After swinging eighty-one hammer blows, Yun Chuan climbed up from the pool and saw Tang Hao, whose expression had shifted from shock back to calm.
"Next, keep practicing the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique up there. If the hammer handle breaks, make a new one yourself," Tang Hao said, handing Yun Chuan a wooden hammer. Clearly, the task was to use the wooden mallet to keep practicing in the waterfall.
Yun Chuan nodded and took the wood hammer, which felt almost weightless after the heavy forging hammers. He adjusted his stance accordingly.
Over time, Yun Chuan fully adapted to using the light hammer beneath the waterfall, and at this stage, his hammer technique could be considered "entry-level mastery."
Originally, the last stage of practice was to use his own hammer martial soul under the waterfall, but since Yun Chuan couldn't wield it yet, that final stage was skipped.
Satisfied with his progress—having learned to use the hammer for combat—Yun Chuan felt he'd surpassed his expectations and was ready to fulfill his promise.
——
Back in the stone chamber behind the waterfall,
Yun Chuan returned to the grass, its leaves waving happily as he approached. He glanced complexly at the Blue Silver Grass and then at Tang Hao. "Now, don't disturb me."
He summoned his Plant Sovereign—Goddess of Life—martial soul, which floated behind him like a spirit, then merged into his body.
A vivid green radiance burst forth!
Yun Chuan's appearance transformed: black hair turned blue-silver, and his eyes shifted to a sky-blue hue. At this moment, he truly looked the part of Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin's son.
The Plant Goddess martial soul, somewhat like a beast soul, allowed direct "soul possession"; this was its initial, hybrid state. He took care not to shift fully into goddess form—especially in front of others, as he found it too embarrassing.
Once "possessed" by his martial soul, Yun Chuan closed his eyes, and his Plant Domain spread—a hundred li in radius!
Tang Hao sensed the domain's power and grew more excited, watching his wife's incarnation closely.
Yun Chuan, as Plant Sovereign, could control all plants—life, death, growth were entirely under his command. Using this power to boost the Blue Silver Grass's growth was trivial.
Countless green lights appeared, like fireflies in the dark, streaming together and merging into the Blue Silver Grass.
Bathed in the purest life energy, the once-sparse Blue Silver Grass began to soar in height; every leaf turned as brilliant and clear as sapphire, the gold veining growing thicker and brighter.
Having lived as a ten-thousand-year plant soul beast, Ah Yin instantly sensed her cultivation skyrocketing. Knowing how to absorb and refine compatible energy, she processed all of it expertly.
Yet, she felt uneasy. This ability to gather and convert life energy from Blue Silver Grass had once been hers alone: the Blue Silver Domain—Ocean's Embrace.
At full power, she could absorb life energy from every Blue Silver Grass around and never exhaust her own power.
That was why Ah Yin had always worried—she didn't want her own revival to destroy her people. But at this moment, Yun Chuan controlled the domain, and she could only accept passively, reluctant to disappoint her long-lost son.
Sensing her concern, Yun Chuan transmitted his thoughts directly:
"Don't worry, in my domain it's not just Blue Silver Grass—all plants are mine. They're each donating just a tiny amount—none will be harmed."
Unlike the Blue Silver Domain, Yun Chuan's Plant Sovereign domain drew power from all plant life. Vulnerable grasses might take damage, but trees and larger plants could regenerate their donation in a few days.
Within a hundred-li radius, the multitude of plants offered an impressive sum total of life energy; and if not enough, Yun Chuan could always accelerate seed growth from the soil.
This process didn't cost Yun Chuan his own soul power—unless the land itself was barren desert, in which case he'd have to use his own energy to produce plants from nothing.
Ah Yin was a special case: reviving to ten-thousand-year cultivation in moments required an immense energy pool. Yun Chuan's Plant Sovereign power enabled rapid growth by drawing from all the plants, not just the earth alone.
But this wasn't something Yun Chuan could universalize—raising a normal plant soul beast to ten-thousand-year level was impossible at his current Soul Douluo rank; perhaps only after becoming a god.
(End of Chapter 92)