Breaking through!

Eight drops of soul liquid flew from the little metal bottle into the Gilded Fireball.

--Density: 1100 kg/m³ (0/8)

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--Density: 1900 kg/m³ (8/8)

Boom!

Once again, he revisited familiar ground.

His consciousness was dragged into the Mysterious Space, where the blazing sun remained unchanged.

Like a dry sponge dropped into water, Jiang Dongjun desperately stole the great sun's divine essence, hoping to perfect his "Great Sun Visualization Method."

Afterward, he was kicked out.

When Jiang Dongjun came back to himself, he felt that the Gilded Fireball had grown heavier again. The four-digit figure was enough to set anyone's heart racing.

Converted into another unit-

1.9 tonnes/m³!

In truth, this figure was rather misleading.

It helped to look at it from another angle.

If he enlarged the Gilded Fireball to one meter in diameter and hurled it out, the impact would roughly equal a family sedan crashing into something.

On the Douluo Continent, that figure might have been outstanding, but across the myriad worlds, how many cultivators would find a charging family sedan troublesome?

Besides, in Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, a hundred tonnes of punching force was merely the baseline at the Titled Douluo level.

Strength-type Soul Masters with top-tier martial souls, such as Tang Wulin and the others, reached that baseline without equipment when they had six or seven rings.

"If I don't grind the fireball's density up to a hundred tonnes per cubic meter, I'd be embarrassed to call it a sun, let alone call myself a peerless prodigy."

When it came to cultivation, Jiang Dongjun had always been very humble.

In short, the cheats could not stop. Time to keep "adding points"!

However, he had no point-allocation opportunities left for "density."

This was the perfect chance to test that morning's hypothesis. If eating whale rubber gave him more opportunities to "add points," that would confirm it beyond doubt.

Jiang Dongjun left his bedroom, climbed onto the roof, and sat there meditating, joining his father in the courtyard below in standing guard over his mother's cultivation.

Seemingly constrained by their aptitude and their simplified soul power circulation routes, neither parent remained in deep meditation for very long.

By his reckoning, it had only been around ten hours.

His mother, Diwu Ying, woke before dawn, while the sky was still dark.

Her soul power level, which had remained stagnant for a long time, had risen to level 55.

The couple cheerfully shared their insights into the new meditation method. Sitting on the roof and looking down into the courtyard, Jiang Dongjun sighed inwardly.

Their aptitude and age were undeniable facts. Every step of their future cultivation would be difficult. Compared with him, they needed the Immortal Spirit Fungus far more to ease the difficulty of cultivating.

Thus, Jiang Dongjun did not regret wasting several dozen drops of soul liquid.

At worst, he could ask his father to help slaughter another Evil Soul Master at the Soul King level. No, even an Evil Soul Ancestor would be enough to recoup the cost.

"Dad, Mom, you can share your insights when you go back inside to rest later. Try seeing whether you can still practice the 'Great Sun Visualization Method' normally without my spiritual power 'infusion,' too."

"For now, can one of you soften the whale rubber for me? I'll feel better once it's in my stomach and strengthening my body."

Jiang Ming replied, "Dongjun, I'll do it. Come into the Soul Tool Workshop with me."

The Soul Tool Workshop.

Looking at the two lumps of whale rubber on the workbench-one bright yellow, the other deep yellow bordering on dark gold-Jiang Ming fell into thought.

"Dongjun, where's that inferior thousand-year whale rubber I brought back?"

Jiang Dongjun pursed his lips toward it. "There. The darker piece."

As everyone knew, people laughed when they were utterly speechless.

Jiang Ming laughed, his expression complicated.

"My son, don't tell me you're trying to say its age multiplied from a thousand years to ten thousand in just one day?"

Whale rubber was, of course, included in Lu Xiaoxiao's Recipe Book. Jiang Ming had seen it before and learned how to identify its age.

Deep yellow, almost dark gold-that was clearly a piece of ten-thousand-year whale glue.

"Dad, it was ten-thousand-year whale glue to begin with. It was so badly weathered that its true appearance was hidden. I peeled off the damaged outer membrane, and it returned to its original state."

He made it sound easy. How could it possibly have been that simple?

Jiang Ming grumbled inwardly, but said something entirely different.

"I believe you. Let's begin with the thousand-year whale rubber. But first, I'll check how strong your body is now."

He placed a hand on Jiang Dongjun's shoulder and sent soul power circulating through his body. Gradually, Jiang Ming's expression grew satisfied.

"The thousand-year crystal peach worked well. I'd estimate your body can withstand a soul ring of up to seventeen hundred years now."

Jiang Dongjun said nothing. Comparing that rough estimate from his father against his own figures, he increasingly felt that his "nineteen" point-allocation opportunities corresponded to a soul ring endurance limit of nineteen hundred years.

"Dad, should I take both pieces of whale rubber one after the other? Do I need to leave some time between them?"

"With the thousand-year crystal peach's nourishing medicinal effects as a foundation, you can theoretically take both at once. But we'll still have to see how strong your willpower is. If you can't withstand the side effects of excess yang energy, we'll have to slow down."

Whoosh!

An orange fireball the size of a washbasin appeared.

Jiang Ming had summoned his martial soul and tossed the bright yellow thousand-year whale rubber into it.

The crystal soon melted into a puddle of bright yellow paste. A cloyingly sweet, fishy aroma spread throughout the workshop.

Jiang Ming reached into the fireball and pulled out a small portion. After letting some of its heat disperse, he looked at his eldest son beside him, whose mouth was wide open, eagerly waiting to be fed.

"Careful, it's hot."

Keeping his mouth open, Jiang Dongjun rolled his eyes at his father, utterly unconcerned.

A fire-attribute Soul Master getting burned?

Was this a try-not-to-laugh challenge? I lost.

Whoosh!

The small portion of whale rubber flew straight down Jiang Dongjun's throat. Its strong fishiness turned into a warm current that flowed down into his chest and abdomen, while some of the fishy aroma escaped through his nostrils.

He finished the rest mouthful by mouthful, and the warm current spread from his chest and abdomen into every limb and bone.

Jiang Dongjun's skin gradually reddened until he looked like a steamed crab, yet he felt wonderfully comfortable. Pale red sweat seeped from his pores, as though it were cleansing his marrow and washing away impurities, purifying his body.

At the same time, the side effects of excess yang energy began to appear.

A faint redness crept into Jiang Dongjun's eyes. The warm current passed through his dantian and continued downward, stirring certain instructional memories from his previous life in the depths of his mind.

"Hmph!"

Jiang Dongjun snorted coldly. The Gilded Fireball rose behind him, the bright yellow soul ring encircling him pulsed and lit up, and his "Golden Eyes" suddenly blazed within their sockets.

Golden Eyes of Truth!

Desire? Yang energy? Burn it all! Burn! Burn! Turn it into fuel for my advancement!

"Great Sun Visualization Method," activate!

"Dad, hurry! Feed me the ten-thousand-year whale glue, too!"

In fact, Jiang Ming needed no reminder. He had already placed the deep yellow crystal into the fireball to soften it.

This time, it took a little longer. The resulting dark golden paste shone with a golden radiance. Compared with the thousand-year whale rubber, it looked distinctly extraordinary. Its fragrance was stronger, too, yet exceptionally concentrated, lingering only within a little over a meter of Jiang Ming.

"Open your mouth!"

Still meditating, Jiang Dongjun obeyed and opened his mouth wide.

Pieces of the paste flew down his throat, turning into streams of warmth that flowed straight into his chest and abdomen before spreading into every limb and bone.

Boom!

Sensuous desires flooded his mind, only to be fiercely incinerated by the great sun visualized within his Sea of Consciousness, tempering his spirit.

The excess yang energy flowed downward from his dantian, violently triggering its side effects.

Unfortunately, my newly devised "Great Sun Visualization Method" still isn't good enough. The strange force field formed during visualization isn't strong enough to draw the soul power in my dantian into breaking through the Eight Extraordinary Vessels on its own. The surplus yang energy from the ten-thousand-year whale glue is going to waste.

But I remember the route I used to break through the day before yesterday, and I studied the "microcosmic orbit" in my previous life. The main meridians of the human body are no different between the two worlds. When I was very young and first managed to look inside myself with spiritual power, I confirmed the Governing Vessel's location. The Governing Vessel is called the "sea of yang meridians" and governs all the body's yang energy. Paired with the excess yang energy stimulated by whale rubber, they're like a pearl and jade joined in perfect harmony...

This opportunity can't be missed. I'll try breaking through!

Having made his decision, Jiang Dongjun actively guided the descending yang energy, carefully passing through the Huiyin point, crossing the lower magpie bridge, and breaking through the Changqiang point. After that, resistance increased sharply as it ascended, until it reached a crucial barrier.

One of the three gates-the Tailbone Gate!

Would Jiang Dongjun ever act recklessly, without preparing any backup at all?

My good brother, I've digested most of that thousand-year whale rubber. How many point-allocation opportunities have you prepared for me?

Of course, I can't add points to "density," so my hypothesis was wrong. But don't I still have "Elemental Control"?