Blue Silver Grass Strategy

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At the top of Qingyun Mountain, Ling Yi stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down at the "Lingyun City" below, taking in everything in the large parade ground in the west of the city.

Compared to Chen Jianjun, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Dugu Bo and other Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo who have already reached or are about to reach the top in the field of martial soul, the following group of newcomers who have accepted the concept of martial arts since the beginning of their cultivation should find it easier to comprehend something from "Lingyun Jiutiantu".

With the wonderful ideas and inspiration provided by these newcomers, it should only be a matter of time before Ling Yi simplifies the "Lingyun Jiutian Tu" which can only be understood but not expressed in words into a version that can be put into writing.

Chapter 530: Hasty Assessment

The first day of October, the 2626th year of the Douluo calendar.

"Lingyun City", the main campus in the west of the city.

"I declare that the first 'Continent-wide Advanced Soul Master Academy Unified Assessment' has come to a successful conclusion!"

Ling Yi stood on the high platform and looked around the audience. Under the gaze of more than 3,000 pairs of eyes, he looked calm and composed, and his voice was full of appeal: "Now, please invite the top three in the team battle, the top three in the individual battle, the first place in the forging subject, the first place in the carving subject, and the first place in the music subject to come on stage to receive the prizes for this assessment!"

As Ling Yi finished his words, nine figures walked towards the platform, some fast and some slow, under the watchful eyes of the crowd.

Looking at those nine young men with fresh and energetic faces, ninety-nine percent of the people off the field had envy in their eyes.

Although there were only about 300 teachers and students participating in the final assessment, the other city guards from Lingyun City were also jealous of the upcoming rewards.

Climbing onto the platform, the nine people consciously stood in positions according to their respective strengths and rankings. Ling Yi's eyes met with each of them one by one, and he saw the uncontrollable excitement and nervousness on their faces.

Although none of these nine people are familiar faces, the fact that they were able to stand out from thousands of their peers is enough to prove their excellence.

Ling Yi smiled slightly, and his warm and gentle aura enveloped the nine people, easing their tension. He waved to Qing Qiu Xin who was not far away from him, and said, "Okay, first of all, the first place in the team battle will receive a prize of nine drops of "Millennium Ice Marrow"!"

Hearing this, the captain of the 'Wuhun Academy Team' subconsciously took a step forward.

Ling Yi took a white jade bottle the size of a child's fist from the tray in Qingqiu Xin's hand and handed it to the young man in front of him named Yumin.

Yumin, martial soul "Blood Demon Bear", 22 years old, 48th level strong attack system fighting soul sect.

Yumin still couldn't help shaking his hands when he got this treasure which was judged as Grade A, first class, by the Record of Rare and Exotic Treasures, nine drops in total. Even though his grandfather was a Titled Douluo-level elder of the Spirit Hall.

Without giving Yumin too much time to get excited, Ling Yi encouraged him with a few words, then picked up another white jade bottle and handed it to Ji Cunxi, the captain of the second place team in the team battle, the 'Tianshui College Team'.

Prize: "Millennium Ice Marrow", six drops.

The third place is the 'Xingluo Royal Academy Team', and the prize is also "Millennium Ice Marrow", but only three drops.

The prize for the top three in the individual competition is "Millennium Whale Rubber", and the first place in forging, carving, and music can choose between a "Blue Silver Grass" spirit ring of any attribute below the five thousand year level and a spiritual weapon of their choice.

Soul rings are easy to understand. After reaching the soul power standard, the three students can obtain a "Blue Silver Grass" that is less than 5,000 years old as an advanced soul ring with any attribute of their choice.

Spiritual weapons are spiritually forged divine weapons. Whether they are conventional swords, guns, axes and other weapons, or forging hammers, carving knives, and orchestral instruments, they can all be specially made.

Therefore, the three captains of the top three in the team battle and the top three in the individual battle each received a white jade bottle and a sandalwood box. The first place winners in forging, carving, and music came back empty-handed, but left the pattern of their chosen spiritual weapon on Qingqiu Xin's tray.

Well, all three of them chose spiritual weapons and gave up the "Blue Silver Grass" spirit ring.

As the award ceremony ended, Ling Yi swept his eyes across the eager faces of the students below and announced again: "Others don't have to be disappointed. Although you don't have these material rewards, as an incentive for passing the preliminary assessment and successfully standing on this final stage, each of you can choose a yellow-level secret technique in [Lingyun City]. Each of the top three in the team battle, the top ten in the individual battle, the top three in forging, the top three in carving, and the top three in music can choose one more mysterious-level secret technique!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience fell silent at first, but then there was thunderous cheering.

Today, the secret method of [Lingyun City] has become a well-known ladder for the strong in Douluo Continent. It is known as the second path besides martial spirit.

The most important thing is that this path does not conflict with the path of a martial arts soul master, but rather complements each other!

The secret techniques of [Lingyun City] are divided into four levels and twelve grades: Heaven, Earth, Profound Yellow. The "Farmer's Three Styles" and "Basic Body Tempering Techniques: Twelve Forms" that are now spread throughout the Douluo Continent, the former is not graded, and the latter's twelve forms are not graded when separated. After the twelve forms are combined into one, they are ranked as the lower grade of the yellow level!

The nine styles of "Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing·Ⅰ" are all yellow-grade, which can be used to strengthen the body and as a combat skill, comparable to the white tenth-grade spirit ring spirit skills. The grades are subdivided according to the specific effects, such as the third style·Light as a Swallow, which is classified as the lower grade of yellow, and the eighth style·Dragon Lizard Shaking Armor is classified as the upper grade of yellow.

"Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing·Ⅱ" also has nine moves. As an advanced version of "Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing·Ⅰ", each move is equivalent to a yellow hundred-year soul ring soul skill, and all are ranked at the Xuan level.

As for the earth level and heaven level above, except for the high-level members within [Lingyun City], the outside world only knows that the corresponding secret methods exist, but does not know the specific information.

Because just the secret techniques of the Yellow and Black levels are enough for hundreds of thousands of combatants in the huge [Lingyun City] to practice.

Although the threshold for practicing these secret techniques is much lower than the innate soul power of a martial soul, the higher the grade of the secret technique, the more difficult it is to comprehend.

The inferior "Three Farmer's Forms" and the split "Basic Body Building Techniques: Twelve Forms" can be practiced by anyone, from an 80-year-old man to a four or five-year-old child, everyone can learn and practice them.

But starting from "Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing·Ⅰ", if you don't have a certain level of physical strength, talent and wisdom, you really can't learn it.

In addition, in addition to the early "Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing", the current [Lingyun City] secret method is also filled with "Weapon Martial Soul·Eighteen Weapons", "Sword Drawing Technique", "Thousand-pound Stick Technique", "Thirteen Spears to Break the Formation", "Mountain-Splitting Axe Technique"... From the lower grade of Huang level to the upper grade of Xuan level, everything is available.

"Nixing~" Ling Yi instructed the young man holding a spear beside the platform: "Your team and Mo Yuxiong's team will arrange people to take these students to the library in the city. After they have chosen the secret methods they want to learn, bring them back here and select corresponding personnel from the city guards to guide them..."

"Yes!" Nixing responded loudly, then waved the spear in his hand, signaling his teammates to go and notify Mo Yuxiong's team who were on duty on the other side.

Then, Nixing himself strode forward and came to the front of Yumin, the captain of the Wuhun Academy Team. He glanced at Ji Cunxi and others beside him and said in a sonorous voice: "Please call your teammates and other qualified people. I will take you out first!"

It was obvious that Nixing was planning to let his team take those talented top students who were able to learn the Xuan-level secret techniques and go first, while the remaining two hundred or so students would be left to Mo Yuxiong.

Not to mention that Mo Yuxiong got the news afterwards and secretly cursed Nixing for being cunning, Ling Yi himself brought the teachers from various colleges to the City Lord's Mansion to discuss some issues that emerged from the first 'Continental Advanced Soul Master College Unified Examination' and make corresponding arrangements for the second session.

To be honest, Ling Yi was not very satisfied with this first unified assessment.

Neither the quality of the personnel, nor the assessment items, nor the final prizes met his initial expectations.

First of all, in terms of personnel quality, because the true purpose of [Lingyun City] is uncertain, although major universities have sent outstanding students to participate in the assessment, except for a few, most colleges have retained the best talents.

You know, those most outstanding talents are basically accepted as disciples by the teachers of the academy, and they will most likely stay in the academy and become new teachers or even leaders of the academy.

The Soul Master Academy in Douluo Continent is actually more like a sect with loose management.

For those students with average qualifications, we adhere to the principle of casting a wide net and accept all who meet the admission requirements, and then provide unified teaching.

However, the academy basically does not pay too much attention to these students with average potential. The attention of each teacher, and even the dean of the academy, is focused on students with outstanding talents. They are accepted as disciples and direct descendants first, and vigorously cultivate their talents to increase their own voice in the academy.

Of course, academies such as the Tiandou Royal Academy, the Xingluo Royal Academy, and the Four Elements Academy also serve as platforms for communication among the descendants and second generations of various forces.

In addition, it also has the function of selecting outstanding talents, but instead of teachers recruiting disciples, it has become that young masters and young ladies make friends with brothers and sisters and recruit followers.

Under such circumstances, Lingyun City's implementation of the 'unified assessment of all advanced soul master academies on the continent', the proposal to select the most outstanding talents and award prizes to the winners, was intriguing in the eyes of all parties.

[Lingyun City] Do you want to pick peaches?

This thought appeared in the minds of the leaders of various forces.

Everyone can see that the development of [Lingyun City] is rapid and unstoppable. Unless [Wuhun Hall] and [Haotian Sect], as well as the two empires, join forces to suppress it, the rise of [Lingyun City] has become inevitable.

In terms of top combat power, there are the father and son 'Seven Kill Douluo' Chen Jianjun and 'Sword Douluo' Chen Xin, the unfathomable Erlang, and the Soul Douluo-level Dugu Bo and Gu Rong (who has not yet announced his achievement of Titled Douluo).

In terms of basic combat power, due to the development of body-building martial arts, [Lingyun City] has almost surpassed the [Spirit Hall]'s accumulated foundation for thousands of years in terms of combat power below the second-ring great soul masters.

To this day, the only thing that [Lingyun City] lacks is mid-level combat power.

Under such circumstances, various forces could not help but suspect that [Lingyun City] was preparing to snatch the outstanding students from various advanced martial arts academies in order to fill the combat power of its own mid-level soul masters.

It was also because of this suspicion that the quality of the students participating in the first 'Uniform Assessment of Advanced Soul Master Colleges across the Continent' was not bad, but it definitely did not reach the level it should have been, especially the students in the combat category.

Only the likes of [Wuhun Academy] and [Xingluo Royal Academy], which are not worried about [Lingyun City] poaching their talents, or the likes of [Tianshui Academy], where the team leader has complete trust in [Lingyun City], will push forward their own seed students and show them in front of the various forces in Douluo Continent in advance.

As for the assessment items and the winners' prizes, the former is because the acceptance of more detailed assessment items is not high on the current Douluo Continent. For example, there are basically not many people participating in classified items such as attack, defense, skills, speed, and assistance. Everyone still focuses more on team battles and individual battles, using combat effectiveness as the most intuitive criterion for judgment.

In order to transform Douluo Continent into the ideal state of flourishing flowers, Ling Yi estimated that he would have to spend at least several decades to guide the people's thoughts and ideas.

Finally, there are the prizes for the winners. Obviously, all the prizes this time are from [Lingyun City], or in other words, they are given out by Ling Yi personally.

For all the forces in Douluo Continent, even if their own internal personnel want to obtain those precious materials, they have to weigh the pros and cons and make various considerations. Now Ling Yi just wants to talk a few times and ask them to pay real money for the things. It would be fine if their own students win, but if they lose, then all the money will be wasted.

As the saying goes, there are people who do business that will get them killed, but no one will do business that will lose money.

It would be extremely difficult to get various forces to give out things as prizes before they can see the benefits that their side can get!

In this regard, even in the "Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition" in the original timeline, the reason why [Soul Hall] offered three soul bones as champion prizes was actually because the strength of the "Golden Generation" was far ahead, and the championship position was already determined in advance.

Bibi Dong offered it as a prize for the champion of the competition, and also to silence the opposition from the elders and priests of the Spirit Hall. She never expected that a group of cheating protagonists would appear, making her plan fail.

Of course, as a qualified leader, Bibi Dong kept her word. She said that the spirit bones would be given as prizes for the champions, and she really gave them out. Even when Tang San distributed the spirit bones on the spot, she did not think of stopping him. Only after the three spirit bones were distributed did she send people to capture Xiao Wu.

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Climbing the legendary Qingyun Mountain for the first time, Bibi Dong, Shui Qingyue, Lan Lan, Meng Shenji and others were full of curiosity and anticipation.

Ling Yi is the most legendary figure in Douluo Continent for thousands of years. Everyone has a pilgrimage-like desire to explore the place where such a being lives.

As it was still early, Ling Yi was in no hurry to take everyone to the meeting room and get straight to the point. He asked someone to notify the 'Lingyun Special Chefs' headed by Li Zhishu and Shao Xin to show their skills. At the request of Bibi Dong and others, Ling Yi took everyone on a tour of the City Lord's Mansion.

The first stop was the martial arts arena. Looking at the stone walls and jade disks surrounding the arena, as well as the lifelike pictures carved on them, everyone fell silent.

They did not stay in the martial arts arena for long. Under the gaze of Chen Xin and Gu Rong, even if Meng Shenji and others wanted to continue watching shamelessly, they could only take a few more glances at the end, and then followed Ling Yi to other places in the City Lord's Mansion, looking back every few steps and reluctantly.

However, Bibi Dong and Shui Qingyue did not care about it and focused more on Ling Yi himself.

Chapter 531 Fighting across levels

"Master Ling, is that... your study?"

Bibi Dong raised her slender hand and pointed her jade finger at a house not far away and asked.

When everyone heard the sound, they looked and saw an open window. Through the window, they could see a row of bookshelves filled with books and half of a painting in ink.

"Yes~" Ling Yi also looked over there and nodded in the affirmative.

"Then..." Bibi Dong's eyes lit up, she bit her pink lips with her pearly teeth, and asked hesitantly, "Can we go in and take a look?"

After saying that, he quickly added: "Well...if it's inconvenient, forget it..."

Listening to Bibi Dong's words, Ling Yi nodded in the face of the other party's expectation. He glanced at Shui Qingyue, Lan Lan, and the curious expressions on the faces of other people around him, and said cheerfully: "No problem!"

These three simple words made everyone happy, and their faces showed eager anticipation.

That’s Master Ling’s study!

He is recognized as the wisest man in Douluo Continent. He proposed the "Martial Soul Organ Theory"; established a treatment system related to "surgery"; invented various herbal formulas; created a second powerful way besides the Martial Soul, the body-building martial arts; single-handedly established [Aoki Chamber of Commerce] and [Lingyun City] that are catching up with the three sects and even the [Martial Soul Hall]; he is the youngest craftsman on the continent, developed "Spirit Forging", and is good at carving, music, and architecture... He is also a seven-ringed Soul Saint in the healing department who is only in his thirties!

Whenever Bibi Dong, no, it should be the people in the entire Douluo Continent, think of these labels, there is no one who does not feel incredible from the bottom of their hearts.

Maybe some people don't say it, maybe some people have a bad impression of Ling Yi because of their own position, but there is no one who does not admire such a nearly perfect person in his heart.

So, no one would not be curious about the study of such a legendary figure.

Ling Yi, what kind of books do you read on a daily basis? Will you write any new research ideas?

Originally, everyone thought that Ling Yi would refuse. After all, if there was something in the study that was not convenient to show to the public, asking to see it presumptuously might be considered as prying into the secrets of Lingyun City.

Who knew that Ling Yi would be so easy to talk to, and agreed so readily without any hesitation or excuse?

Of course, people like Meng Shenji, Jiang Jiameng, Xiao Baiyu, etc., came here with the mission of investigating the truth about Lingyun City, but at this moment, disappointment flashed in their eyes.

In their opinion, the reason why Ling Yi agreed so readily was probably because the study had already been tidied up in advance and there were no secrets at all.

It's like writing a diary. Knowing that the day will come when someone else will see it, who would write down what's really in their heart?

With this thought in mind, Meng Shenji, the chief of the Education Committee of Tiandou Royal Academy, Jiang Jiameng, the director of foreign affairs of Xingluo Royal Academy, Xiao Baiyu, the vice president of Lei Ting Academy, and a group of people all followed Bibi Dong and the other girls into Ling Yi's study with a calm mind.

After entering the study, the scene inside did not surprise Meng Shenji and others. Everything was so ordinary.

There is a desk, two chairs, three rows of bookshelves against the wall, and four, five, seven or eight paintings and calligraphy hanging on the wall.

At first glance, disappointment.

However, after the second glance, almost everyone fell silent, staring blankly at the calligraphy and paintings on the wall.

[You must know that when you are young, you have lofty ambitions, and you should be the best in the world——!!!]

Looking at the poem written in unrestrained handwriting, Bibi Dong and Lan Lan's beautiful eyes sparkled. Shui Qingyue next to them had a rosy face. She held her breath and quietly clamped her two straight legs together.

Meng Shenji, Jiang Jiameng and others were also impressed by this sentence, but compared to Bibi Dong and the other two girls, they were less moved and were able to control their gazes and look at the calligraphy and paintings next to them.

[I am like a mayfly in the universe, a grain of sand in the vast ocean. I feel sad for the brevity of my life and envy the infinity of the universe.]

[The heaven is vigorous in movement, so the gentleman should constantly strive for self-improvement; the earth is in a low position, so the gentleman should carry the world with great virtue.]

[The road ahead is long and arduous, but I will continue to search for it.]…

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Everyone was silent. Compared to the previous verse of poetry that expressed the youth's high spirits, the following verses about seeking the truth and setting goals had a greater impact on older soul masters like Meng Shenji and Jiang Jiameng!

Especially Ling Yi's calligraphy, after so many years of practice and the improvement in his realm brought by the perception of heaven and earth, has absorbed the various fonts that he had practiced sporadically with his little sister in his previous life, as well as the styles of the two Wangs, Yan Liu and other masters, and has figured out a style of his own.

Ling Yi's handwriting is so agile and graceful that it looks majestic. Just looking at the shape of the characters seems to be imprinted deep in the viewer's soul.

Coupled with the artistic conception and philosophy expressed by the combination of these words, for the uneducated Douluo natives, it is like dropping an atomic bomb on their hearts.