Chapter 13: Ten-Year Soul Skill

Wang Che indeed had quite a few ways to make money.

But he needed to awaken his Martial Soul and cultivate his Soul Power first before he could proceed with them.

Besides that, Wang Che could also modify the Beast Origin Art, researching and developing a Soul Guiding Art, then apply for a patent—that would be even more profitable.

However, Soul Guiding Arts were secret techniques for Soul Pets’ cultivation.

They were mostly very valuable; even an ordinary Soul Pet’s Soul Guiding Art could easily start at tens of thousands of yuan.

Such highly valuable things would naturally attract others’ greed.

Wang Che believed that with his current low strength, if he really modified the Beast Origin Art or some other techniques, creating Soul Guiding Arts suitable for Soul Beasts, and directly put them up for sale,

then it would definitely invite disaster.

Although the current era was a peaceful one,

beneath the peace, there were surely undercurrents that ordinary people couldn’t easily access.

If Wang Che’s memories hadn’t awakened and he were just an ordinary high school student, he might not have considered this.

‘Only after awakening the Martial Soul and gaining some strength can I consider these matters.’

‘For now, during this half semester, I’ll find a part-time job and slowly nurture the Green Caterpillar.’

Wang Che thought to himself.

So, he agreed to Yuan Xiaole’s invitation.

Anyway, when the time came, he wouldn’t need to be a training partner; he just needed to go to the club owned by Yuan Xiaole’s family.

It was like being a celebrity endorser.

Of course, Yuan Xiaole was a sincere kid.

After Wang Che said this, Yuan Xiaole patted his chest earnestly and indeed added quite a bit more money.

Seven thousand yuan per month.

“Then it’s settled!”

Yuan Xiaole felt he had struck a good deal and was in a wonderful mood.

After school started, the club would surely become much more popular.

Wang Che nodded slightly.

“See you when school starts!” Yuan Xiaole waved at Wang Che.

“Kuka~!” The Kuka Beast on Yuan Xiaole’s shoulder also waved at Wang Che quite politely.

At that moment, the Green Caterpillar on Wang Che’s chest suddenly lifted its somewhat tired head.

When it saw the Kuka Beast, its eyes suddenly lit up.

“Si wu!!!”

The Green Caterpillar stared intently at the Kuka Beast, as if there was killing intent in its eyes.

It couldn’t forget how it had been beaten badly by a Kuka Beast in the room earlier.

Especially since it couldn’t fight back, it was holding a grudge inside.

“Ku… Ka…?!”

The Kuka Beast on Yuan Xiaole’s shoulder shuddered, instinctively wrapping its arms around Yuan Xiaole’s head, not daring to look at the Green Caterpillar.

Even after Wang Che patted the Green Caterpillar’s head and turned to leave,

the Kuka Beast was still too frightened to let go.

“?” Yuan Xiaole looked at his Soul Pet, confused. “What’s wrong with you?”

“Ku!!”

“You’re saying that Green Caterpillar is scary? Wow, Kuka Beast, you’re such a disgrace! You got scared by a Green Caterpillar? Are you kidding me?”

“Kuka! Kuka!”

“Huh? You don’t know either? But you just found its gaze terrifying… That doesn’t make sense; you’re a regular-type Kuka Beast, and the Green Caterpillar is just an insect type. It shouldn’t affect you at all… With its small size, you could knock it out with one punch…”

“Ku… Ka~”

“…”

——

After Wang Che returned home, he first fed it a few milk fir leaves. Only after the little guy ate its fill did it slowly fall asleep.

Over the next few days, besides his normal cultivation, Wang Che also started training the Green Caterpillar’s Soul Skill.

That tail swing move was really powerful.

After checking a lot of information, Wang Che found that this Soul Skill was somewhat similar to ‘Rattler Tail Strike’.

Rattler Tail Strike was a Soul Skill that many tailed Soul Beasts could comprehend.

It involved gathering Soul Power in the tail to strike the enemy.

It belonged to the ‘Ten-Year Soul Skill’ category.

Soul Skills were classified by power level.

Generally, they were divided into: Ten-Year Soul Skill, Hundred-Year Soul Skill, Thousand-Year Soul Skill, Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Skill, and Million-Year Soul Skill.

Their power naturally increased gradually.

This was just used to differentiate the power level of Soul Skills.

The actual power in battle still depended on the Soul Pet’s mastery of the Soul Skill and its use of Soul Power, among other factors.

In most cases, Soul Pets would only comprehend Soul Skills of certain power levels within fixed age ranges.

After all, the more powerful the Soul Skill, the greater the consumption of Soul Power.

Of course, in practice, the power of a Soul Skill was always tied to the Soul Pet’s Soul Power Cultivation.

Even a Ten-Year Soul Skill, when used by a Million-Year Soul Pet, would be far stronger than when used by a Hundred-Year Soul Pet.

“It’s pretty good to comprehend a Ten-Year Soul Skill at ten years of cultivation.”

Wang Che smiled.

Rattler Tail Strike wasn’t outstanding among the countless Ten-Year Soul Skills.

But for a Green Caterpillar to comprehend it and use it as an attack was quite good.

Moreover, even for the same Ten-Year Soul Skill, the effects could vary when used by different types of Soul Pets.

In the first few days after returning, Wang Che had the little guy practice this move every day.

It wasn’t until four more days passed, when its Soul Power Cultivation reached about twenty-five years, that it fully mastered it.

It could freely use the skill.

The power also increased quite a bit along with its Soul Power Cultivation.

However, it could only use it a few times.

Fortunately, with the continuous training from the Beast Origin Art, this kid had become much stronger than during the previous test.

“Basically, as long as we maintain this momentum every day, with the help of the Beast Origin Art, the Soul Power Cultivation can increase by more than three years per day. Without enough milk fir leaves, it can only increase by about two years.”

“There’s one last week before school starts. By then, it should reach about fifty years.”

If this number were known, it would probably surprise many people.

Reaching fifty years in two weeks was something most newborn Rare Soul Pets could not achieve.

“In the next week, besides steadily improving Soul Power Cultivation, I also need to master Rattler Tail Strike and another Soul Skill.”

“Silk Spitting.”

Silk Spitting was the only Ten-Year Soul Skill that Green Caterpillar could learn.

Moreover, basically once it reached ten years, it could use this move.

This little one knew how to spit silk right after it was born.

But that was not a Soul Skill back then.

The silk it spat was sticky like water.

It was called silk, but it was more like a sticky water thread.

When Silk Spitting was performed using Soul Power, the silk threads were normally dense like hair and had some toughness.

They were soft and smooth, very suitable as raw material for… clothing production.

It was important to know that Soul Pets were very powerful.

For example, just about any Soul Pet with over ten years of Soul Power Cultivation could easily beat up an ordinary human.

Take this little one, for instance. With ten years of cultivation, during the previous test, using a Soul Skill could directly strike with over three hundred kilograms of force.

If that hit a normal person, they would already be dead.

But if it hit a Soul Beast, it might not cause fatal damage.

The silk threads spat by Green Caterpillar could only be used as raw material for clothing production.

One could imagine how weak its power was for a Soul Pet.

However, for Wang Che, it might not be impossible to improve.

“Silk Spitting is different from Rattler Tail Strike. Rattler Tail Strike is a conventional Ten-Year Soul Skill. But Silk Spitting is an attribute-based Soul Skill formed from the Soul Pet’s Soul Power and body structure; it belongs to the exclusive Soul Skill of the Insect Type.”

Wang Che pondered.

This kind of Soul Skill, depending on the Soul Pet’s attribute type, would have special effects attached.

“Green Caterpillar, use your Soul Power to form silk and spit it towards my palm.”

Wang Che said.

Green Caterpillar immediately nodded and spat continuous bundles of silk threads towards Wang Che’s palm.

‘Sss…’

The white silk threads gathered into clumps, forming strands like cotton threads.

After spitting for a long time, it finally wrapped Wang Che’s palm completely.

From a distance, it looked like it was wrapped in bandages.

Wang Che picked up the scissors nearby, gave a light cut, and easily cut through them.

“Not good enough. The toughness is too poor, and the density is too low. This kind of Soul Skill can hardly have an effect on Soul Pets… Even for basic binding, a Soul Pet with slightly more strength could break free directly.”

Wang Che shook his head.

Additionally, there was simple mucus attached to the spat silk threads.

But this mucus wasn’t even as good as 520 glue; at best, it had the stickiness of rice…

It could only be somewhat disgusting at most.

It had no practical use.

“Unless this little one has a few thousand years of Soul Power Cultivation, otherwise, the silk from Silk Spitting won’t have much killing power even against ordinary people.”

If it were a Green Caterpillar with a few hundred years of Soul Power Cultivation spitting silk, the power should be somewhat considerable.

After all, it was a Soul Beast; no matter how weak, as long as the Soul Power Cultivation increased, it could still have some strength.

But normally, a Soul Beast with a few hundred years of cultivation would naturally fear Green Caterpillar’s Silk Spitting even less…