Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 6: The Secret of the Martial Soul and the Seven Absolute Jade Phosphorus Flowers (Part )

The Chen family lived in the Chen Mansion, which was built when the head of the Chen family became the city lord when Biluo City was just established hundreds of years ago. Although it was located in the city center, it still covered a large area of nearly 100 acres. It was roughly equivalent to the size of seven or eight large football fields in Chen Ming's previous life. It can be said that one-third of the city center is the Chen family's territory.

The Chen Mansion was the product of the original owner's abuse of power for personal gain. However, because the Chen family had too few members, a place that was too large could not be taken care of, which easily led to various problems. Later owners had to modify the house little by little, dividing the streets to rent out, but even so, the remaining space of the Chen family was still large enough for the number of clan members, and they could even create some different mimicry training grounds.

Moreover, because it has been in operation for hundreds of years, the remaining places have undergone dozens of reinforcement and maintenance. The entire Chen Mansion is more like a fortress standing in the city, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is even a small market inside.

There were thousands of women, children and servants, and spears, swords, bows, crossbows, and armor were stored in the city. There were winding underground secret passages leading to various places inside and outside the city. There was a water source independent of the city and a small farm for farming. There was a large amount of food and grass stored in the granary, and poultry and war horses were raised.

All the city lords of Biluo City would have a headache when they saw the Chen family. Generally, outsiders passing by thought that the Chen family was a city within a city. This was also one of the important reasons why all forces wanted to take a bite of the Chen family, but no one dared to open their mouths.

This is only the case in a poor and remote place like Biluo City. If it were in other big cities, and the Chen family did not have a big figure like a Titled Douluo, they would have been confiscated and exterminated for doing this long ago.

Chen Ming's second uncle held Chen Ming in his arms and followed Chen Ming's grandfather through the Chen Mansion. After passing through several mechanisms and secret doors, they came to a secret room located in the basement of the Chen family. There were several rows of tables and chairs made of dark wood in the secret room, which was obviously the place where the Chen family used to have secret talks before.

On the wall of the secret room, there is a row of oil lamps. They are made by the ancestors of the Chen family using the oil of deep-sea whale spirit beasts. They burn without smoke and odor. A small lamp of oil can be lit for a long time. For hundreds of years, the Chen family has not replenished the oil. When Chen Ming was a child, he thought that the oil lamps on the wall were burning whale glue, and he felt distressed for a long time. Later, he realized that it was not the same thing.

After lighting all the oil lamps, Chen Ming's grandfather Chen Shijie sat at the head of the secret room, and then motioned his second son Chen Tianyun and Chen Ming to sit on both sides of him.

Just when Chen Ming was about to sit down on his grandfather's right hand side as usual, his second uncle Chen Tianyun reached out to stop Chen Ming, put him on the left hand side of Chen Shijie, and sat on the right hand side himself.

Although Douluo Continent lacks many anecdotes and other things, it surprisingly has a lot in common with the world of Chen Ming's previous life. For example, in this world, the left is respected. With Chen Ming's identity and seniority, he can usually sit on the right hand side because no one else competes with him. He has never sat on the left hand side.

Seeing his second son's actions, Chen Shijie was a little puzzled, but he also had some guesses in his mind. He did not stop Chen Tianyun's actions, but nodded slightly and allowed Chen Ming to sit down.

"Father, Xiao Ming's martial spirit awakening today went very... smoothly!"

"He has awakened the Emerald Scorpion with the innate fifth-level soul power."

Chen Tianyun did not mention other irrelevant things, but directly stated the key point of the matter. After hearing that Chen Ming had awakened the innate fifth level soul power, Chen Shijie's face was also stunned, and then turned into ecstasy.

"Innate level five? There is still hope for our family?"

"What do you mean by turning point? Level 5 innate power... isn't that high?" Chen Ming couldn't understand why his grandfather was so excited. Although the level of innate spirit power of the Chen family was a problem, he didn't have full innate spirit power either. Was he really that excited?
"Xiao Ming, you don't understand. What you see and know is just the surface. You have never known the problems of the Chen family before."

Chen Shijie waved his hands, and his originally excited expression became a little depressed.

"Although we usually wait until the family members reach adulthood before we consider telling this secret, but you are naturally intelligent and have an innate fifth-level soul power, so we must tell you about the family's problems now."

"You should know that our Chen family actually became aristocrats by virtue of military merit, right?"

"Our ancestor, Chen Ergou, was a child from an ordinary family. He was lucky enough to awaken his mutant martial soul, the Emerald Scorpion, and a congenital soul power of level seven."

"At that time, a local war broke out between the Tiandou Empire and the Xingluo Empire. After becoming a Soul Lord, Chen Er, the ancestor of the Chen family, chose to join the army for training. Twenty years later, when the war was over, the ancestor became a Soul King in the army, and because of his accumulated merits, he was named a hereditary earl."

"This is something that everyone in the family knows, but in fact, there are things hidden behind it that no one knows."

"After the war, because my ancestor had saved some nobles on the battlefield, he was fortunate enough to enter the royal treasury when the rewards were given. He was allowed to choose some treasures that would not normally appear in the outside world."

"During that selection process, our ancestor discovered a treasure that is comparable to a ten-thousand-year soul bone for poison-type soul masters... or perhaps even more precious."

"What treasure?" When Chen Ming heard the word treasure, his eyes immediately lit up and he couldn't help but ask.

"That is a seed of the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower." As if afraid that Chen Ming didn't know what the Green Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower was, Chen Shijie touched his beard and then explained.

"The Seven Absolutes of Green Phosphorus Flower is an extremely powerful poison, and a very rare plant-type soul beast. Among plants, there is no plant with a more violent toxicity than this one. Among animal-type soul beasts, only a few legendary soul beasts should be able to surpass this."

"This plant is extremely rare. It is equivalent to the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear among ordinary soul beasts, or even slightly more so."

"This poison can easily corrode gold and iron and melt soul beasts. It is much more powerful than the five poisons of green phosphorus."

“Although the Emerald Scorpion passed down in our family is a beast spirit and is not completely compatible with the Jade Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower, the quality of this spirit beast is too high. Even if it is discounted, it is still far beyond the reach of ordinary spirit beasts. Once it can be absorbed, even if it is just a spirit ring that has just exceeded a hundred years old, the effect it plays will exceed 99% of a thousand-year spirit ring. If it can obtain the poison of the Jade Phosphorus Seven Wonders Flower, then the quality of the Emerald Scorpion’s spirit may even reach the level of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family.”

(End of this chapter)