Level Ten!

Elder Yu did not ask what level Yu Changge was at now. In his view, his Innate Soul Power was right there for all to see.

However, a year passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside Yu Tianqing's home.

The family of three sat in the hall, chatting idly in a warm atmosphere.

Yu Changge looked at his parents and said seriously, "Dad, Mom, my Soul Power has reached level ten. Can you take me out of the clan to hunt a First Soul Ring that suits me?"

The two of them froze, looking at their son with a sense of absurdity.

Innate Half-Level Soul Power, yet he had cultivated to level ten in a year and a half?

If some other family's child had come and said that, Yu Tianqing would have kicked him away long ago. But he knew his son's temperament, and he knew Yu Changge would never lie about something like this.

Yu Shuyao still asked instinctively, "Son, are you really level ten?"

Yu Changge smiled and nodded.

A year ago, he had been at level five Soul Power. After reaching level seven, the [Level Up] Hextech had automatically raised his Soul Power by another level, bringing him to level eight.

Now that he had reached level ten, barring any surprises, once he obtained his First Soul Ring, with the energy boost granted by the ring and the push from the [Level Up] Hextech, he could raise his Soul Power by at least four levels in one go!

After all, over the past year, he had gradually consumed quite a bit of Whale Rubber.

In this era, Whale Rubber was actually a rather scarce resource.

Although most Soul Masters only regarded it as an aphrodisiac, there were plenty of herbs and folk remedies on Douluo Continent that served the same purpose. There was no need to fixate on Whale Rubber.

Thus, the Whale Rubber commonly found inland was generally only a few decades old. Those over a hundred years old were extremely rare.

Unless one went to coastal cities near the sea, such as Vast Sea City, where there might be more stock and higher-grade premium goods.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's territory was located within the Thunder Mountain Range in the southern part of the Heaven Dou Empire, deep inland.

To reach the boundless sea, one had to head west and cross more than half of Douluo Continent. The journey was exceedingly long.

Moreover, Sea Soul Beasts were often far stronger than land Soul Beasts of the same level, and they were incredibly troublesome to deal with.

When land Soul Masters faced Sea Soul Beasts on the vast ocean, they lost their terrain advantage, and the danger naturally multiplied several times over.

Over the past year, after Yu Changge discovered Whale Rubber's remarkable body-tempering effects,

the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had spared no expense to obtain premium Whale Rubber of a thousand years or even ten thousand years.

Yu Yuanzhen secretly dispatched several elite hunting teams led by Soul Saints to the sea.

The weakest members of those teams were Soul Kings above level fifty!

Yu Tianqing's family obviously did not need to participate in such high-risk hunting operations. After all, they had been the first to discover Whale Rubber's new use and report it to the clan.

Furthermore, a round trip to the sea was a long journey that took at least several months, if not half a year.

How could Yu Tianqing and Yu Shuyao bear to leave their precious son for so long?

Half a year ago, the clan's first hunting expedition finally concluded successfully, and the team returned weary from the journey.

Not only had they brought back quite a bit of high-quality thousand-year Whale Rubber, they had even obtained two relatively rare pieces of Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber!

To reward Yu Tianqing's family's contribution, Yu Yuanzhen granted one of those precious pieces of Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber to their household.

According to clan members who had taken part in the hunt, speaking privately afterward,

they had mobilized several Soul Saints to join forces just to kill that slippery ten-thousand-year whale-type Sea Soul Beast.

They had spent more than half a month wearing it down at sea before finally managing to kill it.

At first glance, several Soul Saints fighting a Soul Beast that had only just passed ten thousand years seemed to give them an overwhelming advantage in level.

But one should not forget that they were land Soul Masters and were not skilled at fighting at sea.

Although they possessed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, they could only fly after activating their Martial Soul Avatar, which consumed a tremendous amount of Soul Power.

And what about their opponent?

Once that ten-thousand-year whale realized it was outmatched, it only had to slap its tail and dive into the bottomless depths to escape. Land Soul Masters had no way to stop it.

They had only obtained those two pieces of Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber by racking their brains and paying a price to lure and trap them.

Moreover, quite a few people had been injured during the hunt.

After listening to his parents recount those stories they had heard, Yu Changge had long understood that Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber was indeed extremely difficult for current Soul Masters to acquire.

Tang San and the others in the original story might have killed Deep Sea Demon Whales with ease, one Zhuge Crossbow bolt per whale, but that was because they had the spring water from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Otherwise, completing that task would have been extremely difficult even for the protagonists' group at the time. More than half of the Demon Soul Great White Sharks would likely have been killed or injured before they could possibly complete that Divine Trial.

Yu Tianqing tested Yu Changge's Soul Power and confirmed that it had truly reached level ten. His expression immediately became quite a sight.

Yu Tianqing fell silent.

Yu Tianqing saw red.

Yu Tianqing was thrilled!

"Good, good, good! As expected of my son! With Innate Half-Level Soul Power, you actually reached level ten in a year and a half. Who would believe that if you told them? Hahaha!"

Yu Tianqing's feelings were complicated, but joy outweighed everything else. A grown man like him even found his eyes growing faintly moist, so he could only tilt his head up slightly to hide it.

Yu Shuyao was more emotional. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, then said to Yu Changge in mild "reproach," "Your Soul Power rose so quickly. Why didn't you tell us earlier?"

Yu Tianqing added, "Exactly, son. Yu Xiaogang is only at level four Soul Power now, and you've cultivated for even less time than he has. Yet your speed is several times his?"

Yu Changge nodded. "Dad, Mom, you should know that I prepare Sub-Dragon meat for Xiao Huang every day, every meal, right?"

"Then I discovered that whenever Xiao Huang eats some Sub-Dragon meat, part of it feeds back to me and increases my cultivation speed."

"However, recently, when I fed him hundred-year Sub-Dragon meat, he could only eat it twice a day. Any more than that, and Xiao Huang couldn't eat it."

"This should be related to my Soul Power Level."

"As for why I didn't tell you earlier, I wanted to give you a surprise."

Yu Tianqing laughed and scolded him, "A surprise? We think it was more of a shock. We weren't mentally prepared at all."

Though Yu Tianqing said that, he could not suppress the smile on his face no matter what.

But Yu Shuyao soon thought of something. "Still, something is strange. Yu Xiaogang has the same Martial Soul as you. His Martial Soul should also be able to consume Sub-Dragon meat to speed up his cultivation somewhat, so why is he still so much slower than you?"

Yu Changge:...