Blue Silver Emperor Enters the Village

"Another day full of Vital Energy!"

Early in the morning, Tian Hao sat up in bed to the sound of roosters crowing throughout the village and yawned. Looking at the rising sun, he felt the urge to bury his head and go back to sleep.

He had a nightmare yesterday. He dreamed that Bibi Dong, after becoming Pope, had locked him in a secret chamber and treated him to whips, candles, and steel wool. He was still mentally exhausted, but when he thought of his duties in the village, he could only get up.

After washing up, he headed to the square at the village entrance. Quite a few people had already gathered there—almost the entire village.

"Brother Er Gou!"

"Er Gou!"

"Gou Dan!"

The villagers nodded in greeting to Tian Hao. Then the adults and elders retreated to the edge of the square, leaving the space to Tian Hao and the children. All the children lined up neatly behind him.

"Eighth Set of Martial Soul Gymnastics, march in place, go!"

Taking a deep breath, Tian Hao began the radio calisthenics he had practiced into instinct in his previous life. The little ones behind him followed along.

As a transmigrator of the new era, he might not have come with martial arts inheritances like some Third, but he still knew quite a few things. This set of radio calisthenics was perfect for getting the body moving every morning.

Of course, the people of the Douluo Continent had stronger constitutions than people from his previous life. Simple radio calisthenics could not satisfy the children's cultivation needs, so Tian Hao made a downright insane adjustment—he sped it up.

After finishing the first round of radio calisthenics, he doubled the speed for the second round.

The younger children naturally could not keep up. They could only stand there helplessly, watching their older brothers and sisters continue cultivating with envy.

That was not the end of it. After the second round, Tian Hao doubled the speed again for the third round, eliminating another batch of boys and girls.

By the fourth round, only three boys and four girls remained, still following along with the exercises. Even they were struggling. They could not even maintain their breathing rhythm, panting heavily with a thin sheen of sweat on their foreheads.

By comparison, Tian Hao looked perfectly relaxed, still maintaining his own breathing rhythm.

Once the radio calisthenics ended, the children obediently withdrew to the edge of the square, leaving the space to the village elders.

"A big watermelon, cut it in half with one slice..."

As the leader, Tian Hao switched to Tai Chi—the Watermelon Version, at that.

He naturally did not know authentic Tai Chi, but this Watermelon Version had been everywhere in the squares and parks of his previous life. It was ideal for elderly people to exercise their bodies, and it had even been verified by Wudang Disciple Wang.

What Tian Hao did not know was that a man and a woman were watching from the woods in the distance.

"Ah Yin, are you sure it's in that village?"

Tang Hao asked with a frown. He had thought the Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass Ah Yin mentioned would be somewhere in a forest. Who would have thought it was inside a village? Had it been captured?

"It's deep within the village. We'll circle around, rescue that member of my kind, and leave. Don't disturb them."

Ah Yin's gaze fell toward the depths of the village. She turned and walked deeper into the woods, with Tang Hao quickly following.

Using the woods outside the village as cover, the two soon circled around to the other side of the village. At the end of the village, inside a courtyard within an orchard, stood Tian Hao's home.

"Is that the Blue Silver Grass clinging to the outside wall of the house?"

Tang Hao studied the Blue Silver Grass covering the wooden cottage's walls. It was his first time seeing Blue Silver Grass this large.

As an ordinary plant, Blue Silver Grass found it difficult even to possess Soul Power and become a Soul Beast. At most, it would grow to half a meter long. Yet this Blue Silver Grass was at least ten meters long, its branching vines crawling all over the cottage's exterior walls.

It was indeed no ordinary Blue Silver Grass.

"It is her, but something is very strange."

After confirming that no one was inside the house, Ah Yin pushed open the courtyard gate and stared intently at her Blue Silver Grass kin.

As the Blue Silver Emperor, she could sense every Blue Silver Grass in the world. The closer they were and the higher the other party's cultivation, the stronger the sensation. For example, she had always been able to sense the location of the Blue Silver King.

A month ago, she had vaguely sensed an intermittent call. No clear meaning had been conveyed, only an anxious emotional fluctuation. It should have been a Blue Silver Grass kin whose spiritual intelligence had only awakened recently.

Yet from what she could see, this Blue Silver Grass kin had not been mistreated. Though it lived in a human village, its growing environment was not bad.

Moreover, prolonged contact between Soul Beasts and humans had its benefits, helping spiritual intelligence grow.

Then why had this kin continuously conveyed such anxious emotions to her?

As if sensing the arrival of the Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin, the Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass rustled its leaves. Then a branch slowly extended through the window into the house, rolled up the letter Tian Hao had written the previous night, and handed it to Ah Yin.

"It wants you to read a letter?"

Tang Hao was dumbfounded. Did a thousand-year Plant Soul Beast really have such high intelligence?

Ah Yin said nothing. She took out the letter from the envelope and unfolded it. Her beautiful eyes moved as she read carefully, but when she saw the God Creation Plan, her expression abruptly changed.

"What is it?"

Noticing the change in his girlfriend's expression, Tang Hao curiously leaned over, wanting to see what the letter contained that could make her so tense.

"Nothing."

Instinctively folding the letter so Tang Hao could not read it, Ah Yin solemnly placed it back into the envelope.

That God Creation Plan was too terrifying. It was practically designed specifically to target Soul Beasts, especially Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts like her who had taken human form. Whether it was the emotional deception methods written there or coercive methods, transformed Soul Beasts like them could easily fall for them.

For example, if someone one day threatened Hao's life and demanded that she sacrifice herself, could she refuse?

While Ah Yin was lost in thought, a branch holding a Notebook extended before her.

The Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass had taken it from Tian Hao's house again. It was Tian Hao's handwritten notes.

"Martial Soul Hundred Great Conjectures?"

Opening the Notebook, Ah Yin read its contents. She quickly discovered a set of theories called the Hundred Great Conjectures, and the more she read, the graver her expression became.

Seeing his girlfriend's expression change again, Tang Hao curiously leaned over and read the Notebook with her, along with the Martial Soul Hundred Great Conjectures recorded within.

"Artificial Soul Bone Conjecture? Soul Bones come from Soul Beasts, so how could they possibly be artificially made? Even I, a Divine Craftsman, can't forge them."

Tang Hao lost interest after reading for only a short while.

How could Soul Bones possibly be artificially made?

They were not Soul Tools, much less divine weapons. Their inner workings were far too complex!

He had six Soul Bones himself, including two inherited Soul Bones of the Clear Sky Sect used to perform the Great Sumeru Hammer. Naturally, he understood Soul Bones very well.

He had never even heard that Soul Bones could be artificially made. It was complete wishful thinking!

What was more, beneath the Artificial Soul Bone Conjecture, he saw an Artificial Soul Ring Conjecture. That was even more absurd.

Tang Hao did not believe it in the slightest and even treated it as a joke. Yet Ah Yin continued reading with great seriousness, even falling into thought.

Unlike Tang Hao, who was human, she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had taken human form. She knew many secrets and understood even more clearly how the Soul Rings and Soul Bones of Soul Beasts came to be.

Both indeed had the possibility of being artificially created. She herself could even use the Life Force of some Blue Silver Grass to condense an ownerless Soul Ring.

This clearly proved that the conjectures in the Notebook were not fabricated nonsense. There was even supporting evidence listed beneath each one, all from the Great Library of the Martial Soul Academy. There were evidently real cases to support them.

That changed the nature of the matter entirely.

Yet Ah Yin did not know that as she read the Notebook, an invisible power was being drawn from her strand by strand. It crossed the distance and appeared on the Husky Back youth doing morning exercises at the village entrance, activating an existence that had lain dormant within him for many years.

"Hm?"

Tian Hao, who was leading the village elders in practicing the Watermelon Version of Tai Chi, felt his consciousness spin. The next moment, he appeared in a dark space.

There was nothing around him, only a piece of luminous white jade floating before his eyes as a stream of information entered his mind.