Blue Silver Grass Strategy (Douluo Dalu Fiction)

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Ten days later, Ling Yi was once again on the road, carrying a wooden box that was forty centimeters long and wide, and about fifty centimeters high, and a cloth-wrapped bundle in his hand.

The bundle contained only some personal clothing and dry rations. The wooden box, however, held two small shrub-like large 'Blue Silver Grass' plants and a tiny 'Blue Silver Grass' that had just sprouted, with its leaves still tender and a light blue, almost white.

Though there were two large and one small, the interior of the wooden box on Ling Yi's back was divided into three equally sized compartments by wooden strips cut from iron birch wood, each inserted vertically.

The difference was that the soil composition in the three separate compartments for the three 'Blue Silver Grass' plants varied significantly.

First was the smallest, the tiny 'Blue Silver Grass' that had only sprouted a few days ago.

The soil around its roots was relatively ordinary, dug from the embankment by the Zhang Family's fish pond, sifted carefully to ensure there were no large stones, wild seeds, or insect eggs, and mixed with a handful of fine river sand to serve as a seedbed.

As the only seed left by the 'Blue Silver Grass' that had lived for about three hundred years and had dedicated itself to Ling Yi, this little one deserved some extra care to create the most suitable environment for its growth.

The other two shrub-like 'Blue Silver Grass' plants were two of the remaining five three-hundred-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass' plants.

The other three were left in the Ling family's courtyard, planted next to the chicken coop and rabbit hutch.

Speaking of the two three-hundred-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass' plants, despite their energy fluctuations being stronger than the 280-year-old 'Hibiscus Tree' in the Waterwood Principality's palace, their physical size was far smaller. While their roots spread out and stretched could occupy a space with a diameter of over thirty centimeters, when bundled up, including the stems and leaves above the soil, which were also about thirty centimeters high, they could fit comfortably in one-third of the wooden box on Ling Yi's back.

As a side note, due to the inherent weakness of 'Blue Silver Grass', its energy fluctuations were so minimal as to be almost imperceptible, which was also a survival strategy for this species in nature, in addition to being easy to cultivate.

The reason Ling Yi could sense that the energy fluctuations of the 'Blue Silver Grass' he had cultivated were stronger than those of the 280-year-old 'Hibiscus Tree' was because his mental power was exceptionally sharp, and he had sensed it closely.

Anyone who held it in their hands could feel some unusual energy.

Of course, over the past three years, the six 'Blue Silver Grass' plants that had broken the second lock and surpassed a hundred years had not stayed in Ling Yi's dormitory for long. He had taken the opportunity to bring them back to Mountain Sea Village and planted them in an environment full of 'Blue Silver Grass'.

To hide a drop of water, you don't need to throw it into the sea; just place it in a stream.

In the wooden box, the newly sprouted 'Blue Silver Grass' seedling was in the center, with the two three-hundred-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass' plants on either side.

The soil on the left was similar to that of the central seedling, but Ling Yi had added a bit of a special 'fertilizer' to it.

The 'Dew Plant', or the thin yellow thread-like tendrils commonly seen on the roadside, was known in Ling Yi's previous life as 'Dodder'.

This plant, like 'Blue Silver Grass', was not even a Soul Beast in its early years. It was a parasitic plant that mimicked the aura of other plants to alter its own characteristics to match the target, thereby achieving a parasitic effect.

Now, Ling Yi had cut some 'Dew Plant' tendrils and placed them near the roots of the three-hundred-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass', allowing it to parasitize.

However, facing a three-hundred-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass' with Spiritual Power, even the 'Dew Plant', known as the 'bully of plants', was like a dog biting a hedgehog, unable to find a place to bite, and instead risked being eaten.

Ling Yi did not worry too much about the future interactions between the three-hundred-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass' and the weak, pitiful, and helpless 'Dew Plant'. He would continue to nurture the 'Blue Silver Grass' with Spiritual Power each month, and when the 'Dew Plant' withered, he would replenish it.

As for the three-hundred-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass' on the right side of the wooden box, its soil was mixed with a certain proportion of wood chips from the 'Iron Birch Tree' branches, which Ling Yi had crushed into a fibrous state.

As a qualified 'amateur scientist', Ling Yi would only set up a desired cultivation environment based on his imagination. The final results would depend on fate, luck, and the magic of Spiritual Power.

Only when he had enough experimental samples and could truly summarize a set of rules could Ling Yi barely call himself a researcher.

...

During these ten days, Ling Yi used his first soul skill, 'Vitality Flourishing', to cleanse all his direct relatives, including his parents, younger brother and sister, grandparents, maternal grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins, and the family of his uncle from the neighboring village, removing the hidden injuries they had accumulated from years of hard work.

Although most people only experienced one 'Vitality Flourishing' cleansing, combined with Ling Yi's simultaneous use of 'Hypnosis', after a deep sleep, their health conditions improved significantly, even if not all their ailments were cured.

As the eldest grandpa and great-grandma put it, they felt like they had become several years younger!

For his direct relatives, such as his father Ling Xiaoshan, mother Zhang Xiaoyu, younger brother Ling Shan, younger sister Ling Si, and grandfather Ling Changqing, and other close relatives of the Ling and Zhang families, they received 'Vitality Flourishing' and deep hypnosis once a day, along with a diet rich in nutrients like fish, meat, and ginseng chicken soup.

Over these ten days, Zhang Lei's Spiritual Power directly increased by one level, reaching level seven!

Although, this was partly because he was already close to breaking through.

Awakening in 2594 Tangle, starting from almost zero Spiritual Power, he relied on the then-imperfect 'Three Techniques of the Farmer' to strengthen his body. By 2597 Tangle, when Ling Yi awakened his martial soul, three years had passed, and his Spiritual Power had naturally grown to level two.

Now, in 2601 Tangle, four years later, thirteen-year-old Zhang Lei's Spiritual Power had reached level six, nearly level seven.

On the surface, Zhang Lei gained the most, as he broke through in Spiritual Power, a lucky feat no one else had achieved.

Similarly, Ling Shan, Ling Yi's younger brother, who also possessed Spiritual Power, had awakened it in early March of the previous year. In about one year and seven months, his Spiritual Power had only increased from level 0.2 to 1.6, just over level one, averaging less than 0.1 level per month.

After ten days of luxury treatment, Ling Shan's Spiritual Power improved significantly, increasing by 0.3 levels to 1.9, though he still fell short of level two.

Others, such as his father Ling Xiaoshan and mother Zhang Xiaoyu, also benefited.

Parents, uncles, and aunts in their thirties, who had long practiced the 'Three Techniques of the Farmer', had strong bodies. With the luxury treatment, their qi and blood were noticeably enhanced.

Even Zhang Xiaoyu and Ling He, the two women, showed clear muscle definition.

Fortunately, the 'Three Techniques of the Farmer' did not involve bodybuilding, so their muscles were not exaggerated but had a streamlined, athletic appearance, avoiding the tears of Ling Xiaoshan and Zhang Dahé.

For the older grandparents and maternal grandparents, their bodily functions were rejuvenated by the large amounts of active energy, both internally and externally, making them truly several years younger, reaching the level they should have been at their age, rather than the prematurely aged state due to early hard work.

In addition, over these ten days, the ones who benefited the most, besides the blood relatives of the Ling and Zhang families, were Ah Huang and Miaomiao.

Or rather, even the benefits Zhang Lei and Ling Shan received over these ten days did not match those of this cat and dog.

To put it bluntly, if Ah Huang and Miaomiao had died abnormally before, they would have been just ordinary, perhaps robust, animals.

But now, if they were to die, they would each produce a—white soul ring!!

In other words, Ah Huang and Miaomiao were no longer just ordinary village dogs and cats, nor were they just fortunate to have a bit of Spiritual Power. They had evolved into Soul Beasts with ten-year-old Spiritual Power, through and through!

Ling Yi taught Ah Huang and Miaomiao a small trick to conceal their Spiritual Power fluctuations through mental induction. Relying on their natural hiding instincts as predators, they could almost go unnoticed unless they were attacking in front of a soul master with sharp mental power. With his family temporarily at ease, Ling Yi chose to set out on his journey again.

When one is successful, one should help others; when one is poor, one should cultivate oneself.

Ling Yi was now just well-off, with his whole family well-fed and clothed.

To achieve further prosperity, he needed to go to more fertile soil to absorb more nutrients.

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