxious expression on the face of the young man in his early twenties standing at the front was palpable.

"Ah!" The screams from inside the poorly soundproofed wooden house grew louder, tinged with exhaustion.

"Hmm?" Zhu Wu frowned and strode closer.

Tap tap tap, hurried footsteps sounded, the door was quickly pushed open, and finally a middle-aged woman came out.

"Grandma Zhen, how is my daughter?" the middle-aged man standing behind the young man immediately asked.

"The baby is breech." The middle-aged woman looked anxious. "Cui'er's health isn't good to begin with; I'm afraid we can only save one child?"

The expressions on everyone's faces changed drastically.

"How could this happen!" The other woman standing next to the middle-aged man panicked immediately.

"Go in and continue the delivery. Don't worry, both mother and child will be safe this time," a clear voice suddenly said.

Everyone turned their heads at the same time, and it turned out to be the young man who had just approached.

Then the young man raised his right hand and waved it lightly, instantly sending out a streak of emerald green light that snaked swiftly through the crack in the door and disappeared into the room. The screams vanished in the blink of an eye.

"A Soul Master!" The eyebrows of the group widened in surprise.

The woman at the door didn't delay. She gave Zhu Wu a slight bow, turned around, went inside, and closed the door.

"Thank you, Soul Master!" The middle-aged man surnamed Zhu quickly bowed in gratitude.

"Thank you, Soul Master!" The group of young men beside them also bowed quickly, their tone full of gratitude.

"It's alright!" Zhu Wu smiled and shook his head. "Meeting is fate, and it was just a small favor for me."

As he spoke, he looked up into the room and continued, "This child is destined to be with me. I intend to take him as my disciple. I wonder if you gentlemen would be willing?"

"It is my grandson's good fortune to be favored by you, sir, and we are naturally willing to accept it," the middle-aged man surnamed Zhu said politely. "However, my Zhu family has never produced a Soul Master before, and I'm afraid my grandson doesn't have that talent either."

A hint of sadness flashed in the eyes of the young man beside him. He had no talent, and neither did his wife, so there was little chance that they would have a child.

"Don't worry, I have my own way of making this child a Soul Master," Zhu Wu said with a smile.

"Such a good thing?" The young man was stunned for a moment, then his face lit up with joy, and he turned to look at his father, Zhu Gang.

Zhu Gang also showed a happy expression and quickly bowed, "Thank you, Soul Master."

"Just call me Yingtian. Since I've decided to take this child as my disciple, you can be considered my elder," Zhu Wu said with a smile. "I'm just an ordinary commoner like you all. I've chopped firewood, carried manure, and grown crops. There's no need for formalities."

Then, changing the subject, he said, "After talking for so long, I still don't know your names."

"I am Zhu Gang." Zhu Gang's tone remained polite.

During this period, the two great empires were constantly at odds, and ordinary civilians were often forcibly conscripted. Coupled with natural disasters and man-made calamities, the lifespan of ordinary people was generally short. Therefore, it was not wrong for a 45-year-old to call himself an old man. A Soul Master was a different concept altogether. Zhu Wu nodded.

"Greetings, sir." He bowed slightly.

"I can't accept that, I can't accept that," Zhu Gang quickly reached out to help, but the next second he realized that his clothes were not very clean and immediately stopped.

"There's nothing I can't accept," Zhu Wu smiled. "I'm an orphan, so just treat me like your godson."

Zhu Gang was stunned, shocked that the young man in front of him was an orphan.

For some reason, I felt a pang of heartache, and my gaze softened considerably.

Zhu Wu turned to look at the young man beside him. "This must be the child's father. May I ask your name, sir?"

"Judy," the young man said shyly.

"My name is A Niu, and this is my wife, Xi Xi," the middle-aged man next to him quickly introduced himself.

"Why are all these names so strange?" Zhu Wu thought to himself, returning the greetings one by one.

Just then, "Wah!" The sound of a baby crying suddenly came from inside the house.

"It's born! It's born!" Judy exclaimed excitedly, almost incoherently.

"Congratulations." Zhu Wu smiled. He was also quite excited when his first child was born, so he could understand.

Judy turned her head, her voice still trembling with emotion, "Thank you, thank you, you saved Tracy, and you saved my child too."

"It's nothing," Zhu Wu said.

Tap tap tap, hurried footsteps approached, then the door opened, and the midwife opened it again, this time with a big smile on her face.

"Congratulations, it's a boy." As she spoke, she couldn't help but glance at Zhu Wu out of the corner of her eye, secretly marveling at the power of a Soul Master.

Judy, the father, then spoke up, "Brother Yingtian, you saved the child and will be his future teacher, so why don't you name him?"

"That's how it should be, that's how it should be!" Old father-in-law Ah Niu echoed, his daughter almost lost her life.

"Let's call him Zhu Wu." Zhu Wu recalled Zhu Gang from back then, glanced at Zhu Gang in this world, and smiled, "Taking it from the first character of Martial Soul, it can also be considered a blessing. I hope this child can awaken a good Martial Soul in the future and have a prosperous martial fortune."

"Great name, let's call him Zhu Wu," Judy said happily.

The midwife looked on with envy. The Zhu family had inexplicably managed to latch onto a powerful Soul Master, which could be considered a leap in social class.

She immediately smiled and said, "Xiao Di, you can go in now."

"Okay, okay," Judy nodded repeatedly, bowed slightly to Zhu Wu, and turned to walk into the house.

"I'll go in and take a look too." My mother-in-law, Xixi, couldn't contain her excitement and followed her in.

Since Zhu Wu and other men who were not close to him could not enter the place of production, they could only wait outside.

"Yingtian, what brings you to our village this time?" Ah Niu started the conversation as if they were old friends, trying to build a closer relationship.

"I missed my hometown, so I came back to check out the surrounding area," Zhu Wu said with a smile.

"I see." Ah Niu nodded, then asked, "Ying Tian, ​​you just graduated from which advanced Soul Master academy, right?"

Zhu Wu shook his head. "I've always cultivated on my own, and I haven't joined any academy since. Over the years, I've been traveling around, which has been my childhood dream. To travel all over the continent, to see different people and things, and to see different scenery."

"Because he's an orphan, he has no ties?" Zhu Gang thought, feeling even more sorry for Ying Tian's background.

He had thought about traveling to the mainland when he was young, but with his parents still alive and a wife and children, he completely gave up the idea.

In his eyes, family always comes first.

"So, are you planning to stay in your hometown?" Ah Niu continued to ask.

"Next, I plan to go and take a look at Wuhun City," Zhu Wu said with a smile. "As the holy land of soul masters, I haven't had a proper visit yet."

As he spoke, he turned to Zhu Gang and said, "Grandpa, I will come back in three years to teach Xiao Wu how to cultivate."

"In the meantime, I'll trouble you to take care of Xiao Wu." As she spoke, she took out a longevity lock that she had conjured at will. "Please put this longevity lock on Xiao Wu later. With this item protecting him, you will be able to turn danger into safety no matter what dangers you encounter in the future."

Zhu Gang looked shocked, then said, "Ying Tian, ​​you're leaving already?"

"Let's see Xiao Wu before we leave," Zhu Wu said with a smile.

"Then you should put it on Xiao Wu yourself," Ah Niu said.

"Alright then." Zhu Wu nodded. "Consider this my gift to Xiao Wu as his apprenticeship ceremony."

After chatting for a short while, the room was tidied up, and the midwife's voice came, saying that they could go in and check.

Zhu Wu followed Zhu Gang and A Niu inside.

With a single glance, he instantly saw through the child's condition: his congenital meridians were blocked, making it impossible for him to awaken his soul power.

"Thank you so much, Brother Yingtian, for saving my life," came the voice of the young woman lying on the bed, very politely.

"It's fate that we bumped into each other, and besides, it was just a small favor," Zhu Wu said with a smile.

The woman smiled and continued, "Come and see the child."

Zhu Wu nodded and strode forward as everyone made way for him. Judy immediately took the child from her wife's arms and handed him over.

Zhu Wu reached out and took it, looking down at it. Its chubby face was as red as a monkey's bottom, ugly as hell, just like his son when he was a child.

Its mouth was moving noisily; perhaps it was tired, and it was sleeping soundly.

Without delay, he immediately freed one hand to place the longevity lock into the swaddling clothes, simply raising his hand and stopping it above his heart.

Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, the emerald green life force seeped in like silk threads, nourishing the child's body while opening up the eight extraordinary meridians.

Then, he infused it with dragon energy. It didn't matter if his family's martial soul was weak; he could even turn a worm into a dragon.

What did I just see? A dragon-shaped mist? The midwife was utterly shocked and even more envious.

The Zhu family is about to soar to new heights!

Then Zhu Wu reached out and handed the child to Judy, saying, "Don't worry, Xiao Wu will definitely awaken a great martial soul in the future."

"Thank you, thank you, Brother Yingtian!" Judy thanked him repeatedly, and his wife Cui'er on the bed also expressed her gratitude.

"I'll go and make the arrangements," A Niu said. "Not only was the baby born smoothly today, but we also gained such a good teacher as Ying Tian."

"Good things come in pairs, we must celebrate!"

"Yes, yes." Jasmine, Zhu Gang's wife, who had been helping out inside the house, nodded repeatedly.

The same was true of Xixi, the mother-in-law standing next to her.

So all the men came out of the house and began preparing a feast. Zhu Wu, as a guest, was led to the next room to rest.

But Zhu Wu refused and instead helped with the arrangements. With over a hundred million years of experience as a stay-at-home husband, who can match him?

After his impressive display, everyone was amazed and finally believed that Zhu Wu came from a commoner family. Which nobleman's disciple didn't have servants to cook for them? How could he have developed such excellent culinary skills? In an instant, the initial awkwardness lessened, and their interactions became much more harmonious.

Before long, everyone gathered at the dining table.

The midwife also stayed behind, and Zhu Gang gave her a large red envelope filled with red paper.

After dinner, at the warm invitation of Zhu Gang's family, Zhu Wu finally decided to stay overnight.

Meanwhile, news of Zhu Wu saving Judy's child and taking her on as an apprentice spread quickly throughout the village as the midwife left.

"What great luck!"

"The Zhu family is really aiming for a meteoric rise!"

"." Every household was talking about it.

The next day, after breakfast, Zhu Wu casually created a concoction, condensing one hundred gold soul coins to leave for his disciple as food expenses before taking his leave.

They weren't in a hurry to get somewhere, soaring high in the sky, leisurely enjoying the scenery, and occasionally landing to savor local delicacies.

Although it is a clone that eats, it can still transmit the divine sense to the main body.

One day later, the Martial Soul Branch Hall in the city.

"Is this really true?" Upon learning of Zhu Wu's miraculous rescue, the supervisor immediately said, "Come, let's go see."

At around 18 years old, and without even summoning his martial soul, he could already display such prowess. Most importantly, he seems capable of helping others awaken their martial souls and generate soul power. If this is true, then it's truly extraordinary and deserves his attention; he should personally investigate.

Now that the two great empires are fighting, it is a great opportunity for the Spirit Hall to profit from the situation and win over idle spirit masters.

Ying Tian—he'd never heard of any Soul Master family with the surname Ying. Without a doubt, this kid must be a carefree Soul Master.

"Is that so?" The city lord's mansion also received the news.

"Exempt the Zhu family from military service," the city lord said after a moment's thought. The empire was currently facing a shortage of soldiers, and he had received a direct order to recruit them.

He originally intended to recruit men from Zhu Gang's village, but now that's not an option.

If he were to accidentally offend this unknown Soul Master, he, a Soul Venerable, could not afford the consequences.

If things go wrong, they might come and kill him.

"Yes!" the guard who brought the message replied respectfully. "Lord, what if the villagers ask the Zhu family for help?"

The city lord's eyes widened. "Then let's go to other villages!"

The guards might as well go to other villages and think, "You can't afford to offend them, and neither can I."

That afternoon, the head of the Spirit Hall branch arrived in front of the Zhu family's house.

"May I ask what brings you here, Master Liao?" Zhu Gang greeted him with his family immediately, and after the other party introduced himself, he said politely.

"Brother Zhu, I wonder if our young friend Yingtian is still at home?" Manager Liao asked directly.

"Reporting to Master Liao, Ying Tian has already left," Zhu Gang replied. "He said he was going to Wuhun City to take a look."

Manager Liao's eyes lit up immediately, and he then cupped his hands in greeting, "In that case, I won't bother you any longer."

"Take care, Master Liao," Zhu Gang said politely.

"It must have been Granny Jen who leaked it," Judy said helplessly as soon as she left.

"Sigh, I hope it won't cause any trouble for Yingtian," Zhu Gang sighed.

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(End of this chapter)