The Mighty and Domineering Old Jack

Chapter 4 The Mighty and Domineering Old Jack

Jerry went home, changed his clothes, and went out to find Old Jack, who was planting carrots in the field at the time!

Old Jack's martial soul is a food-type martial soul. Because he doesn't have innate soul power, he can't cultivate, but he can summon carrots to eat. By chance, he discovered that the carrots summoned by his martial soul could be grown, so he started growing carrots. Moreover, the carrots he grew were big and crisp, with a refreshing fragrance and a great taste. Everyone who ate them said they were delicious.

Jerry quickly found his grandfather working. His grandfather was bent over, planting carrots. There was a row of holes dug in front of him, which must have been dug by his grandfather before. Now he was planting carrots in each hole. His grandfather summoned his martial spirit, planted it in the hole, and then filled it with soil, planting one after another.

Watching his grandfather work, Jerry felt a pang of heartache. He didn't know if it was because of his bloodline or something else, but Jerry just felt very uncomfortable.

"Grandpa Jack, Grandpa Jack, stop working! Little Three and I caught a big fish, let's go cook it now!" Jerry shouted.

Hearing Jerry's shout, old Jack straightened his hunched back. Hearing Jerry say he'd caught a big fish, although he didn't know what fishing was, he was worried about the dangers of catching fish and asked anxiously, "Jerry, you went fishing? The water's edge is so dangerous! Luckily you're alright. Don't go there again!"

"Grandpa, I'm fine. We were fishing, we were fishing from the shore."

Hearing Jerry say that he was on the shore, I immediately felt relieved.

"Really? What a good child! You can even catch fish now! You're better than your grandpa; even grandpa can't do that. You've really grown up!"

Old Jack took Jerry home first, put away all the tools, washed their hands, and then prepared to go to Tang Hao's house.

Upon arriving at Tang Hao's house and seeing Tang Hao lying at the door, she was immediately enraged.

"Tang Hao, you're such a grown man, all you do is lie around drinking all day. Look at your son, he's gotten so thin! Can't you at least try to live a decent life for your mistress?!"

"What's the point of living a decent life?" he said, taking a sip of his drink before lying back down.

"You, you... Tang Hao, don't you know how to do more work and improve your mistress's life? Look at the two kids now, running off to catch fish on their own!" Old Jack was so angry his teeth ached.

Tang San stepped forward at this moment: "Grandpa Jack, don't talk about Dad anymore, Dad is very good to me!"

"Sigh, never mind, the youngest is much more sensible than you, an adult. I'll cook the fish!" Old Jack said helplessly.

As the village chief, this wasn't the first time he'd spoken to Tang Hao, but Tang Hao always ignored him, leaving him frustrated and unable to vent his anger.

Seeing Grandpa Jack reprimand Tang Hao, one can't help but feel that Grandpa is truly mighty and domineering. Only Grandpa dares to reprimand Haotian Douluo like that and is still alive and well!

Old Jack came to the kitchen and saw the big fish on the cutting board.

"How did you catch such a big fish?"

"Grandpa Jack, he caught it over there at the waterfall using the tools Jerry made," Tang San quickly said!

"Alright, I'll kill the fish! It'll be easier to cook such a big fish if you chop it up." With that, Old Jack chopped down on the fish's head, and then a white light appeared, condensing into a white ring above the fish.

"A soul beast! This is a soul beast! You captured one, and I actually killed it with my own hands. What a waste! If this were taken to Notting City, it could sell for 10 gold soul coins," Old Jack said regretfully.

Upon seeing the spirit rings, Tang San was stunned and quickly asked, "Grandpa Jack, what are spirit beasts?"

"Little San, when you turn six, you can awaken your martial soul. If you have soul power, you can become a soul master. Soul masters need to absorb soul rings every ten levels to break through and continue cultivating. Our Holy Soul Village once produced a Soul Saint, which is why our village is called Holy Soul Village. You'll understand when you grow up!" Old Jack explained to Tang San!

So that's it! The reason the Mysterious Heaven Skill couldn't break through was because it didn't have a spirit ring. Looking at the white spirit ring in front of him, Tang San was very excited. Absorbing this spirit ring would allow him to break through! "Then how does Grandpa Jack absorb spirit rings?" Tang San asked!

"I don't know about that. I can't cultivate because I don't have soul power. Once you awaken your martial soul and have soul power, I'll send you to the Soul Master Elementary Academy in Notting City. The teachers there will teach you," Old Jack explained.

Tang San was somewhat disappointed. Seeing the spirit ring in front of him, he was unwilling to give up. So he reached out to touch the spirit ring, but his hand passed right through it without any reaction.

Jerry watched everything from the sidelines. He wondered if Tang San knowing about Soul Masters in advance would affect the future plot. After thinking about it, he decided to ignore it and figure out how to trick Tang San into giving him the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

By the way, if I had taught Tang San about Soul Masters beforehand, would he be less likely to be fooled by Yu Xiaogang later? If Yu Xiaogang couldn't accept Tang San as his disciple, would Tang San have had to take many detours in the early stages?

Just imagine Yu Xiaogang's awkward expression later, hehehe, this idea is perfect. If I tell Tang San about the Soul Master thing in advance, maybe Tang San will be moved and teach me the Mysterious Heaven Skill!

Since that fishing incident, Jerry and Tang San have been fishing frequently. Every time they kill a fish, Tang San feels a pang of heartache when he sees the white spirit rings floating by!

Furthermore, Jerry, under the guise of fishing, had Tang San forge many things, such as dumbbells, barbells, and a horizontal bar. Perhaps due to the nature of the soul power in this world, the training effects were quite noticeable.

Later, these equipment were clearly insufficient for Jerry's training, so he asked Tang San to help build a resistance band machine, which could train both arms and legs, and the weight could be increased at any time if it was not enough.

Tang San found the things Jerry had asked him to create strange, but when combined, they made a difference. He could tell that these things were all external training methods, while his Xuan Tian Gong was an internal training method.

Tang San was not interested in external training. External training would only make the body stronger and increase muscle mass. Tang San did not like such muscular men. In his previous life, there were also people in the Tang Sect who practiced external training, and they all went shirtless to show off their muscles.

Tang San didn't want to train himself to look like that; he still preferred the image of a refined gentleman.

After Jerry upgraded his fishing gear, fishing became significantly safer. As Jerry trained, he gradually built up muscles and became much stronger than before. So he asked Tang San to forge him a two-meter-long, all-metal fishing rod with a reel. This reel didn't have any drag or anything; it could only be used for simple line letting and reeling. It was mainly mechanical design, which Jerry knew nothing about and hadn't thought about studying. As long as it worked, that was enough.

With the fishing reel, Jerry no longer worried about being dragged into the water by fish. That day, he went fishing with Tang San again, bringing his new equipment. After catching a fish, he let loose completely, catching one after another. Soon, there were more than a dozen fish piled up on the shore. Seeing so many fish, Tang San was very happy and stopped fishing himself, directly cleaning the fish on the shore.

Jerry had Tang San make a handcart earlier, which was originally intended to transport fishing equipment, but now it's filled with fish.

"Jerry, don't fish today, we can't finish eating it all!" Tang San was happy, but seeing Jerry catching more and more fish, he was worried that they wouldn't be able to finish eating them all, so he said.

"The last one, the last one landed, that's it, I'm done fishing!"

Then the fish was landed. "Just one more cast, just one more. We'll leave after this one. Look, it's still early, don't worry!"

"The last one"

"One more shot!"

……

As darkness fell, Jerry said, "Look at you, you've been going on and on, and now we can't even push this cart of fish!"

"You seemed really happy cleaning the fish! The new equipment is so much fun, you couldn't stop for a moment."

"I was happy at first, but after you caught so many, I can't be happy anymore."

"What should we do? Most of these fish are dead. It would be a waste to throw them away, but they'll spoil if we don't eat them! How about this, you stay here, and I'll go back to the village to get help!" Jerry said.

"That's all we can do. Could you please not catch so many next time?" Tang San said.

"Be careful next time! Be careful next time!" Jerry said.

Tang San could never guess how many strokes a fisherman's last cast would take.

Then Jerry went back to the village to fish. There were more than 30 households in the village, and tonight, every family was eating fish, praising Jerry and Tang San as they ate.

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(End of this chapter)