Blue Silver Grass Strategy (Douluo Dalu Fiction)

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Lifting the Fine Steel Staff, Ling Yi took turns sparring with Zhang Mufeng, Jiang Yuan, and others for two days, finally releasing his inner agitation on these men.

In the past few years, whether actively or passively, Ling Yi had honed various weapon techniques with others. Whether it was the Soul Masters with equipment-type soul powers or those with beast-type soul powers in the Cold Wind Camp, they had all made significant progress in the use of a particular weapon.

After two days, Zhang Mufeng's staff techniques were just a step away from mastery, while Jiang Yuan's spear techniques became even more fluid and natural as he reached the stage of mastery.

Compared to the sharp and pointed weapons like swords, spears, and axes, swinging the seventy-pound Fine Steel Staff gave a person a sense of battling the heavens and earth, a feeling of immense satisfaction.

Perhaps due to some mental resonance, the staff techniques that Ling Yi originally wielded with great proficiency seemed to have subtly improved to a higher level.

However, Ling Yi did not focus his mind specifically on the staff techniques. He took things as they came. The most important thing right now was to calm his mind and consolidate his soul power after two days of effort, before beginning the absorption of his second Soul Ring.

Yes, not hunting, but absorbing.

This was a scene that almost no one on the Douluo Continent could imagine.

Except for certain Shapeshifting Soul Beasts.

...

In the Kitchen Camp, in Chef Li Zhishu's private kitchen.

Li Zhishu, 23 years old, Soul Power 'Long Staff Bread', a 33rd-level Food-Type Soul Exalt, and the head of the Cold Wind Camp Kitchen Camp.

At this moment, Li Zhishu, who had lost several pounds compared to a year ago, with a hint of muscle contours appearing on his formerly round figure, stood eagerly by the side, watching Ling Yi busy himself at his exclusive stove.

Ling Yi skillfully chopped chicken, duck, goose, pig stomach, spareribs, and ham into palm-sized pieces, and added winter bamboo shoots and softshell turtle meat to a large clay pot.

Then, he grabbed three large, bulging cheesecloth bags and placed them in the pot as well.

He added water, scallions, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, brought it to a boil over high heat, skimmed off the foam, added salt and a small amount of liquor, and then turned the heat down to low to start simmering.

Even with the lid on, the mixed aroma of herbs and meat couldn't be contained, wafting out of the pot. Sniffing the somewhat peculiar scent, Li Zhishu, seeing that Ling Yi had finally finished, stepped forward with big, round eyes and asked, "Ah Yi, what medicine are you simmering in that pot?"

"Let me see, the 'White Feather Chicken' you caught in the 'Frost Forest', the century-old 'White-Haired Iron-Backed Pig', the 'Floating Water Duck' and 'Clear Wave Goose' that Qingqiu Xin brought back from his hometown, which must have been raised for at least three to five years, and that 'Golden Star Spotted Turtle' that's over a decade old...

Tsk, tsk, tsk~ These are all good things. Why did you just throw them all into one pot? And you added so many bitter and strange herbs, what a waste, such a waste—!"

Li Zhishu shook his head, looking regretful.

Ling Yi's eyes were fixed on the large clay pot on the stove, his mental power already activated, constantly monitoring the changes in the ingredients inside. He said calmly, "It's a recipe I found by chance, it greatly replenishes one's vital energy—"

"Replenishes vital energy?" Li Zhishu was taken aback, looking at Ling Yi's profile with confusion and said, "But, whether it's the 'White Feather Chicken', the century-old 'White-Haired Iron-Backed Pig', or the 'Floating Water Duck', 'Clear Wave Goose', and 'Golden Star Spotted Turtle', each one of them, when cooked and eaten separately, is also a great way to replenish vital energy—"

"Won't mixing them all together have the opposite effect?"

Hearing Li Zhishu's question, Ling Yi turned around and patted the other's broad shoulder, saying, "Don't worry, Old Li, you know my character. When have I ever done something without being sure?"

"Before this, I've stewed with a small clay pot and some ordinary ingredients in my tent dozens of times. This time, it's just that the ingredients are more precious, and the effect will be stronger—"

"I see~" Li Zhishu nodded, knowing that since he met Ling Yi, the latter had never done anything rash or out of place.

Ling Yi said again, "Don't worry, Old Li, I have everything under control~"

In his mind, Ling Yi added, 'Besides, I'm monitoring it with my mental power. If anything goes wrong, I can interfere with my soul power. It won't ruin the ingredients worth at least 800 gold soul coins—'

Logically speaking, at this moment, Ling Yi should have found a quiet and safe place to begin absorbing his second Soul Ring.

But clearly, Ling Yi was somewhat neglecting his duties by coming to Li Zhishu's place to research recipes.

Time passed, and after more than three hours, as his mental power sensed the tough bones and meat in the large clay pot becoming loose and the aroma seeping through the lid becoming rich and familiar, he immediately perked up.

He opened the lid, used a long wooden spoon to scoop out the three changed cheesecloth bags, and opened them one by one, revealing the originally wrapped ingredients inside.

One of them contained 'Forest Ginseng', peanuts, and jujubes, while the other two contained Sichuan pepper, star anise, and other spices, and a pile of things that left Li Zhishu puzzled, such as mushroom tubers, dried grass leaves, and dried tree bark.

Ignoring Li Zhishu's puzzled gaze, Ling Yi put the 'Forest Ginseng', peanuts, and jujubes back into the pot and stirred them evenly, then threw in the already prepared scallions and ginger, and took a long-handled wooden spoon to taste a spoonful of the thick broth, nodding in satisfaction.

"Not... not, Ah Yi, what exactly are you simmering here?" Li Zhishu couldn't help but ask, leaning over to the pot, looking at the thick broth emitting white steam and then at Ling Yi, who was squinting in thought, and said, "Is it medicine or food? It smells so good—"

"And—" Li Zhishu extended his chubby hand, picking up a piece of brown and a piece of white, which seemed to be some kind of mushroom, and asked, "What are these? Are they also herbs?"

Ling Yi looked up and answered, "That's 'Poria', a type of mushroom I dug up under some century-old pine trees in the 'Frost Forest'..."

As he spoke, he pointed to the tangled roots and leaves, introducing them one by one, "This is 'Atractylodes', this is 'Licorice', 'Ligusticum', 'Chinese Angelica', 'White Peony', 'Rehmannia', 'Astragalus', 'Cinnamon'..."

Thanks to a certain lady from the East who had studied there in his past life, she not only made him gain seven or eight pounds from her Huaiyang cuisine but also taught him the skill of making 'Ten-Ingredient Great Tonic Soup'.

This was the person Ling Yi most remembered...

While talking, Ling Yi didn't stop his actions and quickly divided the 'Ten-Ingredient Great Tonic Soup' into one large and four small portions.

Lifting the large pot that still had half a pot of soup, he said to Li Zhishu, "Old Li, have Ah Feng, Ah Xin, and the others come to eat the remaining four portions~

Remember, after eating, immediately practice the 'Beast Soul·Xingyi Fist Framework' I taught you, otherwise, it will be a waste of all the good things in there—"

Saying that, he carried the large pot and quickly walked out of the small kitchen, heading towards the Medical Corps.

"Hey—" Li Zhishu, watching Ling Yi's back as he walked away without looking back, seeing his eager steps, didn't say anything more, and followed out, asking his apprentice Snow to go to the military camp to notify Zhang Mufeng and Qingqiu Xin to come.

(End of Chapter)