The Plan to Split His Martial Soul

Xu Yuan had not forgotten his own path.

The ultimate Weapon Soul.

But as he cultivated, he had also realized that he had strayed somewhat from it.

Fortunately, it could still be remedied.

Xu Yuan was very broad-minded. Ahem, very learned. Thanks to the characteristics of his Brain Martial Soul, his talent for learning was extraordinary. He could study many branches at once, and even the development of both forms of his Martial Soul had not fallen behind in the slightest.

The Martial Soul's two innate forms were an advantage, a unique trait of his Martial Soul, yet for Xu Yuan's path, they were also a stumbling block.

Xu Yuan could learn the fighting styles of both forms, but when it came to the development of his own Martial Soul, he had to make a choice and choose one.

Since he was pursuing the path of the ultimate Weapon Soul, Xu Yuan naturally hoped to develop his Heaven Origin Spear into a divine artifact, a Super Divine Artifact, or even something beyond the scope of a Super Divine Artifact.

But if he allowed himself to be distracted during its development...

The two forms were ultimately just one Martial Soul. If he tried to account for both forms when adding Soul Spirits and Soul Rings, the Heaven Origin Spear would be unable to receive the utmost enhancement.

At the very least, it would not receive the greatest possible enhancement from this Soul Ring slot.

But with a Martial Soul like this, whose two forms each had their own strengths, could Xu Yuan truly bear to abandon one of them?

"I can't." Xu Yuan gave himself the answer.

It was clear from his ambitious plan to cultivate all Four Great Auxiliary Occupations that he was no child. He wanted everything. He wanted the Heaven Origin Brush's ability to control Heaven and Earth Origin Qi and walk the path of elemental control, yet he was unwilling to give up the Heaven Origin Spear's formidable offensive power.

"The First Soul Spirit and First Soul Ring haven't affected the two forms of the Martial Soul yet. They're both an excellent fit. But when I obtain my second Soul Ring, it will inevitably favor the Heaven Origin Spear."

That way, the Heaven Origin Brush would gain very little improvement.

Yet the existence of the Heaven Origin Brush form would inevitably also affect the Five Elements Spear Spirit's addition of the second Soul Ring to the Heaven Origin Spear. Perhaps only insignificantly, but the effect would certainly exist.

"Split the Martial Soul!"

"Separate the two forms of the Martial Soul!"

Xu Yuan had an idea, and at the same time, an inexplicable sense of urgency arose within him.

"I need to complete the split before Level 20."

But how was he supposed to split it?

Xu Yuan thought of his father, of his father's approach of using a Companion Soul Spirit in place of a Martial Soul for cultivation.

"Father's path isn't thorough enough. A Companion Soul Spirit can do more than make up for a Martial Soul's shortcomings and allow a Soul Master to cultivate Soul Power. It can completely replace the Martial Soul's role."

In this regard, Ji Juechen had indeed gone all the way.

Through Shrek Academy's internal network, Xu Yuan looked up Ji Juechen's records and learned more details about his cultivation journey.

Ji Juechen possessed Third Grade Innate Soul Power and an Iron Sword Martial Soul, an utterly ordinary iron sword with no special abilities whatsoever. The reason he had grown powerful was that he had poured his soul into his sword, perfectly merging his Martial Soul into Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron and gradually tempering that meteorite iron into his own sword.

In other words, he had completely transformed the Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron into his sword, his Martial Soul.

Xu Yuan could follow his model and merge his Heaven Origin Spear into the Five Elements Spear Spirit, completely turning it into another existence similar to a Martial Soul.

However, the Five Elements Spear Spirit was the Soul Spirit of the Heaven Origin Brush Martial Soul and had already provided the Heaven Origin Brush with a Soul Ring. If it were completely stripped away, how could the Heaven Origin Brush's First Soul Skill be ensured?

Xu Yuan knew that even if the Soul Spirit was removed, the Soul Skill it had already granted would remain. However, the power of that Soul Skill would be greatly reduced.

It seemed acceptable, but in reality, Xu Yuan could not bear it. Even if development could increase the power of Five Elements Control, a weak foundation would ultimately limit its upper bound.

Moreover, whether that Soul Ring could continue to evolve afterward was another question.

"I should first find a way to study Ji Juechen's exact method." Xu Yuan rubbed his brow. For now, he could only make a tentative plan.

Shrek and the Tang Sect were so close. They should have records of Ji Juechen's cultivation, right?

When he went to the Archive Room tomorrow, he had to investigate it thoroughly.

"And the Contract Array for Soul Spirits. I need to make up for my lack of knowledge in that area too and see whether I can minimize the loss to the Heaven Origin Brush form caused by splitting the Martial Soul."

The next day.

Xu Yuan went to the various associations and accepted one task from each of them.

Unlike the assessment tasks, the associations' tasks were far more complicated. Completing one took several hours, and a task involved not just one or two components, but perhaps an entire set.

Even Xu Yuan could only complete one task from one association per day.

That day, Xu Yuan completed a task from the Mecha Design Association. The reward was only one hundred Contribution Points.

After completing the association task, Xu Yuan headed to the Archive Room.

Just as he had hoped, the academy's Archive Room did indeed contain records of Ji Juechen's cultivation path, and they were relatively comprehensive.

That made sense. As a sacred ground for Soul Master cultivation, setting aside Shrek Academy's systems, its collection of cultivation theories would certainly not be lacking. Even though Ji Juechen was not from Shrek, he was from the Tang Sect. The price Shrek paid the Tang Sect to obtain such a unique cultivation experience could not have been high, and over ten thousand years, there would surely have been an opportunity to include it in the Archive Room.

"A vessel?" The key term Xu Yuan extracted from between the lines gave him a headache.

This was the crucial thing he lacked.

Although the Five Elements Spear Spirit had been created using Rare Metal as its basis, the essence of a Soul Spirit was still a spirit akin to a soul, without a physical body.

Only after it was born and separated from that piece of Rare Metal did it truly become a Soul Spirit.

Without a physical body, he could not merge the Martial Soul into it?

Because a Martial Soul itself was intangible, it required the restraint of a tangible existence like Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron to allow the Martial Soul to merge into it.

Reading Ji Juechen's reflections on his own cultivation path, Xu Yuan fell into deep thought.

"My Five Elements Spear Spirit has no physical body."

"If I had Huo Yuhao's feelings and experience from obtaining his Second Martial Soul, especially his third Martial Soul, I should be able to split my Martial Soul without relying on Ji Juechen's method."

But Huo Yuhao had not left behind any cultivation insights or experiences.

If Xu Yuan wanted to continue with his plan, splitting his Martial Soul while retaining its traits and allowing it to continue gaining Soul Rings to improve, he could only follow Ji Juechen's path.

So was the plan doomed to fail before it had even begun?

Should he rein in his ambition a little and honestly cultivate the Martial Soul with its two forms?

Xu Yuan sat behind a desk in the Archive Room, reclining in his chair as he stared at the ceiling, his thoughts wandering.

He appeared to be spacing out, but his brain was still working, still thinking, still trying to find a solution.

He knew that what he needed now was not rationality, but imagination—imagination that could support him in completing this plan and provide him with a direction.

His wandering thoughts did not stop.

"Forge a real spear, merge the Five Elements Spear Spirit into it, then merge in the origin of the Heaven Origin Spear form from my Martial Soul?"

That could serve as a backup option.

"Besides forging a spear in reality to contain the Soul Spirit and the origin of the Heaven Origin Spear form, what else could carry all of this?"