To Saint River Capital

Over the years, the capabilities of the Soul space have been explored. First of all, while the dark void seems to be infinite, the ground they're standing on isn't. The current size of the 'floor' is around 1 kilometer square.

Currently, the only way to bring any items in is through soul bonding, as you spiritually have to put your actual soul in them, no one has been able to bring in anything bigger than half the size of a 5 years old yet.

"Look, if not for the fact that you guys can't resell these, the price would have been 10 times higher." Said Peng Tian, trying to remind them.

The items in the Soul space were, after all, just a projection of the ones in reality. Only the owner of the items are able to transfer the information in them. If the others want to resell them, they would have to rely on their own comprehension of it.

"Damn it." The buyer face was grim, although he doesn't want to, the [Cultivation manual for dummies] that everyone has only covers the basics, and can't actually be called a cultivation method. He himself was ragging behind others because he didn't have a suitable Cultivation method yet.

"Make way, make way." A soul waved through the crowd. Many sent angry looks at him, but once they saw his face, all of them backed away without hesitation.

Peng Tian instantly recognized him, nicknamed 'Sugar Daddy' Zhang He, the wealthiest guy of them all. He was a prince of a kingdom, naturally, he was able to have access to many cultivation manuals. In fact, the cultivation method Peng Tian was currently using also came from him as well.

Zhang He glanced over the 3 books on the blanket and said "I want them all."

It wasn't that he needed them or anything, it was just that his net worth has already gone over 100,000 points. If he didn't put some back in the market, the system and the money he had would turn useless.

"Alright, that will be 450 favor points, but since you're buying in bulk, I'll discount it to 400 points."

"Deal."

As for the resources that represent favor points, they use the land of Soul space. Currently 50% of the Soul space was designated as a public area, with the remaining 50% as currency. So, 1 favor point was equivalent to a 1 meter square area.

The original buyer finally decided and said "Fine, I'll buy them all too."

"500 points" Deadpan Peng Tian

The original buyer: "..."

And just like this, the rich were getting richer, and the poor were getting poorer.

...

High sealand calendar, year 5245. Summer.

Within River Wind City.

The Peng family was having dinner in the dining room, but even though more than a dozen servants were called in, they still couldn't manage the situation.

"Din't wrry m'lady this night wil protct u."

"Ve are the twoteens guardan knights!"

"Begane, damon king."

A total of 12 children were playing around in the dining hall. They were the little brothers of Peng Tian in this life. They were borrowing the nicknames of their six fathers "The Six Guardian Knights."

The one they're calling 'Demon king' was the one and only Peng Tian, and the one they're calling 'm'lady' was his only sister, Peng Ai.

The 'Demon king' was eating on the table quietly while 'The Twelve Guardian Knights' was busy trying to fling food at each other.

"Enough!" One of Peng Tian's aunt-in-law finally snapped.

Peng Biyu can't help but say "Peng Tian, try to get along with your little brothers, ok? It's your responsibility to control them when we parents aren't around." Her eyes pleading, knowing what happens when she isn't around.

'Can I kill them then?' Peng Tian rolls his eyes.

As an adult stuck in a 7 years old body, Peng Tian was really too mature for his age, he felt like he dies inside a little every time he tries to play with them. The only one he can get along with was his cute little sister, Peng Ai.

"Be-big brathers please don't figwt" the small girl sitting across him was panicking, her little cheeks were so red, it looked like she was gonna burn up.

'Alright, that's it.' He had enough. Peng Tian sent a glare over to the 12 boys.

"Eat."

Instantly, the boys quieted down and began nervously chewing their food. They know that once their big brother was angry, you shut up.

'Sigh.' Peng Tian knew that this method wouldn't work forever, ruling by fear also isn't his way of doing things. Maybe a little time off of them will help him think of a solution for this.

"Grandpa, you're going to visit the clan this year too, right?" Turning his head to the end of the table, Peng Tian asked his grandpa. Every once in two years, Peng Fan has to go and report to the main family in the capital of Saint River Kingdom.

"Well, yes, what's the matter?" Peng Fan asked with a confused look.

"Then, can I go with you this year?"

"What?!" The adults were shocked.

"Tian'er, the capital is a dangerous place, even your grandpa doesn't have much status over there, you sure you wanna go?" Lin Bu asked worryingly.

"I'm sure, I have always heard stories from the capital, many people says I'm the most talented person in Greenland county, even the surrounding counties doesn't have anybody who can match me in talent, but I've heard that there's a lot of people with a grade 3 or even grade 4 bodies in the capital, I want to see for myself how big of a world is outside our county."

The adult went silent. Actually, one of the main reasons they didn't want him to go was that they were afraid of breaking his self confidence. Many geniuses have lost their bearings when they go to the capital, there were just too many talented geniuses in the world.

"Fine." Said Peng Fan.

"What?! Father!" Peng Biyu instantly objected.

"It's fine, Tian'er is a strong child, besides, it will do more good to him in the long run. We can't let our worries limit his future, can we?"

"But-but-"

"Enough! I've already decided, we'll go a bit earlier than planned then, Tian'er, pack your things, we're taking off at the crack of dawn. I need to contact them for a change in schedule."

...

Next morning...

"You sure you don't want any of us to go with you, father?"

The Peng family was sending them off to a field outside of the city. Many citizens of River Wind City also come to watch.

"It's fine, and it's better to have more people to guard the city when I'm gone anyway." Peng Fan assured them.

THRUM THRUM THRUM THRUM

"Speaking of which, it looks like our ride is here." He looked up at the sky.

A 100 meters long silver airship with a diamond shaped logo was lowered to the field beside them.

"Wait! Tian'er, take this." Said Peng Biyu. In her hand was a circular pendant.

Putting the pendant around Peng Tian's neck and said "This will protect you against mind attacks, just in case."

Peng Biyu take a look at her son one more time, before saying "Have a nice trip, be save, Tian'er"

"Of course Mom!" He grinned brightly.

...

As they're entering the airship, there was a steward coming to receive them.

"A ticket for two, to the capital please." Peng Fan said.

"That will be two low-grade spirit stones."

The cultivation world uses spirit stones as a currency. A low-grade spirit stone can be traded for a thousand lowest-grade spirit stones and a mid-grade spirit stone for a thousand low-grade spirit stones and so on.

As Peng Fan was handing him the spirit stones though, Peng Tian noted that he couldn't see through the steward's cultivation realm. Peng Tian himself was already at the 4th layer of Qi condensation. Meaning that the steward was at least of the Foundation Establishment realm.

In the River Wind City, anyone at the level of Foundation establishment are called masters, they can open up a martial school, or if they join the city guards, they will be given the rank of a captain at least.

Peng Tian can only sigh.

As they proceeded into the cabin, he got to see the dozen or so passengers sitting in their seats on the ship.

'Thank god, no babies.' He scanned the four rows of passengers for any underaged children like himself, but it seemed he was the only one.

"Grandpa, can I have the window seat?"

"Of course."

After wearing the seatbelts tightly, the airship took off.

River Wind City is between the riverside of one of the Saint River branches and the River Wind Mountain Ranges, making it a nurtural chokepoint. But although it's just a tributary, the only way the citizens of River Wind City can cross the river is by large ferries manned by cultivators, as the width of the river is over 3 kilometers wide.

"Grandpa, why are we going to the west? Wasn't the capital to the south?" Peng Tian questioned.

"The air ship needs to make a detour to the west by crossing the tributaries river. If we tried to go south and cross the main Saint River, we might get shot down by the river beasts" Peng Fan explained.

"What?! But aren't we like 5 kilometers in the air?" His eyes widened.

"Hohoho, It's 10 kilometers actually, but still, that wouldn't save us."

Peng Tian has already tested the material of the airship, and although he could exert more than 50 Tons of force with one of his punches, he still wasn't confident he could even put a scratch on one of the walls.

What he didn't know, however, was that there were layers upon layers of protection arrays covering the airship, if not for this, forget about the main Saint River, just some of the larger tributaries would be too dangerous for them to cross.

...

As Peng Tian looks out of the airship, he sees a brown sparrow the size of a minivan flying at around half of their cruising altitude.

Suddenly, from the river water, a gigantic black catfish the size of a football stadium leaped out and swallowed the brown sparrow whole. The momentum of the catfish was so massive, some of the water that splashes when it goes back into the river even reaches the window of the airship!

After a while though, he notices a lot of blood in the river water. The gigantic catfish with countless wounds was dragged up to the shore by the very same sparrow. The sparrow didn't even bother to eat the corpse's meat, it only scavenged around for a while before finding a bead and swallowing it whole.

Peng Tian instantly knew what the bead was. It was the monster core of the catfish. The most valuable part of any monster; the part where the monster stores its energy and soul.

.....

After the airship made some more stops along the way, the capital gradually came into view.

'The main family, huh?'

He was finally gonna see the biggest backer he has in this world.