Another week slipped by.
Only three weeks remained before the new semester at Nuoding Academy began.
Su Yuxuan's daily routine remained unchanged.
Cultivate.
Train.
Study.
Repeat.
Months of persistence had finally begun to bear fruit.
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Standing amidst the endless sea of Blue Silver Grass, Yuxuan slowly closed his eyes.
His soul power spread outward like invisible ripples.
Countless strands of vitality entered his perception.
Some were weak.
Some were vigorous.
Others burned with astonishing life force.
After several breaths, he smiled.
"I've finally succeeded."
Over the past few months, his Vitality Sense had improved dramatically.
At first, he could only vaguely distinguish whether one patch of Blue Silver Grass possessed more vitality than another.
Now he could estimate their age with surprising accuracy.
"This one"
He lightly touched a blade of grass.
"About three years."
His gaze shifted elsewhere.
"That patch... Roughly fifteen years."
Finally, he looked toward a larger clump growing beside an old stone.
"Around sixty years."
Although there would naturally be some margin of error, The estimates became increasingly reliable the older the Blue Silver Grass was.
To anyone else, this ability seemed almost useless.
To Yuxuan it was priceless.
Because it was directly related to the first spirit ring he intended to obtain.
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During the following days, he quietly asked every experienced hunter in Holy Spirit Village the same question.
"Uncle Huang."
"Have you ever seen a place where Blue Silver Grass grows everywhere?"
Huang Zhikai scratched his head.
"A forest of Blue Silver Grass?"
He laughed.
"Never heard of such a thing."
Another hunter shook his head.
"Blue Silver Grass grows almost everywhere."
"But enough to form a forest?"
"No."
One after another the answers remained the same.
No one had ever encountered such a place.
Yuxuan sighed inwardly.
He had originally hoped to locate the legendary Blue Silver Grass Forest.
The place where Tang San's mother, Ah Yin, had once lived before entering the human world.
If he could find it, then perhaps he could meet the Blue Silver King.
Although.
He wasn't entirely sure what awaited him.
In the novel.
The Blue Silver King appeared as an elderly man.
In another adaptation, the Blue Silver King took the form of a mischievous little girl.
Thinking of that possibility, Yuxuan couldn't help smiling helplessly.
"If it's the little girl"
"Maybe I can talk my way through."
"If it's the old man that'll probably be much harder."
Unfortunately Reality wasn't so kind.
No hunter had ever heard of such a location.
After several days of fruitless searching, Yuxuan finally accepted reality.
"It seems I'll have to enter the Spirit Hunting Forest instead."
Finding an older Blue Silver Grass there would depend largely on luck.
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Just as he was about to abandon the idea, an unexpected opportunity arrived.
That afternoon, a traveling merchant stopped in Holy Spirit Village to sell cloth, dried food, and household goods.
The merchant introduced himself as Tom.
While chatting with the villagers over tea, Yuxuan casually asked his now-familiar question.
"Uncle Tom."
"Have you ever seen unusually old Blue Silver Grass?"
The merchant frowned thoughtfully.
"Hmm... actually I might have."
Yuxuan's eyes immediately brightened.
"Really?"
Tom nodded.
"It isn't here."
"It's in Elder Soul Village."
"About two villages away."
"Elder Soul Village"
Yuxuan silently repeated the name.
Coincidentally, That was also where his late grandmother had been born.
Tom continued.
"There's an old tree near the edge of the village."
"Blue Silver Grass grows all around it."
"But there's one that's particularly strange."
"It has thick vines climbing along the trunk."
"It's much larger than ordinary Blue Silver Grass."
"The villagers have protected it for generations."
Tom scratched his chin.
"I remember hearing stories about it when I was young."
"My father heard them from my grandfather."
"So it's been there for at least three or four generations."
Yuxuan's breathing quickened.
Three or even four generations?
Ordinary villagers often considered twenty to thirty years a generation.
Even using conservative estimates that still represented over a century of history.
But.
Yuxuan didn't think in ordinary years.
He thought in terms of cultivation.
Spirit beasts accumulated soul power just as soul masters did.
Their age represented the depth of that accumulation.
Not merely the passage of time.
Otherwise.
If every thousand-year spirit beast truly required one thousand calendar years to mature.
The spirit beast population would have declined far more rapidly than described in the original story.
"No" Yuxuan thought excitedly "Based on the amount of soul power absorbed."
"That Blue Silver Grass should already possess five hundred years of cultivation."
"Perhaps Six hundred."
"If conditions were especially favorable, It might even approach seven hundred years."
His heartbeat accelerated.
A five-hundred-year Blue Silver Grass spirit beast.
That was far beyond the standard first spirit ring recommended for ordinary soul masters.
Normally.
A first spirit ring around four hundred years was already considered close to the safe limit.
Yet.
Yuxuan wasn't an ordinary soul master.
His body had been tempered through years of disciplined training.
His vitality far surpassed that of children his age.
His innate soul power had reached full level ten.
Most importantly his martial soul was Blue Silver Grass.
If anyone was naturally compatible with a Blue Silver Grass spirit beast.
It was him.
Yuxuan clenched his fists beneath the table.
"This... This might be the opportunity I've been waiting for."
The excitement in his heart was difficult to suppress.
For the first time since arriving in this world, He could almost see the outline of his future beginning to take shape.
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