Chapter 9·Two and a half years, Level 10 and Whale Glue
Before awakening the martial spirit, Chen Ming was the most precious child of the Chen family. After awakening the martial spirit, he became the only lifeblood of the Chen family. Almost all the resources in the family are unconditionally tilted towards him.
It's just that the pharmacology in Douluo Continent in this era is not excellent. There are no elixirs such as Xuanshui Pill and Soul Ascension Pill that can directly improve talent and soul power, so the method of supplementation still relies on medicated baths and medicated meals to slowly improve.
Although he had innate fifth-level soul power and a top-notch training ground and resources, the inherent flaws in the origin of the Emerald Scorpion still slowed down Chen Ming's cultivation speed before he obtained the soul ring.
It took him two and a half years to reach level 10 from level 5, a time that was neither long nor short. In Douluo Continent, it is within a relatively normal range of progress, probably barely above the average level, and still far from a true genius.
After reaching the tenth level of soul power, Chen Ming did not immediately obtain the soul ring, but continued to train his body through various methods.
After tentatively telling his family that he seemed to know from somewhere that whale gum can improve physical fitness and increase the absorption period of soul rings, Chen Ming's grandfather Chen Shijie did not hesitate and immediately bought it through various channels. Several kinds of whale glue came from different cetacean soul beasts.
Among them are whale glue from ordinary cetacean soul beasts, as well as whale glue from various rare cetacean soul beasts. The most expensive among them is a piece of whale glue from a 20,000-year-old evil killer whale. It is said to have been obtained by a Soul Saint of the Wuhun Palace when he hunted the seventh soul ring with Linhai City a few years ago. It is a piece of whale glue. The best of them all.
That piece of whale gum the size of a basketball cost a full three million gold soul coins just to buy it directly, not counting the cost of communication channels and favors.
These days, the fishing industry in Douluo Continent is extremely underdeveloped, and fishing in shallow seas is okay. But it is completely impossible to enter the deep sea.
Douluo Continent has not developed ships like whalers. To hunt cetacean soul beasts, soul masters are used to make nests. If it's better, a level 30 soul master with a water attribute soul can deal with some century-old cetacean soul beasts, but once he encounters a group of sea soul beasts, he will only be eaten.
Hunting a cetacean soul beast that is over ten thousand years old is much more difficult than hunting a ten thousand year old soul beast on land, and cetacean soul beasts usually have the habit of living in groups, which greatly increases the difficulty of hunting. Usually only Soul Saints and even Soul Masters at the Contra level can do this.
Therefore, although whale gum has not yet discovered the effect of enhancing physical fitness in this era, older whale gum is still very expensive in terms of price.
For an ordinary small family, this piece of whale gum can make them cry, but the Chen family is not short of money.
The Chen family is an aristocratic family at the earl level. It has been in Biluo City for five hundred years and occupies the largest piece of cake in Biluo City. Not only does it receive various taxes, but it is also the largest seller of soul beast materials in Biluo City. There are numerous accounts every year. Thousands of gold soul coins.
In addition, as experts in drug use, the Chen family also runs some drug stores and medical clinics. Although they are not a big deal, they still make a lot of money every year. Secretly, the Chen family also secretly sold some poisons and mixed poisons, which made a huge profit.
When they first discovered that fewer people in the family had awakened to soul power, the Chen family had already considered wooing allies and finding backers. Over the past few hundred years, they had invested in some businessmen and soul masters. Although most of them had failed, some had succeeded. . In the end, I expanded some of my connections, and by the way, I got a few more affiliated chambers of commerce to my name.
The largest investment was made two hundred years ago.
At that time, the disciples of the Qibao Glazed Sect were mining near Biluo City. At that time, the Qibao Glazed Sect was temporarily in a state of inactivity due to an accident. At that time, the city lord of Biluo City was instructed by other forces to create trouble for the Qibao Glazed Sect, but the Chen family took action to solve it. This allowed the Chen family to acquire shares in some mines under the name of the Qibao Glazed Sect and receive a dividend every year.
Part of this money was exchanged for real estate, such as being used to strengthen Chen's mansion and add some facilities, part of it was used for cultivation, and part of it was used for daily consumption. The largest part of it is stored with the Qibao Glazed Sect. Although it has to pay a storage fee every year, it is safer than having it in your hands.
Chen Shijie told Chen Ming that the Chen family's gold soul coins stored in the Qibao Glazed Sect were about 45 million, and their cash flow was about 10 million. If you include real estate and other assets in various places, the total assets of the Chen family can probably exceed hundreds of millions of gold soul coins, which is considered a good level among the Earl family. If it weren't for the fact that soul bones are priceless and too hot to handle, it would be easy for someone to kill someone and seize the bones directly. Then the Chen family might also be able to hoard some soul bones as a foundation.
After taking many tonic medicinal materials, Chen Ming also tried whale gum. It's just that the effect is not as good as expected.
Whale gum, which has been around for about a century, can basically only serve as an aphrodisiac, and its nourishment for the body is not even as good as the consumption caused by aphrodisiac. Although Chen Ming is not yet old enough, he still feels a little uncomfortable after eating it, and the effect of improving his physical fitness is not obvious.
Thousand-year-old whale gum has a better physical enhancement effect than century-old whale gum, but its aphrodisiac effect is also more serious. After eating it for a period of time, Chen Ming could feel that he was developing in advance and his body was experiencing premature puberty. In order to avoid any problems in the future, I had to adjust the dosage and interval, and use some milder methods to neutralize the aphrodisiac effect of whale gum.
As for the 20,000-year-old whale gum produced by the top-level soul beast, the evil killer whale...
The Chen family cut off a piece the size of a fingernail, used wood from the soul beast as material, and burned it in an iron-smelting fire for an hour before it melted. During this period, the servants who lit the fire had to change three times. A few of them were so impatient that they almost had a passionate collision in the room. They went out and poured several basins of cold water on them before they managed to return home.
The small piece of whale gum was delivered to Chen Shijie in a storage soul guide while wearing a hood, thick clothes and robe.
The fingernail-sized piece of whale gum exuded a sticky color and strange aroma. Chen Ming began to lose consciousness after smelling it, feeling an impulse that he should not have at this age.
He carefully cut off about a quarter with a knife and ate it. After sitting cross-legged for three minutes, he became a little restless. After another two minutes, he had to stand up and take a shower. In the end, he felt that the shower was not enough and he just jumped in. The water tank started to soak.
He didn't feel whether his physique was getting stronger or not, but he did feel that he almost went crazy. For a period of time after that day, he felt a little embarrassed even eating century-old and thousand-year-old whale gum.
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The remaining three-quarters of the whale glue, which was about the size of a fingernail, was finally taken away by Chen Ming's second uncle. Three or four months later, Chen Ming heard from his second uncle that he had two The news that the concubine was pregnant together.
Chen Tianyun is forty years old. He married a wife at the age of twenty-one and had three concubines for nineteen years. During this period, he didn't even see a daughter, let alone a son.
He himself had asked a soul master who specialized in this to check him more than once. After finding that there was no problem, he tried various methods and ate some century- and thousand-year quality whale glue. In the end, he had no choice but to give up, thinking that It's because I don't have children in my life... Who would have thought that in the end, my wish would be realized in this evil and heretical way, in a way that makes people speechless.
It was only later that the Chen family living in the mainland found out that the whale gum of the evil killer whale was the best among whale gums. Not only was this spirit beast of extremely high quality, but most importantly, it had strong medicinal properties and was among the top grades. The top grade among them, and because it is extremely difficult to obtain, is a treasure with a price but no market.
Although the Chen family spent three million to buy such a piece, if it falls into the hands of someone in need, the price can even double. It is not impossible to double the price with proper handling and marketing.
If it is delivered to the hands of those big nobles... you can even get a favor.
I can only say that the money spent is really worth it.
(End of chapter)