Douluo, my martial soul is a mushroom

Chapter 5 Mycelium Development (I)

Notting College has a device for testing soul power. Every month, the college arranges for students to collectively test their soul power to prevent someone from breaking through without knowing it.

The talent of innate fifth-level soul power is not low, but it is not high either.

Since Chi Ping learned how to practice meditation, he has been practicing diligently every day. He does morning exercises, attends classes in the morning, trains his physical fitness and develops his martial spirit in the afternoon, and cultivates his soul power in the evening.

At the beginning of the school year, Chi Ping's soul power test result was level five, and six months later the test result was level six.

At this rate, he could probably be promoted to soul master by the third year.

For most people, this speed is considered fast, but Chi Ping was very dissatisfied.

……

The ten people in Dormitory 7 are inseparable. Except for classes, they basically stay together all the time.

The only person the students couldn't afford to offend was Wang Wen, and the other students were all soft persimmons that could be easily bullied. The students who were left alone would be put in a sack, and after being beaten, they wouldn't even know who had beaten them.

The courses at Nottingham College are only scheduled in the morning, and the afternoon is for free activities and practice time.

The working students returned to Dormitory 7 after lunch.

Chat and walk to help digestion.

——In half a year, Wang Wen will graduate. I only have half a year left to develop peacefully. If I don’t find a way to push my training progress forward, I will have to go through two full years of hardship! I didn’t come to this world to be bullied. At least I have to have enough strength to protect myself before Wang Wen leaves!
“Today’s dishes are really good!”

"Yeah, it's really good! That big chicken drumstick is my favorite!"

"Did the principal get rich? He suddenly gave us chicken legs."

"We have chicken legs to eat, so why should we care so much? Xiao Pingzi, do you think we can still eat chicken legs tomorrow?"

——The first experiment of mycelium can begin. If successful, both the training speed and instant combat power will make great progress.

"Xiao Pingzi?"

——But you still have to be careful and not make too much noise. It would be terrible if the toilet collapsed.

"Xiao Pingzi!"

"Huh? What's wrong, boss?" Chi Ping came back to his senses and looked at Wang Wen in confusion.

Wang Wen repeated what he had just said, and then asked, "What are you thinking about? You are so focused."

"Some problems with cultivation."

"What's the problem?" Wang Wen said seriously.

"I feel that the speed at which my soul power is increasing is a bit slow. I'm wondering if there is any way to speed it up." Chi Ping said.

"Is that so?" Wang Wen suddenly realized. "However, the speed of cultivation is related to talent, and it cannot be rushed. And Xiaopingzi, you have worked hard enough, but you can't increase the amount of training. If you don't have enough nutrition, your future will be affected."

Chi Ping felt a little warm in his heart, "I know my limits, Boss."

According to the limited knowledge of the work-study students, if they want to practice faster, they must eat better and practice more. Those panaceas, natural treasures, magical skills... the work-study students have no concept of these at all!

There are two ways for working students to earn money. One is to get paid for completing chores assigned by the academy, and the other is that Wang Wen can receive a soul master subsidy of one gold soul coin from the Spirit Hall every month.

No one has the nerve to ask for Wang Wen's money. The salary from the academy is only enough for daily life, so the daily nutrition of the part-time students is very limited. Increasing the amount of training under such conditions will really make people useless!

Wang Wen was still worried, "Follow me for the next two days, I'll watch you. I can't let you ruin yourself by training!"

Chi Ping smiled helplessly, "Boss, you know me well. I am a genius with innate level 5 soul power. How could I do something that would ruin my future?"

Wang Wen clenched his right fist and smashed it into the palm of his left hand. "With your speed of improving one level every six months, you will be able to reach level ten in less than three years. You should know that it took me five years to become a soul master! Why are you so anxious!" "But boss, aren't you leaving? After you graduate, Xiao Chenyu and the others will definitely come to cause trouble. Brother Sheng can't beat them, and our dormitory seven will be bullied again!"

Ikehira's expression was very serious.

"I don't want to be bullied. I also want to protect everyone in Dormitory 7 from being bullied!"

They were classmates, and although they had never carried guns together in Dormitory 7, they had fought together. Chi Ping had already recognized this group of friends!

The part-time students who had been listening to the conversation between Chi Ping and Wang Wen all laughed and looked at Wang Sheng with a mocking expression.

Xiao Wei from the fourth grade laughed and said, "Xiao Sheng, Xiao Pingzi wants to compete with you for the position of the leader. Do you have any response?"

Wang Sheng snorted, "Xiao Pingzi is my younger brother. You just need to practice well under my protection. I will beat all those people down! I am a tiger, the king of all beasts!"

"Yes, yes, you are the king of beasts! Then you have to work hard. Xiao Pingzi works very hard. It will be embarrassing for you if you are surpassed by Xiao Pingzi."

"Absolutely not!" Wang Sheng said this in a resounding voice.

After playing and joking all the way, the working-study students returned to Dormitory 7.

……

Notting College has only one public toilet, which is located in the southwest corner of the playground, very close to the area where the working students are active, separated by a four-meter-wide running track and a small forest.

The hygiene problems of all teachers and students in the school are solved here. There is sufficient manure and water, and the groves are growing very well.

Chi Ping stood on the lawn of the playground, feeling the weak energy coming from the ground, and nodded with satisfaction.

——The preliminary development of mycelium has been completed.

Under the unnoticed lawn, milky white hyphae are intertwined, surrounding the cesspool under the public toilet, extending all the way to the playground, and are still expanding.

After research, Chi Ping discovered that summoning a martial spirit does not consume mental energy, or in other words, the mental energy consumed is so little that it is even lower than the amount restored every moment.

Theoretically speaking, as long as one has infinite soul power, the martial soul can be summoned infinite times and maintained for an infinite amount of time.

But the soul power of a soul master is limited, and the soul power that a soul master's spirit can control is also limited, so this theory does not hold true.

But what if there really is "infinite" soul power?
What is infinity?

Inexhaustible, endless, or... recovery is greater than consumption, inexhaustible, and everlasting!
The decomposition ability of the fungus spirit is passive and does not require Chi Ping to control it. Therefore, as long as the mycelium created by Chi Ping's spirit can absorb enough nutrients to meet the consumption of existence and be self-sufficient, it can almost survive indefinitely.

However, the decomposition capacity of fluorescent mushroom mycelium is limited, and the nutrients absorbed by decomposition are lower than the consumption for survival.

How to solve this problem?
Chi Ping was not able to improve his martial spirit yet, so he thought of the environment and cluster effect.

The cluster effect refers to the beneficial effects of the same species living together. The decomposition of organic matter by hyphae is gradual. Multiple hyphae can cooperate with each other to improve the absorption efficiency when decomposing the same substance. The average efficiency of 10,000 hyphae working together to decompose organic matter is much higher than the decomposition efficiency of one hyphae.

Suitable environment may reduce the consumption of maintaining mycelium.

Mycelium likes moisture and shade.

There are many places suitable for mycelium growth. After much selection, Chi Ping finally chose the toilet.

Fecal water contains trace elements needed for plant growth. Fecal water that has been digested by the human body is more easily decomposed by mycelium, and the fecal water in the toilet is replenished every day.

Ikehira couldn't think of a better environment than this.

The theory works, so the experiment begins.

(End of this chapter)