"Father, how about you call me Father, and I'll give you a great idea?"
Far North, Ice Arrival City, Gu Clan.
In the living room, a handsome man dressed in crisp white clothes was flushed red with anger.
"Wuchen, say that again! Are you asking for a beating?"
The youth was named Gu Wuchen.
He was a slender, upright young man with a fine, straight nose, cleanly defined lips, and sharp, clear-cut facial features.
He sat on the sofa, gazing smugly at his father across from him.
His name was Gu Wuchen. He had transmigrated to Douluo Continent, and unlike other protagonists who had neither father nor mother, he had both, as well as a happy, harmonious family.
It was just that his charm stat seemed to be a little too maxed out. When he went out to buy groceries, quite a few girls mistook him for a girl.
The furious man sitting across from him was Gu Linchuan, the Ice Mystic Douluo, a rank 96 Power Attack System Titled Douluo whose Martial Soul was the Ice Mystic Jade Qilin Beast.
"What's all the shouting about?"
A breathtakingly beautiful woman with a graceful figure and elegant bearing walked over.
She immediately scolded Gu Linchuan. "Linchuan, how can you speak like that? Our son is still young. Say another word like that and get out!"
Gu Linchuan had grievances he couldn't voice and could only swallow his anger. You little brat, just wait until I get my chance.
The newcomer was Gu Wuchen's mother, Shen Suwei, the Suxin Douluo, a rank 95 Titled Douluo of both the support and spiritual systems. Her Martial Soul was the Wuchen Lotus, a top-tier purification and healing Martial Soul capable of purifying all negative conditions and mental trauma.
The couple had grown tired of life on the continent, so they had settled down and established themselves in Ice Arrival City, where Gu Wuchen was born.
Once they had a child, they needed money, so they started a business. They had intended to make a little money, but it grew bigger and bigger.
When Gu Wuchen was five, he came up with a particularly profitable idea and some clothing design concepts, sending the Gu Clan's business soaring into the sky.
This time, too, they wanted Gu Wuchen to think about the next stage of their development plans.
As his father, Gu Linchuan really did need to seek Gu Wuchen's advice on developing the Gu Clan's business.
Shen Suwei sat down on the sofa and hugged Gu Wuchen. "Your son was joking with you, and you took him seriously."
Gu Linchuan said helplessly, "Go on, keep indulging him!"
"That's enough about that. Let's awaken Wuchen's Martial Soul first. It's time for his awakening anyway."
Shen Suwei was very curious which parent's Martial Soul he would inherit.
Shen Suwei looked at her son's cool, pale skin, her heart full of emotion. The son she had given birth to was truly good-looking.
He really was good-looking.
But he didn't like cuddling with his parents. After all the effort it had taken to have such a well-behaved son, cheerful and confident, he had already started thinking about living on his own.
As his mother, Shen Suwei found it very hard.
Gu Linchuan stood and walked to an open area of the living room. He extended his hand, and several stones appeared out of thin air on the floor, forming a hexagonal formation.
"Wuchen, come forward!"
Full of anticipation, Gu Wuchen walked to the center of the formation, very curious about whose Martial Soul he would inherit.
His father had a Beast Martial Soul, and his mother had a Plant-type Martial Soul.
Whichever it was, his starting point definitely wouldn't be low!
Gu Linchuan began injecting Soul Power into the formation. It lit up, and the light soon enveloped Gu Wuchen.
"Wuchen, open your right hand."
Gu Wuchen opened his clenched right hand. His whole body began to burn unbearably, only to be covered by a wave of cold a moment later.
Just then, the temperature in the room plummeted, and even the fire burning in the hearth was extinguished by the cold.
The ringing of a sword suddenly rang out!
A longsword appeared out of thin air in his right hand.
Its blade was crystalline and almost transparent, without a trace of another color.
The edge was as thin as a cicada's wing, and the hilt had the seamless texture of ice jade.
In an instant, a terrifying chill swept toward the heavens, carrying the sword's ringing with it.
It could be felt across the ice fields of the entire Far North.
At that moment, in the most dangerous part of the Far North, the Heavenly Snow Woman opened her eyes from her meditation.
"This is... ultimate cold?"
In the Gu Clan home, Gu Linchuan and Shen Suwei were somewhat taken aback by the ultimate cold.
Their son had inherited neither of their Martial Souls, but had awakened a sword instead!
Gu Linchuan and Shen Suwei stepped forward to examine it, only to discover that the Martial Soul bore characteristics of both their own.
The attributes of [Ultimate Cold] and [Stainless Purification].
Didn't that mean it had come from a fusion and mutation of their Martial Soul bloodlines? That wasn't certain, though; a Sword Martial Soul had indeed awakened in the generation before theirs.
It could be considered an awakening that had skipped a generation.
That was a good thing too, giving him both power attack and purification abilities.
"Come, Wuchen, let's test your Soul Power!"
Gu Linchuan took out a crystal ball and spoke impatiently.
Gu Wuchen reached out and placed his hand on the crystal ball.
The next moment, the previously calm crystal ball filled up in an instant.
"Innate rank ten Soul Power!"
"Jie jie jie!"
"My Wangchen has the makings of a Titled Douluo!"
Gu Linchuan threw back his head and laughed, overjoyed.
The Gu Clan had produced another person with Innate Full Soul Power. Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!
Shen Suwei excitedly scooped Gu Wuchen into her arms and rubbed her cheek against his. "That's my Wuchen! Amazing!"
"You're your mother's pride and joy!"
He had Innate Full Soul Power and had inherited both their excellent genes. As long as he didn't die young, his future was boundless.
Becoming a Titled Douluo was surely a certainty.
"Wuchen, what are you going to name this Martial Soul?"
Gu Wuchen thought for a moment and said:
"Let's call it the Dustless Sword!"
"The Dustless Sword, a good name! To celebrate this wonderful day, we'll have a feast tonight!" Shen Suwei said excitedly.
Gu Wuchen nodded, then remembered something he had asked them to prepare. "Father, did you manage to get the ten-thousand-year whale rubber I wanted?"
Whale rubber was indispensable for making it easier to absorb a Soul Ring after awakening his Martial Soul.
This was also a precaution he had prepared: absorbing whale rubber and then absorbing a thousand-year ice-attribute Soul Beast would produce twice the result with half the effort.
"Whale rubber? I found it, but isn't that an aphrodisiac?"
As far as Gu Linchuan knew, whale rubber was taken before a man and woman engaged in intimate acts, adding a little more pleasure.
Ordinarily, no one went looking for ten-thousand-year whale rubber, particularly when Gu Wuchen had asked him to prepare it a year in advance.
Seeing Gu Linchuan's puzzled expression, Gu Wuchen explained:
"Whale rubber can strengthen the body. It contains vast life essence and the source of Soul Power. It can improve the resilience of the meridians, widen the Soul Power pathways, and temper the body, muscles, and bones."
"Thousand-year whale rubber can only increase the age of the Soul Ring one can absorb by about two hundred to three hundred years."
"Ten-thousand-year whale glue is different. It can increase the absorbable age by between one thousand and two thousand years."
During the first part of Douluo Continent, whale rubber had been regarded as an aphrodisiac, and its practical value had been severely underestimated.
On top of that, the first part had focused entirely on land Soul Beasts; Sea Soul Beasts had never been studied.
In the second part, Peerless Tang Sect, Huo Yuhao only learned the value of whale rubber under the Ice Empress's guidance.
Ten-thousand-year whale glue was as hard as ore and extremely difficult to refine, requiring powerful Soul Power and special methods to process.
With a Titled Douluo around, that was no major problem.
"It's that miraculous!"
Gu Linchuan and Shen Suwei were somewhat surprised. Whale rubber was actually so precious.
No wonder Gu Wuchen had told him to prepare it in advance. He had been waiting for this moment, a chance to soar into the sky.
But?
This was quite good too.