Soul Power Seed

Jerry had once thought his Martial Soul was worthless. Even after discovering it was a Plant-type Martial Soul, he had still believed he was merely a support. Now that he had confirmed it was a Wood Attribute Martial Soul, and his Fourth Soul Ring even carried the Lightning Attribute, it was time to study a Self-Created Soul Skill!

Jerry knew that once one had mastered the Attribute Soul Power of their Martial Soul, finding a new way to use it counted as creating a Soul Skill! The Self-Created Soul Skills in this world were rather crude. Take the Clear Sky Hammer's Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, for example. This Soul Skill could continuously stack its power before erupting at the limit! Put plainly, it was just a hammer-swinging technique used for smithing! When forging, there was recoil, and one used clever force to redirect that recoil for hammering! When fighting people, one used the recoil to swing the hammer rapidly. The faster the hammer swung, the greater its power! Later, Tang San had even borrowed momentum, swinging in place to stack his strength! Jerry felt that Tang San would have been better off spinning around while swinging the hammer to attack. That would make it an area attack, and with his footwork added in, who would dare approach him!

Having powerful Spiritual Power truly had its benefits. It was also an enormous help to Jerry's research into his Martial Soul.

Under the probing of Jerry's powerful Spiritual Power, he finally sensed something resembling a seed within his Martial Soul. This seed emitted rings upon rings of Wood Attribute Soul Power. During cultivation, it was this seed that drew in Soul Power of the same attribute from heaven and earth. This discovery stunned Jerry. He named this seed the Soul Power Seed. It was because the Soul Power Seed acted like a catalyst, drawing in Soul Power from heaven and earth, that Soul Masters could cultivate. Those useless Martial Souls probably had failed to condense a Soul Power Seed before the age of six! That was why their Innate Soul Power was zero!

Jerry believed that Innate Soul Power was directly proportional to the quality of the Soul Power Seed! The higher the quality of the Soul Power Seed, the more Soul Power it absorbed, and the higher one's Innate Soul Power would be! Jerry himself should initially have had half a level, but he knew that plants could absorb the Soul Rings of Plant Type Soul Beasts to strengthen their origin, even allowing Martial Soul Evolution. That was why Jerry did not absorb animal Soul Rings. Later, after his own Martial Soul evolved, he felt even more strongly about the importance of absorbing plant Soul Rings! This origin should refer to the Soul Power Seed. When absorbing Soul Rings, one should also be absorbing origin. Those of the same attribute would strengthen the Soul Power Seed, while other attributes could not be absorbed and would ultimately remain within the Soul Ring!

Previously, when his Martial Soul absorbed Soul Power, Jerry had assumed it was ordinary Soul Power. Now that he knew Soul Power had attributes, he realized that everything he had absorbed before had been Wood Attribute Soul Power. It was simply that most of that Soul Power had entered his body, raising the Soul Master's level. Jerry thought that if he controlled the Soul Power Seed to absorb it all by itself at this time, no longer sending Soul Power into his body, then once it absorbed enough, the quality of the Soul Power Seed should improve!

In fact, someone on Douluo Continent had tried this before, allowing the Martial Soul to absorb Soul Power while the body stopped absorbing it. However, they later discovered that although it could improve the Martial Soul, it took far too much time. In the end, a Soul Master still depended on their body's cultivation level. Doing this would instead delay cultivation! Comparing the two, they had abandoned the idea of cultivating to improve Martial Soul Quality!

But Jerry's Martial Soul was a plant, a Wood Attribute Martial Soul. Not only could it absorb Soul Power from the air, it could also absorb Soul Power from the soil, and now it could even absorb Soul Power from water. This was much faster than merely absorbing Soul Power from the air!

Moreover, after his Martial Soul evolved earlier, Jerry's Innate Soul Power had already reached level eight. In other words, simply cultivating by absorbing Soul Power from the air was already very fast for him!

Jerry covered the Soul Power Seed with his Spiritual Power and easily controlled it to stop sending Soul Power into his body. As all the Soul Power was absorbed by the Soul Power Seed, he could clearly sense the seed changing! Raising the quality of the Soul Power Seed required a great deal of Soul Power. This could only be accumulated over time!