Douluo Continent: From Rusty Spear to Emperor-Slaying Spear

Chapter 12 Water Pressure Body Tempering, Level 20 Soul Power

Ji Wuming surfaced to take a breath, feeling incredibly refreshed. He had already thought of this excellent body-refining method during his battle with the Hai Po brothers.

By utilizing the immense water pressure generated by the high-speed movement of certain sea spirit beasts, one can achieve the optimal purpose of body tempering. This not only makes one's skin rougher and harder but also strengthens the internal organs through this pressure, ultimately achieving an excellent body tempering effect.

Isn't this better than the so-called Sea God's Three Trials and Tidal Body Refinement?

After adjusting his mindset, Ji Wuming dived into the water once more, seized the opportunity, and grabbed the dorsal fin of the tuna, which lacked intelligence.

"Be a good boy and my training tool, and I promise you delicious food!"

The tuna, however, didn't understand the meaning of those words. It only knew that the human who had climbed onto its back a second time was utterly despicable. It accelerated forward, attempting to use the same method as before to fling the human off.

As expected, after barely managing to hold on for six or seven minutes, he couldn't hold on any longer and was thrown out again.

By this time, the tuna was furious. This human had provoked it time and again, and it had finally reached its limit. It immediately accelerated and charged towards Ji Wuming, intending to knock him unconscious.

"Good timing!"

Just as the tuna was less than a meter away from him, Ji Wuming circulated his soul power, dodged its fierce attack, and quickly grabbed its fin.

"Come on, I already told you to train with me, and I'll treat you to something good afterwards. We humans are the most trustworthy people!"

The fish and the human tormented each other all day long, while the tuna, exhausted, swam to the surface, gulping down the air contained in the seawater.

Meanwhile, Ji Wuming was also lying on the boulder, panting heavily. He was completely exhausted, but as he ate the whale meat, a happy smile appeared on his face.

They also threw some high-age soul beast meat around the tuna. Upon smelling the fish meat imbued with such rich soul power, the tuna immediately swallowed a piece.

A longing shone in the fish's eyes; its life seemed to have reached its climax. Seeing other small fish also coming to snatch the food, it swam swiftly, claiming all the fish fillets for itself, swallowing them whole, leaving not a single piece, except for some fish flakes it vomited up.

At this moment, the rising tide completely submerged the shallow bay, but the tuna poked its head out, gazing at Ji Wuming on the boulder, unwilling to leave for a long time.

"Who says a ten-year-old tuna lacks intelligence? Isn't this a typical intelligent spirit beast?"

When Ji Wuming returned the next day, Repulse Bay was still the same, but the tuna was gone. He sighed slightly.

"Sigh, it's a pity that the tacit understanding I developed with that good fish yesterday is ruined. It seems that the tuna is either dead or has forgotten what happened yesterday. After all, a fish's memory only lasts seven seconds."

However, Ji Wuming was not disappointed. There were still many fast-swimming sea creatures trapped in Repulse Bay. Even if there were no tuna, there were still swordfish!

However, it was quite aggressive, especially with the fifty or sixty centimeters of fish bones extending from the front of its head. This excited him even more, and he channeled his soul power into his feet, relentlessly provoking the swordfish right in front of him.

As it charged at breakneck speed, Ji Wuming raced across the water's surface, dodging the swordfish's attacks. This expended his soul power, allowing him to extend his time on the water and thus refine his soul power.

Just as the swordfish, moving at breakneck speed, was getting closer and closer to Ji Wuming, he did a backflip and firmly grabbed the swordfish's fin.

"Got you!"

Just like the tuna yesterday, the swordfish immediately sped up its swim in an attempt to shake off the human on its back, but in the end it still became the best tool fish for him to train his body.

During Ji Wuming's school years, in addition to his daily martial spirit instruction classes, he would periodically spar with the Hai Po brothers, with the stakes being fifty catties of whale glue or various high-grade sea spirit beast meat.

Ji Wuming was tireless in his efficient acquisition of resources. In order to protect the Hai Po brothers' ambition and thus form a sustainable development model, he fought to a draw with the two brothers many times, achieving more draws than wins.

During his holidays, Ji Wuming honed his physique through water pressure training and battles with ten-year and even hundred-year-old soul beasts. He consumed whale glue every three days to replenish his strength. Even though the body-refining effects of hundred-year and thousand-year-old whale glue gradually weakened over time, he continued to consume it, selling any excess.

Although whale glue is cheap along the coast, it is still not something that ordinary people can afford. A pound of century-old whale glue costs 10 gold soul coins.

In this way, just two years later, Ji Wuming, now 11 years old (by Chinese reckoning), became even stronger, with bronze skin, an astonishing height of 1.7 meters, and his soul power reached the bottleneck of level 20.

More importantly, through selling whale glue and other high-quality soul beast meat, he has now accumulated a fortune of fifty to sixty thousand gold soul coins.

"Brother Ji, we're graduating in a few months. Let's use this time to beat you."

"Come on, let's have a go!"

Ji Wuming waved his hand and shook his head, refusing, "No, I've reached the level 20 soul power bottleneck and need to acquire a soul ring!"

"What? So fast? I seriously suspect that your duel over the past two years was all an act against us." Hai Bai and Hai Gui were shocked, and then said at the same time.

Ji Wuming chuckled, scratching the back of his head, and said, "No way! Your Martial Soul Fusion Technique is incredibly powerful. Besides, haven't you accelerated your cultivation speed considerably over the years in order to defeat me?"

"Hai Bai, your soul power has now reached level 18, and Hai Gui's soul power has also reached level 18. You should both be happy."

The sea demon raised its head and thought for a moment, then suddenly had a realization.

"That's right! Based on our usual cultivation progress, there's absolutely no way we could have increased our soul power by six levels in two years. Our parents often praise us for our ambition and the potential to become Soul Saints!"

Ji Wuming smiled slightly at this. If they could cultivate as diligently as they have during this period and also follow suit by consuming some whale glue, they would surely become Soul Emperors in at most twelve years. If they wanted to become Soul Saints, they would have to go to Seagod Island to undergo the test.

"Then I'll be going now. I'll treat you two brothers to dinner another day when I get back!"

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Ji Wuming waved to them happily, then walked towards the dean's office. He pushed open the door and said with a smile,

"Dean, I want you to help me obtain a spirit ring. My spirit power has now broken through to level 20."

"Level 20? Each ring is shorter than the last, far exceeding the half-year cultivation time for the first soul ring. This cultivation speed is no exaggeration to say it's at full innate soul power!"

Dean Shui's heart was filled with restlessness at this moment. After calming down, he immediately asked, "Judging from your absorption of your first spirit ring at a higher level, how many years do you plan to spend absorbing your second spirit ring?"

"Dean Shui, you also know the special changes that the first spirit ring I absorbed from a higher level brought me. My second spirit ring will naturally also be absorbed from a higher level, and its age will be between 1,300 and 1,600 years."

Ji Wuming's statement was somewhat limited. In fact, given his current physical condition, he could live another hundred or two hundred years without any major problems. However, to be on the safe side, it would be better to lower the requirements a bit.

(End of this chapter)