Trouble Brews Again

Night ends, dawn breaks, clouds disperse, snow stops. ✌♖ ✌🐟

As the first rays of sunlight fell into the valley, Ah Yin slowly awoke inside the giant blue grass ball.

As if by telepathy, Ling Yi also opened his eyes at the same time. The two looked at each other and saw their own reflections in each other's eyes.

As she watched, Ah Yin's cheeks suddenly flushed, and she turned her head slightly to the side. She felt a surge of heat returning, and the temperature was astonishing!

That makes sense, it's morning now, the sun is just rising, so the heat is a normal natural phenomenon.

At the same time, Ah Yin felt a lingering fear and developed a Sisi sense of respect for Yang Shelly.

God knows, if it weren't for the constant nourishment and recovery from the life force last night, she would have almost died from that Gao Qiang training.

Even so, Ah Yin couldn't count how many times she had teetered on the edge of transforming into Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

This shows that pushing limits during the day and pushing limits at night are not simple tasks.

Thinking of the Soul Ring, Ah Yin quickly turned her gaze back to Ling Yi. As the two naturally and smoothly interlocked, she bit her lower red lip and asked nervously with a nasal tone:

"Yi, you... you...(onomatopoeia)... did you...(onomatopoeia)... your Soul Power increase...(onomatopoeia)... reach level sixty last night...?"

"And... and...(onomatopoeia)... the Sixth Soul Ring has been formed?"

Seeing how hard Ah Yin had struggled to say those two sentences, Ling Yi nodded and chuckled lightly, "That's right. When we were developing the second stage of our Martial Soul Fusion Skill, influenced by your ' Blue Silver Emperor ' aura, my Soul Power, which was already on the verge of level 58 to 59, broke through directly. Come on, come a little higher..."

After changing the blank, Ling Yi paused, then continued, "Later, it seems our second-stage Martial Soul Fusion Skill triggered a miraculous state similar to enlightenment. Our two ' Blue Silver Domain ' overlapped, resulting in an exponential... well, you can think of it as an explosive enhancement. The influence increased a thousandfold from its original radius of several hundred miles, and all the ' Blue Silver Grass ' on the entire Douluo Continent was affected by our ' Blue Silver Domain.'"

"Look~"

Ling Yi released his right hand (fill in the blank), and opened his palm beside the two of them. In the blue-green Soul Power light, a small, lush green grass with a few Blue Silver patterns appeared:

"My Martial Soul has been recognized by your ' Blue Silver Emperor ' Martial Soul and by the billions of ' Blue Silver Grass ' throughout the continent. From its original 49,000-year history, it has ascended to become the 100,000-year-old 'Azure Wood Blue Silver Emperor '!"

"Under such a qualitative change, the increase in Soul Power from level 59 to level 60 can only be considered a negligible side effect."

"Not only that~"

Ling Yi to pull his left hand out of the way that was being pressed down, but couldn't. He could only use his chin to indicate the six different colored Soul Ring that had appeared under the two of them at some point.

Ah Yin obediently turned her head to look, her gaze instantly shifting from dazed to excited.

Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, red—!

"One hundred thousand years?! It really is one hundred thousand years?!" Ah Yin covered her red lips with her hand, trying hard not to scream out loud.

Ling Yi's Soul Ring Configuration is the most outstanding even in the thousands of years of history of the Douluo Continent!

Putting everything else aside, the Second Soul Ring, a thousand-year-old purple ring, and the Fourth Soul Ring, a ten-thousand-year-old black ring, are absolutely stunning!

However, these two are far from enough compared to Ling Yi's Sixth Soul Ring!

The vibrant red light reflected on Ah Yin's snow-white face, making her already slightly flushed cheeks turn a sickly red. Ah Yin, her expression excited, said in a trembling voice:

"Yi, this is Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring! You... you are... slow down... how did you do that?!?!"

It's important to understand that even for someone like her, the 100,000-year-old "Blue Silver Emperor," while she could automatically condense her first six Soul Ring using her former power after transforming into human form, once she became Soul Emperor, she needed to hunt Soul Beast to obtain Soul Ring in order to break through to the levels of Soul Saint, Soul Douluo, and even Titled Douluo!

Under these circumstances, even she wouldn't dare say she could possess a 100,000-year-old Soul Ring!

You can't just kill yourself and then absorb your own Soul Ring, can you?

This isn't how you exploit a bug.

"It's very simple—"

Ling Yi brought his mouth close to Ah Yin's ear and whispered, his movements both gentle and forceful, "As long as you know the technique of self-condensing Soul Ring, have enough homogeneous energy, and a physique capable of bearing that power, let alone Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, even a 200,000-year or 300,000-year Soul Ring is just a matter of time..."

Faced with Ling Yi's answer, Ah Yin rolled her eyes uncontrollably, and was stunned for a long time. Her mind went completely blank, as if she were floating on clouds.

Clearly, Ling Yi's words were unacceptable to her.

Indeed, it's just like that skit from Ling Yi's previous life about "putting an elephant in a refrigerator in just three steps." It sounds plausible, and it seems to make some sense, but once you go through the specific steps, you'll find that there are pitfalls everywhere.

The first step, the "Self-Condensing Soul Ring" technique, is enough to stop everyone on the Douluo Continent except for Ling Yi, and Ah Yin and Ah Rou, who are transformed from Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Next, there is the same source energy that is enough to construct a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. Such an existence is often Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast itself. What is the difference between this and hunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?

Finally, there is the physique that can withstand Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. Apart from some powerful Level 90 Quasi-Titled Douluo, even level 80 Quasi-Soul Douluo with the strongest Beast Martial Soul, or even Level 90 Quasi-Titled Douluo with a weaker physique, cannot withstand that overwhelming power and will only have their bodies burst by the enormous force.

Just like Ah Yin herself, she meets the first condition, being able to condense her own Soul Ring; she also meets the second condition, with the environment of "Blue Silver Valley" and the quantity and quality of "Blue Silver Grass" within hundreds of miles of the Green Cloud Mountain Range, it is entirely possible to provide the same source energy for constructing Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

However, even though Ah Yin eventually condensed Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, her physical condition was not good enough to absorb that power.

However, with the method provided by Ling Yi, Ah Yin's seventh, eighth, and ninth Soul Ring will no longer require hunting Soul Beast and can be formed on their own.

Whether it's Soul Skill or not doesn't Soul Skill. As long as you can break through the barrier to Martial Soul cultivation and continue to improve, that's enough.

In any case, under Ling Yi's influence, they no longer rely on Soul Skill to fight.

Furthermore, the fact that she can continue to cultivate and improve her strength without hunting Soul Beast is of great significance to Ah Yin, who is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form.

Even though she had prepared herself to truly be a human being, and even when she and Ah Rou were Soul Beast, they would kill other Soul Beast without hesitation, the act of hunting Soul Beast for Soul Ring still made her feel a slight sense of resistance.

You can call it being dramatic, but you also have to admit that it's a normal psychological phenomenon for a normal Life being.

As the saying goes, "Things of their own kind grieve, and even the autumn cries are mournful."

After a long while, Ah Yin came to her senses and excitedly wrapped her arms around Ling Yi's neck. She exerted force with all her limbs, making their connection even deeper, and her face was full of joy.

Clearly, she was genuinely grateful to Ling Yi for his pioneering work on Soul Ring.

Three poles in the sun.

When Ling Yi and Ah Yin returned to the City Lord’s Mansion, Yang Shelly, Ah Rou, Liu Erlong were each cultivating their Soul Power in their rooms.

In the eyes of the three women, Ah Yin has already broken through level 60. As long as she absorbs one more Soul Ring, she can become Soul Emperor!

What does it mean to be Soul Emperor who isn't even twenty-one years old yet?!

In the current Douluo Continent, the most talented individual is undoubtedly Tang Hao, the young sect master of the Clear Sky Sect, who is hailed as the next Clear Sky Douluo!

Even with Tang Hao's talent and the backing of the number one sect in the world, the Clear Sky Sect, he still broke through to the Soul Emperor level at the age of twenty-four!

Yang Shelly, who is the same age as Ling Yi, is still twenty-six years old in this Douluo Calendar 2618, and her birthday is still far away. She just broke through to level fifty-nine a few days ago.

If she can break through again before her birthday, she will be considered Soul Emperor at the age of twenty-six, and in terms of talent, she will only be slightly inferior to Tang Hao.

After all, Yang Shelly's talent was only so-so in the past. She was only at the Three-Ring Soul Elder level when she was eighteen years old. Now, in less than ten years, she has made great strides and is only one step away from the Six-Ring Soul Emperor. If the outside world knew about this, it would cause a great sensation!

Yang Shelly also knew that everything she had now was due to Ling Yi's favoritism towards her. This made her, who already loved Ling Yi wholeheartedly, even more immersed in the love web that Ling Yi had woven for her, willingly and without hesitation!

However, no matter how willing she was, she still had some little temper tantrums.

Even men who claim to be rational can get carried away and act impulsively, let alone women who are mostly more emotional.

Therefore, when she sensed Ling Yi's presence in the City Lord’s Mansion, Yang Shelly immediately stopped cultivating and rushed out of her room to find Ling Yi.

Although she saw Ling Yi's terrifying Soul Ring Configuration, even that bright red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring only caught Yang Shelly's eye a couple of times. She didn't even look at it a third time before grabbing Ling Yi and striding towards her room, completely ignoring Ah Yin beside her, as well as Ah Rou and Liu Erlong who rushed over after hearing the news.

Not to mention the three women standing in the courtyard of the City Lord’s Mansion with different expressions.

In Yang Shelly's boudoir, the girl forcefully pushed Ling Yi to the table inside the room, and at the same time hooked the door with her foot and slammed it shut.

Her jade-like hands brushed against her clothes, and the Storage Soul Tool on her fair wrist shimmered with the light of Soul Power. Yang Shelly took a step forward and immediately did a standing split, raising her long, straight jade legs and placing her fair little feet on Ling Yi's shoulders, pressing Ling Yi's lower back against the table.

Feeling the girl's fierce aura, Ling Yi, who was already feeling guilty, had no way to resist.

He only had time to see a white tiger roaring at him, but before he could see what it was roaring about, everything went black.

...(omitted)

As the moon reached its zenith, Ling Yi embraced Yang Shelly, who was limp as a lump of mud, and sighed inwardly.

Some people can only use their fists, elbows, knees, and feet as weapons, but a genius like Yang Shelly, who has extremely high fighting talent, cannot be underestimated at all. Every part of her body is a weapon!

If it weren't for years of physical training, and the development of the ' Thunder Mode ' in the last two years, his physical strength would have increased dramatically, even to the point that he could withstand Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. This is why he was able to defeat Yang Shelly, whose combat power has been repeatedly enhanced.

After all, no matter how rich Ling Yi's combat experience was in his previous life, after the two had fought so many battles, Yang Shelly's talent had allowed her to grow at a visible speed.

Only then did Ling Yi have time to recall that yesterday seemed to be his 27th birthday.

Thinking this, Ling Yi hugged the beautiful woman in his arms tightly again, preparing to apologize to her; she must have waited a long time last night.

However, before Ling Yi speak, the girl's groggy voice rang out first:

"I'm not coming... I'm not coming... I give up..."

Ling Yi: "..."

When the year 2618 of the Douluo Calendar arrived in early July, an invitation was delivered to Ling Yi in Lingyun City.

"Brother Yi?"

Qingqiu Xin looked at Ling Yi, who was deep in thought while holding the invitation, and called out softly.

"Hmm~" Ling Yi looked up at the sound and gave Qingqiu Xin an apologetic smile. "It's alright, Ah Xin, you can continue—"

"Okay~" Qingqiu Xin nodded, and with great insight, did not ask any more questions, and continued to report on the development of the Lingyun City Commerce Bureau over the past six months.

As time went by, the Green Wood Merchant Association, which already had influence throughout the Douluo Continent, grew stronger by relying on the foundation of its base in Lingyun City. Now, its branches in various places are developing very well, and the cooperation of its partners is getting better and better, which has enabled many of the Chamber of Commerce's business strategies to be implemented smoothly.

In addition, thanks to the manpower and channels of the Green Wood Merchant Association, nearly 200,000 people migrated from all over the Douluo Continent.

Although over 99% of them were ordinary people with no talent for Soul Power, their arrival greatly increased the variety of Martial Soul bloodlines in Lingyun City, achieving a diversity of types.

After Qingqiu Xin finished reporting, it was Long Yin who was in charge of the affairs of the Martial Training Bureau. Since Dugu Bo spent most of his time cultivating in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well of Sunset Forest, Long Yin was basically in charge of the affairs of the Martial Arts Division.

With Long Yin's strength Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, managing the Soul Master of the ' Lingyun City ' system, who were at most Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, did not result in any unpleasant incidents.

After all, as a friend who followed Ling Yi from the early years, even though those later followers were also Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, Long Yin's actual combat strength was enough to crush each of them!

After Long Yin finished his report, Li Zhishu from the Food Bureau stepped forward. Behind the Three Departments were the Six Ministries. The entire process took more than half a day.

After everyone had a sumptuous lunch together at the City Lord’s Mansion, Li Zhishu, Qingqiu Xin, Long Yin and others left one after another. Ling Yi sat in the main hall of the City Lord’s Mansion and took out the invitation he had just received that morning.

Looking at the handwriting and content on the invitation, Ling Yi frowned slightly.

The invitation was sent by "Heaven Dou City" and came from Crown Prince Xue Ye of the "Heaven Dou Empire".

The other party invited Ling Yi to a small gathering in "Heaven Dou City". It just so happens that the Xue Ye Princess Xue Ye is about to give birth. With Ling Yi, a Healing System Soul Master whose healing ability is comparable to Soul Emperor or even Soul Saint, Crown Prince Xue Ye said that he would feel more at ease.

"I don't believe you for a second!" Ling Yi retorted, clutching the invitation.

Goodnight everyone~