Blue Silver Grass Strategy

Li Zhishu cast his eyes towards the celadon wine jar and glanced at the vivid dragon relief. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Four claws? It's the 10,000-grade Dragon Bone Wine. You really spent a lot of money this time—"

"With your contribution, you can only buy one jar a year, right? It's just the beginning of the year, and you've already used it? Aren't you living a normal life?"

The ten thousand level "Dragon Bone Wine" has a significant benefit effect even for Li Zhishu, a six-ring soul emperor. Just drinking the "Dragon Bone Wine" in this ten-jin small jar can save Li Zhishu at least two or three months of training time!

Especially now that Li Zhishu's strength has reached level 69, he is only one step away from level 70. With the help of this jar of "Dragon Bone Wine", he can cultivate to level 70 faster and become the first veteran in [Lingyun City] to achieve the seven-ring soul saint.

Dugu Bo does not count, as he achieved the status of a seven-ringed Soul Saint many years ago. In his early years, he protected the growth of Lingyun City and his status is relatively transcendent.

Among the old team headed by Li Zhishu, the strongest one is now Li Zhishu at level 69, followed by Long Yin at level 65, Qingqiu Xin at level 65, Zhang Mufeng at level 64, and Dugu Xin at level 63.

All of them are six-ring Soul Emperors!

Originally, apart from Dugu Xin, based on the innate soul power level of Li Zhishu and others when their martial souls awakened, the highest achievement in their lifetime was probably only a six-ring soul emperor. Even if they were unlucky, they might not even be able to break through to a five-ring soul king.

If they have never seen the peak, they will not be too yearning for it, but will practice diligently and accept whatever level they reach in the end.

However, being in Lingyun City, a newly emerged top power in Douluo Continent, the people they come into contact with every day include Soul Kings and Soul Emperors. They are on friendly terms with Soul Saints, chat and laugh with Soul Douluos, and can even chat with the legendary Titled Douluos. All of this makes them unwilling to return to mediocrity.

They all want to make progress!

With Li Zhishu's status and position in Lingyun City and his relationship with Ling Yi, he is also qualified to purchase the ten thousand year old "Dragon Bone Wine". He even receives treasures of the same level as a direct reward in his annual contribution settlement.

However, these treasures are consumables and no one will have too much.

Li Zhishu now has three pieces of good stuff comparable to the ten thousand year old "Dragon Bone Wine" in his hands, and he is also preparing to use it to break through to level 70 in one fell swoop. By then, with the intelligence network and strength of [Lingyun City], hunting a fifty thousand year old soul beast will be a piece of cake.

The jar of thousand-year-old "Dragon Bone Wine" sent by Chen Tianqi can allow Li Zhishu to advance the breakthrough time that was originally scheduled for next spring and summer to around the end of this year!

Such a temptation is indeed difficult for Li Zhishu to refuse.

However, Li Zhishu finally gritted his teeth, shook his head and refused: "Forget it, I appreciate your kindness, but you should take the wine back~"

"You are now level 48. With this jar of ten thousand year old 'Dragon Bone Wine', you can not only quickly cultivate to level 50 and break through to Soul King, but also use the dragon blood in it to temper your body, allowing you to temper your tendons, bones, membranes and muscles faster, and then enter the stage of transformation and begin to temper your five internal organs..."

However, in the face of Li Zhishu's refusal, Chen Tianqi said with a serious face: "Master, please accept this ten thousand year old "Dragon Bone Wine"!"

"Ok?"

Li Zhishu was stunned by what Chen Tianqi said. When he was about to ask, he heard Chen Tianqi say again: "Master, compared to your breakthrough to the fifth-ring Soul King, your breakthrough to the seventh-ring Soul Saint is the most important thing now!"

"Master, time is running out--!"

It can be heard that when Chen Tianqi uttered the last five words, there was an uncontrollable urgency in his tone.

Seeing this, Li Zhishu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the disciple in front of him meaningfully, as if he understood the other party's plan.

Just at this moment, heavy snow began to fall from the sky, which was a rare sight in Lingyun City.

It's not like when I was in the [Shuimu Principality], when winter came, there would be heavy snow every now and then, dyeing the sky and the earth white.

For a moment, in the huge backyard, the only sounds were the falling snowflakes and the sound of silver frost charcoal burning in the small red clay stove.

After an unknown amount of time, the smallest of the three people standing in the middle of the courtyard became exhausted. His tiny body trembled slightly, and he looked like he was about to collapse.

Li Zhishu saw it and called out loudly: "Okay, today's standing meditation ends here, come in and have some soup~"

“Bang~bang~bang——”

With three dull thuds, the three little fellows in the courtyard sat down on the soft snow in unison.

Without wasting any time, they looked at each other, then quickly got up and ran towards the corridor.

"Dad! Mom! Big Madam/Second Madam! Senior Brother Tianqi!"*3

The three little guys were very considerate and called out obediently one by one.

"Okay, let's drink the soup~" Li Zhishu said, picking up the pottery pot on the small red clay stove and pouring the milky white broth into three small bowls.

The "Ten-Ingredient Tonic Soup" is made with all the best ingredients and is cooked personally by Li Zhishu, the Six-Ring Soul Emperor of the Food Element. It is enough to lay a solid foundation for the three little guys!

Even in the [Spirit Hall] and [Haotian Sect], only a handful of people can enjoy this kind of treatment.

The three little ones gulped down the warm and slightly hot nourishing soup, and their already rosy faces instantly turned even redder.

"Take them to the medicinal bath~" Li Zhishu said to the two ladies beside him.

"Hmm~"*2

Watching the two adults and three children leave, and seeing the five figures disappear at the end of the corridor, Li Zhishu's expression suddenly turned cold.

Chen Tianqi: "Master..."

"Shut up!" Li Zhishu turned around and glared at Chen Tianqi, scolding him coldly: "You have achieved something~"

"You're actually going to play the betting and investment game, huh?!"

Chen Tianqi: "Master, I..."

"What do you mean by 'I'?!" Li Zhishu pointed his sword at Chen Tianqi's nose and continued to curse: "Do you know what this is called?!"

“Cliques and selfish motives——!”

"Is this what I taught you all these years?! Is this all you learned?!"

"I... I'm not worried..." Chen Tianqi raised his eyebrows and squinted his eyes when Li Zhishu scolded him, and defended himself in a low voice.

It would have been fine if Chen Tianqi hadn't said anything, but when he spoke, Li Zhishu's anger soared: "What are you worried about——!"

"Remember who you are. Who are we?"

"We are food-type soul masters! We are Lingyun City's top chefs!!"

"I don't know who is instigating you, nor do I know what they said to you, but you bastard, remember this, just be a good cook and make your dishes well, and don't get involved in other things! Even if the sky falls, it won't hit you, a little follower--!"

"But..." Chen Tianqi was still a little unwilling: "Master, you don't want to go up anymore..."

"Fuck you!" "Bang!"

Li Zhishu picked up the wine glass at hand and smashed it directly on Chen Tianqi's forehead. The wine glass shattered, leaving no white mark on Chen Tianqi's forehead, but he still subconsciously shrank his neck.

"well--!"

Looking at Chen Tianqi's appearance, Li Zhishu did not continue to smash the second wine glass he had just picked up. Instead, he sighed with some tiredness.

"Let me ask you, do you think the city lord is smart?"

Just when Chen Tianqi was mentally prepared for the next wave of attacks, Li Zhishu's low voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"Of course!" Chen Tianqi answered without thinking, "The City Lord is the smartest person in the world!!!"

"So~" Li Zhishu squinted at Chen Tianqi and asked coldly, "Do you think the city lord can find out about your little tricks?"

"City..." Chen Tianqi was dumbfounded. Li Zhishu's words were like a wake-up call, which made him sober up all of a sudden.

Yes, with the ability of the City Lord, let alone every move within Lingyun City, even other places thousands of miles away, as long as they are still on Douluo Continent, the horror cannot be hidden from those eyes that see through everything.

"Tell me, how dare you do this? Huh——?!"

"The Lord City Lord doesn't usually take care of things, and he turns a blind eye to those people with ulterior motives in Lingyun City. Do you really think he can't see it?"

Li Zhishu looked at the dumbfounded Chen Tianqi and shook his head speechlessly.

If it wasn't inappropriate, Li Zhishu even wanted to tell Chen Tianqi that his two master's wives were actually elite spies sent to "Lingyun City" by other forces. They specifically approached him, Li Zhishu, just to find out the secret information within "Lingyun City".

When Ling Yi told Li Zhishu the news, Li Zhishu was originally planning to go back and destroy her, but was stopped by Ling Yi.

Not only did he stop them, he even encouraged him to use some information to hang the two of them. Finally, under Ling Yi's guidance, he actually succeeded in enjoying the benefits of having two wives.

Now that they have three children, the two girls have focused their attention on Li Zhishu, the head of the family, and their respective children.

"You! Be more careful!" Li Zhishu said finally.

Chapter 564 Reshape the body

When a tree wants to grow freely but cannot bear to abandon the protection of the wall, we understand the origin of the word "困".

During the growth of Lingyun City, Ling Yi has tried his best to reduce his influence. However, whenever encountering any difficulties, the first thing everyone thinks of is "Find the City Lord, the City Lord will definitely be able to solve it!"

Just like the progress of civilization, by climbing up the technology tree step by step, if the foundation is solid enough, it will naturally expand from the ground to the sky, from inside the planet to outside the planet, from the star system to the endless sea of ​​​​stars. If you move forward steadily, it is highly likely that it will not collapse due to internal problems.

But if you achieve success overnight due to external forces, the price you will pay in the end will often be higher than you imagined.

The existence of Lingyun City now almost depends on Ling Yi alone. It can be said that without Ling Yi, the biggest possibility of Lingyun City is to fall apart.

Of course, as long as Ling Yi exists, no matter how his subordinates behave, the sky of Lingyun City will not fall.

Therefore, when it comes to the various ulterior motives of his subordinates, whether they are banding together for warmth, forming cliques, or forming factions for personal gain, Ling Yi just stays indifferent and ignores them.

Putting aside emotional factors and starting from a rational perspective, Ling Yi sometimes actually looks forward to seeing his subordinates causing some trouble.

As his status improved, Ling Yi gradually began to understand what Lao Zhu had done back then.

This is because Ling Yi has no descendants, and he has no intention of making the Ling family the eternal master of [Lingyun City]. Otherwise, in order to pave the way for future generations, he would probably have to do something to fan the flames.

At the very least, it's the kind of "releasing military power over a cup of wine".

Of course, this is ultimately a supernatural world where every individual's great power belongs to himself. Although power is useful, it is not that useful.

Smart people like Li Zhishu, as well as old people like Qingqiu Xin and Zhang Mufeng who had followed Ling Yi in his early years, knew very well that in Lingyun City, or even in Douluo Continent, the most important thing for survival is never power, nor how many people you have won over, or how many people's will and interests you represent, but the level of your own strength.

Therefore, under the joint suppression of Li Zhishu and others, the internal friction and strife that had just begun to emerge in Lingyun City came to an abrupt end.

Of course, factionalism still exists, which is an unavoidable reality. After all, some people have similar interests, some have similar attributes, and some come from the same region... Such factors can always form different small groups in a large collective.

The disturbances in the outside world did not affect Ling Yi's planned itinerary. Early in the morning of that day, Ling Yi leisurely descended Qingyun Mountain and came to the "Wuhun Research Institute" in the city at the foot of the mountain.

Fourth floor, room 405.

Ling Yi stood in front of a cylindrical transparent glass jar that was two and a half meters tall and one and a half meters in diameter. He held a pen in one hand and a cowhide-covered notebook in the other, writing and drawing on it.

The transparent glass jar was filled with light green liquid, in which a young 'corpse' was soaked.

Brown hair, deep eye sockets, slightly hooked nose, thin lips without a trace of blood color, beautiful facial features, naked, a pair of magnificent breasts without a trace of sagging, and below, it is a forbidden area that cannot be described...

If there were students and teachers from the early years of [Silas College] here, they would find that the woman immersed in the light green liquid looked exactly like the old dean 'Blood Bird' Andariel when he was young!

[Douluo calendar year 2629, May 5th, 137th day of remodeling the body, muscles and bones are growing well, meridians are still fragile, not as strong as a soul warrior who awakened at the age of six.]

[Compared to a week ago, the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, stomach, intestines, gallbladder, and bladder have all grown and improved to a certain extent. The heart is equivalent to a 15-year-old boy, and the liver is equivalent to...]

[The soul consciousness is still in deep sleep, except for the brief awakenings on the first and third days, there has been no external feedback.]

[Guess 1: The soul and body are not compatible. During the adjustment period, the soul is worn out and the body grows slowly. Verification is as follows↓]

[Guess 2: Affected by the Nine-Child Mother Lotus Heart Technique, the soul was damaged and unable to integrate the body to grow. Verification is as follows↓]

[Guess three: ...]

Mobilizing the ubiquitous vitality in Lingyun City to replenish the life force consumed in the glass jar, Ling Yi put away the notebook in his hand and walked to the workbench on the other side.

On this workbench, there is also a glass jar, a small one, about three feet high and more than one foot in diameter, in a cylindrical shape.

Soaked in the light green essence of life is a pink crabapple flower, about to bloom, with green branches and leaves and a well-developed root system.

"Almost there~" Ling Yi looked at the crabapple flower that was about to bloom and murmured in a low voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, he waved his hand and put the glass jar on the workbench, along with the whole crabapple plant inside, into the inner world.

……

Compared to the thousand-meter diameter when it was first opened up, after Ling Yi continuously filled it with various elements and laws, the inner space has now exploded to a diameter of thirty thousand meters!

The deepest part of the sea water at the bottom reaches 8,000 meters. Not counting the pillars connecting the island to the seabed, the thickness reaches 1,500 meters. The highest peak on the island is nearly 3,000 meters, and the more than 20,000 meters above it all belongs to the sky.

The island, with a radius of nearly 20,000 meters, has barely formed a self-circulating ecosystem.

Ling Yi's figure appeared at an altitude of ten thousand meters. With a sweep of his mind, he took the entire inner world into his mind. He took a step forward, and when he appeared again, he was at the highest peak of the inner world, which was also the coldest place in the inner world.

Everywhere you look, you see freezing cold rocks and snow that never melts. Occasionally, a few branches and leaves emerge from the cracks in the rocks. They are the young plants of cold-attributed grasses such as "Snow Lotus" and "Eight-Angled Black Ice Grass".

"Crack!"

With a crisp sound, the glass jar containing the crabapple flowers shattered, and the life essence and crabapple flowers inside were exposed to the air of the inner world.

The life essence evaporated completely in just a few breaths, causing the surrounding "Snow Lotus" and "Eight-Angled Mysterious Ice Grass" to grow more vigorously.

The crabapple flowers, on the other hand, were still full of vitality, seemingly unaffected even though the environment suddenly changed and they even faced the freezing cold of the mountain top.

He raised his hand and pointed, and the crabapple flowers hovering in the air turned into a stream of light and flew straight down the mountain.

Standing on the top of the mountain, Ling Yi looked around, his sight swept across every corner of the island, and his mind's perspective even included the seabed in the scope of observation.

It can be seen that a layer of seaweed has grown on the rocks and mud on the seabed, and the fish and shrimp that were originally brought in with the sea water now have a steady supply of bottom food.