Chapter 113: The Millennium Limit

Whether it was the "Soul Storage Crystal" or the "Revolving Steel," these were merely byproducts of his research into various methods to enhance his strength.

Unlike the southern part of the continent, where the climate is on the warmer side in Gengxin City, the Waterwood Principality, located in the northeastern part of the Douluo Continent, enjoys a relatively pleasant climate due to its proximity to the sea.

Except during those few winter months each year, and the part near the northern cold region of the continent known as Coldwind City.

In the Blue Silver Domain, at the Mountain and Sea Garden.

Due to Ling Yi's return, the entire territory's development has been truly remarkable. Over half a year has passed, and anyone who visits now would be amazed by the neatly arranged villages and houses, farmlands, orchards, rivers, ponds... and the harvests have increased several times over.

Because of this, every resident in the territory has become more vibrant and enthusiastic, much like the ever-present Blue Silver Grass full of vitality.

In the Blue Silver Domain, the Blue Silver Grass has already become a symbol of spirit. Everyone likens themselves to the Blue Silver Grass. Despite being born weak and humble, it hides its vitality and possesses a strong adaptability, with a tenacious spirit undaunted by external hardship.

Within Ling Yi's secluded courtyard.

Half a year ago, a rule was announced that no one should enter his courtyard without permission. Under Ling Yi's nurturing, the Blue Silver Grass in the courtyard had all undergone extraordinary changes.

In the outside world, the "Blue Silver Grass" barely reaches an average person's ankle, but here, each stalk reaches at least the height of a person's calf. Some even grow as tall as a person's knees or thighs!

Of course, this courtyard, which spans over a thousand square meters, doesn't just cultivate "Blue Silver Grass."

You can see, at each corner of the yard, different types of trees, rockeries, and metal weapon racks have been transplanted.

There's also a small pond, about a dozen square meters in size, dug at the southeast corner, where lotus flowers are in full bloom.

Beneath the pond, two clay pipes, each with a diameter of about several dozen centimeters, allow the water here to remain vibrant and lively.

In other areas like the southwest, northwest, and northeast, trees ranging from three to five meters in height, such as the "Iron Birch," "Fire-patterned Wutong," "Drunken Peach," and "Golden Silk Jujube," are planted.

These various soul-attribute trees with slight five-element tendencies were all transplanted here by Ling Yi. Over his years of medical practice and training, he nurtured connections and brought these from the five basic soul hunting forests of the Shui Mu Principality.

In terms of the courtyard's style and layout, only the royal abode of the Shui Mu Principality, with its two-hundred-eighty-year-old "Rose of Sharon," surpasses Ling Yi's garden.

It's not that marquises and earls are incapable of such arrangements; they simply don't wish to expend such effort!

It's important to understand that outside the Soul Beast Forest, not just any place can provide the necessary conditions for these soul power plants to thrive.

Relocating them outside might not even allow these plants to grow as much in a hundred years as they would in ten years within the forest. Moreover, they might even wither or die, a typical unrewarding effort.

The formation of the Soul Beast Forest is, to a large extent, dependent on its geographical location.

In such an environment, those soul power plants—which already grow slowly—can develop normally.

The old woods at the northern edge of Shan Hai Village used to be a place with relatively active elemental energy, though still much weaker compared to the Soul Beast Forest.

However, it still surpasses many other places by several levels!

Especially the spot where the "Iron Birch Tree," which had been standing for over three hundred years, once grew. It even approached the elemental energy standards of the Soul Beast Forest's periphery.

Now, within Ling Yi's courtyard, the concentration of elemental energy has already reached the level comparable to that forest's outer regions!

This is precisely why Ling Yi suddenly declared half a year ago that his courtyard is off-limits without invitation.

To achieve this, Ling Yi even relocated Ah Huang, who was originally stationed by the large warehouse, leaving only Miao Miao to guard the 'Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Diagram' inside and the underground 'Soldiers' Tomb.'

The blazing sun in the sky cast down beams of life-giving light. It shone through the open skylight of Ling Yi's bedroom, directly illuminating the variously shaped but equally massive 'Blue Silver Grass.'

'Blue Silver Grass' *9, 'Vitality Blue Silver Grass' *1, 'Iron Birch Blue Silver Grass' *1+5, 'Agarwood Blue Silver Grass' *4, 'Dodder Blue Silver Grass' *1+9…

These are all Blue Silver Grass over a hundred years old!

In its primitive state, the 'Blue Silver Grass' originally included the earliest cultivars, as well as those that have recently broken barriers and crossed thresholds.

'Vitality Blue Silver Grass' originated from the first soul ring of Ling Yi, grown from the seeds left behind by the self-sacrificing Blue Silver Grass. Its vitality level is seven to eight times that of regular Blue Silver Grasses of the same age!

The subsequent 'Iron Birch Silver Grass,' 'Agarwood Blue Silver Grass,' and 'Dodder Blue Silver Grass,' as suggested by their names, were nurtured using plants like Iron Birch, Agarwood, and Dodder Grass as fertilizers, allowing the Blue Silver Grass to absorb these plants' properties subtly during its growth.

In total, there are thirty Blue Silver Grass plants, either primitive or mutated, with the youngest being over five hundred years old. Among them, two primitive Blue Silver Grass, along with a Vitality Blue Silver Grass and an Iron Birch Blue Silver Grass, have reached the age of 999 years!!!

Regrettably, none has yet managed to break the millennium barrier, like Ling Yi's martial spirit has, and surpass the thousand-year mark.

Fortunately, Ling Yi is not in a rush. He is only sixteen years old now and has half a year until his seventeenth birthday.

His soul power has just reached level twenty-six not long ago.

Ling Yi is confident that he will increase his power to level thirty before he turns eighteen!

By then, with just a millennium-level soul ring, his strength would rival the exceptional students, perhaps even the prodigies from the top Soul Master academies in Douluo Continent!

In the original timeline, as a substitute member of the Shrek Seven Monsters in the "All Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament," Jiangzhu was a genius student painstakingly nurtured by the former Blue Lightning Academy head, Liu Erlong.

Martial Soul: "Healing Staff," Spirit Ring Configuration: Yellow, Yellow, Purple!

At the start of the tournament, she was in her twenties and a level thirty-five healing-type Spirit Master.

It won't be long before Ling Yi becomes such a genius soul master!

But before that, Ling Yi must find a way to ensure that at least one of his room full of "Blue Silver Grass" breaks through the millennium barrier.

Fortunately, a direction has been found.

(End of Chapter)