If an Evil Martial Soul results from a problem during the Martial Spirit's gestation, creating a barrier with the soul, then a Martial Spirit must not have fully gestated!
Such a thought flashed through Su Ming's mind.
"One has a barrier with the soul, the other is simply not fully compatible with the body."
This idea directly subverts common sense.
Because a Martial Spirit is a part of the body itself, yet Su Ming categorized it as the Martial Spirit not being fully compatible with the body.
But upon careful thought, one can discover that Martial Spirits are weak in strength, just like a Martial Spirit that hasn't fully gestated.
If a normal Martial Spirit involves the soul providing the seed and the physical body providing the nourishment, fully gestating the Martial Spirit, which then emerges from the soul and can also possess the physical body...
Then, a Martial Spirit is a variation during the physical body's gestation process. The direction of gestation isn't towards a corresponding complete Martial Spirit, but corresponds to a part of the human body, unable to provide sufficient nutrition, resulting in an immature Martial Spirit that remains attached to the soul.
Not only is the Martial Spirit itself underdeveloped and of poor quality, but the enhancement effect during possession is also poor.
"Secondary Awakening is the process of truly maturing the Martial Spirit."
Interpreting Martial Spirits from this angle, Su Ming felt he had made an alternative discovery.
"In this process, the mature Martial Spirit doesn't detach from the Martial Spirit category but instead fuses with the physical body again, thereby completing the overlap of soul and physical body, realizing the enhancement."
"Of course, this line of thinking is a bit forced. Perhaps there's no need to force Martial Spirits into a special scenario."
"Even without the preceding premise, one can directly apply this final conclusion: Secondary Awakening is the overlap of soul and body."
Nana's voice interrupted Su Ming's thoughts.
"Su Ming, quickly, we need to go. The commotion just now wasn't small."
Su Ming took a deep breath, pulling his thoughts back to the present.
"It's fine. My domain earlier could also isolate fluctuations. The outside couldn't sense the commotion here."
Although he said it was fine, he still cooperatively followed Nana out of the room, quickly heading back towards the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
"I didn't expect the Skeleton to have broken through this time either." Nana's tone carried a hint of apology.
"Senior Sister, are you sure you won't be implicated by the death of this contact?" Su Ming asked again.
"Mhm."
"Then let's kill another contact in a couple of days."
"Huh?"
Nana's brain short-circuited.
After she processed it, she hurriedly said, "No! A contact just died; the next one will definitely be more troublesome than this one."
"Senior Sister, don't you trust my ability yet?"
Nana recalled the scene of Su Ming easily killing the Skeleton and nodded subconsciously.
"I do."
"See? If you trust me, Senior Sister, we could even go directly to the stronghold where your parents are held, eliminate all the Evil Spirit Masters there, and rescue your parents."
Nana stopped walking.
"Su Ming, don't think like that. That place is more terrifying than you imagine. Those Evil Spirit Masters' abilities are more terrifying one after another. Your Purifying Flame counters Evil Spirit Masters, but it definitely has its limits."
No, it doesn't.
Because Elder Yi is here.
Su Ming complained inwardly.
But he didn't insist further.
If Nana herself could wait, then he could naturally wait too.
Returning to the academy, they agreed on a method of contact before parting ways.
"Elder Yi, have you figured out any uses for it?"
In the Sea of Consciousness, Su Ming condensed a mental avatar, asking Electrolux, who was researching the skeleton Martial Spirit.
"I have a preliminary idea. I can modify this skeleton Martial Spirit so it can temporarily fuse into your body, enhancing you in a form similar to a Martial Spirit."
Su Ming raised an eyebrow.
"A second Martial Spirit?"
"Yes and no." Electrolux said, "At that time, you could use the skeleton Martial Spirit as a real Martial Spirit, and perhaps even attach Spirit Rings to it. Of course, the Spirit Rings would be attached to the Martial Spirit itself and wouldn't be closely related to you."
Su Ming understood.
It's a plug-and-play Martial Spirit with independent attributes that can be enchanted with Spirit Rings.
If achievable, it would indeed be a good thing.
"That Evil Spirit Master burned his Spirit Rings, and I burned him again with the Purifying Flame. The inherent defects of this skeleton Martial Spirit were also automatically remedied. So now, this counts as an empty, normal skeleton Martial Spirit, or you could call it a Bone Martial Spirit."
Bone?
Su Ming looked at the pitch-black skeleton and shook his head.
Can this be considered bone?
Electrolux noticed Su Ming's gaze, waved his hand, and a large amount of light element gathered on the skeleton Martial Spirit. The originally pitch-black skeleton turned into jade-white bones.
"."
Su Ming was speechless.
A skeleton Martial Spirit isn't necessarily an Evil Martial Spirit; it could be a normal Martial Spirit.
And this one now is.
"Elder Yi, when can you finish the modifications?"
"About a month. This is my first time handling a Martial Spirit."
Having an extra skeleton Martial Spirit to use doesn't provide a very strong actual boost for Su Ming, as his Trinity focus is mainly on the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, not purely borrowing Spirit Power. Moreover, adding Spirit Rings to the skeleton Martial Spirit provides no feedback to Su Ming's main body; it would only become part of this external Martial Spirit's power.
For him, the greatest use of this external Martial Spirit's ability is to disguise his identity.
Whether it's disguising as an Evil Spirit Master to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult or changing his appearance to become another Spirit Master, it will be useful.
But none of these are urgently needed.
A month is acceptable.
"By the way, Elder Yi, can we set up any safeguards regarding Nana?"
"You kid, you talk about righteous principles, but still want to set up safeguards?" Su Ming chuckled.
"Isn't it for the sake of caution?"
Once he truly welcomes Nana into the sect, he certainly won't keep any safeguards. But now, before he has fully resolved Nana's problems, of course, he needs to be cautious.
"No need for safeguards."
Electrolux pointed behind Su Ming.
"Look behind you."
Su Ming turned his head doubtfully, looking behind him.
His pupils slightly contracted as he 'saw' a very faint wisp of faith.
This is------
"That Nana regards you as an Evil Spirit Master, just one with more sophisticated methods."
Su Ming took that wisp of faith in his hand, sensed it for a moment, and the corner of his mouth twitched.
It was pretty much as Elder Yi said.
No way.
Senior Sister Nana, what about the trust we agreed upon?
You verbally said you trusted me, and for my safety, didn't want to raid the Holy Spirit Cult stronghold, but it turns out you're still worried that I'm a high-ranking member of the Holy Spirit Cult conducting entrapment?
Purifying Flame------
Alright, although it's a white flame, this flame indeed isn't a 'good' thing; it's an undead magic spell developed using necromancy as a framework, not a light-based spell.
While Su Ming was still feeling disheartened, Electrolux's voice came from behind.
"Speaking of which, you might not have noticed, but your constitution is somewhat special."
Su Ming was at a loss.
"Special constitution? What's wrong with my constitution?"
"Don't you think it's too easy for you to acquire faith? Acquiring faith requires divine rank. You were merely acknowledged by that girl, and you could harvest a wisp of her faith. This is very wrong."
(Chapter End)