Memory Palace

In the study, Ling Yi was enjoying his solitude alone.

Not cultivating Soul Power is something that happens at night;

Without any physical training, I had already practiced various boxing stances this morning. In addition, my strength has now reached a bottleneck. Before I can create a more effective method, I can only study how to make one part of my strength achieve the effect of two or three parts of my strength.

He also did not study various external techniques. He had spent a lot of time and energy on this recently, and his mind was too tense. Even though he was born with strong mental strength and Deep Sleep had a miraculous effect on the brain, Ling Yi still needed to adjust his mental state himself.

Therefore, in the past two days, apart from his regular cultivation, Ling Yi has often stayed in this study to read novels.

To be precise, it was like building a rudimentary Memory Palace in one's mind and then rereading a novel that one had already read in a previous life.

Sometimes you have to admit that those who write online novels may not have the best writing skills, but when it comes to their imagination, they are really amazing!

You never know how far an ordinary, taciturn, and reserved office worker's imagination can soar, or even break through the heavens, behind the screen where they can let loose!

Ling Yi used to read online novels only to pass the time while learning various professional knowledge from young ladies.

When I see all sorts of brilliant and imaginative ideas, I might just type "666" at most, but I'm very stingy with other things like tips or votes. I consider a full subscription as my way of showing my support.

After all, novels are just a diversion in life and don't affect our real lives.

Studying, working, eating and drinking, spending time with the girls studying, working, eating and drinking...

But now that he's transmigrated, Ling Yi really wants to reconnect to his old internet connection, buy a premium VIP membership, and start spending money like crazy to get authors to write at full speed. He also wants to learn from their creative ideas and see if he can use them in his present and future self.

Even if you only use one, it's still a huge profit, since how much does it cost to read a novel?

He subscribed to all the books back then, and a novel of more than two million words didn't even cost him a hundred yuan, which was less than the cost of a KFC family bucket.

"What a pity~"

Inside the Memory Palace, Ling Yi (mental projection) put down a tattered novel titled "Douluo: Martial Soul Researcher," his face filled with melancholy and sighs.

This is a Douluo Continent fanfiction with a pretty good concept, but the characters' personalities are a bit conflicted, which prevented the storyline from fully developing and caused it to fall apart halfway through, with no sequel.

Regardless, many of the ideas about the Douluo Continent Martial Soul System above are still worth Ling Yi's deep thought and verification.

After all, there are very few Douluo fanfics where the protagonist's Martial Soul is "Blue Silver Grass." Before Ling Yi's transmigration, there were only a handful of such works. The others were either about "Pangu Axe," "Twelve-Winged Angel," or "Golden Sacred Dragon," which were all high-end and had no reference value for his current situation.

"Several readers recommended a Douluo fanfiction called ' Starting from Blue Silver Grass,' but the title wasn't very appealing. Also, many people in the comments section mentioned issues with the character design and the use of clones, so I hesitated and didn't click to read it..."

Ling Yi (mental projection) muttered to himself, turned his head and waved his hand, bringing a book with only a cover, a few pages of comments, and a small number of chapter titles closer.

He glanced at it a few times, shook his head, and waved his hand to send it back to its original place, putting it together with other online novels.

Picking up the tattered book he had just put down, he glanced at the brief mention of Martial Soul Evolution at the beginning and focused his attention on the section about "Spirit Refinement, Soul Refinement, and Heavenly Refinement" later on.

While watching, let your mind wander:

"Damn it, if I had known I would transmigrate into Douluo, even if I resisted, I would have gritted my teeth and read through the Douluo I parts of Douluo Continent. Now, all I can do is learn about the settings that appeared in the later parts through these Douluo Continent fanfics..."

The problem is, we still don't know if these settings have been modified by these fanfiction authors.

Furthermore, many simply mention a term, such as Soul Core, Spirit Refinement, Soul Spirit, Battle Armor... without providing a clear explanation...

Thinking of this, Ling Yi (the mental projection) twitched his brow, a sudden thought occurring to him: 'Uh, maybe it's because the original work wasn't clear either?'

Shaking his head to dismiss the thought, it wasn't that he didn't believe it, but just by looking at the Douluo I, Ling Yi knew that the possibility was quite high!

Some online novelists create novels out of interest, but many more do so to make money. They have no need, nor is it possible, to create a complete worldview.

Therefore, when the illusion becomes reality, as a time traveler, one can only use the memories of the previous life as stepping stones on the road to growth, rather than as a strategy for action.

Otherwise, the outcome might be quite ugly.

After all, this is a real world, and everything in it will evolve on its own, filling in the gaps in the original illusions.

With a wave of his hand, Ling Yi (the mental projection) returned the books to the shelf, looked up at the ceiling of his Memory Palace, which was currently just a simplified version of his study. A few pieces of information from Douluo Continent fanfiction flashed before his eyes, and he quickly extracted the contents: ' Thousand Refinement imbue with spirit, Spirit Refinement creates life, Soul Refinement endows with wisdom, Heavenly Refinement merges with the Dao...'

According to the descriptions in these Douluo fanfics, after years of exploration, especially after breaking through the Thousand Refinement and becoming Blacksmith, I can now project my aura outwards, allowing the fluctuations of my Qi and Blood to flow through the forging hammer and infect the metal being hammered...

"Having control over one's mental energy isn't too difficult, but the key is to figure it out. With some practice, you'll be able to do it..."

Thinking of this, Ling Yi (spiritual projection) murmured, "I wonder how long it will take Senior Brother Lou Gao and Uncle Tie Futu to make the metal possess sentience after receiving my letter..."

As the only two Divine Craftsman in the Douluo Continent at present, it shouldn't be long before they become master craftsmen.

As for further inscribing Soul Guidance Array Patterns, that's up to them to decide—"

Currently, before the start of the first Douluo I storyline, blacksmiths are not only considered lowly in the eyes of Soul Master, but their forging skills are also not particularly noteworthy.

Perhaps the Weiyi that can truly impress people is the mastery of the properties of various metals by Lou Gao and his team of Divine Craftsman, which allows them to develop all sorts of alloys with miraculous effects.

Leaving aside advanced blacksmiths and those below, they simply forge, strengthen, or restore the original texture of metal.

Only by mastering an alloy formula and completing the Thousand Refinement forging process can a work be used by Soul Master of the Soul Elder level, thus enabling the blacksmith to become Blacksmith.

Going further up, Master Blacksmith needs to develop his own unique alloy formula, and the forged tools must be usable in battle by Soul Ancestor Soul Master.

The works of Grandmaster Blacksmith are not much different in quality from those of Master Blacksmith, but Master Blacksmith can often only make a single type of tool, while Grandmaster has mastered the making of multiple types of tools.

One is specialized, and the other is specialized yet broad in scope.

Only by simultaneously mastering these two seemingly contradictory terms can one be called a "Grandmaster"!

The next level, the Divine Craftsman, represents another qualitative leap. Just the fact that the quality of a single work can rival that of a Soul King is enough to explain everything!

It can be said that even Divine Craftsman like Lou Gao and Tie Futu only painstakingly studied the material properties of metal itself, without thinking of endowing metal and their works with spirituality and Life as they did in the new era that followed, tens of thousands of years later.

In their minds, ironware is just ironware. No matter how good the ironware is, even if they regard it as their own masterpiece and treat it like their own child, it will still be used as a tool in the hands of other Soul Master.

It's not that some blacksmiths haven't considered treating their work like a child, but they are often limited by their own abilities and the uncertainty of the future, making it difficult to maintain a consistent belief, and ultimately failing to achieve the desired results.

Sometimes, spiritual metals and spiritual works are born by chance, but due to the extremely small probability of such occurrences, they can only be regarded as a coincidence or a miracle.

If things continue this way, perhaps only one day in the future, when a "destined person" who has gathered the right timing, location, and people will be able to discover the reason for endowing metal with spirituality, and then step by step verify and summarize the rules, until a revolution belonging to blacksmiths is launched.