The Soul Master at Last

Did "Blue Silver Grass" possess thought?

As a professional who had personally cultivated more than twenty thousand "Blue Silver Grass" plants—from selecting the seeds, to rooting and sprouting, to one year old, three years old, ten years old, breaking through the First Shackle/over ten years old, ninety-nine years old, breaking through the Second Shackle/one hundred years old, two hundred years old, and three hundred years old—Ling Yi could give a definite answer to this question: No!

At least, for "Blue Silver Grass" under one hundred years old, even the concept of consciousness did not exist.

All they had was instinct!

Only upon reaching Hundred Year Level and above would they give birth to a hazy sense of existence. This sense of existence was not even as developed as that of a newborn cat or dog. It was roughly equivalent to the earliest state of a bird when it had just formed inside its egg.

Ling Yi had personally observed the mental state of cats and dogs at birth, and had also sensed it when the chickens he raised at home hatched from their eggs.

Only after breaking through the Second Shackle would "Blue Silver Grass" gradually begin to resemble a native Douluo creature, possessing a reaction to Soul Power.

Soul Power was like a converter, taking the spiritual energy and the power of heaven and earth from the outside world as nourishment, nourishing the hazy sense of existence within "Blue Silver Grass" bit by bit and setting it on the path toward developing consciousness.

If one changed the worldview, Soul Power could also be called—Demon Energy!

Of course, they were ultimately just different names for a type of extraordinary energy. To Ling Yi at present, the terminology itself held little significance.

Returning to the consciousness of "Blue Silver Grass."

After breaking through the Second Shackle and becoming Hundred Year Level "Blue Silver Grass," it began to condense a hazy consciousness and developed external responses such as affection, comfort, and liking. This was unlike "Blue Silver Grass" under one hundred years old, which would turn to ash in ignorance and insensibility even if it were burned by fire.

Pain? That concept did not exist~

But upon reaching Hundred Year Level, they gained that concept.

That was why Ling Yi said that only upon reaching Hundred Year Level did "Blue Silver Grass" truly count as a native product of Douluo—a Soul Beast!

And now, Ling Yi felt as though he had become such a Soul Beast. He had begun viewing the outside world from the perspective of a Soul Beast called "Blue Silver Grass."

Douluo Continent (Parallel World No. 10088), the northeastern region of the Heaven Dou Empire, the eastern coast of the Waterwood Principality, North River Mouth Town's Shan Hai Village.

Ling Yi could clearly sense that his body was still inside the Secret Chamber three meters beneath his room, but his viewpoint had appeared within Shan Hai Village.

Not in one particular place in Shan Hai Village, but in every part of Shan Hai Village!

All those places had one thing in common.

A single plant—or many plants—of "Blue Silver Grass" grew there.

Ling Yi had experienced states like this before, when he simulated "Blue Silver Grass" and performed Mimicry Cultivation, when he mobilized his Mental Strength to sense the outside world, and when Deep Sleep reflected his surroundings. But not once had it been as clear as this time!

Unfortunately, this state lasted for less than three breaths. Before Ling Yi could explore beyond Shan Hai Village, his consciousness shot back from every corner of the village, returning to the Ling Family Courtyard, then to Ling Yi's room, then to the Secret Chamber underground, and finally to his own body.

Ling Yi opened his eyes, still wanting more. As he recalled the marvel of that previous state, he began sensing his own condition.

At that moment, Ling Yi's body could be summed up in one word: good! Two words: healthy! Three words: he had developed! Four words: completely renewed!!

His body had defied the normal laws of skeletal development from his previous life and grown a little taller, just barely reaching the threshold of 1.7 meters. After all, men in this world did not have heights of 1.69 or 1.79 meters~

His skin had already been fair, but after years of swinging a forging hammer beside the furnace, it had taken on a faint yellow tint despite being repaired by Soul Power. Now, it had become as white and tender as polished jade. His already handsome and refined features seemed to have received a beauty filter, raising his appearance from eighty-nine out of one hundred to ninety.

That was only on the outside. Inside his body, vitality and vigor filled every part of him. His meridians had expanded by nearly half overall and grown more resilient. His muscles, bones, and sinews had become stronger and tougher, while his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, intestines, stomach, and other organs all seemed brand-new, clean inside and out and functioning at peak condition.

After sensing the changes within his body, Ling Yi began observing the outside world.

The instant he opened his eyes, just as expected, Ling Yi discovered that the world in his eyes had become more real, more colorful, and more vivid.

In the terms of his previous life, Ling Yi's visual quality had evolved from 480p standard definition to 720p high definition—and it was uncensored the whole way!

I only became a One-Ring Soul Master. Why does it feel like I've been reborn from the inside out?

Ling Yi raised his hand and tapped the space between his brows with the index and middle fingers of his right hand, pondering inwardly.

As he thought this, Ling Yi spread open his right hand. With a movement of his mind, a flicker of blue light appeared, and a slightly changed "Blue Silver Grass" appeared before his eyes.

Compared with before, his "Blue Silver Grass" Martial Soul had changed from its original single stalk with four leaves into two stalks with seven leaves. It was about one-third longer, its stalks nearly twice as thick, and its leaves considerably more substantial. Its overall pale blue color had become closer to true blue.

This aura... Ling Yi's eyes shifted slightly, and a trace of excitement flashed through them. An undisguised smile appeared on his face.

Although he had anticipated this to some extent, when his expectations truly became reality, Ling Yi still could not suppress the joy in his heart.

It was not that he could not force himself to control it, but there was no need. Living in this world, experiencing joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness was necessary.

One hundred years... Blue—Silver—Grass—! Ling Yi recited the words one by one in his heart.

After four years of painstaking effort, at this very moment, Ling Yi's Martial Soul had finally become Hundred Year Level "Blue Silver Grass"!

If, when Ling Yi had first awakened, the inherited Martial Soul "Blue Silver Grass" from the Ling Family had been the publicly acknowledged Waste Martial Soul "Blue Silver Grass" of the Douluo Continent, no different from the few-year-old "Blue Silver Grass" growing everywhere by the roadside, then the "Blue Silver Grass" Martial Soul in Ling Yi's right palm now possessed an aura no weaker than that of the roughly three-hundred-year-old "Blue Silver Grass" that had just sacrificed itself to him!

That was not all!

In Ling Yi's perception, the "Blue Silver Grass" Martial Soul in his hand now seemed to have "come alive," possessing a "breath" of its own.

With every breath in and out, the vitality radiating from the "Blue Silver Grass" plants in the underground Secret Chamber was drawn toward the "Blue Silver Grass" Martial Soul. Ling Yi's powerful, keen Mental Strength sensed that his "Blue Silver Grass" Martial Soul seemed to be growing...

No! This was not an illusion!

A glint flashed through Ling Yi's eyes. He stared intently at the "Blue Silver Grass" Martial Soul gently swaying its leaves in his right palm. He could confirm it—it was truly growing!!!

"Truly... interesting—"

An enigmatic smile appeared on Ling Yi's face as he murmured softly.

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