Chapter 3: Summoning Flag Martial Soul

In his bedroom, Chu Chengzhou stared intently at the progress bar on the golden screen.

The system hadn't fully activated yet, but he had already figured out a few things.

With just a thought, the golden screen would appear in his view, and even if he closed his eyes, he could still see it. He could also close it entirely with a single thought.

Moreover, since neither his grandfather nor grandmother had shown any sign of noticing the screen, Chu Chengzhou assumed that only he could see the golden screen. Others likely couldn't.

This conclusion was further confirmed when he noticed there was no golden screen reflected in the mirror in front of him.

[98%, 99%, 100%]

After a long wait, the progress bar finally reached 100%.

Instantly, the progress bar disappeared, replaced by an attribute panel.

[Attribute Panel]

[Host: Chu Chengzhou]

[Soul Power: Level 1 Soul Master]

[Martial Soul: ???]

[Skills: Physical Exercise (Gray), Eye Training (Gray), Running (Gray), Meditation (Gray)]

At the same time, Chu Chengzhou noticed two small golden square boxes below the attribute panel.

"Uh, I'm a Level 1 Soul Master?"

Chu Chengzhou was a little stunned. His talent as a waste material had suddenly increased by half a level with the activation of the system!

Half a level might not seem like much, but for him, it was a direct doubling!

However, after staring at the Soul Power section for three seconds, Chu Chengzhou realized that the system hadn't actually improved his innate Soul Power. Instead, the Soul Power level didn't show decimal points and was rounded up to at least 1.

Aside from the skills section, the attribute panel was very simple. After some exploration, Chu Chengzhou figured out how to properly use his system.

The attribute panel only displayed his attributes, while the two small golden square boxes below were the system's functions.

By using his thoughts, he could drag his martial soul and skills into these golden boxes. After a certain period of passive upgrading, he could surpass his current limits. Additionally, when he obtained soul rings and soul bones in the future, they could also be placed in these boxes for passive upgrades.

In the attribute panel, martial soul quality was divided into Ordinary, Advanced, Top-tier, and Divine-tier.

Soul rings and soul bones were divided into White Ten-Year, Yellow Hundred-Year, Purple Thousand-Year, Black Ten-Thousand-Year, Red Hundred-Thousand-Year, and Golden Million-Year.

Skill levels were similar to soul ring colors, but with differences. They were divided into Gray, White, Yellow, Purple, Black, Red, and Gold, with an additional level above Gold that Chu Chengzhou hadn't yet discovered. Of course, these didn't concern him for now, since all his skills were at the lowest gray level, and his martial soul, which was still an unknown, was of ordinary quality.

The reason his martial soul displayed as a question mark was that his gray flag martial soul was a mutated martial soul that had never appeared before on the continent, so its name couldn't be shown.

However, Chu Chengzhou noticed another advantage of the attribute panel.

For unknown martial souls that didn't have any obvious tendencies in appearance, it was impossible to tell their abilities without soul rings. But when Chu Chengzhou focused on his martial soul section for three seconds, he learned the ability of his mutated gray flag martial soul.

Up until today, martial souls on the continent were classified into Control, Power Attack, Speed Attack, Defense, Support, and Healing types. But from today onwards, there would be a new category: Summoning.

Yes, because his martial soul didn't fit into any of the six major categories, Chu Chengzhou had "created" a new martial soul category: Summoning.

As the name suggested, his gray flag martial soul would, in the future, allow him to summon a soul beast once he added soul rings to it.

For example, when he reached Level 10 as a Soul Master and added a 400-year-old Mandala Snake soul ring, he could summon a 400-year-old Mandala Snake soul beast to fight.

Theoretically, if he added a 100,000-year soul ring, he could summon a 100,000-year soul beast.

Of course, this was only a theory. The gray flag, being an ordinary mutated martial soul, was likely on par with the so-called "useless martial soul" Blue Silver Grass, and may even be worse. It naturally had significant flaws.

Perhaps due to his poor talent, the gray flag martial soul was imperfectly mutated, with a flaw similar to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile martial soul.

However, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile can add up to seven soul rings, his mutated gray flag can only add two soul rings.

This meant that, unless something unexpected happened, he could only become a Level 29 Great Soul Master in the future.

According to the optimal soul ring configuration for soul masters, at Level 29, he could summon two soul beasts: one around 400 years old and the other around 700 years old.

At the same level, few people could match the soul beasts of the same level. Moreover, most soul masters had subpar martial souls and poor soul ring configurations. A 700-year-old soul beast could easily defeat a low-level three-ring Soul Master with white and yellow soul rings.

Level 29 Great Soul Master should be able to defeat a low-ranking three-ring Soul Master, right?

"Ugh, ugh, ugh~! I'm destined to become a god!" Chu Chengzhou muttered under his breath.

With the system in hand, the world was his! How could he set his sights on something as small as a three-ring Soul Master?

With a thought, the martial soul section, which had previously displayed a question mark, changed.

[Martial Soul: Summoning Flag]

It was just a name and didn't affect the use of the martial soul. Since his cultural level wasn't very high, Chu Chengzhou had chosen a rather understated name.

Names like "Chaos True Spirit Flag," "Nine Heavens Ten Earths Flag," "Heaven and Earth Xuan Huang Flag," or "Cosmic Chaos Flag" were too flashy. A common-quality martial soul certainly wasn't worthy of such grand titles.

Although his mutated martial soul had significant flaws, with the system in hand, Chu Chengzhou wasn't worried.

A flawed martial soul? He could improve it by passively upgrading its quality.

Even if it was a useless martial soul, it could be upgraded to a divine-tier martial soul with a built-in talent domain! If his summoned beasts were too weak in the early stages, he could simply upgrade the soul rings later.

Even if the first soul ring was just a low-level ten-year soul ring, there would be a day when he could summon a million-year soul beast!

Without further hesitation, Chu Chengzhou placed his Summoning Flag martial soul into the passive upgrade section.

As for the second upgrade slot?

After thinking for a moment, Chu Chengzhou placed "Meditation" from his skills section into the second slot.

In the Douluo Continent, there were no special soul power cultivation methods, and the only way to improve soul power was through meditation, consuming rare materials, and adding soul rings and soul bones.

Meditation was something every soul master would learn after awakening their martial soul, just like breathing naturally. The only difference was how proficient one became at it.

Although it hadn't been tested yet, Chu Chengzhou believed that improving his meditation skill would likely speed up his soul power cultivation.

As a "super waste" with innate half-level soul power, Chu Chengzhou was eager to level up his soul power as quickly as possible.