Two months after the Hundred Flowers Brew became a sensation in Nottingham, Mo Bai created two more wines. Unlike the Hundred Flowers Brew which incorporates wildflowers and fruits, these two wines are: one is the Hundred Fruit Brew, brewed with flowers and fruits from trees he grows himself and several different grains, mainly targeting the mid-range market; the other is the Golden Grain Brew, brewed with only several different grains, mainly targeting the low-end market.
Because of their large scale, these two types of wine have not yet entered the market.
"Xiao Bai, don't go hunting in the mountains today," the village elder called out as Mo Bai prepared to get his hunting crossbow.
Hearing the village chief's voice, Mo Bai turned around and asked, "Grandpa Village Chief, is there anything happening in the village today?"
"Today is the day to awaken your martial soul. Although you are not old enough to awaken it yet, you are born with superhuman strength and will definitely awaken your soul power in the future. Today, come with me to welcome the Soul Master, get acquainted with him, and leave a good impression." With that, the village elder put away the beast-hunting crossbow.
Hearing the village elder mention awakening a martial soul, Mo Bai was also curious. He already knew that the extraordinary beings in this world all relied on something called a martial soul to cultivate. Although he had seen the martial souls of the village elder and others, because they did not have soul power, Mo Bai could not see anything useful about them at the moment.
Now that he heard about awakening a martial soul, Mo Bai naturally wanted to see it for himself.
Mo Bai followed the village elder to each house to collect the children who needed to awaken their martial souls. After the children were gathered, the village elder returned home and took out the Hundred Flowers Wine that he had hidden away earlier, which was the first wine that Mo Bai had personally brewed.
Then they led the children and accompanying parents to the village entrance to wait for the Soul Master in charge of the awakening.
When the sun was high in the sky, the legendary Soul Master finally arrived. He looked to be in his twenties, dressed in a white outfit and wearing a black cloak. He was none other than the legendary Su Yuntao.
Upon reaching the village entrance, Su Yuntao was somewhat puzzled. "Isn't this Hundred Pigeon Village? How did it become Hundred Flowers Village?" Although puzzled, he didn't pay too much attention to it, as it was common for small villages like this to change their names.
"Honorable Soul Master, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to come to Hundred Flowers Village and help our village's children awaken their martial souls." The village elder stepped forward and bowed respectfully.
Su Yuntao waved his hand. "Only six children need to awaken their martial souls this year?" Su Yuntao asked with some lack of interest.
"Only five children need to awaken. This child heard that the Soul Master was coming and insisted on coming to see him," the village elder explained, pulling Mo Bai aside. His eyes held a hint of anticipation, as if hoping that Su Yuntao would discover Mo Bai's extraordinary abilities.
"Without soul power, no matter how much you yearn for it, you can never become a soul master," Su Yuntao retorted.
It's no wonder Su Yuntao didn't think highly of Mo Bai. Children from small places like this almost never possess soul power unless their martial soul mutates. In the previous villages, not a single child had soul power.
The atmosphere became somewhat awkward upon hearing this. The village elder changed the subject, saying, "Soul Master, this is our village's specialty, Hundred Flower Wine. You've come a long way and must be tired, so we specially prepared this to help you relax."
After finishing his explanation in one breath, the village elder was also very nervous, worried that the Soul Master, being so knowledgeable, might not appreciate their village's Hundred Flower Wine.
Upon hearing about Baihua Wine, Su Yuntao, who had initially shown little interest, was overjoyed. In the past two months, Baihua Wine had become extremely famous in Notting City.
When Linyun Restaurant bought Baihua Niang, it immediately tripled the price. Although some people who had tried Baihua Niang said that its quality was excellent, most people just thought that Linyun Restaurant was using it as a gimmick to launch a new wine and that the price might drop in the future.
Until a month ago, Linyun Restaurant publicly stated that brewing Baihua Niang (Hundred Flowers Wine) requires real wildflowers and fruits, so this year only Linyun Restaurant has Baihua Niang.
The production area can no longer brew it, and it won't be available anywhere else. It won't be on the market until next year, but that will be a new brew. This year's Baihua brew will be an aged brew by then, and it will be the earliest aged brew.
As soon as these words were spoken, the price of Baihua Wine doubled again.
Of course, Baihua Village was unaware of these things at the time, and the village chief only mentioned using wildflowers and fruits to promote the products.
The owner of Linyun Restaurant deduced this year's production of Baihua Wine from this and launched this marketing campaign.
That's why Su Yuntao was overjoyed.
As soon as Su Yuntao arrived at the village entrance, he saw the village chief holding a pot of wine. He initially thought it was some kind of local liquor, which made him somewhat displeased, since he rarely thought anything of what the village would bring out would be of interest to him.
But he didn't expect that he had only drunk a small cup of Hundred Flowers Wine, and even that small cup was specially prepared by Master Matthew for the soul masters who went to the countryside to awaken their martial souls. That's why he was fortunate enough to drink it.
Thinking about the renaming of Baige Village, Su Yuntao asked with some eagerness, "Is the Baihua Wine served at Linyun Restaurant in Notting City produced in your village?"
"Our village did indeed supply Hundred Flowers Wine to Linyun Restaurant, as the adults have said." Looking at Su Yuntao's eager gaze, the village chief seemed somewhat uncertain.
Despite their uncertainty, the village chief still warmly offered them some Hundred Flowers Wine.
Eagerly taking the wine jug, Su Yuntao opened it and took a small sip. "That's right, it's this. I never imagined that the Hundred Flowers Wine would be produced in your village. It's a pleasant surprise. Thank you very much." After confirming that it was indeed Hundred Flowers Wine, Su Yuntao became even more enthusiastic.
"It's a blessing for our village that the Soul Master can enjoy Hundred Flowers Wine," the village elder flattered.
"Speaking of which, our village's ability to brew Hundred Flowers Wine is all thanks to Xiaobai," the village chief said with a touch of emotion, while looking at Mobai.
"What do you mean?" Feeling pleased, Su Yuntao chatted idly with the village elder.
"It was Xiaobai who hunted wildflowers and fruits in the mountains and put them into the wine barrel when we weren't looking, which is how the Hundred Flowers Wine was accidentally brewed," the village chief said, half-jokingly.
"Going into the mountains to hunt at such a young age?" Su Yuntao clearly didn't believe the village chief's words.
"They call it hunting, but it's really just catching some wild rabbits and raiding a few bird nests," the village chief explained, then added, "But Xiaobai is indeed born with superhuman strength. Don't underestimate Xiaobai just because he's young; his strength is no less than that of a ten-year-old child."
Hearing this, Su Yuntao also looked at Mo Bai with some curiosity.
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Before long, the group arrived at the Martial Spirit Hall in the village. At this time, Su Yuntao directly stopped the village elder and Mo Bai.
"Next, I will awaken the martial spirits for these children. Village Chief Li and little Mo Bai can stay outside for now."
The village elder clearly knew the rules. He gave a few instructions to the children who needed to be awakened, and then bowed to Su Yuntao, saying, "I entrust this to Master Yuntao."
"The outcome depends on these children." After saying that, Su Yuntao led the children inside.
After a long while, the door of the house opened again. "Congratulations, Village Chief Li. One of the five children this year has soul power," Su Yuntao pointed to one of the children, "Martial Soul: Gray Pigeon, Innate Soul Power Level 1."
"Sir, is it true that Shuai Shuai possesses soul power?"
Upon hearing Su Yuntao's words, the village elder's first reaction was not joy, but disbelief. Their Hundred Pigeon Village hadn't produced a child with soul power for many years; it should now be called Hundred Flowers Village.
The child Su Yuntao was referring to was named Li Shuai, a rather sturdy little boy.
"How could I, a Great Soul Master, be wrong?" Su Yuntao said solemnly.
"Yes, yes, how could Master Yuntao be wrong? Haha." Village Chief Li couldn't help but laugh.
"Alright, all the villagers in Hundred Flowers Village who needed to awaken their martial souls this year have done so. I have to go to the next village now. Farewell." Having finished his business, Su Yuntao took his leave.
Normally, Su Yuntao would just say hello and leave, but since he had just awakened a child with soul power and had also accepted a pot of Hundred Flower Wine from the child, Su Yuntao couldn't just say hello and leave.
"I'll see you off, Xiaobai, Shuaishuai, you two come with me to see Master Yuntao off." The other children without soul power followed their parents home, while the village elder, along with Mo Bai and the other man, accompanied Su Yuntao for about a mile before stopping to say goodbye.
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"Shuai Shuai, the other villages don't have any children with soul power, so the work-study spot is perfect for you. That way, you can go to Notting Academy to cultivate. No, now that the village is making money, the village will pay for you to be a regular student." After seeing Su Yuntao off, the village chief could no longer contain his joy and was now quite "wild."
The boy named Li Shuai responded without understanding what was going on.
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Two years later.
A wild rabbit darted out of the lush grass and ran towards a thin boy sitting on the mountaintop, hoping to escape death by following the boy's lead.
But how could a wild rabbit escape death? Forty meters away from the thin boy, a sharp arrow pierced the rabbit from behind, exiting through its chest. After exiting, the arrow continued its trajectory, pinning the rabbit to the ground.
A moment later, a boy of similar age to the boy sitting on the mountaintop came out. However, compared to the boy sitting on the mountaintop, the boy who just came out was obviously much stronger and taller. He looked to be only about five or six years old, and there was already a hint of heroism between his brows.
The one who just came out was Mo Bai, and the one sitting on the mountaintop was naturally Tang San.
At this moment, Mo Bai was looking at Tang San with a hint of amusement, "He should be using the Purple Qi of his natural enemy to cultivate a special eye technique, but the efficiency is too slow."
In just over two years, Mo Bai has combined the Qi Refining Method he practiced before his rebirth with the Blood Refining Secret Method he practiced after his rebirth, and has developed it to a very high level.
Although Mo Bai had already deduced the Blood Refining Secret Technique to a considerable level before his rebirth, it was created on a whim, and some aspects were not perfect. Mo Bai was also not satisfied with the level of deduction.
Moreover, although the Blood Refining Secret Technique can also activate the flow of one's own Qi, it is only a spontaneous activation, which is much less efficient than the Qi Refining Methods practiced before rebirth, and its operation is also imperfect in many ways.
Before his rebirth, Mo Bai cultivated a Qi-refining method called the Yin-Yang Harmony Method. Although it sounded very unorthodox, it was a true immortal method. The immortal transcendent who created this method had a great reputation on Blue Star, but he offended too many people and was killed by a group of extraordinary powerhouses.
Mo Bai also spent a lot of effort to obtain it. After achieving immortality through the two paths of weapon formation, he modified it to perfectly suit his pre-rebirth self and named it the Harmony Method.
For the past two years, Mo Bai has focused his main efforts on combining and deducing the Harmony Method and the Blood Refining Secret Method. The reason why it took more than two years is because Mo Bai's cultivation level was low.
With higher cultivation levels, one can deduce faster, but rapid advancement in cultivation may lead to a deficiency in cultivation. Even though Mo Bai could build an incredibly deep foundation, it still did not benefit his advancement to transcendence. Therefore, compared to before his Nirvana Rebirth, Mo Bai's progress after his rebirth was extremely slow.
After more than two years of research, Mo Bai combined the original Harmony Method with the Blood Refining Secret Method into the current cultivation method, which he named the Harmony and Blood Enhancement Method.
It still takes blood refining and cultivation as its core essence, but it is no longer a simple spontaneous activation of one's own aura. Instead, it is a highly efficient and perfectly functioning process.
Most importantly, Mo Bai no longer needs to use a secret technique to completely conceal his aura. When cultivating the Blood Harmony and Blood Enhancement Method, Mo Bai can still directly cultivate his own essence, which is more efficient than the previous Blood Refining Secret Method. However, as long as Mo Bai does not actively expose himself, in the eyes of others, Mo Bai is no different from an ordinary person.
Because he almost exposed himself when he first met Tang Hao, Mo Bai developed a special strategy to address this.
To prevent misjudging the situation, Mo Bai had long ago begun to cultivate his pupil technique and had already made some progress.
The eye technique that Mo Bai cultivated was called the Heavenly Refining Eye Technique. It was created by Mo Bai before his rebirth by combining many eye techniques specifically for his own cultivation. A major feature of this eye technique is that no matter what level he reached in his cultivation, this eye technique would not affect the cultivator's own essence.
Before his rebirth, Mo Bai relied on this pupil technique and another self-created divine technique to achieve immortality in both weapon arrays and other arts.
At this moment, Mo Bai was observing Tang San with his Heavenly Refinement Eye. After a while, Tang San finished his cultivation and stood up. He saw Mo Bai watching him from not far away and asked somewhat warily, "Little Bai, what are you doing here?"
Mo Bai waved the rabbit still hanging on the arrow and said nonchalantly, "Chasing rabbits, Xiao San, what are you doing here so early in the morning?" Mo Bai asked back.
"Nothing," Tang San replied casually, not wanting to say anything more to Mo Bai, and tried to leave quickly.
"Wait, here, take this. I have a few more over there." Mo Bai flicked his wrist, pulled the rabbit off the arrow, and tossed it to Tang San, who, as expected, caught it easily.
"Thank you." This wasn't the first time Mo Bai had given prey to Tang San, and Tang San didn't say much before leaving.
Over the past two years, Mo Bai has gained a basic understanding of Tang Hao and his son. Tang Hao is indeed a hidden master with extremely strong strength. Tang San is also very strange. Although he is a child, his mentality is comparable to that of an adult. In Mo Bai's opinion, the Qi refining method he cultivates is very rough, but it is not too bad. It is definitely much more advanced than the self-operated meditation cultivation method of Li Shuai and others.
What surprised Mo Bai the most was that the father and son were not on the same path. With his current level of Refining Heaven Eye, Mo Bai could not see through Tang Hao's path, but he could still be sure that the father and son were not on the same path at all.
"This Tang San can't possibly be a time traveler like me, right?" Mo Bai thought to himself before going back to deal with the other prey.
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At this moment, Tang San, who was carrying a wild rabbit down the mountain, wasn't thinking about eating wild game to satisfy his cravings, but rather about Mo Bai. Ever since he learned that Mo Bai could use the hunting crossbow properly, Tang San had been paying attention to Mo Bai.
More than a year ago, when Tang San went down the mountain, he found a dead wild rabbit entangled in weeds. Just as he was about to clean it up and take it back, Mo Bai rushed out from the bushes and shouted "Rabbit thief!" and punched Tang San a few times.
Tang San had been practicing the Tang Sect's Crane Control and Dragon Capture Technique for quite some time, so he directly blocked those punches.
Afterwards, Mo Bai must have realized it was Tang San, so he stopped attacking and even offered to compensate him with a wild rabbit afterwards.
It was that "no fight, no friendship" that made Tang San have a truly profound impression of Mo Bai. Although Mo Bai did not know any martial arts, he was born with superhuman strength. Even with the support of Tang Clan martial arts, Tang San was not confident of defeating him.
That's why Tang San didn't realize he had murderous intent towards Mo Bai at the time. Looking back, Tang San realized that he saw Mo Bai alone and saw the hunting crossbow he was carrying. He thought that if he could kill Mo Bai, he could have the complete hunting crossbow. That's why he analyzed whether he could defeat or even kill Mo Bai.
Realizing this, Tang San broke out in a cold sweat. The Tang Clan was a sect that was both righteous and evil, but being both righteous and evil did not mean being a pervert. If he were to attack a child for a hunting crossbow, what difference would there be between him and a perverted demon?
As evening fell, Mo Bai returned home with the day's harvest and found the village elder sitting in the courtyard.
"Grandpa Village Chief." Mo Bai greeted him.
More than a year ago, Mo Bai moved out of the village chief's house. Originally, the village chief disagreed, but the village's brewing business was developing rapidly, and the village chief was often not at home. Thinking of the old house in the village that was not inhabited, and the families around it with children of the same age as Mo Bai, the village chief directly asked someone to repair the old house and let Mo Bai move there.
Seeing Mo Bai return, the village chief was very happy. "Little Bai, the day after tomorrow is the day of the Martial Soul Awakening. You should awaken your Martial Soul this year. Don't go into the mountains these next few days."
Upon hearing about the awakening of martial souls, Mo Bai was overjoyed. After nearly two and a half years in this world, he was finally able to witness the legendary awakening of martial souls.
"By the way, Grandpa Village Chief, there's something I'd like to discuss with you."
In the past, either the village chief would go out to do business or Mo Bai would go into the mountains to hunt. Now that they rarely meet, Mo Bai plans to discuss the future development of Baihua Village with the village chief and others.
(End of Chapter)