Limit Soul Power Attachment Method

The next morning, Blue Silver Grass had quietly crept out of the tent. Ye Lan woke soon afterward. The moment he awoke, he sensed the changes in the Blue Silver Grass. Aside from those changes, the soul power in his Dantian had also increased far more than it normally did through cultivation.

Ye Lan summarized the results of last night's cultivation. The greatest gain from cultivating in the Blue Silver Mimicry Environment was that his Blue Silver Grass had become more solid.

His cultivation speed had also increased by nearly a quarter. What had once been one level every thirteen months had improved to one level every ten months. That was already close to the cultivation speed of someone with Innate Level Five Soul Power—half that of Innate Full Soul Power.

Besides Mimicry Cultivation, Ye Lan also planned to start tempering his body through Physical Technique Training.

In his previous life, physical training emphasized moderation.

But on Douluo Continent, Ye Lan had nothing much to worry about.

That was because, in his previous life, one had to consider the damage excessive training could inflict on the body.

On Douluo Continent, however, there were countless miracles. Ye Lan did not need to worry too much about physical training damaging his body. There were many miraculous means of healing the body here, such as Support System Soul Masters, Soul Skills, Soul Bones, leveling up, Immortal Herbs, and more.

At present, the miracle Ye Lan could make use of was food produced by Food System Soul Masters. Some foods could heal bodily injuries.

Using the money he had earned from Candied Hawthorn Skewers, Ye Lan could purchase food produced by Food System Soul Masters through Su Yuntao's Soul Grandmaster connections. This food could help repair the body, so Ye Lan no longer had any reservations and began training his body without restraint.

Ordinary exercise was no longer of much help to Ye Lan, so he planned to undergo weight training. Based on his training needs, Ye Lan had several sets of Iron Rings and Iron Vests of varying weights custom-made at a Blacksmith Shop in Nuoding City.

These weighted items ranged from several dozen to over a hundred jin, with the heaviest weighing a full three times Ye Lan's body weight. Naturally, he only wore such heavy weights during training.

If he wore them normally, Ye Lan's walking posture would look extremely strange. Thus, he usually wore only two ten-jin Ankle Weights, increasing the iron weight only after his body had adapted.

After planning out his daily regimen, Ye Lan cultivated in the Blue Silver Mimicry Environment on the Back Mountain every night. During the day, once he had finished learning theory, he began weight training.

Meditative cultivation was easy enough, but the weight training that pushed his body to its limits was almost more than even Ye Lan, who had endured the hardships of studying, could bear. Without the food produced by Food System Soul Masters, his body definitely would not have withstood such intense training.

On the surface, Ye Lan's weighted training looked similar to the weighted running exercises performed by the Shrek group in the original story, but their underlying principles were entirely different.

At the start of Ye Lan's weight training, he did not add soul power to his body. He relied purely on physical strength, only gradually attaching soul power to his cells when they had been squeezed close to their limits.

At first, he attached ten percent of the amount of soul power he could apply, then twenty percent... all the way up to one hundred percent.

Once he became proficient, Ye Lan's soul power attachment became even more precise. He started at one percent, then two percent, all the way up to one hundred percent.

Each time he attached a different proportion of soul power, Ye Lan used that soul power to squeeze every cell in his body until they neared their limits. Then he attached a higher proportion of soul power and repeated the process.

This was a training method Ye Lan had gradually developed through experimentation, which he named the Limit Soul Power Attachment Method. It emphasized not only the limit of soul power that could be attached to the body, but also the limit of the body's ability to use soul power.

At its core, Douluo Continent was a world ruled by soul power. In this world, soul power was the sole core. The body was merely the foundation that carried soul power. If that foundation was not solid, then no matter how much soul power one possessed, it would be top-heavy—a castle in the air.

Only after the body's foundation had been tempered into something solid would soul power have room to be unleashed.

His current weight training was like turning his body, step by step, from a Honda family car into a Ferrari supercar.

Of course, becoming a Ferrari supercar without knowing how to drive it would be nothing but flashy waste. The Limit Soul Power Attachment Method was the technique for controlling that Ferrari.

This cultivation method could push the body's limits step by step, allowing the Ferrari supercar that was the body to instinctively unleash the greatest power with the least soul power expenditure.

If a Soul Master's body was a high-performance Gundam, then Ye Lan had found the path to becoming a world-class professional Gundam pilot.

Three years later...

Today was the start of the school term at Martial Soul Hall Academy. For once, Ye Lan was sprawled out in the dormitory instead of going to the Back Mountain to train.

Seizing the opportunity, Wang Sheng and the others gathered around him and chatted about the latest interesting things to appear in Nuoding City. Ye Lan did not interrupt their enthusiasm.

Although the people of the Seventh Dormitory often did not see Ye Lan around, Wang Sheng and the others were extremely fond of him. Whenever Ye Lan returned to the dormitory, he would often bring plenty of tasty food to share with them.

To Work-Study Students from poor families, Ye Lan was like an angel sent by God. He was gentle in manner, had never clashed with anyone in the dormitory, and regularly fed the people of the Seventh Dormitory.

Wang Sheng wished there were more kind-hearted people like him in the world. If this had been Ye Lan's previous life, Wang Sheng and the others would probably have made memes and called Ye Lan Dad.

Of course, Ye Lan's purpose was not simply charity. Nuoding Academy was strictly managed, and he needed Wang Sheng and the others to cover for him so he could conduct Mimicry Cultivation on the Back Mountain at night.

Just as Wang Sheng and the others were chatting at the height of their excitement, someone knocked on the door. Everyone turned their gaze toward the dormitory entrance.

A short, dark-skinned boy dressed in patched clothes appeared before them.

Carrying a patched-up bundle and his school uniform, he walked stiffly into the dormitory.

Ye Lan reclined halfway on his bed, his eyes narrowing slightly as he carefully examined the dark-skinned boy. The boy looked ordinary and was not tall, but his upper body was well-muscled and his shoulders taut. He had clearly done strenuous physical labor before.

Although this was Ye Lan's first time seeing the person before him, for some reason, a Nameless Fire rose in the heart of usually mild-tempered Ye Lan.

Ye Lan forcibly suppressed that Nameless Fire, only to see Wang Sheng step forward and block the dark-skinned boy.

With anger in his voice, he looked down at Tang San and demanded, "New Work-Study Student?"

Wang Sheng stood two heads taller than Tang San, making him look especially intimidating.

Tang San was somewhat surprised. He looked up at Wang Sheng, unsure how he had offended the tall boy before him. "I'm a new Work-Study Student. Is there something you need?"

Wang Sheng got straight to the point. "Oh, so you're Xinsheng. I'm the boss of the Seventh Dormitory. If you want to enter the Seventh Dormitory, you have to fight me first! What's your name, and what's your martial soul?"

"My name is Tang San. My martial soul is Blue Silver Grass."