Martial Soul Cultivation

Ever since discovering that his Martial Soul could absorb Soul Power from the soil, Jerry's approach to cultivation had opened up.

Jerry found an unused large water vat at home and drilled a hole in the bottom, turning it into a large flowerpot.

He then placed the large flowerpot in the yard and gathered plenty of fallen leaves, manure, and soil from outside, mixing them together. A pot of natural farm-grade nutrient soil was complete.

Xiao Wu watched from the side in disgust. "Brother, you're so grown-up already, yet you're still playing with poop!"

"Xiao Wu, you don't understand. This is all nutrients. It can help me cultivate faster."

"Brother, your Martial Soul isn't clean anymore. I'm not eating it in the future!" Xiao Wu said.

"No, a Martial Soul should be an Energy Body, right? When I retract it, the energy dissipates. The next time, I summon it anew!"

"Just thinking about it is disgusting!"

After saying that, Jerry stopped bickering with Xiao Wu. He planted his Martial Soul in the soil and thoroughly watered it.

Then he began meditating beside it. Seeing Brother begin cultivating, Xiao Wu got bored and started cultivating as well.

Everything was just as Jerry had expected. His Cultivation Speed increased severalfold. Jerry could even sense that part of the Soul Power was being absorbed by his Martial Soul, which was strengthening itself as well.

This discovery made Jerry very happy.

His Martial Soul was strengthening too. Once it grew strong enough, could it evolve? What would a Carrot evolve into?

A huge carrot?

Honestly, Jerry truly couldn't imagine what a Carrot would look like after evolving.

After cultivating like this for two hours, his cultivation began to slow down. Jerry realized that the fertilizer in the vat was limited and had probably been completely absorbed.

While cultivating, he could clearly feel that what he was absorbing was the Soul Power in the soil, not the nutrients he had initially imagined.

Many things in this world contained Soul Power, so fertilizer was still quite easy to make.

He stopped cultivating and began looking for fertilizer.

Blue Silver Grass was everywhere in this world. Even ordinary Blue Silver Grass contained a tiny trace of Soul Power.

So he gathered a great deal of Blue Silver Grass and buried it in the soil as fertilizer. Under normal circumstances, it would take a long time to decompose into fertilizer. But his Martial Soul was different. Once buried in the soil, it grew many roots. These roots directly pierced into the fertilizer and quickly began absorbing the Soul Power within it. Once the fertilizer's Soul Power was depleted, the roots vanished.

Two days later, Jerry finally broke through to Level Two Soul Master!

Jerry was overjoyed, and Xiao Wu was happy for him too.

Jerry discovered that he spent most of every day making Blue Silver Grass fertilizer. Although Blue Silver Grass was abundant, the Soul Power it provided was still far too little.

Then he suddenly thought that animal corpses could also be used as fertilizer, and Soul Beast corpses should be even better. He immediately put the idea into action. Thinking of the many Ten-Year Soul Beast Fish beneath the waterfall, Jerry's eyes lit up.

"Xiao Wu, today Brother will take you fishing. Do you want to eat fish?"

"Yes, yes! Cultivating every day is so boring. Brother, let's go fishing already!" As she spoke, she grabbed Jerry and pulled him away.

Jerry's fish dishes were quite delicious and had received unanimous praise from everyone. The moment Xiao Wu heard about it, she began craving it.

Jerry told Xiao Wu about how he had once been dragged into the water by a fish, making her burst out laughing. Looking at Jerry's current Body Type, it was hard to imagine what he had been like back then.

Jerry was no longer the Jerry of the past. Although seven-year-old Jerry did not have much Soul Power, his body was truly sturdy now, largely thanks to his usual training.

Cultivating Soul Power was too slow, so Jerry had intensified his physical training while at the academy.

Because he knew that absorbing Soul Rings had a great deal to do with a Soul Master's Body Strength, he had always trained together with Xiao Wu: running, Push-ups, Sit-ups, Squats, High Knees... and other modern exercise methods.

After returning to the village, he even had Xiao Wu train with his Resistance Machine. These exercises were quite useful. Xiao Wu's speed and strength improved considerably, and the power of her First Soul Skill, Waist Bow, also increased!

Xiao Wu had been rather unwilling at first, but after training for a while and seeing that she had indeed become stronger, she continued exercising with Jerry.

Tang San shook his head every time he saw them, as though he were saying, "Before long, a muscular girl will appear!"

But his worries were completely unnecessary. Absorbing Soul Rings strengthened the body, with the most obvious change being an increase in height. Jerry might look muscular now, but that might not be the case after absorbing Soul Rings. After all, Jerry did not have a Beast Martial Soul. Their cultivation methods were different, and the parts they strengthened were different too. That was why Jerry was not worried about becoming a muscle-bound man in the future.

The two of them took their Fishing Rods and went fishing. This time, it was mainly for an experiment, so they caught more than a dozen fish before happily returning home.

They killed a Soul Beast Fish that was around twenty years old, buried it in the soil, planted his Martial Soul above it, and began cultivating.

Sure enough, Soul Power came surging in, over a thousand times more than Blue Silver Grass provided.

Soul Beasts really were different. And this was only a Ten-Year Soul Beast. What about Hundred-Year, Thousand-Year, or Ten Thousand Years Soul Beasts?

Having finally found a method for cultivation, Jerry now understood the joy of cultivating.

His Soul Power had cultivated slowly in the past, and sitting for too long easily made his legs go numb. Now it was different. Every second, he could feel his Soul Power increasing.

Happy times always passed quickly. The holiday soon ended, and Jerry and Xiao Wu returned to school together. On the way, Xiao Wu asked, "Brother, what level are you now?"

Jerry did not want to hide it from Xiao Wu. "Level 17!"

"Brother, you're amazing. I only went up one level during the holiday, and I'm only Level 16 now. But you've already surpassed me. Brother, why can you still cultivate without absorbing a Soul Ring?" Xiao Wu asked.

"That brings us to Master's theory. You can cultivate without attaching a Soul Ring. After attaching one, it will be released together with your Soul Power."

"Ordinary people can't sense it once they're stuck at a Soul Ring bottleneck, but my situation is somewhat special. When I reached Level 10, I felt like I could keep cultivating, so I wanted to continue. I'll attach a Soul Ring once I can't cultivate any further."

"Also, my Spiritual Power seems to be stronger than average. I can sense that my total Soul Power should have reached Level 17 now!"

As he spoke, Jerry summoned his Martial Soul. It was no longer the tiny Radish it had been at first. It had grown much larger and even gave off a fragrant scent that made people want to take a bite.

Xiao Wu licked her lips as she looked at Brother's Martial Soul.

"But without a Soul Ring, you don't have any Soul Skills!"

"That's right. I've already decided what kind of Soul Beast I want to absorb. I originally planned to have the teachers take me hunting Soul Beasts after school started."

"But then I thought about it. Someone with Innate Half-Level Soul Power cultivating to Level 17 in one year would definitely get sent away for research. I might even be locked up forever, with no freedom for the rest of my life. So, Xiao Wu, we need to keep a low profile. Before we have enough strength, we can't expose ourselves, or it'll be very dangerous!" Jerry said seriously to Xiao Wu.

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