Scouring for Whale Rubber

"Even if you asked me to go to Spirit Hall, take the Pope's crown, and give it to you as a chamber pot, I wouldn't say a word against it."

"Whatever you say goes."

Ronan declared arrogantly.

"Deal!" Tang Yuehua agreed without the slightest hesitation.

In her mind, this was a wager she was certain to win.

Even the Clear Sky Sect had been powerless against this absolute dead end. How could Ronan possibly solve it within a year?

As long as she won this bet, she would seize the initiative and make this bastard who had kept humiliating her pay the price!

"Deal. One year."

Seeing Tang Yuehua's assured expression, Ronan secretly found it amusing.

This woman really was easy to fool.

The day she truly broke through to level ten a year from now, Ronan swore he would treat Tang Yuehua to enough yogurt to fill her up!

After making the bet, Ronan's teasing expression vanished, replaced by a solemn look.

Although Ronan possessed a top-tier martial soul like the Golden Sacred Dragon and had a physique far stronger than his peers,

to ensure nothing went wrong, he had to bring his body to its absolute peak before absorbing a Spirit Ring!

"Now that the wager has been made, as the future winner, I need you to do something for me." Ronan looked at Tang Yuehua.

"What is it?"

"Use all of Moonlight Pavilion's connections in Heaven Dou City. Go to the black market and the major auction houses, and help me buy a certain item in large quantities."

"What item?" Tang Yuehua asked curiously.

"Whale Rubber. The older, the better. As long as it's top-grade Whale Rubber, I want as much as there is. Money is no object."

"Whale Rubber?!"

The moment she heard that name, the color that had only just returned to Tang Yuehua's face instantly turned crimson again.

Her eyes widened as she stared at Ronan in disbelief, her gaze full of shock, shame, indignation, and even a trace of unconcealed disdain.

As the master of Moonlight Pavilion who had moved through Heaven Dou City's noble circles for years, how could Tang Yuehua not know what Whale Rubber was?

Among the nobles of the Douluo Continent, Whale Rubber had always been regarded as a disgraceful, vulgar drug.

Those noble lords who indulged themselves too excessively often bought Whale Rubber at high prices on the black market, using it as an aphrodisiac to bolster their bedroom pleasures.

Tang Yuehua had never expected Ronan to ask her, the dignified master of Moonlight Pavilion, to purchase such filthy stuff in bulk!

"You... you're insane! You're a complete pervert!"

Tang Yuehua shouted furiously.

"Was what happened... what happened in the office not enough for you? And now you want to buy that kind of trashy drug! Aren't you afraid you'll exhaust yourself to death?"

Seeing Tang Yuehua's chest heaving violently with shame and fury, Ronan froze for a moment before rolling his eyes dramatically.

"I say, Pavilion Master Tang, could your thoughts be any more filthy?"

Ronan strode up to Tang Yuehua irritably and flicked her smooth forehead.

"Ow!" Tang Yuehua cried out in pain, clutching her forehead as she glared at Ronan.

"You so-called nobles are simply wasting a treasure."

Ronan snorted, a trace of contempt in his eyes. "In your eyes, Whale Rubber is a vulgar aphrodisiac, but in mine, it's an exceptionally rare cultivation treasure!"

"After top-grade Whale Rubber undergoes special processing and is consumed, it can greatly broaden a Soul Master's meridians and strengthen the bones and muscles. It is an exceedingly rare treasure capable of directly increasing a Soul Master's physical strength!"

"I'm about to hunt my eighth Spirit Ring."

"To withstand the terrifying impact brought by a high-year Spirit Ring, I have to use Whale Rubber to push my physical strength to a new limit."

"Understand? Stop thinking about all that nonsense all day."

"If you really are thinking about it, there's no need to beat around the bush. We can get down to business right here!"

After hearing Ronan's explanation, Tang Yuehua was stunned.

She stared blankly at Ronan. Not only did the flush on her face not fade, it spread all the way to her ears.

She had never imagined that something every noble regarded as an aphrodisiac could possess such miraculous effects.

Thinking back to her righteous accusations just now, Tang Yuehua wished she could crawl into a crack in the ground.

"I... I understand." Tang Yuehua awkwardly turned her head away, not daring to meet Ronan's eyes. "I'll use Moonlight Pavilion's channels to get it for you as soon as possible."

Time flew by, and half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

During those half a month, Heaven Dou City was unusually peaceful. After word spread of Ronan's domineering display that day, no blind fool of a faction dared come to Moonlight Pavilion looking for trouble again.

Tang Yuehua was also able to devote herself fully to managing Moonlight Pavilion and acquiring Whale Rubber for Ronan.

It had to be said that Moonlight Pavilion's intelligence network and connections in Heaven Dou City were truly enormous.

In just half a month, Tang Yuehua had gathered three large chests of Whale Rubber for Ronan through various underground channels.

Among them were even several pieces of top-grade Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, gleaming brilliant gold and as transparent as amber!

Ronan had not wasted those half a month either.

Inside a secret chamber in Moonlight Pavilion's rear courtyard, Ronan sat cross-legged.

Ronan slowly opened his eyes, and lightning seemed to flash within his golden pupils.

Level eighty!

After years of arduous cultivation and battles between life and death, he had finally crossed the last threshold of Soul Saint and successfully reached the level eighty bottleneck.

Now, all he needed was a suitable Spirit Ring to immediately transform into a Soul Douluo who could shake an entire region!

"Huff..." Ronan exhaled a breath of turbid air and slowly drew his surging Soul Power back into his body.

He rose to his feet, walked to a corner of the secret chamber, and opened the heavy iron chest Tang Yuehua had sent someone to deliver yesterday.

Several pieces of golden top-grade Whale Rubber lay quietly inside, emitting a strange fishy fragrance.

"It's time for the final enhancement."

Without the slightest hesitation, he picked up a fist-sized piece of top-grade Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, activated the Golden Sacred Dragon Fire within his body, and roasted it until it melted. Then, enduring its pungent smell, he swallowed it in one gulp.

Boom—!

The instant the top-grade Whale Rubber entered his stomach, an incomparably terrifying wave of scorching energy exploded through Ronan's body like a wild horse breaking free of its reins!

That energy was incredibly domineering as it frantically scoured Ronan's meridians.

It tore apart his muscle fibers, only for them to rapidly reform under the Golden Sacred Dragon's powerful regenerative abilities.

This repeated process of tearing and reforming brought excruciating pain akin to being sliced alive, agony no ordinary person could endure.

"Urgh—!"

Ronan clenched his teeth tightly, and a beastlike growl rumbled from his throat.

The skin all over his body instantly turned blood-red, while veins bulged across his surface like coiling dragons.

Large amounts of black impurities poured wildly from his pores along with his sweat, giving off a foul stench.