Five-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber All Used to Strengthen the Body (Please Add to Favorites, Recommend, and Vote!)

"My son Tianyang has the potential to become a Limit Douluo!"

Seeing Xu Tianming standing before him with such a matter-of-fact expression, Xu Xiang could not help reaching out to pat his head as he sighed softly.

"It's just that... a five-thousand-year Soul Ring is equivalent to the third or even fourth Soul Ring of an ordinary Spirit Master. One slight mistake, and your body could explode."

"Are you truly certain you want a five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant as your first Soul Ring?"

Although he believed in his son's talent, a five-thousand-year first Soul Ring was indeed beyond Xu Xiang's imagination.

"Rest assured, Father. I know what I'm doing."

Xu Tianming pressed his lips together and nodded with a determined gaze.

"If that is the case, absorb this fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber first."

Xu Xiang took the wooden box containing the Whale Rubber out of his Storage Soul Guidance Device once more.

"Speaking of which, although Unicorn Whales live in our Far North Sea, even I have only seen fifty-thousand-year Unicorn Whales a few times."

These Unicorn Whales were Soul Beasts unique to the Far North Sea. Because the horns on their foreheads were exceptionally precious materials for crafting Soul Tools, they had been slaughtered on a massive scale by the Sun Moon Empire.

They were now nearly extinct.

Xu Xiang removed the Whale Rubber from the box, and invisible, scorching Soul Power immediately gathered in his palm.

Xu Xiang's Sun Martial Soul was already a top-tier Martial Soul, second only to Ultimate Fire.

Under the catalysis of his searing Soul Power, the lump of Whale Rubber quickly melted into an exceptionally viscous, golden-glowing gel.

The unusual fragrance, which had not been particularly strong before, suddenly grew much richer as well.

Xu Xiang and Kong Yue were a Seven Ring Soul Saint and a six-ring Spirit Emperor respectively, so they were naturally not greatly affected.

However, Xu Tianming was merely a six-year-old child with Soul Power at level ten. After catching that strange fragrance, his cheeks gradually turned crimson.

"Though this stuff can raise the age limit of a Spirit Master's Soul Rings... it isn't exactly decent stuff!"

Seeing the unusual flush on her son's face, Kong Yue could not help spitting lightly in annoyance.

"Heh, decent or not, it really is good stuff."

Xu Xiang seemed to recall something, and a lecherous grin appeared on his face.

Yet after that smile vanished in an instant, his expression became serious again.

"Open your mouth!"

Xu Xiang barked quietly at Xu Tianming.

Xu Tianming had been waiting for this moment. Upon hearing Xu Xiang's words, he instinctively opened his mouth.

"Mm!"

Xu Xiang flicked his finger, and the Whale Rubber wrapped in his Soul Power smoothly dropped into Xu Tianming's stomach.

Hot!

That was Xu Tianming's first reaction.

An indescribable heat rose from his lower abdomen. Within only a few breaths, that warm current had already flowed through his entire body.

Then, the warm current coursing through his body exploded violently!

Scalding energy erupted fiercely from Xu Tianming's dantian, sweeping through his limbs and bones like a tsunami.

Every inch of his bones seemed to let out faint cracking sounds.

Xu Tianming immediately sat cross-legged on the ground. The Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art began circulating madly within him, refining the fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber into vast energy.

However, that energy did not transform into Soul Power that could help a Spirit Master break through. Instead, it all fused into Xu Tianming's bones, flesh, and meridians.

It continuously tempered and strengthened his body.

"Strange. According to Mingde Hall's research, although ordinary Spirit Masters can absorb Whale Rubber, there is inevitably some energy loss during the process!"

"Especially with high-year Whale Rubber, low-level Spirit Masters are often unable to fully absorb the energy within it and can only allow the excess energy to leak from their bodies."

Watching Xu Tianming's skin, which looked as though it had been scalded red, Xu Xiang's brows furrowed slightly.

"But why isn't even the slightest bit of energy leaking from Tianming's body?"

As a Soul Saint-level expert, he considered himself rather sensitive to fluctuations of energy in the world.

Yet ever since Xu Tianming swallowed the Whale Rubber, he had not detected even a trace of its energy leaking from his son's body.

He was practically like a Taotie that only took in and never expelled anything!

Black impurities gradually seeped from Xu Tianming's body. Misty vapor mixed with the gray impurities expelled from within him, forming a faint haze around his entire body.

The hand seal in Xu Tianming's hands abruptly changed, and his originally crimson skin swiftly returned to normal.

To ordinary Spirit Masters, fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber was naturally a treasure containing enormous energy, one that might require quite some time to refine.

But for Xu Tianming, who sought for Bones Turn to White Jade and Blood Becomes Profound Spring, the energy it contained was clearly far from sufficient.

"Hoo!"

Xu Tianming exhaled a breath of turbid air, which actually condensed into a short-lived white stream in midair.

Golden light and silver radiance flashed wildly in Xu Tianming's eyes, leaving both Xu Xiang and Kong Yue dazed for an instant.

It was as if they had been subjected to the bloodline suppression of a superior Martial Soul.

Only after the light in Xu Tianming's eyes faded did the two come back to their senses.

"Strange, strange. Truly strange!"

Xu Xiang shuddered, an intensely puzzled expression appearing on his face.

"Even if you possess Innate Full Soul Power, you should not be able to exert the pressure of a superior Martial Soul upon my Sun Martial Soul, should you?"

Strictly speaking, the Sun Martial Soul belonged neither to Beast Martial Souls nor Tool Martial Souls. It was instead one of the finest Elemental Martial Souls.

The only Martial Souls capable of making an Elemental Martial Soul like the sun feel the pressure of a superior Martial Soul were those possessing an Ultimate Attribute.

"Is this really the time to talk about that?"

Kong Yue shot Xu Xiang an irritated glare. Without minding the grime on Xu Tianming's skin, she reached out and helped him to his feet.

"Tianming is only a child. How would he know such things?"

Xu Xiang said nothing, merely reaching out to place his fingers on Xu Tianming's wrist.

A moment later, his expression immediately turned strange.

"You swallowed a piece of fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber, so why hasn't your Soul Power increased at all?"

"This fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber was clearly refined by you completely. Not even a fraction of its energy leaked away!"

Xu Xiang truly could not make sense of what had happened to his son.

"The primary purpose of Whale Rubber is to strengthen the body. Increasing Soul Power is only a secondary effect, isn't it?"

Xu Tianming could not help rolling his eyes.

"Now that all of the Whale Rubber's energy has been absorbed by my body, perhaps that is the special aspect of a Body Martial Soul."

Some things were indeed difficult to explain, but Xu Tianming could attribute everything to his Body Martial Soul.

After all, the Sun Moon Empire knew absolutely nothing about Body Martial Souls.

"A Body Martial Soul... truly miraculous!"

Xu Xiang clicked his tongue, then merely shook his head helplessly.

"However, if the energy from this fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber was truly all used to strengthen your body..."

"Then, combined with the special nature of your Body Martial Soul, perhaps you really can absorb a five-thousand-year first Soul Ring."