After bringing little Wine Fox home, Li Chen had no work for her to do, so he simply kept her beside him and stroked her as though she were a little fox.
Li Chen also discovered that he could inspect Wine Fox's panel and open her inventory without using his second Soul Skill.
[Name]: Wine Fox [Level]: 10 (innate soul power: level 10) [Martial Souls]: None (can be granted), none (can be granted) [Health]: 100% (healthy) [Satiety]: 68% (↓) [Fatigue]: 5% (--) [Affection]: 70 (↑↑↑) [Innate Skills]: Learning ability of unknown rank, master-rank combat awareness, master-rank hunting, expert-rank logging, expert-rank housekeeping, proficient-rank cooking, proficient-rank farming, proficient-rank animal husbandry, proficient-rank fishing, proficient-rank potion brewing
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What kind of genius maid and her useless master setup is this? Li Chen silently grumbled as he looked at Wine Fox. She had innate full soul power before she even had a Martial Soul, two Martial Soul slots for twin martial souls, and a whole pile of innate skills that were at least proficient rank.
She even has two Martial Souls. I'll have to think carefully about what to give her for them. Forget it, I'll just open creative mode and have a look.
He opened the inventory and checked the equipment interface first. Since she was stronger in combat, naturally, his priority was to equip her with a full set of netherite gear, along with the Elytra, Firework Rockets, Totems of Undying, and all sorts of potions.
But after thinking it over, he realized that these things could be taken out and used directly. Using up her Martial Soul slots on them would be putting the cart before the horse.
He browsed through the building blocks and items again but found nothing suitable. All of them could be taken out and used, so wasting Martial Soul slots on them made no sense.
Finally, he thought of Spawn Eggs. If one became a Martial Soul, it would no longer be an egg, but would instead become the corresponding Martial Soul.
After looking through the creatures, Li Chen settled on the Shulker and the Breeze.
First, the Shulker had an impressive 80% damage reduction while closed. It could also teleport within eight meters and had super armor that prevented it from being knocked back, launched into the air, and so on.
The Breeze, meanwhile, was immune to projectile attacks, forcing opponents to fight her in close combat.
As for why he had not chosen the Enderman, it also had teleportation and projectile immunity, with an even greater teleportation range of thirty-two meters.
But the Enderman had a glaring weakness: water. Wouldn't it become completely useless whenever it rained?
Before granting the Martial Souls, however, he took out a stack of Villager Spawn Eggs and Breeze Spawn Eggs. Previously, he had directly granted Villager Spawn Eggs as Martial Souls, turning them into body martial souls.
The ones he intended to grant now were all hostile creatures. To prevent any accidents, he decided to test them on a Villager first.
He also discovered that creative mode had not yet been forcibly ended, so he took out Shulker Spawn Eggs as well.
He could now take out items three times per creative-mode session. The number of times he could do so might be related to his cultivation realm-or, more simply, the number of Soul Rings on his Command Block Martial Soul.
After spawning one Villager, he took out a Breeze Spawn Egg and selected grant, then began observing the Villager's transformation.
There was actually little change. The Breeze became the Villager's Martial Soul, and after Martial Soul Possession, the Villager's appearance remained unchanged apart from a faintly visible field of wind around him.
"Use Martial Soul Possession and stand still."
After saying that, Li Chen took out a wooden sword and hurled it at the Villager. The sword was deflected when it came within half a meter of him.
"Not bad. Next, let's test your other abilities."
Even a hostile creature posed no problems at all as a Martial Soul, and immunity to ranged attacks even seemed to be a passive Martial Soul talent.
With that, he took Wine Fox and the Villager outside. This was not something he could test in his house.
First came testing whether he could avoid fall damage. With the Crafting Table available to craft blocks, the group of Villagers soon produced ten blocks and handed them to the still-unnamed Villager.
After building a ten-meter-high pillar, the Villager jumped down. Just before he landed, a field of wind appeared beneath his feet and cushioned him.
Next came testing his wind charges. After Martial Soul Possession, this also seemed to be instinctive: he casually condensed a wind charge and fired it.
Li Chen was especially pleased with this result. He had thought some abilities might need Soul Rings to unlock, but they turned out to be Martial Soul talents available right away.
Apart from lacking an innate domain, this was practically on par with a supreme Martial Soul.
"Well done. From now on, your name is Feng Yi. All future Villagers with Breeze Martial Souls will be under your command."
With that, he spawned another Villager and gave him a Shulker Spawn Egg as his Martial Soul. Similarly, after Martial Soul Possession, there was no change apart from a pale purple barrier appearing around him.
"First, try your closed state."
"Creator God, this servant is already in a defensive state."
Li Chen nodded and turned to Feng Yi beside him. "Feng Yi, hit him with a wind charge."
Feng Yi raised his hand and fired a wind charge, showing no mercy just because his opponent was also a Villager. But when the wind charge struck the purple barrier, it inflicted negligible damage and failed to move him even half a step.
Both the damage reduction and super armor appeared to have been retained. "Now try your Tracking Bullet. Target Feng Yi."
This was essentially the Shulker's basic attack. Since Feng Yi could use wind charges, this Villager should likewise be able to use homing bullets.
The Tracking Bullet was much slower than a wind charge. After it struck Feng Yi, he felt his body grow light, then gradually began floating upward.
With nothing to push off against in midair, Feng Yi found moving around considerably more difficult.
Since the fall would not kill him anyway, Li Chen did not watch what happened next. Instead, he had the Shulker Villager test teleportation.
In Minecraft, a Shulker's teleportation was generally triggered passively, but continuously destroying the blocks it clung to would let it teleport indefinitely.
Now that it existed as a Martial Soul, not only had teleportation been retained, it could also be activated at will. The only issue was that the Villager had enough soul power to teleport just once.
"From now on, your name is Bei Yi. You'll be responsible for managing all Villagers with Shulker Martial Souls."
After that, he used up all the Villager Spawn Eggs, giving half of them Breeze Martial Souls and the other half Shulker Martial Souls. As for managing them, he left everything to Brown Robe, the village chief.
"Wow, Master, are these two going to be my Martial Souls?"
Li Chen ruffled her hair. "Of course. Have you decided which one you want to cultivate first?"
"Master, can't I cultivate both at once?" Wine Fox asked, puzzled.
"With twin martial souls, you first cultivate one until you become a Titled Douluo. Then the other Martial Soul can have nothing but Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and your level can quickly rise past ninety-five," Li Chen explained briefly.
Wine Fox had possessed the most basic knowledge of Douluo when she was summoned, so he did not need to explain Soul Rings and such to her.
"Then, Master, I'll cultivate the Breeze Martial Soul first," little Wine Fox replied after thinking for a moment.
The Shulker's innate abilities were clearly stronger than the Breeze's, and its potential would be greater as well.
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