Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul, the Dragon Abyss Sword, has become its scabbard.

Chapter 3 Whale Gel?

"It seems my guess was right. The amplification after using a martial soul can become the norm, but it will be difficult to achieve in the short term."

At the Binhai City Junior Soul Master Academy, Ding Quan was cleaning his assigned area.

The work of part-time students is relatively easy and does not require much time.

It has been more than three months since the start of the semester, and nothing unexpected has happened. As for the problem that Ding Quan had been worried about—the aristocratic students bullying the work-study students—it has not occurred.

Ding Quan thought about it and agreed that it was normal.

Those who come to this junior soul master academy don't actually have very strong talents. They will most likely remain at the same level in the future. The students are just young, not brainless. There's no need to make an enemy.

Although there was a hint of contempt in the eyes of the noble students, it had not yet reached the point of physical attack.

Of course, more importantly, the current dean was a work-study student when he was a student.

While cleaning, Ding Quan continued to cultivate his soul power. Although the speed was slow, the difference was accumulated little by little.

After several months of practice, and having obtained the meditation method from the academy, I reached level six a few days ago.

At the current cultivation speed, it will take about two years to reach level ten.

"Ding Quan, are you done? Let's go." A burly student, almost two heads taller than Ding Quan, walked over.

"Brother Gang, that's a good day." Ding Quan put the tools away and walked out with Yu Gang.

After seeing how sharp Ding Quanjian's martial spirit was, Yu Gang recommended his job to him.

Working in a slaughterhouse, but this is Binhai City, and the target of slaughter is fish, and they are very big fish.

Among them are many spirit beasts, including whales.

These large fish are too big to cut into pieces, so they usually need someone to handle them. However, ordinary knives are too troublesome to use, so they seek help from people with sharp martial spirits.

But the soul master looked down on this little salary, so it fell into the hands of soul warriors without soul rings.

Ding Quan immediately agreed when he heard about the job details. Whales appear at the slaughterhouse from time to time, so there might be whale glue.

Even if you can't take it with you, you can eat some of it when you slaughter it and it probably won't be discovered.

Yu Gang's martial spirit is a two-handed broadsword, about the same height as him. It's not particularly sharp, but it's suitable for chopping and is very useful for dealing with huge bones and the like.

Therefore, they are the kind of people needed by slaughterhouses. If some of the fish and meat in the slaughterhouse is not good, they can take some away.

I glanced at Yu Gang standing to the side. This guy is so strong, but he's not fat. Maybe he just eats too much fish.

"You two are here, but you'll have to work a little harder today!" A fat man said to the two men as they arrived at the slaughterhouse.

"Uncle Fatty, any big shipments today?" Yu Gang greeted him directly.

"That's right, we got a gray whale today, it's quite big, and we're having a hard time dealing with it." He then led the two men into a nearby storeroom.

When Ding Quan went inside, he was also startled. The gray whale was over 20 meters long, and Ding Quan couldn't say for sure what its weight was.

"Is this a soul beast?" Ding Quan sensed a faint fluctuation of soul power emanating from its body.

"You're quite perceptive, kid. This is a thousand-year-old soul beast. We're very lucky to have encountered someone acquiring a soul ring. This is the one that person didn't want after acquiring the soul ring."

Upon hearing this, Ding Quan finally understood. Although there were Soul Masters going to fish at the fish farm, their strength was not strong enough to fight against such a huge Soul Beast, which was also a thousand years old.

"A thousand-year-old soul beast, Uncle, you're so lucky. But it's so big, we'll have to spend some time." Yu Gang looked at the huge whale carcass with a hint of envy. A thousand-year-old soul beast, he wondered if his own talent would allow him to absorb a thousand-year-old soul ring.

"Then let's get started!" Ding Quan clenched his right hand, and the Dragon Abyss Sword appeared in his hand.

Ding Quan looked at the Dragon Abyss Sword in his hand with some helplessness. Before even engaging in a battle, it had already killed quite a few fish here.

After watching the two men divide the gray whale, Uncle Fatty left.

The Dragon Abyss Sword easily sliced ​​through the whale's skin, while Yu Gang's broadsword struggled to cut through it.

Ding Quan gained a clearer understanding of the sharpness of his Longyuan Sword, but its shortcomings were also quite obvious.

They couldn't cut those huge bones at all.

It feels like it's going to break if you use too much force.

Ding Quan knew that feeling was not an illusion. The Dragon Abyss Sword was now his martial soul, and the feeling it conveyed to him was not wrong; it did indeed lack resilience.

Ding Quan became more certain about the idea of ​​the first soul ring absorbing the plant soul beast with wood attribute.

The two spent most of the day finally managing to cut the gray whale into pieces, leaving only its head.

The fish's head is all bones, and Yu Gang has always been in charge of it. After all, Ding Quan's Longyuan Sword is not suitable for chopping; it's only for carrying.

"Brother Gang, this whale's head is too hard. We can't split it open like this. I'll go get an axe!" Ding Quan suggested after seeing that Yu Gang's broadsword was still intact after several attempts.

"As expected of a thousand-year-old soul beast, it's incredibly tough!"

"Brother Gang, a thousand-year-old soul beast is equivalent to a Soul Venerable, while we are just Soul Warriors. Besides, it's too big, so it's normal that we can't cut it down." Ding Quan came over with an axe and smashed it directly down on the beast's skull.

With their combined efforts, the whale's skull was cracked open. Whale brain is a kind of tonic, although Ding Quan didn't know what it was good for.

"It's open, let's go! Hmm? What's this?" Yu Gang took out the whale brain and placed it in a container, and a fist-sized transparent object fell directly down.

"This is!" Ding Quan's eyes narrowed. If he wasn't mistaken, could this be whale glue?

In this era, whale glue was used only as an aphrodisiac and was sought after by some nobles.

It was only after ten thousand years that the ability of whale gel to improve physical fitness became widely known, and its price became very high.

It is said that absorbing a whole piece of millennium whale glue can increase the absorption period of a soul ring by about 500 years.

Ding Quan was quite skeptical of this. If that were true, then there would certainly be no shortage of second soul rings after ten thousand years.

But the reality is quite the opposite; very few people have achieved a second soul ring in a thousand years.

Even so, the effects of whale gel are still quite appealing.

Ding Quan picked it up. It was too soft, like jelly. Normal whale glue seems to have color, but this was transparent.

"Could this be whale glue?" Ding Quan glanced at Yu Gang, who was holding a whale brain.

"It shouldn't be. I've seen whale glue before; the color is different," Yu Gang said after taking a look.

"Whether it is or not, let's go pay the bill first." Yu Gang nodded upon hearing this, glanced at the already darkening sky, put his things away, and went to Uncle Pang to pay the bill.

"Here's your wages, you two."

"Uncle Fatty, I found this in that whale head. Can I take it?" Ding Quan showed Uncle Fatty the bag containing the fist-sized transparent object.

Even if this stuff has some connection to whale glue, it's not actually whale glue, and its value is low.

"Let me see. This should be unformed whale glue. It's a pity it's not very useful. You can take it if you want." Uncle Fatty glanced at it and felt a little regretful, since it couldn't be sold for a price since it wasn't formed.

Ding Quan breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. Just as he had thought, it was indeed whale glue, but it had not yet taken shape.

This stuff is of little value to Uncle Fatty. As everyone knows, whale glue is used as an aphrodisiac, so this stuff is even less useful. He can take it with him, though.

The two took their wages and left. Yu Gang looked at Ding Quan, but then thought that Ding Quan was so young, he probably wasn't what he thought.

As for himself, Yu Gang touched his muscles and realized he didn't need such a thing.

Back in his dorm, Ding Quan took another shower to get rid of most of the fishy smell. After glancing at his roommates who were either resting or still cultivating, Ding Quan took the unformed whale glue and went out into the wild.

Sitting on the grass, looking at the jelly-like thing in his hand, Ding Quan hesitated whether to eat it.

Undoubtedly, although this is unformed whale glue, it still has some effect.

Given my current circumstances, I simply cannot obtain a large amount of funds to purchase whale glue in a short period of time.

There are ideas to make money, but the returns are slow. This is Douluo Continent, where there is no legal protection. The idea you come up with in the morning may be someone else's by the afternoon.

Ding Quan smelled the aroma, and it was indeed similar to the smell of whale glue described in the book.

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He glanced at the sky, gritted his teeth, gathered some wood, lit it, roasted the meat over a fire, and then put it directly into his mouth.

A strong fishy smell rushed to my brain. I endured the discomfort, held my breath, and swallowed it down in a few gulps.

He quickly sat down cross-legged and began circulating his soul power.

More than ten minutes later, Ding Quan felt a warm current rising from his stomach, and his whole body became hot. It was probably because he was too young, and there were no other adverse reactions.

With a clench of his right hand, the Dragon Abyss Sword appeared in his hand. After inserting it to the side, Ding Quan felt a surge of heat flowing through his body.

Ding Quan felt his body getting stronger, albeit very slowly, but it was definitely true.

Where Ding Quan couldn't see, a dragon pattern moved across his body, its golden lines growing brighter and brighter.

As time went by, Ding Quan's body turned bright red, but there were no other reactions. Ding Quan felt his soul power increasing rapidly.

A few hours later, Ding Quan opened his eyes and then let out a heavy sigh.

Ding Quan put away his martial spirit, and he hadn't been having a good time lately.

"I didn't expect the effect to be so strong!" After putting away his martial soul, Ding Quan felt that the previous amplification had weakened considerably, while his body had become much stronger.

The amplification state of being attached to the sword sheath is turning into the normal state.

Moreover, his soul power is already close to level seven, and at his current cultivation speed, he might break through in the next two months.

Eating this stuff is equivalent to several months of my own cultivation.

I glanced at the time and realized I could still rest for a while, so I went back to bed and fell asleep immediately.

A year and a half later.

"Let's settle on the wood attribute. We'll tentatively choose bamboo-type soul beasts, such as the Lone Bamboo, which is found in all the major Soul Hunting Forests and is extremely resilient."

"Moreover, it has no offensive capabilities, so the Soul Hunter is not in danger."

Ding Quan put the soul beast atlas in his hand back on the bookshelf.

Ding Quan's soul power has now reached level nine and he may break through at any time. Ding Quan is making plans for his future soul rings.

Ding Quan's cultivation speed shocked the academy's teachers, but Ding Quan himself felt it was a bit slow.

It took me two years to go from level 5 to level 10, and I even ate some good food during that time to achieve that speed.

For more than a year, Ding Quan continued to kill fish there. Although he processed several whales, he never had the same good luck as before.

It seems that even whale glue is not present in every whale.

Ding Quan doesn't know his true strength level yet, but when he just broke through to level ten, he had a match with him without using his martial soul.

Although he was shorter than Yu Gang, he was just as strong.

You should know that the opponent's strength far exceeds that of an ordinary adult.

From this perspective, his physical strength at the age of eight had already reached that of an adult, and the sword sheath greatly enhanced his abilities.

At this point, it's indeed necessary to decide how to choose your first spirit ring.

In the Douluo Continent, most of the soul rings attached to soul masters are attack or defense-type soul skills, and Ding Quan does not want to obtain such skills.

Those who frequently traveled through the Douluo Continent knew that the effects of a soul master’s first few soul skills at high levels were minimal.

Therefore, it is best to choose functional soul skills with special effects or amplifications for the first few.

However, the soul beasts that produce such soul skills are all very strong, and such soul beasts are rare in the Soul Hunting Forest.

We had decided to acquire a bamboo-type soul beast, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be the Lone Bamboo.

It was the Lone Bamboo that Yu Xiaogang had planned to let Tang San absorb for ten years before he met the Mandragora Snake.

However, Guzhu is indeed very famous among bamboo soul beasts, and its toughness is also the best among bamboos.

Ding Quan touched the firm muscles on his body. The scabbard of the Dragon Abyss Sword was made of black bamboo, which was definitely suitable for absorbing such a soul ring.

Most of the soul skills produced after absorbing Guzhu also enhance resilience.

After enhancing the resilience of one's martial soul, one's body will also become more resilient, allowing one to acquire a second spirit ring of a higher age.

Choosing Guzhu (孤竹) means there's not much risk in hunting souls. Plant soul beasts have a major drawback: they can't move and are afraid of fire.

There's not much risk involved in hunting them; all you need to do is obtain the Soul Hunter's Token.

But let's inquire again and see if there are any other better options.

Ding Quan tidied himself up and went directly to work at the slaughterhouse.

"Ding Quan, you've arrived." As soon as Ding Quan arrived at the fish farm, the burly Yu Gang came to greet him.

"Brother Gang!" Looking at the tall man in front of him, who was 1.8 meters tall, no one would believe he was twelve years old if it weren't for his youthful appearance.

Ding Quan noticed that he had grown quite a bit taller, which suggested that absorbing a spirit ring would cause his body to develop rapidly.

Yu Gang broke through to level ten not long ago, and Ding Quan fought with him without using his martial spirit. Even though Ding Quan's body shape was much different from his, his strength was not inferior to his, and his body was more flexible.

He could fight against him without either of them using their martial souls, but if they used their martial souls, he would be no match for him with the amplification.

Knowing the opponent's soul skills, he wouldn't have any chance in close combat.

(End of this chapter)