"Lu Ran, how exactly did you meet your little sister?"
Ma Xiaotao asked curiously. Even though Lu Ran had explained it to her before, there were still many things she couldn't understand.
There were so many things about Lu Ran she couldn't understand.
For example, his Martial Soul.
Things were different now from ten thousand years ago. Research into Martial Souls was advancing, and many of their secrets had been uncovered.
Such as why Martial Souls mutated.
A Soul Master could absorb at most nine Soul Rings, and their attributes varied widely. They could have attributes like strength or speed, or elemental attributes like water or ice.
Take the well-known Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, for example.
You could choose Ghost Vine to absorb life force, Diamond Tree to strengthen its toughness, Pull Vine to make it grow and spread quickly, or Mandala Snake to gain poison attributes...
It was the same when absorbing Soul Bones. To make its leaves tougher and sharper, you could choose a Soul Bone from Sword Bamboo; to improve its recovery, you could choose one from Azure Vine...
As Soul Masters absorbed Soul Rings or Soul Bones, their Martial Souls also acquired the corresponding attributes. A pure Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul would gain metal attributes by choosing Diamond Tree, poison attributes by choosing Mandala Snake, or attack attributes by choosing Sword Bamboo...
After absorbing them again and again, generation after generation, Blue Silver Grass might still look like Blue Silver Grass, but it had long since lost its purity. Its Martial Soul had become mixed with too many impurities.
That was also why Martial Souls mutated.
For example, if the parents' Martial Souls were Blue Silver Grass and bamboo, their Martial Souls might contain many impurities. Some of those attributes could complement each other—for