Douluo: My Custom Achievement System
Jiang Nannan asked excitedly in a low voice.
Being able to enter the academy at the end of the semester broke Shrek Academy's rules.
Jiang Yi said softly, "Actually, Teacher stepped in and secured this opportunity for me. Of course, I put in some effort myself."
"So it was Teacher Li." Jiang Nannan was astonished.
Clearly, she had not expected Li Lingyu, a teacher at Lingshan Junior Academy, to have so much influence.
Jiang Nannan asked curiously, "Then what effort did you put in?"
Jiang Yi blinked and smiled. "Didn't I tell you? My first soul ring is a thousand-year soul ring."
Jiang Nannan's eyes widened in disbelief, and she covered her open mouth with her hand.
But she soon calmed down, because she believed what her Brother Jiang Yi said was true.
Having learned how Jiang Yi had entered Shrek Academy as an exception to the rules, the two returned to class.
Although the students in the class disliked Jiang Yi, they did not cause any trouble.
Just like that, Jiang Yi's first day at Shrek Academy passed peacefully.
His first day at the academy was also the last day of Shrek Academy's semester.
After class, he accompanied Jiang Nannan to the dormitory to pack her luggage.
As soon as they reached the dormitory building, they ran into Tang Ya and Bei Bei.
Since Tang Ya was in another class, Bei Bei had met up with her before coming to the dormitory.
"Nannan." Tang Ya trotted over.
"Jiang Yi, you really did get into the academy. I thought Bei Bei was joking with me," Tang Ya said, a little surprised to see Jiang Yi in person.
"Little Ya, do you distrust me that much?" Bei Bei said helplessly.
Then he extended his hand to Jiang Yi. "Hello, Jiang Yi. I'm Bei Bei, a student in Class One too."
"Hello." Jiang Yi politely extended his hand in return.
Tang Ya shot Bei Bei a displeased glare. "What do you mean, Little Ya? You should call me Teacher Little Ya."
Bei Bei raised both hands in surrender, and Tang Ya gave a delicate snort.
"Hmph, Nannan, let's go pack. They can wait here."
With that, Tang Ya pulled Jiang Nannan along, and Jiang Nannan hurriedly said, "Brother Jiang Yi, I'll be done packing soon."
After the two girls left, the atmosphere fell quiet for a moment.
After a while, Bei Bei was the first to break the silence.
"Jiang Yi, you and Jiang Nannan seem close. She calls you brother. Are you siblings by blood?" Bei Bei asked.
"No. I was just adopted by Nannan's mother and grew up with her."
Jiang Yi did not dislike Bei Bei much, and now that Bei Bei was showing goodwill, he was naturally happy to accept it.
"I see." Bei Bei understood.
He had thought that since they were both surnamed Jiang, they must be siblings by blood. He had not expected otherwise.
Bei Bei was about to say something else when Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya came running out of the dormitory.
"What were you two talking about?" Tang Ya asked curiously as she came to Bei Bei's side.
"Just chatting," Jiang Yi said with a faint smile.
"Brother Jiang Yi, it's about time we left. Teacher Li is still waiting for us outside," Jiang Nannan said from the side.
"In that case, see you both next semester." Jiang Yi was the first to bid farewell to the two he had just met.
"Goodbye, Little Ya," Jiang Nannan said with a smile as well.
Jiang Yi was in her class, and she could go home and see her mother again, so Jiang Nannan was naturally very happy.
Tang Ya and Bei Bei politely said their goodbyes as well.
After Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan left, Tang Ya turned to Bei Bei and asked, "What did you want to ask Jiang Yi just now?"
"I was just a little curious about how Jiang Yi managed to get admitted as an exception. For him to do that, he must be very strong."
Bei Bei watched Jiang Yi's departing figure as he spoke.
Leaving Bei Bei's thoughts aside, before Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan left, they first went to collect Jiang Yi's dormitory key.
That way, he would not have to deal with the dormitory when he returned the following year.
After that, the two quickly left Shrek City and met up with Li Lingyu, who had long since arrived outside the city.
Li Lingyu looked at Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan with a smile.
"Let's head home."
In the night, the three set off together toward Spirit Mountain City.
Three days later, inside Spirit Mountain City, the travel-worn Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan returned to the familiar little courtyard.
"Mom!" Jiang Nannan called out eagerly as soon as she entered.
Aunt Rou ran out at the sound of her voice. Looking at the daughter she had not seen for so long, she shed tears of excitement.
Chapter 47: I Am Blue Silver, Blue Silver Is Me (Please keep reading!)
"Whoosh..." The cold wind howled past, setting the leaves rustling.
The area around Spirit Mountain City was especially cold and quiet in winter, with hardly a soul to be seen outside the city.
Three days had passed since Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan returned to Spirit Mountain City.
During those three days, Jiang Yi had taken a rare short break, relaxing his body and mind instead of cultivating.
Once he had recovered his spirits, Jiang Yi quickly threw himself back into cultivation.
This time, however, his cultivation was different from usual.
After cultivating for so long, Jiang Yi had noticed that he was earning achievements much less frequently.
Clearly, this was because he had spent so much time cultivating without coming into contact with other things.
The achievement system was what he relied on to grow stronger, so naturally he could not let it go to waste. Jiang Yi therefore planned to take the initiative and do certain things to try to trigger achievements.
The first thing he thought of was his Martial Soul, Blue Silver Grass.
He had previously earned an achievement by using Blue Silver Grass to trip the Silver Moon Fox, and another the first time he basked in the sun.
As his Martial Soul, Blue Silver Grass surely had many more achievements to uncover.
To better conduct targeted training with his Blue Silver Grass, Jiang Yi left Spirit Mountain City this time.
He went to a vast field of Blue Silver Grass outside the city.
This field of Blue Silver Grass was already more than ten times the size of the back mountain at Lingshan Junior Academy.
"There really is a huge amount of Blue Silver Grass here." Standing amid it, Jiang Yi felt refreshed in body and mind.
"It's time to start trying."
Jiang Yi sat cross-legged in the center of the vast field of Blue Silver Grass. In an instant, his presence blended completely with the Blue Silver Grass around him, until they were indistinguishable from one another.
Previously, Jiang Yi had used his spiritual power to make the Blue Silver Grass submit, earning the Grass-Headed Emperor achievement. He had drawn on its life force and ultimately earned the Borrow Life and Restore Vitality achievement.
Both spiritual power and life force had earned him achievements.
What about Soul Power, then? Could it earn him an achievement too?
That was the first approach Jiang Yi had thought to try.
Completely surrounded by Blue Silver Grass, Jiang Yi circulated the Soul Power in his body, until it all flowed into his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
With Soul Power flowing into it, the Blue Silver Grass bloomed with blue light, and its faint, barely visible golden threads seemed to come alive.
It gave off a noble presence that ordinary people could scarcely perceive.
Before that noble presence, the gray veins grew somewhat dim, as though submitting at its feet.
The ordinary Blue Silver Grass around him bowed outright in submission before the noble presence.
Soul Power poured out in a steady stream through the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, then flowed into the other Blue Silver Grass through their roots.
Soul Power transformed through the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul was perfectly compatible with the other Blue Silver Grass.
For a time, the Blue Silver Grass around Jiang Yi began to glow under the influence of the Soul Power.
And its swaying leaves seemed to be growing at an extremely slow pace.
Under the influence of the imperial presence, the Blue Silver Grass was growing much faster.
Jiang Yi, who was closely connected to the Blue Silver Grass, naturally noticed it immediately.
He could not help feeling surprised.
"Even its growth has sped up. Could the Blue Silver Emperor's status among Blue Silver Grass be similar to that of the Emperor Auspicious Beast?"
That was highly possible. After all, on Douluo Continent, a bloodline's influence on a Soul Beast was exceptionally clear.
Tang Wulin, who possessed the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, could make other dragon-type Martial Souls evolve merely through the presence he released while cultivating.
Such an influence was terrifying.
It was only reasonable, then, for the Blue Silver Emperor, who stood at the pinnacle of Blue Silver Grass, to influence ordinary Blue Silver Grass.
Although Jiang Yi had little Soul Power in his body, its purity and recovery speed far surpassed those of ordinary people.
And that "little" was only by his own standards.
Compared with others, there was not a single Soul Master at the same level whose total Soul Power could match his.
Some Soul Grandmasters, or even Soul Elders, with less substantial foundations might not be his equal.
Moreover, he exercised great restraint each time he released Soul Power. As soon as a blade of grass had been touched by it, he stopped channeling it in and moved on to help another.
Under these circumstances, the amount of Blue Silver Grass receiving Soul Power continued to increase.
Before long, nearly two-tenths of the Blue Silver Grass had received an infusion of Soul Power, and the range was still expanding.
Throughout the process, Jiang Yi's Soul Power was continually consumed and was nearly exhausted.
"I still haven't earned an achievement. Can this method not trigger one?" Jiang Yi felt somewhat helpless at the situation.
But he did not give up. He continued using his remaining Soul Power to influence more Blue Silver Grass.
Jiang Yi's face turned pale, and cold sweat ran down his forehead. These were signs that his Soul Power was running out.
Just as Jiang Yi could no longer hold on, a turning point came.
The golden threads on his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul trembled, releasing a strange, powerful presence.
The Blue Silver Grass within range resonated intensely, bursting into dazzling blue light.
The Blue Silver Grass that had been passively receiving Soul Power through Jiang Yi as its core now released Soul Power of its own.
With Jiang Yi at its center, the Soul Power began circulating back and forth at an incredible speed.
Jiang Yi's depleted Soul Power was replenished in an instant.
At that moment, the cold mechanical voice Jiang Yi had long awaited finally rang out in his mind.
At the same time, a flash of silver light appeared before his eyes.
"Detected: the host has completed an energy fusion cycle with more than ten thousand blades of Blue Silver Grass. You are in the Blue Silver Grass, and the Blue Silver Grass is in you. Achievement obtained."
"Achievement name: I Am Blue Silver, Blue Silver Is Me. (A perfect fusion of individual and collective. You have surpassed the role of controller and truly become the core and soul.)"
"Achievement reward: 1. Soul Power Synchronization: when your Soul Power is exhausted, you can draw on the Soul Power of the Blue Silver Grass network to replenish your own."
"When you have ample Soul Power, you can feed it back to the Blue Silver Grass in the network, allowing it to grow and evolve."
"2. All Things as One Heart: the favorability of all plant Soul Beasts toward you increases by fifty percent. At the same time, your Blue Silver Grass gains the trait 'Life Infection.'"
"It can assimilate other ordinary plants into Blue Silver Grass."
Feeling the Soul Power circulating through his body and looking at the achievement in his mind, Jiang Yi was excited.
"Fusing Soul Power with Blue Silver Grass really can earn an achievement, and it's even a silver achievement."