Douluo: Soul-Breaking spear

Chapter 78: Whale Gelatin

The mischievous Ning Rongrong had spent eight days with them, leaving Yang Potian and the rest of the team thoroughly exhausted and unmotivated. Training efficiency plummeted. By the time Ning Fengzhi came to take her back, Ning Rongrong, still reluctant to leave, promised she would return soon, giving Yang Potian a massive headache.

As soon as she left, Yang Potian immediately reset all the training equipment, erasing every trace of her influence. He then addressed the team sternly: "I don't know what state you've been in these past few days, but training has been nearly worthless. Remember, getting stronger is up to you. If you're so easily affected by outside influences, you have no right to call yourselves true warriors."

To reinforce the lesson, Yang Potian challenged all six members of his team at once, soundly defeating them and giving them a taste of discipline. The training returned to its original intensity. In addition to the weighted runs, he introduced other exercises like rock climbing, pushing heavy metal balls, and weighted swimming. Though grueling, these exercises produced real results.

Time flew by, and soon a year had passed.

After a year of rigorous training, everyone had made significant progress. Yang Potian had reached level 40, advancing about one level every three months. Dugu Yan reached level 34, Ye Lingling level 29, Tai Long and Bai Xiaofei level 25, and Niu Meng level 26. Yang Ping'an, initially at level 28, broke through to level 30, gained a spirit ring, and reached level 33, showing the highest progress among them all.

With everyone now over level 25, the whole team was ready to start participating in the Great Spirit Arena duels. Additionally, afternoon training time was reduced to allow more focus on meditative cultivation in their respective mimic environments.

Although their daily training hours were shortened, the training intensity was actually increased by adding more weight. The team had grown accustomed to the challenges, adapting to greater loads.

Each evening, except for Yang Potian, everyone was required to participate in duels at the arena. Meanwhile, Yang Potian was beginning to think about his fourth spirit ring.

Currently, his abilities were well-rounded with two amplifying skills and an attack skill with teleportation. For the early stages, this setup sufficed, and with the right combination, Yang Potian felt confident in challenging even a Spirit King.

With his mastery of the unique "spear intent" — or as some might call it, "sword intent" — which he hadn't yet demonstrated publicly, he was confident in his ability to handle even high-level Spirit Kings.

Through the past months of intense training, he had also mastered his external spirit bone, the Crocodile King Spear. This two-meter-long golden spear functioned like a whip, combining strength and flexibility. Its metallic structure was durable enough that even his Broken Soul Spear struggled to damage it. The Crocodile King Spear's tip was as sharp as a sword, and he could even channel spear intent through it.

The Crocodile King Spear also had a passive spirit bone skill: Armor Piercing. When using this spear, it allowed attacks to ignore the opponent's defenses to some extent, depending on their spirit power level and the spear's spirit age. Against his opponent from the arena — the Spirit Ancestor with the Diamond Mammoth martial spirit — he had no doubt this spear could easily pierce through.

Regarding his fourth spirit ring, Yang Potian considered a ten-thousand-year ring, though he hesitated. He felt his physical endurance might not be ready for the extreme challenge. He'd planned to undergo the Ice and Fire Body Refining Technique after reaching Spirit Ancestor level, as he was not like Tang San, who had the formidable Mysterious Heaven Skill or inherited the powerful Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.

Instead, he planned to choose a spirit ring of as high an age as he could safely manage, ideally close to ten thousand years. His third ring was already nearly four thousand years old, so he felt confident about absorbing an even older ring without much risk.

Yang Potian was also cautious about consuming the prized Autumn Dew Liquid. His plan was to wait until after the Ice and Fire Body Refining. His innate spirit weapon wasn't comparable to Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor, and he worried that taking the Autumn Dew Liquid too early might trigger unintended mutations, especially if it caused his eye-based spirit power to evolve in ways that wouldn't integrate smoothly with his body.

Now, Yang Potian took out a large chunk of whale gelatin from his storage ring. It was the size of a fist and had a spirit age of 50,000 years, making it a rare treasure that he'd won at auction for over 100,000 gold soul coins. At 13 years old, he felt ready to endure the intense heat and energy generated by using whale gelatin, and he had waited until level 40 to maximize its benefits.

The whale gelatin was said to have three main effects: it increased spirit power, strengthened physical constitution, and purified the body of impurities.

While it could raise one or two levels of spirit power, Yang Potian wasn't particularly interested in that aspect. He was more interested in the potential to enhance his body's resilience and clear away physical impurities, laying a stronger foundation for future cultivation.

Yang Potian chose not to involve a fire-attribute spirit master to help process the whale gelatin since he wanted to keep it a family secret. He had other methods at his disposal, anyway.

He took a piece of Crimson Fire Stone from his storage ring. This unique material emitted intense heat and flames, often used to create fire-attributed mimic environments. His family, the Yang Clan, frequently used it for alchemy.

Yang Potian placed the Crimson Fire Stone into a specially designed furnace. He then set a metal bowl above the flame, placing the whale gelatin within, and began heating it.

Gradually, the gelatin melted, finally turning into a liquid. Even the metal bowl turned red-hot under the extreme heat.

Without further hesitation, Yang Potian wrapped his hands in spirit power, grabbed the metal bowl, and swallowed the molten whale gelatin in one gulp.

As the scalding liquid entered his mouth, it felt like fire searing through his throat, burning all the way down to his stomach.

Once it reached his stomach, a blazing heat erupted within him, spreading through every inch of his body — skin, cells, bones, even his very marrow.

It was as though he was being immersed in magma.

Despite the fierce heat, Yang Potian could feel his spirit power climbing, straining against the bottleneck at level 40. Like the process of absorbing a spirit ring, the surging energy coursed through him, spreading out to strengthen his body, his skin, his muscles, and his bones.

(End of Chapter)

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