Fusion Trait: Sharp Blue Silver Grass

Wang Xian hurried home and went straight to his room. He lay on the bed, staring intently at the constantly changing numbers on the panel.

After entering the extreme training state, the progress bar advanced very quickly. The distance from the east end of the village back to his home was only around five hundred meters.

Yet the progress bar had already reached ten percent.

Wang Xian felt that extreme training would be complete in another ten minutes at most.

Second by second, time passed as the numbers on the panel steadily advanced.

"Sickle (F-rank), training in progress, progress: 99%."

Wang Xian kept his eyes fixed on the panel. The words on it suddenly warped, changing into several words that delighted him.

"Sickle (F-rank), training complete. Obtained ten Cultivation Points. Obtained trait: Sharpness (makes the martial soul sharp.)"

"Integrate the trait into the martial soul?"

Wang Xian's eyes lit up. "The Sharpness trait... I never expected that training could not only earn Cultivation Points, but also extract traits from it."

"Getting the Sharpness trait from a sickle is perfectly reasonable too."

What would Blue Silver Grass become after gaining the Sharpness trait? Wang Xian was greatly looking forward to it.

"Yes."

As Wang Xian spoke, warmth welled up from his palm, as if something were merging with his martial soul.

He unconsciously spread open his right hand, and Blue Silver Grass emerged from his palm.

The originally frail blades of grass underwent obvious changes. The leaves became longer and more slender, while their pale blue color deepened into a rich blue-green.

A faint silvery-white sheen gleamed along the edges of the leaves, like sharpened blades.

Wang Xian leaned closer and discovered that the edges of the grass blades were no longer smooth. Instead, they were lined with countless tiny, delicate serrations that glinted coldly in the light.

He carefully touched one with the pad of his finger. Before he even applied any force, a sharp pain pricked his fingertip. It had been sliced open, and a bead of crimson blood seeped out.

"So sharp." Wang Xian sucked in a breath, hurriedly putting his finger in his mouth and sucking on it.

Then he looked at the stool in front of him, intending to test the power of Sharp Blue Silver Grass.

With a thought, several strands of Blue Silver Grass extended from his palm and wrapped around one of the stool's legs.

He did not immediately exert force, instead carefully sensing it first.

As the grass blades coiled around it, he could clearly feel those tiny serrations biting into the surface of the wood as though they had teeth.

"Let's give it a try."

Wang Xian activated his Soul Power, and the Blue Silver Grass abruptly tightened.

With a crisp crack, the stool leg snapped cleanly in half.

The break was perfectly neat, as though it had been sawed through.

Wang Xian stared at the half of the stool leg left in his hand for several seconds before he could not help marveling.

"Damn, if this wrapped around someone..."

Just as he was about to retract the Blue Silver Grass, it merely twitched slightly before immediately shattering into fragments.

"This..."

Wang Xian hurried over and picked up the broken leaves of Blue Silver Grass, then examined them closely.

He grasped both ends of a fragment and gave it a light pull. The Blue Silver Grass shattered again.

After thinking it over briefly, Wang Xian figured out what had happened.

The system's trait integration was extremely one-sided. If it said Sharpness, then it gave nothing but Sharpness.

Although Blue Silver Grass had become sharp, none of its other aspects had improved at all.

Thus, after cutting through the stool leg with its Sharpness, Blue Silver Grass itself could not withstand the impact and ultimately turned into fragments.

"Even so, this is still an enormous improvement for Blue Silver Grass." Wang Xian was already quite satisfied.

After all, in battles between Soul Masters, Blue Silver Grass was usually a disposable item.

Perhaps it could only be especially useful against food-type, support-type, and Agility Attack System Soul Masters—the dregs of the barrel.

Now that Blue Silver Grass had gained the Sharpness trait, as long as it managed to wrap around someone, it would definitely be able to inflict damage. It was far stronger than before.

"Besides, this problem can be solved. If I can obtain the Sharpness trait, then I can obtain the Toughness trait, as well as all kinds of other traits."

That way, the fragility of Blue Silver Grass itself could be resolved.

After witnessing such a huge change from integrating just one trait into his Blue Silver Grass,

Wang Xian could no longer suppress the desire in his heart. He wanted to head out again and find a suitable person to challenge.

To solve the problem of Blue Silver Grass's fragile body, obtaining a Toughness or hardness trait was undoubtedly the best choice.

As it happened, someone living right next door to Wang Xian possessed a martial soul that might very well yield either of those traits.

That person was named Lin Zhu. His martial soul resembled his name: an ordinary piece of Lone Bamboo, perhaps only a little harder than other Lone Bamboo.

Lin Zhu was one year older than Wang Xian and had not awakened any Soul Power.

When they were younger, the two often chatted together. Now, Lin Zhu helped his parents with farm work at home.

Wang Xian estimated the time and only wandered over around dusk, after Lin Zhu had finished his work and returned home.

Lin Zhu's courtyard was somewhat smaller than Old John's, and its walls were covered in loofah vines.

Before Wang Xian even entered, he saw Lin Zhu sitting in the courtyard drinking water, drenched in sweat, with mud spatters on his pant legs.

"Brother Lin Zhu," Wang Xian called out.

Lin Zhu looked up at him and smiled. "Xiao Xian, what brings you here? I heard you awakened your martial soul. Blue Silver Grass, right?"

Wang Xian nodded and walked over to squat beside him. "Brother Lin Zhu, I want to ask you for a favor."

"What favor?"

"I want to fight you."

Lin Zhu froze, nearly dropping the bowl of water in his hands. "Fight me? You awakened your martial soul, and now you want to use me for practice?"

Wang Xian scratched his head and explained, "I want to see what level I'm at now."

"I'm not very familiar with the other people in the village, so I thought of you. Don't worry, I won't hurt you."

Lin Zhu looked at his serious expression, hesitated for a moment, then grinned. "Sure. I've got nothing to do after finishing my work anyway."

"Besides, you're going to become a Soul Master someday. If I don't spar with you now, I won't get another chance later."

He set the water bowl on the ground, stood up, and patted the dust off his backside.

"Here?"

Wang Xian shook his head. "Let's go to the backyard. It's more spacious."

The two went to the backyard. Lin Zhu rolled his shoulders, then spread his right hand. A piece of lush green bamboo appeared in his palm.

The bamboo was about the length of an arm, its surface smooth. It looked like perfectly ordinary Lone Bamboo, without the slightest fluctuation of Soul Power.

"Come on." Lin Zhu assumed a stance that looked fairly convincing.

Wang Xian did not rush to summon Blue Silver Grass. He knew that it was far too sharp now. If it truly wrapped around Lin Zhu, it would definitely injure him.

They had a good relationship. There was no need to hurt someone just to test his martial soul.

He clenched his fists, activated the level-three Soul Power within him, and charged straight at Lin Zhu.