Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill

The next day, morning.

The sun hung high in the sky, casting light over the clear horizon.

Holy Soul Village, Old Jack's home.

"Grandpa Jack, I'm going to train."

As his youthful voice faded, Ye Chen washed the bowls and chopsticks before running toward the hill behind the village.

While eating breakfast earlier, Old Jack had explained that because Tang Hao was the village blacksmith, the village's quota for a work-study student had to be reserved for Tang Hao's son, Tang San.

To secure another work-study spot, he had specifically visited the surrounding villages.

Eventually, a village called "Poultry Village" happened to have an available work-study quota.

However, their condition was that the child using this quota must move to their village, live there, and become a member of their community.

According to Old Jack, when the village chief and the residents of Poultry Village heard that the child using the quota had awakened a poultry-type martial soul and possessed Innate Full Soul Power, they immediately agreed. They stated that as long as the child moved in, not only would they grant him the work-study spot, but they would also allow him to personally rename the village.

Ye Chen was naturally willing to accept this; after all, the Holy Soul Village quota was already taken by Tang San, and if he wanted to join Nuoding Academy tuition-free, he had to rely on a spot from another village.

Furthermore, the fact that the villagers and the chief were so eager to have him move in that they offered to let him rename the village was a rare display of enthusiasm.

In the end, Ye Chen agreed to the conditions and renamed Poultry Village to "Pallet Village."

The name "Pallet" symbolized the pure white color of a new beginning.

Naming it Pallet Village not only signified the village as the starting point of his new life, but also symbolized the commencement of his own Douluo journey.

Although he had agreed to the terms and renamed the village, Ye Chen was in no rush to move.

He wanted to stay in Holy Soul Village for two more months to see if he could spar with Tang San a few more times, thereby gaining more combat experience feedback.

Thinking back to how winning against Tang San yesterday had directly boosted his Soul Power by one level, Ye Chen couldn't help but feel a twinge of regret.

With Tang Hao around, he could only wait for Tang San to challenge him; he couldn't provoke Tang San himself, nor could he strike too heavily.

It seemed that in future spars, he would have to carefully gauge his strength, ensuring Tang San always felt he had a chance to win so that he would keep coming back to challenge him.

If he could truly get his wish, then by farming combat experience feedback from Tang San, he might just reach level 16 Soul Power in a mere two months!

Torchic evolved for the first time at level 16. He wondered if Torchic could evolve normally if his Soul Power reached level 16 without him having obtained his first soul ring to advance.

Lost in thought, Ye Chen arrived at the clearing at the foot of the hill, ready to begin his new day of training.

"Come out, Torchic."

No sooner had he spoken than a muffled thud echoed. A red light was tossed out by Ye Chen, landing on the ground and transforming into the form of Torchic.

Immediately after, a golden light swirled around Torchic, giving it a shimmering, radiant appearance.

"Torchic, Torchic!" Torchic flapped its two short wings, letting out an energetic cry.

"Torchic, from today on, find animals around here to fight. Remember, absolutely do not kill them. Just drive them away. That way, we can keep fighting them, understand?"

Upon hearing the word "fight," Torchic didn't even wait for Ye Chen to finish before sprinting up the hill. It acted as if it had been injected with adrenaline, letting out excited "Torchic, Torchic" cries while darting through the grass to see if it could encounter any animals.

Seeing this, Ye Chen wasn't overly worried; after all, there were no soul beasts near this hill, and even the fiercest wild beasts living here were no match for Torchic.

He just wondered how much combat experience feedback he would get from Torchic by the end of the day.

"Remember, use fewer skills in battle, or my Soul Power will be drained!" With one final instruction, Ye Chen sat cross-legged on the ground and began to cultivate his Soul Power according to the meditation manual Su Yuntao had given him.

Over the next few days, Tang San did not come to request a spar. Although Ye Chen felt a bit regretful, he maintained a rhythm of letting Torchic roam while he meditated to cultivate his Soul Power.

In addition to Soul Power cultivation, he insisted on completing various physical exercises every day.

The physical strength granted by his Body Martial Soul was far superior to that of an average six-year-old, so the exercises he could perform and the training volume he could withstand were naturally much higher.

Things like one hundred push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, one hundred squats, and ten laps around the hill.

There were also exercises like horse stance and dynamic vision training, all of which had to be completed every single day.

By persisting like this for a month, Ye Chen's physical strength, endurance, willpower, resilience, and agility had all improved.

Torchic did not participate in the physical exercises, but it had been constantly fighting wild beasts. While gaining combat experience feedback, its combat techniques had become increasingly refined.

It could be said that in just one month, both Ye Chen and Torchic had seen their abilities further enhanced, and his Soul Power had risen from level 11 to level 12.

With the advantage of being a Pokémon, Torchic had self-learned a skill called "Focus Energy" once its Soul Power level met the requirements.

When this skill was activated, it consumed a portion of Ye Chen's Soul Power to sharpen Torchic's focus, thereby increasing the probability of landing a critical hit.

In plain terms, while in the state of Focus Energy, every move Torchic made was more likely to KO its opponent.

The next morning. As usual, after breakfast, Ye Chen greeted Old Jack's family and took Torchic to run toward the hill behind the village.

Arriving at the foot of the hill, he didn't rush into physical training. Instead, he and Torchic sat cross-legged in the center of the clearing, both closing their eyes and focusing, earnestly sensing each other's aura.

According to the original records, there was a resonance between martial souls.

Driven by this resonance, two or more soul masters could activate a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, thereby gaining a surge in power where one plus one was greater than two.

In derivative works following the original Douluo Dalu, the concept of a "Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill" had been mentioned.

As the name implied, a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill was when a soul master's own two martial souls completed a fusion, without the need for another soul master's martial soul to participate.

From the original descriptions, it was known that when two martial souls originated from the same source, one could rely on one's own power to activate a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Coincidentally, the Torchic martial soul had separated from his own body, and his Body Martial Soul was his own physical form; the two were of the same origin and possessed the conditions for self-fusion.

Therefore, Ye Chen spent an hour after every meal sensing each other's aura with Torchic, laying the foundation for a future Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill.