Although the fusion skill between a Martial Soul and a Soul Spirit required a compatibility of one hundred percent,
that was the limit of Martial Soul Fusion Skills, something most of them couldn't match.
But this kind of fusion skill was ultimately performed by one person. Its power was immense, but so was the energy it consumed.
Only a Martial Soul Fusion Skill could truly achieve the effect of one plus one being greater than two.
So had he found a partner for his own Martial Soul Fusion Skill?
At the thought, Mu Han looked into the distance.
There stood a blue-haired young man, but he clearly wasn't what had caught Mu Han's attention. It was the little girl behind him.
At that moment, a head peeked out from behind the young man.
She was a blue-haired girl who looked about the same age as Mu Han.
Her hair was tied into two little braids, and she looked as delicate as a porcelain doll, even prettier than Gu Yue.
"Xu Xiaoyan." Mu Han quickly figured out who she was.
She was one of the original protagonists' companions. Her Martial Soul was the Star Staff, and she was renowned as "the strongest control-type Soul Master beneath the stars."
But at this point in time, Xu Xiaoyan should still have the Star Wheel Ice Staff Martial Soul, right?
And according to the original story, the Xu Family still shouldn't know that her Martial Soul had mutated.
They only discovered it shortly before the final exams.
That was why she met the protagonist's group in the rampaging Spirit Ascension Platform.
With that thought, Mu Han walked over of his own accord.
Standing before Xu Xiaoyan's older brother, Xu Xiaoyu, he asked with easy confidence, "Little girl, don't you feel anything for me?"
He was referring to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
But Xu Xiaoyu clearly misunderstood him. "Hey! My sister would never like you!"
Although Xu Xiaoyu was the only boy in the family,
he was stubborn and arrogant by nature, and the family elders didn't particularly like him.
Xu Xiaoyan, on the other hand, was gentle and timid, the apple of every elder's eye.
That included Xu Xiaoyu.
Mu Han's smile stiffened. When had he ever suffered such indignity?
Before Mu Han could say anything, though, Mu Chen called him away.
But the other Xu Family elders had witnessed the scene.
They didn't think Mu Han had acted without reason, so they examined Xu Xiaoyan.
The result was indeed unexpected: Xu Xiaoyan had developed the Star Wheel phenomenon, something extremely rare in the family's history!
Xu Xiaoyan was exceptionally gifted, born with full Soul Power.
But she didn't particularly enjoy cultivation, and since the family had a talent like Xu Xiaoyu, no one had pressured her.
Only now did they truly understand that this girl was an even greater genius than Xu Xiaoyu.
That was when the family began to take her seriously.
Mu Han was also given their attention for recognizing Xu Xiaoyan's talent at a glance.
As Mu Chen's adopted son, Mu Han had already been worth the Xu Family's attention.
Who would've thought he had such a discerning eye, too?
The head of finances for Eastsea City, who was also Xu Xiaoyan's father, used his authority to arrange for her to attend Eastsea Academy.
With Xu Xiaoyan's talent, she naturally belonged in Grade 1 Class 1.
However, the current Grade 1 Class 1 was actually the former Grade 1 Class 5.
It had only become Class 1 because it had swept through the Class Promotion Tournament.
But the Xu Family didn't care about that.
They didn't care what class she was in. They only cared which class Mu Han was in.
Watching Mu Han walk straight toward Xu Xiaoyan, Tang Wulin glanced at Gu Yue's slightly furrowed brows, then instinctively stepped aside.
Xu Xiaoyan kept her head lowered, her little face nearly buried against her chest.
She had attended an ordinary school before, and the elders in her family had never wanted her to suffer even the slightest grievance.
Then Mu Han discovered her Martial Soul's mutation, forcing her to take this path.
At first, Xu Xiaoyan had been quite resistant to it.
But when Mu Han took her little hand, that resistance began to fade quickly.
She only felt her heart pounding wildly.
A brilliant golden light shone from within her, taking the form of a golden mist.
The golden mist rose, even making it impossible for the people around her to see her face.
"This feeling is so amazing!" Xu Xiaoyan's voice trembled, but it was a tremble filled with excitement.
Only then did Mu Han realize that he hadn't formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Xu Xiaoyan.
Rather, Xu Xiaoyan's Martial Soul Second Awakening had been incomplete.
In fact, the Xu Family did have a way to deal with this kind of half-finished Second Awakening.
There was a drug that could forcibly trigger the process and mutate Xu Xiaoyan's Star Wheel Ice Staff Martial Soul into the Star Staff.
But this kind of Second Awakening came at the cost of her potential.
If Xu Xiaoyan used the drug to undergo her Second Awakening, her potential would be ruined.
It was just like Yu Xiaogang two thousand years ago. He had the bloodline of the Bright Sacred Dragon, yet could only awaken a "Piglet."
The Bright Sacred Dragon Martial Soul wouldn't appear until Yu Xiaogang's descendants.
And if Xu Xiaoyan forcibly awakened her Martial Soul with that drug, she could only serve as a tool for bearing children.
The Xu Family elders doted on her so much that they had no choice but to reluctantly let Xu Xiaoyan attend a Soul Master Academy.
In the original story, Xu Xiaoyan's Martial Soul mutated into the Star Staff at the Star Gazing Platform of the Starry Sky Soul Master Academy.
But now, with the help of Mu Han's Gold-Water Mutual Containment Martial Soul, she had completed her Second Awakening ahead of time.
Her potential hadn't been drained.
The best proof was that Xu Xiaoyan had already reached level twenty!
She had originally been given a hundred-year Soul Spirit, and now it directly provided her with a Second Soul Ring, making her a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster.
At the same time, Mu Han had also gained quite a bit.
As the Star Wheel Ice Staff evolved into the Star Staff, its ice attribute was refined out.
Mu Han absorbed it all.
His cultivation hadn't changed, but a scorching aura had appeared in his Sea of Consciousness!
It was the power of fire, so scorching and powerful that it could burn away spiritual power below the Spirit Sea Realm.
Mu Han found that his spiritual power had changed, becoming as hot as fire.
It was somewhat similar to Mu Chen's Soul Power.
And now, his entire Sea of Consciousness had changed as well.
The waters flowing through it looked somewhat like burning flames.
Originally, even after using the "seed" Mu Chen had given him to forge a hammer,
only one hammer made of spiritual power had been like a flame.
Now, his entire Sea of Consciousness had become fire-attribute, and his spiritual power had mutated into a fire attribute.
In the Soul Master World, Mental Attribute and Strength Attribute were independent attribute systems.
But now, Mu Han's spiritual power had become fire-attribute?
This wasn't the same as possessing both the fire attribute and the Mental Attribute.
Ten thousand years ago, Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao had slain a Fire Evil Tyrant that possessed both the fire attribute and the Mental Attribute.
But that Fire Evil Tyrant's spiritual power was still chaotic, attribute-less spiritual power.
Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao had possessed Twin Martial Souls, but his spiritual power had nothing to do with the Ultimate Ice of his Second Martial Soul, either.
However, certain people could undergo a mutation in their spiritual power through all kinds of chance encounters and fortuitous circumstances.
Just like Mu Han's spiritual power.
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