Chapter 184: Soul Pets’ Combined Soul Skill! Spiritual Pressure Training!

For Soul Pets in their later stages, it might seem like they learn many Soul Skills.

But they mainly used the advanced ones.

Soul Skills beyond Core Soul Skills could all be upgraded.

For example, Blazing Charge. Once upgraded to Explosive Flame Stomp or Flash Flame God Assault,

people rarely used Blazing Charge anymore.

Naturally, stronger Soul Skills get prioritized.

So, even at the Ten-Thousand Year Soul Beast level,

the main focus was training Core Soul Skills to upgrade them to Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skills.

Upgrading to Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skills was tougher than upgrading Hundred-Year or Thousand-Year Soul Skills. It required significant time.

This became one of the Soul Pet’s key training tasks after reaching Ten Millennium Spirit Power Cultivation.

Thus, even in later stages, Soul Pets focused training on just a handful of upgraded Core Soul Skills.

This principle applied similarly to the various Sword Moves in the Divine Sword Thunder Control True Scripture.

The Heavenly Thunder Slash was the basis for the Gale and Thunder Slash.

The first day of training gradually ended.

On the second day, Wang Che planned for Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword to practice a combined Soul Skill.

That way, they could fight together against threats.

And it would deepen their friendship.

Green Caterpillar approved wholeheartedly.

Training a shared Soul Skill with its junior was a great way to bond!

Magnetic Sword felt reluctant, but remembered Green Caterpillar could enter ‘Big Bro Mode’. Maybe it was worth trying.

It badly wanted to experience that ‘Big Bro Mode’ too.

Sadly, it couldn’t activate it.

Wang Che had even tried channeling the dragon shadow into Magnetic Sword, but nothing happened.

He suspected it involved the Soul Rings.

The first layer only fully opened because of Green Caterpillar’s Soul Ring, linking them closely.

“We’ll enter the Soul Illusion Realm trial in a few days. Before that, we have two special training items,”

Wang Che told Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword.

“First, we train a Soul Skill you both can use together.”

“Second, to boost your Spiritual Power and prep for the trial, I’ll subject you to half an hour of Spiritual Pressure daily from now on.”

The Spiritual Pressure naturally emanated from Wang Che’s Divine Sense.

Teaching them Cultivation techniques for Divine Sense proved too difficult for their current power level and Spiritual Intelligence.

If they were Psychic-Type Spirit Pets, Wang Che could have taught them divine sense Cultivation methods.

“First, let’s start training item one.”

Wang Che instructed, “Green Caterpillar, start conjuring the Spiral Flame Sphere, but don’t launch it. Hold it! Magnetic Sword, activate Mechanical Charge, then channel your stored lightning. Try merging it into the fireball.”

Green Caterpillar understood.

Magnetic Sword understood too.

It sounded simple.

Green Caterpillar’s tail glowed as flames gathered into a sphere…

Magnetic Sword flew close, pointing its blade tip at the tail. Its body shimmered, gathering scarlet lightning bolts, attempting to merge them into the fireball.

However…

Kaboom!

The instant the energies touched, they triggered a violent reaction.

A sudden explosion!

Flames and lightning scattered everywhere.

Wang Che, seeing it coming, already drifted back unharmed.

The dust cleared.

Green Caterpillar stood charred black. Magnetic Sword crackled, flames licking its metal frame.

Sizzling, its blade spat out heat waves.

Both glared resentfully but silently at unscathed Wang Che.

It was HIS training idea!

Yet WE suffered!

He didn’t get a scratch!

Green Caterpillar shouted at Wang Che, venting its fury.

“Rwaaah! (-д-)”

“… Bzzzzzt…”

Suffering fire inside its circuits deeply unsettled Magnetic Sword.

Wang Che pondered.

“Again. Follow my lead.”

Green Caterpillar shook its head wildly. No way! No more!

Magnetic Sword wanted to refuse too—this seemed impossible…

Wang Che pulled three spicy flavored leaf snacks from the Little Caterpillar Medal.

“Want in?”

Green Caterpillar froze, then eagerly nodded.

“ヾ(丿’﹃’)丿”

Those snacks tasted divine.

They were rationed to once every few days.

It had eaten one yesterday. Getting one today was worth the pain!

The aroma was irresistible.

As for Magnetic Sword, persuasion was easier.

Being younger than Green Caterpillar, it needed less coaxing.

Re-energized under Wang Che’s encouragement, both readied for another attempt.

This time, Wang Che guided meticulously.

Green Caterpillar’s Rattler Tail Strike glowed once more, flames coalescing at its tail.

Magnetic Sword flew over, lightning gathering at its tip just like before, ready to merge…

At that moment, Wang Che immediately said:

“Magnetic Sword, move! While releasing lightning, quickly spin around the condensed flame sphere, let the lightning blend in from every part!”

Magnetic Sword was stunned for a moment, but quickly understood.

It began to circle around the flame sphere condensed at the tip of Green Caterpillar’s tail, its sword tip continuously releasing strands of lightning, merging into the condensed flame from various angles.

This time, interestingly, there was no explosion.

After the red lightning merged into the flame, the fireball began to undergo drastic changes.

Waves of violent energy constantly brewed within, radiating a strong destructive aura.

Around the blazing fireball, strands of red lightning flickered like flowing light, hauntingly wrapping around it.

Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword were very surprised.

There was no explosion?

But soon, the fireball became unstable, as if slowly losing balance.

The fireball’s light began to flicker, growing increasingly crimson…

As if it could explode at any moment.

“Sii wuu!”

Green Caterpillar let out a loud cry.

It meant it couldn’t hold on anymore!

It was about to explode!

“Magnetic Sword, spin around the fireball faster!”

Wang Che immediately said.

Hearing this, Magnetic Sword gave it all it had, frantically spinning around Green Caterpillar’s tail.

Strands of lightning rapidly merged into it once again…

As if reaching a certain critical point.

Green Caterpillar couldn’t hold on any longer and flicked the fireball shimmering with lightning away with its tail.

The lightning-flickering fireball was thrown into the air and suddenly exploded!

Boom!

A huge cloud bloomed in the sky, countless lightning bolts scattered in the air, the scene was extremely shocking!

If that had landed nearby, Wang Che suspected it could have destroyed the entire private training ground.

Its power was more than a level stronger than the Spiral Flame Sphere!

Wang Che looked to the other side, where Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword were both lying on the ground.

As if they had been completely drained.

That move just now seemed to have consumed a lot of their energy.

In the end, it almost exploded right where they were.

“It barely counts as a success, the power is unexpectedly strong.”

Wang Che thought.

This was a combination of lightning and fire.

Two attributes that were inherently highly destructive and powerful.

Once combined, the energy explosion was simply terrifying!

The reason for Magnetic Sword’s initial failure was actually quite simple.

The Spiral Flame Sphere itself was a stable energy formed by Green Caterpillar’s Fire-Type energy combined with Soul Power and compressed.

Plus, it was a spherical energy.

A single lightning strike entering it would naturally disrupt its balance.

It would explode within a second or two.

Having Magnetic Sword spin around the fireball and merge lightning into it from irregular directions, then compressing it, made the balance less likely to be broken.

The faster it spun, the more balanced the inside became, and the greater the explosion’s power later.

“Does this count as a dual-type Soul Skill?”

Wang Che wondered.

The definition of a dual-type Soul Skill wasn’t just about using two types of Life Energy.

It was about combining two Soul Skills to unleash a more powerful Soul Skill!

But not every Soul Skill could be combined.

“Probably not… Magnetic Sword used Mechanical Charge to unleash stored red lightning, merging it into the Spiral Flame Sphere. It should be considered a combined Soul Skill of the Soul Pets? At this stage, very few Soul Pact Masters have two Soul Beasts… This move can be used as a trump card, the combined Soul Skill of these two little guys.”

Wang Che walked over to Magnetic Sword and Green Caterpillar, his palms glowing faintly green as he restored them.

Soul Skills with great power also consumed a lot and took a long time to cast.

There were quite a few drawbacks.

They could train slowly, and it would also help improve the bond between these two in the future.

Training together would surely speed up their bonding.

“Let’s give it a name.”

Wang Che thought for a moment. This move would likely accompany them for a long time.

In the future, if they wanted to strengthen their bond, they could rely on this move.

Keep it simple.

Super Spiral Thunderflame Sphere.

The combined advanced version of the Spiral Flame Sphere.

Currently, they had just learned it and it wasn’t very stable yet.

After Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword recovered, Wang Che had them try again.

This time, they failed.

Then they failed several times in a row.

They barely succeeded once; this required very high coordination between the two.

Especially Magnetic Sword’s spinning integration of lightning; if it slowed down even a bit, it would disrupt the fireball’s internal balance.

If it were Magnetic Sword releasing the Spiral Thunderstorm Ball and Green Caterpillar adding fire, it would be almost impossible to achieve.

Because Green Caterpillar couldn’t float in the air like Magnetic Sword, maintaining a stable form while releasing red lightning.

“You’ll need to practice this move more in the future. Set aside an hour each day to practice it together.”

Wang Che said, “Hmm, if you ever think of any other combination methods yourselves, you can tell me, but don’t practice randomly. This isn’t the Dream Space; combining things carelessly in reality can cause serious injuries.”

In the Dream Space, this wasn’t a problem.

Green Caterpillar could experiment freely.

But Magnetic Sword couldn’t enter Green Caterpillar’s Dream Space.

They needed to train together in reality.

“Next is the second training project: improving your Spiritual Power.”

Over the past two days, while Wang Che was busy buying various raw materials to prepare food,

he also thought about how to boost these two’s Spiritual Power.

Taking nutritional supplements not only had mediocre effects but was also too expensive.

Raw materials related to Spiritual Power were especially scarce.

Wang Che hadn’t seen many types; wanting to buy them for preparation was not feasible due to lack of conditions.

So, the only option was the hard way.

Having Magnetic Sword and Green Caterpillar endure a certain level of Spiritual Pressure every day.

This way, they could also improve their Spiritual Power growth.

It would also help them prepare in advance for the Soul Illusion Realm trial in a few days.

The Soul Illusion Realm trial, if not entirely, would mostly be related to Spiritual Power.

“My requirement isn’t high; you just need to withstand my Spiritual Pressure for half an hour each day.”

Wang Che said.

Half an hour was enough; any longer could easily cause mental confusion.

It could even backfire.

For Soul Pact Masters to improve their Spiritual Power, besides cultivating the Soul Guiding Art through their Martial Soul, subjecting themselves to various levels of Spiritual Pressure to temper and stimulate themselves could also enhance Spiritual Power.

There were many ways to improve Spiritual Power.

This was one of the most universally applicable methods for Soul Pact Masters and Soul Pets.

The initial effects might not be obvious, but over time, the results would show.

Back before Martial Soul awakening, Teacher Zheng had also used this method to help the students in the class improve their Spiritual Power.

However, this training method required strong control over Spiritual Pressure; otherwise, problems could easily arise.

Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword hadn’t experienced much of this kind of Spiritual Pressure before.

There were very few Psychic-Type Soul Pets encountered in the Qihang Cup; even Green Caterpillar didn’t face many.

And most of their cultivation levels were relatively low; they were defeated with one move in the second round.

When they entered Empty God Dragon’s Domain Space, Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword didn’t come out.

Only after Empty God Dragon recovered did Green Caterpillar emerge, so it didn’t experience true Spiritual Pressure.

So…

“Sii wuu?”

Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword looked at Wang Che.

Their expressions were full of doubt:

“(￢＿￢)”

Can you make us feel Spiritual Pressure?

The doubt from the Soul Pets…

Wang Che decided to make them immediately doubt their insect and sword lives!

It was time for them to get a slight taste of the Spiritual Pressure of a cultivator from the Ascension Realm!