Whale Glue Body Tempering

"Holy shit! Was that the God of Wealth himself just now?"

The more Zhao Ming thought about it, the more likely it seemed. His heart surged with excitement.

It took him quite a while to calm down before he remembered to inspect his Treasure-Dropping Coin martial soul.

With a flip of his left hand, a round copper coin with a square hole appeared in Zhao Ming's palm.

The coin had an unusual shape, with wing-like protrusions on either side. Great Dao inscriptions flickered faintly across its surface, and a peculiar law quietly circulated within it.

The moment the Treasure-Dropping Coin was summoned, Zhao Ming could clearly feel an invisible force spreading outward from him, covering an area roughly ten meters in radius.

After closing his eyes and sensing it for a while, Zhao Ming confirmed that this strange force was a domain evolved from the Treasure-Dropping Coin's innate divine ability as it adapted itself to the laws of the Douluo Universe. It was called the Fortune-Gathering Domain.

The domain's effect was simple. When activated, all of Zhao Ming's attributes increased by twenty percent, while all enemy attributes were weakened by twenty percent.

Because the Treasure-Dropping Coin could automatically gather all kinds of fortune scattered between heaven and earth—including but not limited to wealth, misfortune, and even the luck carried by children of destiny—

when the Fortune-Gathering Domain was activated, Zhao Ming could control all the gathered fortune. Furthermore, he could strip away the various fortunes of anyone within the domain's range.

The stripping effect depended on the difference in cultivation between Zhao Ming and the person within the domain, as well as that person's condition.

For example, if Zhao Ming's domain enveloped Qian Daoliu, then no matter how hard he tried, he would never be able to strip away Qian Daoliu's fortunes. But if Qian Daoliu were severely wounded, on the verge of death, and unconscious, then Zhao Ming might be able to do it.

"The Treasure-Dropping Coin really is extraordinary! It gave me such a heaven-defying domain before I've even attached a soul ring." Zhao Ming could not help sighing in admiration.

Just as Zhao Ming was rejoicing over his Treasure-Dropping Coin martial soul, the five God Kings of the Divine Realm all sensed something at the same time.

"Xiao Zi, did you feel it too?" the Goddess of Life, gentle as water in a long green dress, asked.

The God of Destruction nodded. Just moments ago, he had clearly sensed that a living being had appeared in the lower realm who, like the five God Kings of the Divine Realm, wielded an entire law.

A similar conversation was taking place between Kindness and Evil.

"Kindness, can you sense what this law is?" the Evil God King asked.

"From what I can sense, this law encompasses wealth, commerce, contracts, lending... In short, it covers everything related to money," the Kindness God King replied.

"That's roughly what I felt as well. This being is like us. As long as he can cultivate into godhood, he will automatically obtain the position of God King. And under his authority, he should also be able to form the divine positions of one first-class god and three second-class gods.

Hasn't Destruction always wanted to strengthen the Divine Realm? Once this being ascends to the Divine Realm, we'll have another God King. If we join forces, we may be able to turn the Divine Realm into a Divine Star. Then Destruction's wish can be fulfilled."

The Kindness God King nodded in strong agreement. Then, as though recalling something, she changed the subject. "By the way, Evil, is the planet where this being resides the Douluo Continent of the Angel God?"

"That's right. It's the Douluo Continent."

"The Angel God was once a god under my command. Since her fall, her divine position has remained without an inheritor. Now that the Douluo Continent is about to produce a God King, the continent's fortune must be at its peak. I plan to keep an eye on it and see whether I can find an inheritor for the Angel God."

"Didn't the Angel God entrust her divine trials to her fellow townsman, the Sea God? Why do you need to worry about it?" the Evil God King asked.

The Kindness God King smiled faintly and merely looked at the Evil God King without speaking.

The Evil God King was initially stunned. Then realization dawned on him. If Kindness took charge of passing down the Angel God's divine position, they would have a chance to meet the future God King ahead of time!

"You've thought this through. Then, regarding the Sea God..."

"I'll go myself. I was the one who entrusted the Angel God's divine trials to him in the first place. Since I'm taking them back now, it's only proper that I go in person."

Meanwhile, within the Asura God Temple, the Asura God had also noticed that a living being had come to wield all laws related to money.

Although the Asura God was preparing to leave, as a native god of the Divine Realm, he was still delighted to learn that the Divine Realm could gain another God King.

But the Asura God soon discovered that this being was also on the Douluo Continent. The inheritor he had guided was on the Douluo Continent as well.

I hope there won't be any conflict between you two, the Asura God thought.

Zhao Ming had no idea that he had already drawn the attention of the five God Kings of the Divine Realm.

At this moment, he had already left the Spirit Hall in Vast Sea City, followed by the Water Snake martial soul deacon who had awakened his martial soul.

The deacon's name was Snake. He was a level 29 Grand Soul Master whom Tom had assigned to protect Zhao Ming.

After leaving Spirit Hall together, Zhao Ming said that he wanted to buy some things for the children at the orphanage and bring them back.

Along the way, Zhao Ming sent Snake away, asking him to order thirty-seven sets of brand-new bedding from a nearby street.

Zhao Ming himself went to a nearby pharmacy and purchased one piece of three-thousand-year whale glue and two pieces of five-thousand-year whale glue. The three pieces cost a total of 2,970 gold soul coins.

Afterward, Zhao Ming returned to the orphanage carrying a huge pile of packages. Once he had distributed the items among the orphanage children, he told Snake that he wanted to stay at the orphanage for the night.

Snake understood. He said that he would come pick Zhao Ming up tomorrow, and that Zhao Ming could come to Spirit Hall to find him at any time if anything happened.

After Snake left, Zhao Ming went to the blacksmith shop on the next street. One of the older boys from the orphanage worked there as a blacksmith. Using the shop's furnace, Zhao Ming melted the three pieces of whale glue. The moment he stepped out of the shop and made sure no one was paying attention, he stored the melted whale glue in his spatial storage.

Time within the spatial storage was relatively still, so he did not have to worry about the melted whale glue solidifying again.

After returning to the orphanage, Zhao Ming first took out the melted three-thousand-year whale glue.

Looking at the thick, scalding liquid before him, which gave off a strange fishy-sweet scent, Zhao Ming did not hesitate in the slightest. He poured all of the whale glue into his mouth!

The instant the liquid entered his mouth, Zhao Ming's eyes flew wide open. A fishy, burning sensation spread from his mouth down through his throat, bringing waves of searing pain everywhere it passed.

Zhao Ming gritted his teeth and swallowed the last drop. He immediately sat cross-legged and began circulating Nine-Breath Qi Absorption.

An unimaginable torrent of heat exploded in his stomach. Violent thermal energy crazily spread through his limbs, every meridian, every bone, and every inch of muscle. It felt as though he had been thrown into a furnace. His skin instantly turned crimson, while veins bulged viciously across his body.

But the discomfort lasted only an instant. Once Nine-Breath Qi Absorption completed its first circulation, Zhao Ming felt incomparably comfortable all over.

In less than half an hour, he effortlessly refined the first piece of three-thousand-year whale glue.

Zhao Ming had no more concerns now. A primordial cultivation technique refining heavenly treasures from the Douluo Continent was simply too easy. He directly swallowed both pieces of melted five-thousand-year whale glue and circulated the technique again.

This time, the refinement took an hour.

After refining all three pieces of whale glue, Zhao Ming could clearly sense that his physical constitution had undergone an earth-shaking transformation. Forget a thousand-year soul ring—his first soul ring should have no problem reaching eight or nine hundred years.