Whale Rubber and Geng Metal Stone

Whale Rubber and Geng Metal Stone

Two months later, the caravan resupplied and rested in Star Luo City. Dragon Rising City, their destination, was only three days away by carriage.

After riding in a carriage for two months, Liu Yanyang felt like his whole body was about to fall apart. He had never even ridden in one in his previous life, so he had initially found it exciting. In this life, though, he probably would not want to ride in one again.

Looking at the majestic Star Luo City, it truly deserved to be called the capital of the Star Luo Empire. Taking advantage of the caravan's rest, he wandered around the city.

As he looked at the streets lined with architecture resembling medieval Western Europe, he gradually lost interest.

He casually picked a large shop and tried his luck, seeing whether he could find any rare treasures from the Douluo Treasure Record.

The moment he entered, a young salesgirl approached him and enthusiastically began introducing the merchandise to Liu Yanyang.

After making a rough circuit of the shop, the only thing that interested him was a piece of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber. Everything else was quite ordinary.

Just as he was about to buy the Whale Rubber, his attention was abruptly drawn to a small black stone in the corner.

He walked over, picked it up, and examined it closely. The dark stone was dotted with pale platinum specks. This was Geng Metal Stone.

The book recorded that Geng Metal Stone nurtured Geng Metal Qi within it—the very pale platinum specks he saw.

If the Geng Metal Qi was extracted through special methods and infused into a forged weapon, it could make the weapon incomparably sharp and greatly increase its attack power.

Some had even tried to fuse it into their martial souls, though the result had been a disastrous failure: their martial souls exploded, killing them.

That was precisely what excited Liu Yanyang. He had already reached a conclusion on how to fuse Geng Metal Qi into a martial soul. It was like enchanting a weapon in the online games he had played in his previous life—adding an effect, for short.

As long as his martial soul gained the ability to devour metal, fusing Geng Metal Qi into it would be a natural outcome.

The only way for a martial soul to gain that ability was by absorbing a Soul Ring. Among Soul Beasts, there were special ones capable of devouring the gold element within metal ores for their own use.

The only difficulty was obtaining that ability with absolute certainty. He only had nine Soul Rings, so he could not afford to gamble on a blind draw.

As he rubbed the Geng Metal Stone in his hand, he casually glanced at the price: 100 Gold Soul Coins.

He guessed that there were probably very few people on the Douluo Continent who recognized Geng Metal Stone. To him, it was practically priceless.

He stopped overthinking it and immediately took out a black card worth fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins from his Storage Soul Tool, handing it and the Geng Metal Stone to the salesgirl.

Then he pointed at the Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, indicating that it should be packed together.

When the salesgirl saw that the boy actually wanted to buy Whale Rubber, she could not help being startled. Suspiciously, she looked him over again.

However, professional courtesy made her promptly smile and nod in understanding. A short while later, she respectfully handed the packaged items and black card back to him.

Liu Yanyang knew he had been misunderstood, but he did not explain. After storing the items in his Storage Soul Tool, he walked straight out of the shop. He knew that the more he explained something like this, the worse it would look.

After leaving the shop, he entered an inn and rented a room. Once he had tightly shut the door, he took out the Whale Rubber from his Storage Soul Tool.

The book recorded, "Whale Rubber is a special substance produced in the brains of whale-type Soul Beasts. It provides excellent nourishment for Soul Masters, strengthening the body and enhancing the endurance of muscles, bones, and meridians. It must be softened with intense flames before it can be consumed. Thousand-Year Whale Rubber can increase the number of years one's body can withstand from a Soul Ring by at least four to five hundred years."

But people in the first era of Douluo did not know that. They all used it for... that.

His body had already been strengthened once by the Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Ganoderma. If he consumed the Whale Rubber now, then as long as his first Soul Ring was under a thousand years, absolutely nothing would go wrong.

Liu Yanyang began to feel a little excited. Absorbing a Soul Ring beyond one's level came with many benefits—one step ahead meant staying ahead at every step.

He quickly entered the bathroom and filled the bathtub with ice water.

Then he came back out and looked at the Whale Rubber on the table, which had become a soft, dark golden gelatinous substance in a bowl. He had spent a hefty sum to hire a Soul Elder to roast it with flame made from Soul Power.

Because of this, he had received quite a few strange looks from that Soul Elder. Still, the man had merely assumed it was some peculiar hobby of a wealthy young master like Liu Yanyang and had not considered anything else.

Picking up the small bowl, he immediately entered the bathroom and downed the Whale Rubber in one gulp.

"Ugh! What a strong fishy smell!" The stench released the instant the Whale Rubber entered his mouth made Liu Yanyang knit his brows tightly, nearly nauseating him into vomiting.

He endured the discomfort and swallowed it all. Gradually, a strange fragrance rushed out through his nose and mouth, making him let out a soft groan.

He felt a thick warm current begin flowing through his limbs and bones.

The warmth gradually turned into scorching heat throughout his body. Liu Yanyang could feel dense currents of heat continuously surging through every part of him, and sweat slowly began seeping from his body.

As time passed, what his body expelled was no longer merely sweat. Large amounts of black substances began oozing from his pores.

The side effects of the Whale Rubber also began to show at this point. Liu Yanyang felt his body temperature rise to an astonishing degree, and his eyes began turning red. Fortunately, he possessed the memories of two lives, had powerful Spiritual Power, and was continuously cooled by the ice water.

Although he felt a blazing heat in his heart, it remained within controllable limits. Fortunately, he was only six years old, so the tool for committing crimes was temporarily unusable.

He could calm himself and cultivate. After roughly two hours, the Whale Rubber had been fully absorbed.

Feeling the tremendous improvement in his physical condition, Liu Yanyang was filled with delight.

However, the smell from the black impurities ruined his good mood, and he immediately began washing himself.

A quarter of an hour later, he got dressed and walked out of the bathroom. Standing before the mirror, he examined his body. He was already developing abdominal muscles. Not bad!

Now he only needed to find the optimal Soul Ring suited to his martial soul. Breaking Clan, here I come...

Three days later, the carriage stopped within Dragon Rising City. Liu Yanyang got out, found a local driver, and headed for the Breaking Clan.

Under the driver's guidance, a fairly splendid residence came into view. The gate of the large estate looked rather rugged, and a plaque hanging above it bore the character "Break."

The carriage stopped before the main gate. At that moment, the two burly men guarding the entrance turned their eyes toward it and stared intently.

Liu Yanyang stepped down from the carriage and saw two sharp gazes fixed on him. He could not help sighing. As expected of the Breaking Clan.

He walked forward, came before the two men, cupped his hands, and smiled.

"Please inform your Clan Leader that an old acquaintance has come to visit—and that I know news of the Aromatic Silk Beauty."

Upon hearing this, one of the burly men was about to rebuke him. How could their Clan Leader possibly know a child?

But upon seeing Liu Yanyang's otherworldly temperament and luxurious clothing, he merely told him to wait before hurrying into the residence.

Not long after, the man returned. This time, however, an Old Man followed behind him.

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