Capturing Again, Deep Tilling Trait

Although Lin Zhu was a year older than him and half a head taller, he was an ordinary person after all. Without the enhancement of soul power, his reaction speed and strength were more than a grade lower.

Wang Xian sidestepped, dodging the bamboo pole Lin Zhu swung at him, then took advantage of the momentum to step in close and land a punch on his shoulder.

Lin Zhu winced in pain and stumbled back two steps. Before he could steady himself, Wang Xian followed up, grabbed his wrist, drove a knee into his thigh, and took him straight to the ground.

The entire process took only a few breaths.

Lin Zhu lay on the ground, his Lone Bamboo martial soul already dissipated, looking at Wang Xian with a dazed expression.

"That was way too fast, wasn't it?" he muttered. "I didn't even have time to react."

Wang Xian reached out to pull him up and said with a smile, "Thanks, Brother Lin Zhu."

"What are you thanking me for? That was completely one-sided." Lin Zhu patted the dirt off his clothes, not appearing angry at all. "Your soul power is just different; I couldn't hold out at all."

Wang Xian silently recited in his heart, "System, capture martial soul."

"Capture successful. Martial soul: Lone Bamboo (F-rank) has been added to the training camp."

"Start training?"

Wang Xian glanced at the screen, feeling delighted.

"Brother Lin Zhu, I'm heading back first. I'll treat you to something another day."

"Sure, go ahead." Lin Zhu waved his hand and went back to drinking water.

Wang Xian left Lin Zhu's home, looking at the panel in front of him as he walked.

"Start normal training," Wang Xian recited silently.

Lin Zhu was his friend, so he naturally couldn't treat him the same way he treated Zhao Dazhuang.

"Lone Bamboo (F-rank) training in progress, progress: 1%."

Wang Xian, who had been observing the panel, noticed that the speed was indeed much slower than before.

However, Wang Xian was not in a hurry. He returned to his normal daily rhythm, waiting for the training to complete.

Time passed quickly, and the next morning, Wang Xian was helping Old John hoe the ground in the courtyard.

A notification sound echoed in his mind.

"Lone Bamboo (F-rank), training complete. Obtained ten Cultivation Points, obtained trait: Toughness."

"Integrate trait into martial soul?"

However, this time, a line of red text appeared below.

"Note: F-rank martial souls can only integrate two traits. Please integrate with caution."

Wang Xian's gaze sharpened as he looked at the prompt.

"There's actually a limit to integrating traits," he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

But after a moment of thought, it was understandable; it was indeed reasonable.

The lower the quality of the martial soul, the more fragile it was. Integrating traits that didn't belong to it at all would inevitably require it to withstand pressure.

It was normal to have limitations.

"If an F-rank martial soul can only integrate two traits, then there's no need to rush into integrating Toughness. There might be other, better traits later."

Wang Xian temporarily gave up the idea of integrating the trait.

"Xiao Xian, go fetch some water to pour on these fields," Old John said at this moment.

"Okay," Wang Xian replied quickly.

In the time that followed, Wang Xian devoted his time to capturing the martial souls of others.

Because Old John was the village chief, he had a roster that recorded the martial souls awakened by everyone in the village and their innate soul power levels.

With this, it was easy for Wang Xian to find people with martial souls that could produce suitable traits and who were also suitable for a challenge.

However, almost all the villagers in Emperor Soul Village possessed agricultural tool martial souls like sickles and hoes.

A small number had ordinary plant martial souls like Lin Zhu's, and of course, there were those like Wang Xian with Blue Silver Grass.

Wang Xian selected a few suitable people, challenged them, and successfully captured their martial souls.

In the end, he obtained three traits with decent effects.

One was from a Hoe martial soul; after training, the generated trait was Deep Tilling. The system described its effect as increasing damage the longer an attack continued.

The Blue Silver Grass martial soul generated the trait Growth, which accelerated the recovery and growth speed of the Blue Silver Grass.

In addition, there was the Wood Hammer martial soul, which generated the trait Heavy Strike. Its effect was to add extra impact force to attacks and cause the enemy to fall into a brief state of paralysis.

As for the other traits, they were basically useless, as they were specific to effects related to hoeing the ground.

Furthermore, he discovered that he could no longer obtain traits from Sickle martial souls, only Cultivation Points.

For the same type of martial soul, one could only obtain a trait once.

In this way, adding the Toughness trait he had previously obtained from the Lone Bamboo martial soul, he had a total of four traits suitable for integration.

Among them, the traits he most wanted to integrate were Deep Tilling and Toughness.

After fusing with the Sharpness attribute, the attack power of his Blue Silver Grass martial soul was no longer low.

If combined with Deep Tilling and Toughness, he could increase the strength of the Blue Silver Grass, allowing it to entangle enemies for longer periods, with the damage increasing the longer it held.

As for why he didn't fuse with Growth, it was because he had already chosen Life as the direction for his martial soul cultivation.

Once the martial soul cultivation was complete, the power of the system would likely be able to significantly boost the growth and recovery speed of the Blue Silver Grass.

After all, growth and recovery were both manifestations of powerful life force.

Therefore, there was no need to occupy a trait fusion slot that was still relatively limited at the moment.

Of course, he didn't need to be in such a rush to fuse, as the Blue Silver Grass cultivation would be finished in just a few more hours.

Waiting until the cultivation ended to see the situation and then deciding which trait to fuse would be the best choice.

Wang Xian lay on his bed, staring at the progress bar on the System Panel that had almost reached the end.

"Martial Soul Cultivation Chamber: Blue Silver Grass (Cultivating)."

"Martial Soul Quality: F~E (99%)."

"Martial Soul cultivation complete." The system's notification sound rang out.

"Blue Silver Grass (F-rank) ~ Life Blue Silver Grass (E-rank)."

"Martial Soul Cultivation System."

"Host: Wang Xian."

"Age: Six years old."

"Innate Soul Power: Level 5."

"Martial Soul Quality: E-rank (Low-tier martial soul)."

"Martial Soul Cultivation Points: 250."

"Martial Soul Cultivation Chamber: Place a martial soul inside and consume Cultivation Points to cultivate it. (Cultivation attempts: 0; consume 1000 Cultivation Points to perform the next cultivation.)"

"Martial Soul Training Camp: Train martial soul (None); acquired traits: Toughness, Deep Tilling, Growth, ..."

"Soul Skill Cultivation (Locked). Unlock condition: Obtain the first soul ring."

"Form Cultivation: Weapon Form (Consume 100 Cultivation Points to perform cultivation.)"

As the panel popped up, he couldn't help but release his martial soul.

A rich aura of life rushed toward him, carrying the unique freshness of vegetation.

He spread out his right hand, and the Blue Silver Grass slowly emerged from his palm.

It was completely different from before.

The color of the grass blades had shifted from blue-green to a deep, ink-like cyan, as if it had been soaked in the purest and most concentrated water of life.