Six-Year Summary

After returning to Shan Hai Village, Ling Xiaoshan went to the storage room, took out several wooden shafts of varying lengths, and skillfully fitted hoe blades onto them one by one.

Ling Yi was in no hurry to flip through the Basic Meditation Method in his arms. In any case, when he had first gotten it and casually skimmed through it, he had already memorized it.

With A'Huang and Meow Meow cheerfully keeping him company, Ling Yi began making his rounds through Shan Hai Village.

Compared with six years ago, when Ling Yi had just been born, Shan Hai Village had changed drastically.

Aside from the Blue Silver Grass that could be seen everywhere, over a hundred times more abundant than in previous years, every household courtyard in the village had been expanded.

In addition, the Farmland west of the village had expanded several times over, and many neat, uniform fields had appeared to the east and south as well.

Led by the Ling Family and Zhang Family, through exchanges, trades, and other methods, the fields of each household in the village had been redrawn into separate areas. Then, through unified labor, a good deal of wasteland had been reclaimed for every family and turned into fertile fields.

With a dozen or twenty people swinging hoes and harrows together, a mu of land could be reclaimed in an extremely short time.

Today they reclaimed land for the Wang Family in the village's east, tomorrow they sowed for the Ling Family in the village's south, and the day after tomorrow they harvested for the Li Family in the village's east. The villagers of Shan Hai Village suddenly discovered that this kind of cooperative labor not only genuinely increased the area of their own fields, but also clearly improved the efficiency of farming and harvesting.

In practical terms, this showed when the autumn harvest came and grain filled the granaries at home.

Not only that, under Zhang Dahe's leadership, ponds of various sizes had appeared one after another southeast of the village, on both sides of the winding bend carved out by the Changlin River.

Now, under the eaves of every household in Shan Hai Village, strips of smoked, soy-brown salted fish hung.

Meat and fish, things they once could barely touch a few times all year round, were no longer something out of reach.

Since other families were like this, Ling Yi's family and the Zhang Family naturally would not be worse than them—only better.

"Little Yi, come eat at my place later—"

"No, Aunt Qing, I'm eating at my uncle's place at noon—"

"Little Yi, come eat at your uncle's house—"

"No, Fifth Uncle, I have to go to my eldest uncle's place at noon—"

As he walked and looked around, greeting the uncles and aunties in the village along the way, Ling Yi made full use of his good looks and sweet tongue. Wherever he went, he was a favorite.

Amid the sharp cries of cicadas hiding in the treetops above, Ling Yi wandered to the eastern end of the village and arrived at the treasured resting place he had often visited over the past two years.

Beside the Zhang Family Lotus Pond, on the Large Bluestone.

Ling Yi lay on his back with his eyes closed, basking in the somewhat scorching golden sunlight, and his mind slowly calmed.

On the Black Earth beside him, Meow Meow and A'Huang lay curled to his left and right, their heads resting on their front paws as they edged slightly closer to the Large Bluestone beneath Ling Yi.

In his Sea of Consciousness, Ling Yi's Mental Strength began to surge, carefully summarizing and categorizing the situation of himself, the Ling Family, the Zhang Family, and even Shan Hai Village.

Over the past six years, apart from the first year, every year, every month, and even every day, Ling Yi would sort through everything around him once, making sure he knew it all clearly.

Ling Yi

Age: Six Years Old, two months, and twenty-one days

Martial Soul: Blue Silver Grass

Aptitude: Innate Soul Power Half Level

Family Background: Farmer household

The above were Ling Yi's current data tags: simple, direct, and one could even say pitifully blank-slate data.

No matter who looked at it, their first reaction would be to shake their head. With conditions like these, he would not amount to anything in this life.

Class advancement?

Dream on. Wash up and go to sleep!

In this extraordinary world where bloodline outweighed everything, crossing class barriers was more than a hundred times harder than in his previous life!

Most crucial of all, Ling Yi, as a transmigrator, did not have any of those essential cheat-like golden fingers transmigrators were supposed to have!

System, portable old grandpa, companion spiritual treasure, cultivation memories... he had none of them!!

Of course, even with this starting panel that would make the vast majority of transmigrators frown, Ling Yi was unwilling to sink into it and resign himself to being ordinary.

In Ling Yi's view, although he did not possess the cheat-like golden fingers common transmigrators had, he did have hidden golden fingers of his own.

And there were three such golden fingers!

The first, and the most common, was reincarnation: his Mental Strength talent surpassed that of ordinary people.

Thanks to an adult soul's origin being conceived anew from the womb, then born and grown, the strengthening of his soul origin meant that, let alone his peers, even adults like Ling Xiaoshan and Zhang Dahe were far inferior to Ling Yi in Mental Strength.

And that was Ling Yi when he had been only two or three years old.

The second golden finger was based on the novels, anime, films, and TV dramas he had seen in his previous life, and consisted of his understanding of cultivation concepts, realms, wild ideas, and so on.

In the ordinary world of his previous life, where there was no magic and no spiritual energy, these understandings could only exist in fantasy. But Ling Yi had now arrived in this world, which had likewise originally existed only in fantasy, so those concepts and wild ideas were no longer flowers in a mirror or the moon in water. They had the possibility of being realized.

Just as Ling Yi had previously assessed in his heart, this was a precious fortune!

As for the third golden finger, it was something Ling Yi had learned through Yan Bin: the current Saint Child of Spirit Hall was named—Qian Xunji!

And two years ago, in Douluo Calendar 2695, Spirit Hall had announced to the entire continent that the Tribunal Elder, Qian Daoliu, had reached Level 99 in soul power, becoming the strongest existence beneath the gods!

Over the years, Spirit Hall's Tribunal Elder Qian Daoliu had always been called the Two Peaks of the Soul Master world together with Clear Sky Sect's sect master Tang Chen. Around two years ago, the two of them had reached Level 99 one after the other, and could be called existences closest to the gods!

Of course, those two big shots had nothing whatsoever to do with the current Ling Yi. In the original timeline and plotline Ling Yi knew, they were merely two pure background boards, existing only to play the role of old grandpas who passed down skills to the Heaven's Mandate figures on the righteous and villainous sides.

The main reason to bring up those two was that their current situation represented a time coordinate.

Right now, those two background-board old grandpas were still active on Douluo Continent. That meant the current point in time was still at least several decades away from the beginning of the plot Ling Yi was familiar with!

Although he had lost some of the advantage of foreknowledge, in exchange, he had gained several decades of time to develop!

Time was Ling Yi's third golden finger!

Although my aptitude is low, my origins are humble, and I don't have any cheats like sign-ins, check-ins, lotteries, theft... or anything like that, with several decades of a head start, it may not be impossible to obtain enough strength and status before the plot begins, and then plan for those opportunities arranged for the child of Heaven's Mandate—

As Ling Yi thought this, he began to continue calculating his current circumstances.

With a thought, the crude panel, so simple it looked shabby, began to gradually fill out.

First, name, age, Martial Soul, and aptitude had not changed, but after these four items, some new content had appeared.

Physique/Essence: one hundred twenty-eight jin of strength

Mind/Spirit: Deep Sleep Stage Two, tranquil and peaceful intent, spiritual perception

Methods: "Crystal Meditation Method 2.0," "Feline Breathing Method," "Basic Body Tempering Exercise"—Cat Form, Dog Form, "Farmer Three Forms"—Hoeing Form, Scything Form (incomplete), Axing Form (incomplete), "Basic Meditation Method" (not yet initiated)

Skills: slingshot (never missed within fifty meters), Hypnosis (apprentice level, requires the target's cooperation), staff technique (incomplete), saber technique (incomplete), axe technique (incomplete)

Pets: A'Huang (Earth Dog, Head Wolf Level Combat Power), Meow Meow (Li Hua Cat, Leopard Level Combat Power)

The above was the fruit of Ling Yi's painstaking efforts over the six years since his birth.

Compared with the ordinary white panel he had been born with, no matter how you looked at it now, it could at least be rated as excellent green, right?

His personal information had been summarized up to this point. Next, it was time for his family circumstances.

The Ling Family, from his grandfather Ling Changqing down through the direct bloodline, including Ling Yi and his younger brother Ling Shan, had six people in total.

They owned one hundred fifty mu of fertile farmland, more than two hundred domesticated wild chickens, more than sixty Wild Rabbits, three ewes bought at the market last year, twenty-two Silver Soul Coins, and more than one hundred Copper Soul Coins.

Within three generations, they had seventeen collateral relatives, and nearly a hundred more distant relatives.

In addition, there was his maternal uncle's Zhang family, which likewise had over a hundred mu of fertile farmland, seven lotus ponds of about one mu each, two water buffalo, and an unknown amount of coinage.

Overall, these family conditions were far, far better than six years ago, when the two families had nothing besides their respective fifty or so mu of farmland.

Family background: rich peasant household (next step, minor landlord!)

Thanks to book friend Wu Ji Shan Wu Ji E for the tip, and thank you all for your support! Thank you! (^_^)