"Success!"
Seeing the thick vines burst from the ground, Qing Mu clenched his fists in excitement.
He had not expected Ivysaur to grasp the trick of fusion so quickly. He had originally thought it would take a period of training before success was possible.
"Ivy!"
However, just as Qing Mu was celebrating, Ivysaur could no longer hold on. In an instant, the vine that had been glowing with a pale green light abruptly split apart, turning back into two Vine Whips.
"Ivy, ivy..."
After retracting the two Vine Whips, Ivysaur began panting heavily, clearly having expended quite a bit from the fusion just now.
Seeing this, Qing Mu could not help frowning. "Does it consume that much Spiritual Power? It seems the fusion method is still too crude."
Although the two Vine Whips had indeed been forcibly fused together and their power had increased, the Spiritual Power consumption was enormous. A move like this clearly had no practical value in actual combat.
However, Qing Mu's furrowed brow soon relaxed. As long as he had achieved a breakthrough from zero to one, the rest was merely a matter of time. It was simply a question of how far it could be optimized.
In truth, Qing Mu's learning ability and comprehension were not poor. Otherwise, he would not have been able to learn Leech Seed, nor would he have been able to understand those obscure Martial Soul books without anyone teaching him.
The reason he had never considered himself a genius was, on one hand, because the power of the Bulbasaur Martial Soul had concealed his own talent. On the other hand, it was because the people he compared himself to had always been the world's most exceptional geniuses.
It was only in front of those absolute top-tier geniuses that Qing Mu's