Chapter 18: Trash Martial Soul Experiment

Jerry felt he had discovered a new century for plant-type martial soul cultivation and couldn't wait to experiment. The first choice for an experimental subject was, of course, his Grandpa Jack.

He called his grandfather over and told him not to disconnect from his martial soul, and to plant his carrot martial soul in the soil! Grandpa Jack originally felt that his grandson doing this was a bit of a delay to his farming, but seeing his grandson's excited look, he cooperated!

Grandpa's martial soul had no spirit power. At first, it could only rely on the plant-type martial soul's own characteristics to slowly absorb nutrients from the soil. Under the observation of Jerry's mental power, it absorbed very slowly at first, then faster and faster. On the fifteenth day, it finally absorbed a trace of spirit power that even Old Jack could feel!

"Grandpa, you have spirit power! You are no longer a trash martial soul; you can practice!"

Grandpa Jack was stunned. A trash martial soul could practice? In his eyes, this was something only a god could do, yet his grandson had actually done it!

Jerry taught Grandpa Jack the meditation method and told him to practice quietly and not spread it. This world was very dark. If the empires, sects, or the Spirit Hall knew that Jerry could make plant-type trash martial souls practice and increase cultivation speed, it would bring huge changes to the status of plant-type Spirit Masters. Therefore, such secrets had to be kept in his own hands. Jerry didn't have strong strength, so Jerry estimated that he would be locked up for the rest of his life to be studied as a martial soul!

Having no strength but holding a secret was still very dangerous on the Douluo Continent! Jerry knew that to forge iron, one must be strong oneself. He had thought about increasing his strength, but currently, it seemed he could only increase spirit power. Although increasing spirit power would bring an increase in strength, strength wasn't just spirit power; it also included spirit skills, combat techniques, and battle experience! These couldn't be improved in the village!

It seemed his idea of hiding in the village to improve his strength had big problems. Since he couldn't change it now, he should improve his spirit power as quickly as possible!

Time flew like water, and in the blink of an eye, three and a half years passed. Jerry and Xiao Wu were both twelve. Xiao Wu was now a level 34 Spirit Elder. In the original work, Xiao Wu was only level 29 at this time; with the help of Jerry's carrots, she was 5 levels higher than before.

Jerry, on the other hand, was only level 32, successfully overtaken by Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu was very smug about this! Seeing Jerry's teeth itch, he almost decided not to give Xiao Wu carrots to eat in the future!

Jerry's second spirit skill absorbed a 999-year Blue Silver Grass! The spirit skill provided to Jerry was Restore Life! Sure enough, Blue Silver Grass had strong vitality, and the spirit power it provided was also of a healing type!

When the wild chrysanthemum was cultivated to three hundred years, he gave it to Grandpa Jack to absorb. It was a detoxification spirit power, not very strong, but enough to use. Usually, when villagers were bitten by poisonous insects, they would eat Old Jack's carrot and be fine immediately! Old Jack was also very satisfied with his spirit skill because he was old and his martial soul's vitality had decreased. So, after practicing for a few years, even with Jerry providing sufficient fertilizer, Old Jack practiced very, very slowly after rising to level 14!

Jerry's third spirit ring absorbed a 999-year ginseng. Breaking through from a century-old spirit beast to a thousand-year one still depended on the plant's own potential. Jerry provided a lot of fertilizer, but it didn't let the ginseng break through a thousand years, and Xiao Wu didn't know why either! So he could only absorb a 999-year spirit ring!

Absorbing the ginseng spirit ring made Jerry's carrot evolve once. It looked a bit like a ginseng; the carrot branched out, and the branched parts looked like two small hands and two small feet! If the color hadn't remained the same, it would look just like a ginseng!

After the martial soul evolved, Jerry felt his innate spirit power had improved. His innate spirit power had roughly improved to level three, and his spirit power cultivation speed had received a huge boost. Now, his speed of absorbing spirit power directly from the air was 4.68 (30% boost from the first spirit ring, 20% boost from the meditation method, 3 x 130% x 120%, so it was 4.68). His speed of absorbing spirit power underground was also 9.36. Absorbing spirit power at the same time, Jerry was now faster than someone with innate full spirit power!

After the martial soul evolved, it provided a skill to instantly restore spirit power, vitality, and physical strength, but it could only restore Spirit Masters of the same level. He had experimented on Xiao Wu, instantly restoring her to full state! He had no way to experiment on higher levels.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 19 =====