Whale Rubber: A Douluo Must-Eat

[In truth, every cultivation system across the myriad worlds ultimately pointed in one direction: dimensional ascension!]

["Herrscher of Reason Divine Core" was a path of mechanical ascension that analyzed truth, using the laws of technology to question the dome of higher dimensions.]

[And in cultivation systems, weren't those great Immortal Emperors who walked the river of time and traversed the ancient past and distant future higher-dimensional lifeforms that had ascended to the fourth dimension, or even beyond?]

[Take the cultivation system of the Dou Qi Continent, for example. Dou Zong experts could step through the void, Dou Zun experts could tear apart space, and Dou Sheng experts could even create entirely new pocket worlds.]

[These seemingly transcendent spatial abilities were, in essence, manifestations of wielding higher-dimensional power. Perhaps this entirely new dimension could be abstractly named "space"?]

Having finished updating the diary entry, Qin Moyu temporarily closed his diary and set aside his tangled thoughts.

Across the various planes of the myriad worlds, the female leads stared at the reorganized diary content, utterly stunned and lost in thought...

Ever since they had embarked on the path of cultivation, their deeply rooted understanding had been to temper their bodies, refine their souls, break through realms, and comprehend a particular Great Dao.

The concept of "dimensions," meanwhile, came from a technological system they had never encountered or even heard of.

Only through Qin Moyu's simple yet profound explanation did they truly push open the door to an entirely new world and fully understand what a technological system was...

So-called cultivation was, in essence, a path of dimensional ascension—one that continuously broke through the limits of life and climbed ever upward!

The Great Dao ascension that cultivators tirelessly pursued perfectly aligned with Qin Moyu's theory of "dimensional ascension"!

At that moment, they immediately thought of those Great Emperors who overlooked all races and had remained invincible throughout eternity.

Those supreme experts had transcended the shackles of reincarnation and could freely traverse the river of time. Were such heaven-defying methods not the very authority over time of the fourth dimension?!

With the two compared, the technological system that had once seemed obscure and vague instantly formed a clear understanding in their minds.

And at that very moment, the female leads of the myriad planes fully understood the terror of higher-dimensional beings!

A four-dimensional powerhouse might not necessarily be equivalent to a Great Emperor, but any supreme expert who reached the pinnacle of Great Emperor and wielded the authority of time was surely a higher-dimensional being that had broken free of the restraints of the three-dimensional universe!

Many female leads born into top-tier clans immediately recalled the terrifying divine might of those Great Emperor supremes.

They had been fortunate enough to witness firsthand the heaven-defying methods of those Great Emperor supremes, who roamed through eternal ages and walked the river of time!

If four-dimensional lifeforms possessed the same mastery over time as Great Emperor supremes, their killing methods would be terrifying enough to drive one into despair!

With a single thought, they could cross a timeline and kill an enemy while that enemy was still young, utterly erasing every threat at its root. Such a method could neither be avoided nor guarded against!

Four-dimensional beings did not necessarily possess the invincible combat strength of Great Emperor supremes in the present age, but their mastery of the time dimension could absolutely rival—or even surpass—that of Great Emperor supremes!

As for the Grandfather Paradox involved in this:

Because you would threaten me in the future, I crossed the timeline and killed your younger self; but since your younger self was already dead, the future threat no longer existed.

Then this hunt across the timeline could never have happened in the first place.

It seemed to be an insoluble contradiction of cause and effect, but at its core, it was merely a cognitive limitation imposed on lower-dimensional beings by the three-dimensional universe.

The logic of higher-dimensional lifeforms was extremely clear:

When they foresaw that you would threaten them in the future, they would actively cross the timeline and trace the source to kill you while you were still young.

This was not a method of reversing effect into cause, but a closed logical loop of "First Effect, Then Cause."

Just like the authority of Lan, the Aeon of the Hunt in the Honkai: Star Rail plane: the Reignbow Arbiter's arrow first brought the damage of being struck, and only afterward came the process of the arrow being fired.

The Hunt's arrow was precisely a killing move of "First Effect, Then Cause," one that transcended the dimension of causality. No matter whether the target was in the past, present, or future, once locked onto by the Path of the Hunt, they were destined to be struck before the arrow arrived.

When you saw the arrow's trajectory, the Hunt had already successfully hit its target.

Under the rules of the higher-dimensional universe, every loophole in three-dimensional logic would be forcibly smoothed over and repaired by four-dimensional logic!

A small village near Suotuo City.

Qin Moyu lowered his head in thought, silently making calculations.

Although he had forcefully raised himself to an innate fifty levels of Soul Power with the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core, giving him a starting point that crushed every genius on the Douluo Continent, an awkward problem lay right before him.

He possessed nothing but the foundation of fifty-level Soul Power; he did not have a single Spirit Ring.

Not only that, his physical constitution was relatively weak at the moment, wholly unable to support the terrifying foundation of a fifty-level Soul King.

Under normal circumstances, a Soul King-level Soul Master could absorb a ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring below twelve thousand years, and absorbing Spirit Rings could also indirectly increase Soul Power.

But if he rashly tried to absorb a ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring, his meridians would be damaged at best, and his body would shatter at worst!

After considering it again and again, Qin Moyu had already made up his mind.

[I am probably the most absurd—and most pathetic—Soul King in the history of the Douluo Continent. I have the Soul Power of a fifty-level Soul King, yet not a single Spirit Ring.]

[The most urgent matter now is to attach a God-bestowed Spirit Ring to my martial soul and make up for this most basic shortcoming.]

[Besides, my constitution is currently on the weak side. If I want to absorb a high-year Spirit Ring, I definitely will not be able to endure it.]

[I need to find time to purchase a batch of Whale Rubber of different ages. Let the "Herrscher of Reason Divine Core" analyze it, then use "Equivalent Exchange Technology" to create a pile of Whale Rubber out of nothing!]

[I wonder whether ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber is available for sale in the era of Soul Land I.]

[This is a supreme treasure that has been severely overlooked on the Douluo Continent. Whale Rubber can nourish a Soul Master's body, broaden the resilience of their meridians, and raise the upper limit of Spirit Rings they can endure. The earlier it is taken, the more outrageous the effects.]

As the diary's contents were reorganized, the female leads of the Douluo Continent all wore different expressions...

Soul Land I, Qian Renxue: "Whale Rubber can actually raise the upper limit of Spirit Rings a Soul Master can absorb? How have I never heard of that?"

Soul Land I, Xue Ke: "There is quite a lot of this stuff stored in Father's private treasury..."

Soul Land I, Ning Rongrong: "Whale Rubber? Isn't that what those nobles buy as an aphrodisiac? My father occasionally purchases a batch to store away in private too. How could it be a supreme treasure for tempering the body?"

Soul Land I, Liu Erlong: "Whale Rubber? Right, there is such a good thing! Every time Xiao Gang sleeps with me, he refuses to touch me. I do not want to remain a spiritual couple!"

Soul Land I, Ah Yin: "Hao... Was what he made me swallow before really Whale Rubber...?"

Throughout the entire Douluo Continent in the era of Soul Land I, people's understanding of Whale Rubber remained limited to enhancing sexual pleasure and serving as a health supplement for nourishing the kidneys. No one had ever considered it from the perspective of cultivation.

Yet the cultivation common sense Qin Moyu had casually revealed overturned the unchanging cultivation understanding of the Douluo Continent for ten thousand years.

How was this some aphrodisiac supplement?

This was clearly a divine treasure capable of reshaping the foundation of one's body and fundamentally rewriting a Soul Master's cultivation talent and the upper limit of their martial soul!

Legendary immortal herbs were things one could only encounter by chance, but the threshold for obtaining Whale Rubber was comparatively low.

The ocean was vast and boundless. Other resources might be scarce, but the least lacking were gigantic sea soul beasts from which Whale Rubber could be extracted.

If they could monopolize the Whale Rubber market and use it to cultivate the new generation of Soul Masters, they could absolutely foster many genius Soul Masters capable of absorbing high-year Spirit Rings!

This was undoubtedly strategic-grade material!

At this thought, the eyes of quite a few female leads from the Douluo Plane lit up, their minds immediately beginning to race...

At this moment, Qin Moyu still had no idea how great an impact the exposure of Whale Rubber's uses would have on the entire Douluo Continent. Following his original train of thought, he continued updating his diary...

[A God-bestowed Spirit Ring is a special Spirit Ring granted by a god. The user does not need to hunt soul beasts and can use the God-bestowed Spirit Ring to grant their martial soul a perfect Spirit Ring.]

[Based on the characteristics of a Soul Master's martial soul, it tailors the most compatible soul skill while also producing a Spirit Ring with the greatest age their body can endure.]

[Simply put, the stronger the body's endurance, the more terrifying the age of the Spirit Ring granted by a God-bestowed Spirit Ring...]