Blue Silver Grass Strategy

As he walked, he deduced the various possibilities that might come up next. Ling Yi had a bright smile on his face the whole time. He looked around on the street like an ordinary child who was curious and shocked when he saw such a prosperous scene for the first time.

Of course, because he was still wearing the same [Green Leaf Junior Soul Master Academy] school uniform he had worn in the morning, the passers-by on the street all gave this handsome little boy a kind smile, and almost no one showed contempt for Ling Yi's inexperienced appearance.

On the contrary, many people looked at Ling Yi's school uniform with envy and yearning.

In the inner city area of ​​"Muzhi City", a tall dome-shaped building covering a large area rises from the ground. It stands out among the surrounding street shops and courtyard houses.

Although the architectural style of the suzerain country [Tiandou Empire] is similar to the European style of Ling Yi's previous life, the [Shuimu Principality] located on the east coast is generally closer to the Chinese style, similar to the [Xingluo Empire] in the south of the continent.

Of course, the entire Douluo Continent is a bit out of place for some unspeakable reasons.

For example, in the original timeline, Dai Mubai, one of the protagonists, was born in the White Tiger Dai Family of the Xingluo Imperial Family, and his eldest brother’s name was Davis; Emperor Xue Ye of the Tiandou Empire had a cousin named Kundera, who was the king of the Barak Kingdom; and there was also the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom...

Coming in front of this tall building with sharp lines, Ling Yi looked up.

At a glance, the dome building is mainly brown in color and covers a very large area. The width of the front alone is more than 100 meters and it is 30 meters high. The inside appears to be divided into three or four floors.

On the front door, there is a long sword in the middle with the tip of the sword pointing downward. On the left and right are a hammer and a creature that looks like a dragon.

Through this sign, it is made clear to everyone passing by that this is the main Wuhun Hall, which is superior to the branch halls and sub-hall.

At this time, Ling Yi's figure attracted the attention of the two guards at the door. The two men turned their gazes towards Ling Yi and happened to meet Ling Yi's eyes who was looking over at him.

The two guards looked to be around twenty years old. The soul power fluctuations emanating from their bodies were stronger than that of Fifth Brother Wang Meng, and were comparable to Yan Bin, the deacon of the Wuhun Branch Hall in Beikouhe Town. They were obviously both second-ring great soul masters.

Having two great soul masters standing at the gate, in the entire "Muzhi City", except for the palace of the Lord Mufeng, only the residences of the marquis and this [Wuhun Hall] can be so arrogant.

Ling Yi pulled the hem of his school uniform and stepped forward with a reserved look. Under the gaze of the guards on both sides of the gate, he politely asked, "Hello, uncles. I am a part-time student from Beikouhe Town. Uncle Yan Bin, the deacon of the Wuhun Branch Hall in our town, asked me to bring a message to visit Deacon Lu Yi here..."

Hearing Ling Yi's words, the two guards' gazes shifted from the neat school uniform to Ling Yi's fair face, which made people feel good. Their originally serious expressions relaxed a little. The guard on the left thought for a moment and said, "Are you here to see Lu Yi? He is inside today, but he may be busy now. You can go to the reception hall and ask first--"

"The reception hall is on the first floor. Go straight in and turn right." The guard on the right added.

"Thank you! Thank you both uncles!" Upon hearing the voice, Ling Yi hurriedly bowed slightly to the two guards, expressing his gratitude.

"Thank you~" / "Come in quickly~"

The two guards on the left and right waved their hands, pointed inside the door, and smiled and gestured to Ling Yi in unison.

"Mmmmm~"

Ling Yi responded with a smile and hurriedly walked into the Spirit Hall.

Watching Ling Yi's back, the two guards smiled slightly. The one on the left said, "The little guy is quite sensible~"

"Yes~" the guard on the right nodded: "He is a polite kid."

"By the way~" The left guard showed a bit of curiosity on his face: "Was Deacon Lu Yi promoted from Beikouhe Town? I haven't heard much about him——"

"I don't know either~" The right guard shook his head and said, "He has been here for four or five years. Except for a few people who have a good relationship with him, he has little communication with others. I heard that most of his time, apart from completing tasks in the temple, he has been practicing..."

Ling Yi had just walked in about ten meters into the thirty-meter-high dome hall. His excellent hearing allowed him to clearly hear the conversation between the two people at the door. At the same time, he did not forget to raise his head and look up and down, left and right at the interior of the magnificent building in front of him.

It is roughly similar to the layout of Western churches in the previous life. The dome above is covered with murals, and the small squares below are painted with various martial spirit graphics.

There are huge crystal windows all around, which are casting dazzling sunlight into the hall. The sunlight is refracted on the golden background of the murals. The whole hall is bathed in dazzling golden light.

If other time travelers or indigenous people came here, they might focus their attention on the magnificent decorations, but Ling Yi was different. With an appearance of being reluctant to leave, part of his attention was focused on the martial spirit graphics in the small squares.

[Spirit Hall] is worthy of being the [Spirit Hall]. These things on the dome alone are a huge fortune!

Chapter 41: Hundreds of Tempers

Time passed quickly when Ling Yi began to study with his fifth senior brother Wang Meng.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

During this month, no unexpected incidents occurred in "Muzhi City" and the situation was calm, which made Ling Yi feel quite satisfied with this remote small country far away from the accident-prone area in the center of Douluo Continent.

In the familiar dormitory 304 of Building No. , Ling Yi opened his eyes again and looked around the bed beside him. He saw the "Blue Silver Grass" wall that had been stacked up to half a person's height, and his heart was filled with joy.

A month ago, Ling Yi asked someone to take three letters and send them back to Jiang's blacksmith shop in Beikouhe Town.

One letter was to Master Jiang, thanking him for his recommendation. He has now become a disciple of Master Jin and is learning forging from his fifth senior brother Wang Meng.

The other two letters were given to Ling Bai and Yan Bin, the deacon of the town's Wuhun branch hall respectively.

The content of Yan Bin's letter was similar to that of Master Jiang, and was also full of words of gratitude. In addition, he visited Lu Yi, the senior deacon of the Wuhun Main Hall in "Muzhi City". The two sides reminisced about the past and became familiar with each other, thus establishing some preliminary friendship.

Ling Bai's letter mainly reported to Ling Bai, his parents, grandparents, uncle and cousin in Shanhai Village that he was safe and sound, saying that everything was fine and everyone should not worry about him. At the same time, there were caring words specially marked for each person at the end.

At the end of the letter, Ling Yi specifically instructed Zhang Lei to help dig out the 204 "Blue Silver Grass" planted in the corner fence of his yard, pile them up and transplant them in a wooden box, and give it to Ling Bai to take to the town.

On the third day after receiving the letter, these 204 "Blue Silver Grasses" were brought to the [Yinxin Blacksmith Shop] in the east of the city by a caravan heading to "Muzhi City".

After more than twenty days, the "Blue Silver Grass" that had drooping leaves when it first entered the city had long since recovered its former prosperity. Moreover, due to the nourishment of soul power over the previous year, the leaves and roots of these "Blue Silver Grass" were more numerous and longer, and their activity was much greater than that of the one hundred plants that Ling Yi cultivated before school started, as well as the subsequent "Blue Silver Grass".

In addition to the nearly five hundred "Blue Silver Grass" plants around him, there were also a number of bamboo tubes in the corner of the wall inside the bed. Each of them was planted with the high-quality "Blue Silver Grass" seeds brought together last time. As soon as they grew a little bigger, they would be stacked next to Ling Yi's bed.

I think that before the end of the year, Ling Yi might be able to turn his bed into a single room!

……

【Yinxin Blacksmith Shop】.

After having breakfast with his fifth senior brother Wang Meng and his family of nine as usual, Ling Yi came to the forging table to prepare for today's practice.

However, before Ling Yi raised the forging hammer in his hand, Wang Meng did not go to his exclusive forging table, but came straight to Ling Yi.

"Fifth Senior Brother~" Ling Yi put down his arm which he had just raised halfway and greeted him.

"Xiao Yi~" Wang Meng nodded and looked at the iron ingot in front of Ling Yi.

This was not the piece from a month ago, but the eighth piece. This piece was originally as big as three adult heads, but now it was only the size of two adult fists.

"Forging raw materials such as pig iron is a necessary step for every blacksmith apprentice~"

"Generally speaking, when pig iron is hammered to one-third of its original size, it is already a qualified iron embryo that can be used to forge various iron tools..."

Wang Meng looked at the iron ingot that remained motionless amidst the raging flames and repeated what he had said a month ago.

Master Jiang also said this to Ling Yi more than a year ago.

"Of course, the iron tools made directly in this way can only be used as daily utensils and farm tools such as kitchen knives, sickles, hoes, and shovels..."

Wang Meng continued to speak, and Ling Yi listened quietly, even though he had already memorized all the content.

"A primary blacksmith can easily forge raw iron, and then use the corresponding iron blank to create tools. The strength of these tools is generally not bad, equivalent to the strength of the spirit of an ordinary weapon spirit awakener without spirit power...

That is, the most basic iron tool!"

"Going further, we need to use larger iron blanks to forge the desired ironware. This requires further refining the iron blanks through forging to improve the quality of the material!

Within the ten forgings, there is no subdivision, and it is basically contained in the forging process of basic ironware.

Twenty forgings, thirty forgings, forty forgings... These represent the improvement of a junior blacksmith's skills, step by step, climbing towards an intermediate blacksmith!"

“When you can forge a material fifty times into shape, it means you have stepped into the threshold of an intermediate blacksmith, which is the same as the hundred forgings for a senior blacksmith.

On the one hand, what prevents many junior blacksmiths from being promoted to intermediate blacksmiths, and intermediate blacksmiths from being promoted to senior blacksmiths is the blacksmith’s own strength.

Without sufficient strength, it is naturally impossible to further refine the material that has already been refined to a certain degree.

On the other hand, it is about skills. How to use the least force and achieve the greatest effect when each hammer falls is a problem that all blacksmiths with weak strength and power cannot avoid. "

At this point, Wang Meng couldn't help but sigh. It was because he was nearly 40 years old and still stuck at the 19th level of soul power, unable to make further progress, and had little hope for the future. It was also because his four sons failed to inherit his soul master talent. Although they had no problem becoming intermediate blacksmiths under his careful teaching, becoming advanced blacksmiths required more stringent skills for ordinary people like them!

Shaking his head to dispel the negative emotions in his mind, Wang Meng looked at Ling Yi with a serious face and continued:

"All of this is extremely important during the period of practicing material refinement as an apprentice!"

"Master said that in the metal capital 'Gengxin City', no matter it is a beginner blacksmith, or an intermediate or advanced blacksmith, they are actually just beginner blacksmiths~"

"Because, below the level of blacksmith, many soul masters can rely on their own powerful strength to forcibly complete the 100-level forging process. At most, the utilization rate of materials will be much lower, and the service life of the tools they create will also be shorter..."

At this point, Wang Meng smiled bitterly: "Of course, this is not a problem in any of the major cities or main cities of the two empires.

Because most soul masters actually use their own martial souls, and many of the tools made by blacksmiths are discarded..."

"They trust their own martial spirits even more!"

Faced with Wang Meng's words, Ling Yi remained silent.

Who says this is a world dominated by martial spirits? Even if the martial spirit is a wooden stick, as long as there is innate spirit power to cultivate, with the blessing of spirit rings, it will soon have a hardness beyond steel. With the blessing of spirit skills, factors such as being closely related to oneself and self-repair, the demand for tools made by blacksmiths is naturally greatly reduced.

"call"

Wang Meng let out a long sigh, no longer dwelling on these pessimistic messages, and asked Ling Yi:

"Xiao Yi, in this month, I worked for more than twelve hours on four weekends and four hours on twenty evenings, a total of more than 120 hours of material refinement. What do you think?"

Facing Wang Meng's question, Ling Yi looked at the slightly reddish iron ingot at the bottom, then turned to Wang Meng, looked at him, and uttered two words softly:

"Rhythm? Movement?"

Hearing these two words, Wang Meng's eyes widened a little, and he looked at Ling Yi with surprise.

After opening and closing his mouth several times, Wang Meng said expectantly, "Tell me about it~"

"Hmm~" Ling Yi nodded, thought for a moment, organized his words, and said:

"When I studied with Master Jiang last year, I also started with the hammering of materials. It took about a month to hammer the raw iron into the state of an iron embryo. After that, Master Jiang began to teach me, and then through forging, I forged the iron embryo into the desired shape of the tool..."

"At that time, when I forged materials, I just wanted to remove the impurities in the pig iron and other materials through hammering, and refine the materials to make them smaller~

But this month, I feel that after I found my most comfortable forging posture, I can feel the feedback of the iron ingot with every hammer strike, just like... it's breathing!"

"And every time I swing the hammer, the more my entire body's rhythm of movement matches the breathing rhythm of the iron ingot, the better the efficiency and effect of refining will be!"

"Not bad!" The more Wang Meng listened to Ling Yi's narration, the more the smile on his face became more obvious. In the end, he couldn't help but clap his hands:

"Xiao Yi, although I have always known that you are smart, I never thought that you are so intelligent!"

"You are a natural born blacksmith!"

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Chapter 42 A little shock

"Xiao Yi, do you know Tang Chen?"

Wang Meng read out a name with a look of longing and asked Ling Yi.

Suddenly hearing the name 'Tang Chen', Ling Yi raised his eyebrows, his mind was turning rapidly, but his face was blank, he nodded first, then shook his head:

"When I visited Uncle Lu Yi of the Spirit Hall before, I heard him mention a 'Tang Chen'. I wonder if it is the one you are talking about, Fifth Brother—"

"【Martial Spirit Hall】?"

Wang Meng was stunned when he heard this, and then he remembered that when Ling Yi came to him for the first time, he was more than two hours late that afternoon. He mentioned afterwards that he went to the Wuhun Main Hall in the city to visit a senior deacon named Lu Yi.

Thinking of this, Wang Meng nodded and said, "Since I heard it from the Spirit Hall's deacon, then he should be the same person as the 'Tang Chen' I just mentioned."

"Uncle Lu said~" Ling Yi's black and white eyes widened a little, looking at Wang Meng in front of him, and asked: "That Tang Chen, and their [Spirit Hall]'s Judgment Elder are known as the 'Two Mountains' of the Soul Master World. A few years ago, they both became ninety-nine-level peerless Douluo! Is that true?"

"That's right!" Wang Meng nodded vigorously, his face full of yearning, admiration, awe and other emotions.

"But..." Ling Yi tilted his head and asked Wang Meng again: "Fifth Senior Brother, does that Tang Chen have any relationship with us?"

"I just heard from Uncle Lu that his martial soul is the "Clear Sky Hammer", which is known as the world's number one weapon martial soul. It is also the "Angel" martial soul of the [Martial Soul Hall] lineage, and the "Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex" martial soul of the [Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Family]. These are all top-level martial souls—"

Because of his own martial spirit, the "Eight-edged Mysterious Heavy Hammer", Lu Yi paid special attention to Tang Chen, the "Haotian Douluo" who was feared by the continent, and recorded many of his deeds and legends. When Ling Yi asked intentionally or unintentionally, Lu Yi seemed to have been tickled, and immediately shared it without reservation.

Hearing Ling Yi's question, Wang Meng immediately showed the same smile that Lu Yi showed a few days ago.

At this moment, there is a smile of pride and excitement, just like the look on the face of those people in their previous lives when they talked to others about the celebrity who came from their hometown.

"Hehe~" Wang Meng grinned, picked up the forging hammer on the side table, and said to Ling Yi: "Since you know that the martial soul of 'Haotian Douluo' Tang Chen is the 'Haotian Hammer', do you know what other fighting skills he had besides the soul rings and soul skills when he first started fighting?"

In response to this, Ling Yi shook his head. Lu Yi had never mentioned this to Ling Yi before. According to normal logic, Ling Yi naturally should not know about it.

"《Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique》——!"

Wang Meng didn't keep the secret, or rather, he had a strong urge to speak out: "A powerful hammering method that can make each hammer swing more powerful than the previous one, and accumulate power before releasing it in the end!!!"

Ling Yi said in his heart, "As expected", and showed an expression of surprise and shock on his face. Then, he turned his eyes and looked at Wang Meng impatiently, asking, "Then... Fifth Brother, what you told me means that Tang Chen's "Chaos Cloak Hammer Technique" has a certain relationship with us blacksmiths?"

Wang Meng()!!!: “…”

As Wang Meng's expression gradually lost control, Ling Yi continued to analyze: "They are all swinging hammers, and since the "Chaotic Cloak Hammer Method" can increase the power of each swing of the hammer, this will obviously be very effective in the hammering of metal materials. Since Fifth Brother specifically mentioned him, then..."