Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 9: Two and a Half Years, Level Ten and Whale Rubber

Before awakening his martial spirit, Chen Ming was the most precious child of the Chen family. After awakening his martial spirit, he became the only lifeblood of the Chen family. Almost all the resources of the family were unconditionally tilted towards him.

However, the pharmacology of the Douluo Continent in this era is not very good, and there are no elixirs such as the Mysterious Water Pill and the Soul-Sheng Pill that can directly improve talent and soul power, so the way to supplement is still to rely on medicinal baths and medicinal foods to improve slowly.

Although he had an innate fifth-level soul power and a top-level training ground and resources, the congenital defects in the Emerald Scorpion's origin still reduced Chen Ming's training speed before he obtained the soul ring.

It took him two and a half years to reach level 10 from level 5, which was neither long nor short. In Douluo Continent, this was considered normal progress, and was probably above average, but still far from being a true genius.

After reaching the tenth level of soul power, Chen Ming did not immediately obtain a soul ring, but continued to temper his body through various methods.

After tentatively telling his family that he seemed to have heard from somewhere that whale glue could improve physical fitness and increase the absorption period of spirit rings, Chen Ming's grandfather Chen Shijie did not hesitate and immediately bought several types of whale glue from different whale spirit beasts through various channels.

There are both whale glue from common whale spirit beasts and whale glue from various rare whale spirit beasts. The most expensive one is a piece of whale glue from a 20,000-year-old evil killer whale. It is said that it was obtained by a spirit sage of the Spirit Hall when he hunted the seventh spirit ring in Linhai City a few years ago. It is the best whale glue.

That basketball-sized piece of whale glue cost a full three million gold soul coins just to purchase it directly, not counting the cost of communication channels and favors.

In this year, the fishing industry in Douluo Continent is extremely underdeveloped. It is okay to catch fish in the shallow sea, but it is impossible to enter the deep sea.

Douluo Continent did not develop ships like whaling ships, so soul masters were used to hunt whale spirit beasts. If they were lucky, a level 30 soul master with a water-attributed spirit could deal with some hundred-year-old whale spirit beasts, but once they encountered a group of sea spirit beasts, they would only be eaten.

Hunting whale soul beasts over ten thousand years old is much more difficult than hunting ten thousand year soul beasts on land, and whale soul beasts usually have the habit of living in groups, which greatly increases the difficulty of hunting. Usually only soul masters at the Soul Saint or even Soul Douluo level can do this.

Therefore, even though whale jelly has not yet been found to have the function of strengthening the physical body, the price of high-grade whale jelly is still very expensive.

For an ordinary small family, this piece of whale glue would make them cry, but the Chen family is not short of money.

The Chen family is an earl-level noble family that has been established in Biluo City for five hundred years and occupies the biggest piece of the pie in Biluo City. Not only does it have various tax revenues, it is also the largest shareholder in the sale of soul beast materials in Biluo City, with tens of thousands of gold soul coins coming in every year.

In addition, as experts in using poison, the Chen family also runs some medicine shops and clinics. Although they are not very well-known, they still bring in a lot of money every year. In secret, the Chen family also secretly sells some poisons and mixed poisons, which is even more profitable.

When the Chen family discovered that fewer people in the family were awakening their soul power, they thought about attracting allies and looking for backers. Over the past few hundred years, they have invested in some businessmen and soul masters. Although most of them failed, there were also successes. In the end, they expanded their network of contacts and added some chambers of commerce to their name.

The largest investment was made two hundred years ago.

At that time, the disciples of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect were mining near Biluo City. At that time, the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect was temporarily in a period of transition due to an accident. At that time, the mayor of Biluo City was instructed by other forces to cause trouble for the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect, but the Chen family took action to solve the problem. This allowed the Chen family to invest in some mines under the name of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect and receive dividends every year.

Part of the money was exchanged for real estate, such as to strengthen Chen's house and add some facilities, part was used for cultivation, and part was used for daily consumption. The largest part was kept in the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect. Although a storage fee had to be paid every year, it was safer than keeping it in hand.

Chen Shijie told Chen Ming that the Chen family had about 45 million gold soul coins in the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect, and the cash flow was about 10 million. If real estate and other assets in various places were included, the total assets of the Chen family would probably exceed 100 million gold soul coins, which was considered a good level in the earl family. If soul bones were not priceless and too hot to handle, and were easily taken away by people, then the Chen family might be able to hoard some soul bones as a foundation.

After Chen Ming took many tonic herbs, he also tried whale glue, but the effect was not as good as expected.

The hundred-year-old whale glue can only play an aphrodisiac role, and the nourishment it provides to the body is not even as good as the consumption caused by aphrodisiac. Although Chen Ming is not old enough, he still feels uncomfortable after eating it, and the effect of strengthening his physical fitness is not obvious.

The thousand-year-old whale glue has a better effect on strengthening the body than the hundred-year-old whale glue, but its aphrodisiac effect is also more serious. After taking it for a period of time, Chen Ming could feel that he was developing prematurely and his body was showing signs of precocious puberty. In order to avoid any problems in the future, he had to adjust the dosage and interval of taking it, and use some milder methods to neutralize the aphrodisiac effect of whale glue.

As for the 20,000-year-old whale glue produced from the top soul beast, the evil killer whale...

The Chen family cut off a piece the size of a fingernail, used wood from soul beasts as material, and burned it in a fire for an hour before it melted. During this time, the servants who were burning the fire changed three times, and a few impatient ones almost had a passionate collision in the room. They went out and poured several basins of cold water before reluctantly returning home.

Chen Shijie wore a hood, thick clothes and a robe and brought the small piece of whale glue in a storage soul guide.

The fingernail-sized whale glue exuded a sticky color and a strange aroma. Chen Ming began to lose consciousness after smelling it, and felt an impulse that he shouldn't have at this age.

He carefully cut off about a quarter of it with a knife and ate it. After sitting cross-legged for three minutes, he became a little restless. After another two minutes, he had to stand up and take a shower. Finally, he felt that the shower was not satisfying enough so he simply dived into the water tank and soaked in it.

He didn't feel whether his physique had improved or not, but he felt that he was almost possessed. From that day on, he felt embarrassed even to eat whale glue that was 100 or 1,000 years old.

It is said that the remaining whale glue, which was about three quarters the size of a fingernail, was taken away by Chen Ming's second uncle. Three or four months later, Chen Ming heard from his second uncle that his two concubines were both pregnant.

Chen Tianyun is forty years old. He got married at the age of twenty-one and has had three concubines in the past nineteen years. During this period, he has not had a son, let alone a daughter.

He had asked soul masters who specialized in this to check him more than once, and after finding no problems, he tried various methods and also ate some hundred-year and thousand-year-old whale glue. In the end, he had no choice but to give up, thinking that he was destined not to have children... Who would have thought that in the end, he would actually achieve his wish in such an evil way, in a speechless way.

It was not until later that the Chen family, who lived in the mainland, found out that the whale glue of the evil killer whale was the best of all whale glue. Not only was the quality of this soul beast extremely high, but most importantly, it had strong medicinal properties, making it the best of the best. And because it was extremely difficult to obtain, it was a treasure that was priceless.

Although the Chen family spent three million to buy such a piece, if it falls into the hands of someone who needs it, the price can even double. It is not impossible to triple it with good handling and marketing.

If it is delivered to the hands of those great nobles... you might even get a favor.

I can only say that this is really worth the money.

(End of this chapter)