Blue Silver Grass Strategy (Douluo Dalu Fiction)

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Ling Yi, the eldest grandson of the Ling family in Mountain Sea Village, detected Innate Spiritual Power during the Soul Power Awakening Ceremony!

This explosive news spread to the surrounding villages within just a few days.

Although he only had half a level of Innate Spiritual Power and his soul weapon was the most common and useless one, the Blue Silver Grass, he still became the envy of thousands of people in the twenty-five villages under Beikouhe Town!

Originally, Ling Yi thought that the people who came to propose betrothals for their children would increase as the Ling family's wealth grew. However, after this incident, although more people came to visit and build relationships, no one mentioned the betrothal of Ling Yi anymore.

After all, even with just half a level of Innate Spiritual Power, if he worked hard, there was a good chance he could cultivate his soul power to level ten. With some money or connections, he could obtain a Soul Ring and become a respected Soul Master!

The descendants of a Soul Master had a high chance of possessing the potential to become a Soul Master, as evidenced by the few small families in Beikouhe Town.

This was a leap in social status, and no one in the surrounding villages did not aspire to it.

But upon reflection, Ling Yi understood the villagers' thoughts.

Originally, everyone was just ordinary people, with only differences in wealth, but still on the same social level. However, after Ling Yi awakened his Innate Spiritual Power, they felt a deep-seated sense of distance.

It was like the story of the man who loved dragons but was afraid of real dragons, or like the relationship between ordinary people and superheroes in Ling Yi's previous life's TV shows—admiration mixed with fear.

No matter how close the relationship between humans and tigers, no one would want to sleep in the same room with a tiger, especially when it was uncertain who would be the one in chains.

...

"Third Grandpa, take care. Brother Bai, take care—"

At the entrance of Ling Changqing's home in the north of Mountain Sea Village, Ling Yi stood with Ling Changqing and Ling Xiaoshan, waving goodbye to an elderly man and a young man.

The elderly man, actually only forty-two years old, was Ling Changqing's third brother, Ling Yi's third grandpa, Ling Changshui.

The young man was the third-generation eldest grandson of the eldest grandpa Ling Changshan, who had passed away over twenty years ago. His name was Ling Bai, and he was twenty years old, only two or three years younger than Ling Xiaoshan, Ling Yi's father. He was currently an apprentice at the blacksmith shop in the western part of Beikouhe Town.

A few days ago, when Ling Yi and Ling Xiaoshan went to Beikouhe Town and met the steward Yan Bin at the Soul Temple, they had also encountered Ling Bai while buying a hoe and a hoe blade.

At that time, Ling Bai did not know that Ling Yi had awakened his soul power and possessed Innate Spiritual Power.

It was only a couple of days ago that their neighbor, Uncle Ling Xiangbei, heard the news and brought his wife and two nieces to visit their second uncle, Ling Changqing, in Mountain Sea Village. After confirming the news, he sent a message to Ling Bai in town, asking him to come back and strengthen the family bond that had become distant over the years.

After all, since Ling Changshan disappeared into the deep forest in the north of Mountain Sea Village and never returned, Ling Xiangbei got married a couple of years later and moved to a neighboring village with his mother, Ling Yi's eldest grandmother.

Over the years, the connection between the Ling Changshan lineage and the Ling Changqing and Ling Changshan families still in Mountain Sea Village, as well as the fourth aunt, Ling Changxiu, who had married into another village, was not frequent. They were all farmers, and there was little time for leisurely exchanges of feelings. When there were difficulties, they would help each other within their means, and when there were no issues, they would make straw shoes and baskets to supplement their household income.

Watching the backs of Ling Changshui and Ling Bai disappear around the corner of the dirt road, Ling Yi followed Ling Changqing and Ling Xiaoshan back into the courtyard.

At that moment, Grandma Yan Hong and Mom Zhang Xiaoyu were in the main room, each holding old clothes and shoes, mending them.

It was the off-season for farming, and the crops in the fields were still growing. They only needed to go down occasionally to remove weeds and check for pests. There was no need to spend the whole day in the fields. However, the Ling family raised wild chickens and rabbits, which required daily trips to the surrounding forests and wilderness to collect grass to mix with wheat bran and husks as feed.

Thus, Ling Changqing and Ling Xiaoshan said goodbye to their wives and children, picked up their sickles, and carried baskets, heading east out of the village.

Watching their backs, Ling Yi weighed his options and ultimately decided not to follow them to observe their sickle techniques and improve the Farmer's Three Techniques - Scythe Swing.

The Ling family had too few reference points, and the data collection and comparison did not meet Ling Yi's requirements. It would be better to wait two or three months until the autumn harvest, when laborers from Mountain Sea Village and the surrounding villages, both young and old, would gather. That would be the best time for the final formation of the sickle technique.

For now, it was better to focus on the newly acquired Basic Meditation Technique.

This was the most widely used and most basic soul power cultivation method in the world of Soul Masters. Although Ling Yi had had it for some time, he had not formally practiced it but instead meticulously deduced the principles and concepts behind the cultivation method.

...

In the room specially prepared for Ling Yi in the Ling Changqing household.

On the bed, Ling Yi sat cross-legged, with a book and a scroll spread out in front of him.

'Visualization... mobilizing soul power... from the side of the little finger nail on the right hand, to the tip of the little finger when the hand is clenched, to the wrist... to the elbow... to the armpit of the right arm... through the heart... converging at a point three fingers below the navel...'

The above was what Ling Yi had distilled from the three thin pages of the Basic Meditation Technique.

Turning his gaze from the booklet to the unfolded scroll on the right, Ling Yi's expression became more serious.

On the scroll, a naked man with his arms hanging naturally by his sides was depicted. Lines and red dots appeared on his body, making the scroll seem somewhat eerie and frightening.

*The Human Meridian Map*—Incomplete!

'What a pity~' Ling Yi's eyes lowered as he looked at the incomplete map, which was much simpler than the *Human Meridian Map* he had seen in TV shows in his previous life. He felt quite regretful.

No one could have predicted that he would be reincarnated and needed to memorize useful information in advance.

Even this incomplete map, which only showed the general direction of the twelve main meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians, and included about seventy to eighty percent of the acupoints, was a result of Ling Yi's enhanced mental power and the clarity of his previous life's memories after much effort.

Without the expansion of his soul origin, he would not have been able to recall even seventy to eighty percent of the acupoints, at most just the general direction of a few meridians.

What Ling Yi regretted was that he and the nursing student he dated for only a month had only a few opportunities to practice acupuncture and cupping on her. The *Human Meridian Map* hanging on her dormitory wall was only seen in passing during those practice sessions, leaving a very vague memory. Even with enhanced memory, it was still like seeing things through a fog.

Perhaps only when his mental realm reached a higher level could he clear the fog and vividly recall the scenes of those times.

'To think, if I had been more serious and professional when she asked me to practice acupuncture and cupping on her, instead of... I might have been able to recall more acupoints and meridians.'

Thinking of this, Ling Yi silently shook his head, unable to resist muttering softly, "Tsk~ What a pity—"

(End of Chapter)