Chapter 2: A good start prevents a hundred bad ones; My grandma is the Soul Emperor
For Ye Feng, the most important person has always been his grandmother. Ye Feng was raised by his grandmother from a young age, and the mature young man helped his grandmother with housework every day.
"Xiao Feng is back! How was it?"
Ye Feng answered his grandmother's questions while cooking.
"He awakened an umbrella, with full innate soul power. That kid Shao Tian awakened a sword, with innate level eight soul power."
"Okay, okay, you're all good kids."
Grandma looked at Ye Shaotian sweeping the floor and Ye Feng cooking, her eyes filled with affection. Ye Shaotian had been orphaned since childhood, and no one in the village was willing to adopt him except for Ye Feng's family. So Grandma raised Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian all by herself.
Ye Shaotian was even fattened up by his grandmother, and was even fatter than Ye Feng.
"When are you going to the Soul Master Academy, Xiao Feng and Shao Tian?"
Grandma had long known that this day would come sooner or later. Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian were fledglings, and they would eventually take flight. However, Grandma did not expect that six years would pass so quickly. When Ye Feng's parents entrusted Ye Feng to her, Ye Feng had just learned to walk.
Ye Feng's parents have been missing for a long time, and Ye Feng has no hope for them.
"Grandma, we're not going to the Soul Master Academy."
Ye Feng made this decision after careful consideration. Attending the Soul Master Academy meant he wouldn't have much time to stay at home, and his grandmother was frail and sickly. If Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian weren't there, and something happened, they would regret it for the rest of their lives.
"That won't do! We have to go! Cough cough cough! Cough cough!"
When Grandma coughed, Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian immediately put down what they were doing. Ye Feng poured a glass of water, while Ye Shaotian patted Grandma's back.
"Grandma, don't be angry, calm down. Shaotian and I are leaving, what will you do if you stay here?"
"I don't need your help. Anyway, cough cough! I absolutely have to go to this Soul Master Academy!"
Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian exchanged a glance; there was nothing they could do.
"Okay, Grandma, let's go, let's go, okay?"
"Ahem, that's fine then, I'll go find the village chief now."
Grandma was about to go out to find the village chief of Dihun Village when Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian quickly helped her up; they couldn't do anything about it either.
The village chief's house—
"What! Grandma Ye Feng, are you serious? This child really has innate full soul power? And he also has Shao Tian's innate eighth-level soul power!"
Grandma stood proudly in front of the village chief, who looked at her with envy.
"How could it be fake!"
"Your two kids are truly two damn geniuses! Fine! I'll fund it! They can both go to the Elementary Soul Master Academy in Northern City!"
"Then, Juanjuan, can you forgive me?"
The village chief tugged at his grandmother's sleeve, his voice weak and pleading.
"snort!"
Grandma snorted and left with Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian. Ye Feng sensed the gossip and was surprised to learn that his grandmother and the village chief had a history.
"grandmother--"
Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian both called out "Grandma" at the same time, wanting to know about the relationship between their grandmother and the village chief.
"Don't ask, you two. This is an adult matter, kids shouldn't pry into it."
Grandma naturally knew what Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian, those two precocious children, were curious about, but these were all old stories, so how could Grandma possibly tell those two little devils?
"Tomorrow, pack your things and head to Northern Border City. This old woman won't go with you two. I'm getting old, and my health isn't what it used to be."
Ye Feng looked at his grandmother's back, his eyes welling up with tears. Since coming into this world, the only warmth of family affection Ye Feng felt was his grandmother's love. No matter how mature Ye Feng was for his age, in his grandmother's eyes, he was still just that toddler learning to walk.
"Shaotian."
"Um?"
"We must make sure Grandma lives in a big house and sleeps in a big bed."
"Absolutely, boss."
The next day——
Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian packed their luggage and left Dihun Village in the village chief's carriage. Watching his grandmother's hunched back as she walked away alone, Ye Feng felt a tightness in his chest and a sense of unease.
"Alright, alright, stop looking. She's in good health. After all, she was a great beauty back in the day... cough cough."
Ye Feng's grandmother is undoubtedly the most beautiful among the elderly in the village. Although her face has been marked by the passage of time, as the saying goes, true beauty lies in the bone structure, not just the skin. Ye Feng's grandmother, Ye Juanjuan, has an excellent bone structure, and apart from a few more wrinkles on her face since she was young, she has not changed much.
The village chief secretly wiped away a bead of sweat, almost letting slip the secret: Emperor Soul Village wasn't named so because a Soul Emperor had ever been born there, but because two Soul Emperors lived in the village. One of them was Ye Feng's grandmother, and the other was right in front of Ye Feng.
Ye Feng was simply too naive; he couldn't see that his grandmother and the village chief were Soul Emperors at all.
"You two, once you get to school, you must study hard, understand? Don't tarnish the reputation of our Emperor Soul Village."
Ye Feng had heard this so many times that his ears were practically calloused, and he mumbled incoherently:
"Alright, alright, we understand. Don't worry, village chief, we will definitely carry forward the spirit of Emperor Soul Village."
"Hmm, that's more like it."
The village chief looked at Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian with satisfaction. These two were destined for great things in the future.
"Go ahead, I won't see you in. Here's a piece of advice for you: 'A good start is better than a bad one.' Xiao Feng, sometimes showing your strength is a way to avoid trouble."
Ye Feng nodded, then took the admission notice and walked towards the entrance of the Northern Territory Junior Soul Master Academy.
The village chief watched with satisfaction as Ye Feng took down the guards of the Northern Territory Primary Soul Master Academy, and then he and Ye Shaotian swaggered inside.
"That's more like it, hehe, let's go back and find Juanjuan!"
After the village chief's martial spirit was activated, he vanished from his spot with a whoosh, moving at incredible speed! No one would have guessed that he was an elderly man over seventy years old without any soul power.
As for why Ye Feng managed to take down the guard, we have to go back to ten seconds earlier.
After Ye Feng and Ye Shaotian showed their enrollment applications to the guard, the guard glanced at their clothes and, seeing them as country bumpkins, naturally refused to let them in.
"Just the two of you, one with innate full soul power and the other with innate level eight soul power, who are you trying to fool! You two pretty little beggars, go back and call your parents over."
Ye Feng swept the guard down with a leg sweep and led Ye Shaotian inside, muttering to himself as he went:
"With this level of strength, he's supposed to be a guard? Who can he possibly protect?"