Millennium Whale Glue, Breaking Through to Level Ten Soul Power!

"Mom, don't worry!"

"I've remembered all of it!"

Xia Mu raised his head and nodded.

"Oh, right, Mom!"

"The inheritance I awakened told me that high-year whale glue can rapidly increase a soul master's soul power!"

"Not only that!"

"This stuff can also help soul masters absorb higher-year soul rings and temper the body!"

Xia Mu's words were nothing short of shocking. He directly told Liu Yuer about whale glue's effects and the various benefits soul masters gained from consuming it!

"This..."

"Xiao Mu!"

"We'll talk about this after we get home!"

Liu Yuer hurriedly put away the awakening stone, dismissed the awakening array, and pulled Xia Mu back home.

The two rushed home. Once they were alone, Liu Yuer looked at Xia Mu and asked, "Xiao Mu, are you sure you weren't lying to me?"

"That thing really has such great use?"

As a married woman, Liu Yuer had seen her share of the world and naturally knew about whale glue's effects!

"The high-year stuff works. Lower-year glue won't do!"

"Hundred-year whale glue is useless. Millennium whale glue is barely passable. Ten-thousand-year whale glue is truly valuable, while hundred-thousand-year whale glue is enough to completely transform one's body. Its effects are no less than some ten-thousand-year soul bones."

"Other than lacking soul skills, it's good in every other way."

Xia Mu counted on his fingers as he explained it to Liu Yuer. No one had yet discovered whale glue's true uses in this era. It was all being used for other purposes, like a pearl buried in dust.

"Hundred-year whale glue is useless, millennium whale glue is barely passable, and ten-thousand-year whale glue is truly valuable?"

"You brat, do you know how expensive millennium whale glue is? It's extremely rare on the market!"

"A piece of hundred-year whale glue costs several hundred gold soul coins on the market. Millennium whale glue costs over a thousand, while ordinary people can hardly even catch a glimpse of ten-thousand-year whale glue!"

"Such things are held by great nobles as private collectibles. They occasionally appear at auctions, but the starting bid is always over a thousand gold soul coins!"

Liu Yuer sighed and began calculating the family's savings again, looking somewhat troubled.

"Although I'm a yellow-robed deacon of Spirit Hall!"

"I receive a subsidy of ten gold soul coins every month. Together with my salary from Spirit Hall, I earn fifty gold soul coins a month!"

"On top of that, your father earns twenty gold soul coins a month!"

"Our family earns seventy gold soul coins every month!"

"We've worked at Spirit Hall for six years, and after saving bit by bit, we've accumulated a total of five thousand gold soul coins!"

"I hope you're not lying to me, brat. Otherwise, I'll beat your butt until it swells!"

Liu Yuer spoke viciously. It had not been easy for her to save this money; she had scrimped and saved every coin herself.

"Mom, don't worry!"

"How about this? Once you buy the whale glue, I'll demonstrate it myself. Then you'll know."

Xia Mu secretly clicked his tongue. He had not expected whale glue to be so expensive. This was practically burning money!

"Wait at home!"

"I'm going to Spirit Hall!"

"I heard Bishop Kalman has several pieces of whale glue. I'll go see whether I can buy them from him."

After settling Xia Mu down, Liu Yuer planned to make a trip to Spirit Hall to acquire supplies and return the martial soul awakening stone while she was there.

Some time later, Azurewood Town, Xia Family.

Xia Feng and Liu Yuer returned home together, and the atmosphere immediately became somewhat strange.

"Dad, what's wrong?"

Xia Mu looked at his father and asked.

"Isn't it all because of you, brat!"

"Your mother humiliated me for the sake of buying whale glue. Now they're all saying I can't do it!"

"Especially Bishop Kalman!"

"He was practically insulting me! To spare my feelings, he even gave me a piece of millennium whale glue."

"He even said that if it wasn't enough, I could go ask him for more!"

"Sigh!"

"My lifelong reputation, ruined in a single day!"

Xia Feng was on the verge of depression. He had gone out to work, only to return and find rumors flying everywhere.

The key was that he had no choice but to admit it!

That was infuriating!

"Millennium whale glue? That's good stuff!"

"I never expected you and Bishop Kalman to be so close, Dad. Your superiors really think highly of you!"

Xia Mu was rather surprised. Millennium whale glue was a private collectible that ordinary people rarely even saw!

"Of course!"

"Back at the Great Spirit Arena, Bishop Kalman and I were old friends who had been through life-and-death battles together!"

"It's just a pity that my cultivation speed was too slow!"

"Times have changed. He's nearly become a Soul King now, while I'm still stuck at the Soul Master realm!"

Back then, Xia Feng and Kalman had been longtime partners at the Great Spirit Arena, and their coordination had been exceptionally smooth.

"Don't worry, Dad!"

"Today is the day you both break through!"

Xia Mu patted his chest and assured them.

Internal martial arts, combined with a body-tempering medicinal bath and ten-thousand-year whale glue, would be enough to greatly increase a Soul Master's strength.

"Two pieces of millennium whale glue and one piece of ten-thousand-year whale glue—I've gotten them all!"

"Good son!"

"Now it's up to you!"

Liu Yuer took out three pieces of whale glue and tossed them to Xia Mu. These things had completely drained her wallet.

"I still need some medicinal herbs!"

"They aren't expensive, but there are quite a few different kinds!"

Xia Mu took out a sheet of paper containing the medicinal bath formula. The ingredients were all common medicinal herbs.

"I'll buy them!"

Xia Feng gritted his teeth and accepted the medicinal bath formula. This time, he would probably have to dip into his private stash.

The moon hung over the willow branches, Azurewood Town, Xia Family.

Xia Mu stood inside a bath barrel filled with black body-tempering liquid. A blowtorch stood before him.

"Millennium whale glue is barely acceptable!"

"Let me test this thing's effects first!"

Xia Mu lit the blowtorch and used its flame to melt the whale glue. He then used soul power to refine it for easier absorption.

Soon, a strange fragrance spread through the air.

"It smells so good!"

Xia Mu sniffed lightly and knew the heat was right.

He swallowed the whale glue in one gulp, then began circulating the stance techniques of internal martial arts to refine the millennium whale glue.

Several hours later...

"Phew..."

"Good thing the Primordial Unity Stake helped channel the medicinal power. Otherwise, this millennium whale glue really wouldn't have been so easy to absorb!"

In his previous life, Xia Mu had practiced traditional martial arts for a while. Unfortunately, he had only learned training and health-preserving methods, not combat techniques.

The Primordial Unity Stake was one of the standing practices of internal martial arts. As the saying went, if one practiced boxing without practicing skill, all efforts would come to nothing in old age. Internal standing practices focused on circulating qi and blood and increasing strength.

Using it here now was truly a tremendous stroke of fortune!

"It worked, it worked!"

"This thing really is effective! My son is a peerless genius. He'll surely have the potential to become a Titled Douluo in the future!"

Xia Feng jumped up and cried out in surprise.

"Xiao Mu!"

"Come test your soul power!"

Holding the soul power testing crystal, Liu Yuer spoke to Xia Mu. She wanted to confirm whether this thing truly worked.

"Buzz, buzz~"

The soul power testing crystal lit up, bursting with dazzling white light.

"Level ten!"

"How is that possible?"

Liu Yuer cried out in shock. When she had tested Xia Mu that afternoon, his innate soul power had only been level seven. How long had it been, yet he had already reached level ten soul power!

"This piece of whale glue isn't ordinary millennium whale glue. It's at least five thousand years old!"

"My innate soul power was already at level seven, only a little short of level eight. This piece of millennium whale glue increased my soul power by around two levels for nothing!"

"Not only that, I think I can try for a first soul ring between five hundred and six hundred years!"

Feeling his own spiritual power and physique, Xia Mu calmly spoke words that left them utterly shocked.