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Not long after, figures emanating terrifying Qi stepped into the main hall.
Looking at Chu Shanhe, who was meditating with his eyes closed on the main seat, they saluted and took their respective places, filling the entire hall with a solemn atmosphere.
But secretly:
"Why did the Sect Master suddenly summon us so urgently? Did something happen? Eighth Elder, you are responsible for the Sect's external intelligence. Did some blind fool come to die?"
"If you ask me, who am I supposed to ask? Seventeenth Elder said the Sect Master urgently called a meeting and then left. Maybe the old man suddenly wanted to understand the Sect's affairs, it's hard to say."
"Do you believe that? How many matters in the Sect need to be asked about, and he even summoned all of us together. If you ask me, could it be related to Qian Xunji's death?"
"What does Qian Xunji's death have to do with our Body Sect? Still a brainless Spirit Master, he doesn't even know how to use his brain. This fire will never burn our Sect."
"Heh heh, Senior Brother has great insight."
...Voices wrapped in spirit power were transmitted freely throughout the hall, while Chu Shanhe's eyes twitched on the main seat.
"You, Zhang Tao, actually dare to badmouth me behind my back. Just wait and see how I deal with you later."
Suddenly, everyone's voices stopped, and then they all stood up, even Chu Shanhe, who was meditating with his eyes closed. This was because an old man of medium build with skin as white as jade slowly walked in through the door.
"Greetings, Second Elder."
"Greetings, Sect Master."
Seeing the old man, Chu Shanhe waved his hand.
"I've already said it, there's no need for this between us."
"Etiquette cannot be abandoned." The old man chuckled. He was indeed the Body Sect's Second Elder, the ninety-second level Titled Douluo, Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin', with the title "Jade Skin."
"You, oh you," Looking at Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin''s serious demeanor, Chu Shanhe had no choice but to say, "Please take a seat."
After everyone was seated, Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin' looked at Chu Shanhe and asked, "All the high-ranking members of the Sect are present. What has happened that requires all of us to be here?"
"Haha, good news." Feeling the curiosity in everyone's eyes, Chu Shanhe did not hide it and then looked at Chen Zhen below, saying,
"Chen Zhen, tell everyone about Yi'er's discovery and ideas."
"Yes, sir." Chen Zhen stood up and repeated what he had just told the Sect Master.
After Chen Zhen finished speaking, everyone present was excited, and Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin''s eyes flashed with brilliant light, and a terrifying Qi permeated his body.
"Boy Zhen, is what you said true?"
"Fourth Brother, is this real? If it is, then our Body Sect is truly about to rise."
"If, if, no, it must be true."
The hall immediately erupted into a clamor.
They understood too well what this meant. In these years, the Sect didn't know how many powerhouses had failed their second Awakening due to insufficient Qi and blood, and these were all their parents, wives, children, brothers, and sisters!
If the efficacy of whale glue was real, then the success rate of the Body Martial Soul's second Awakening in the Sect would increase by at least 30%. In the future, even if the second Awakening failed, there would still be great hope of ensuring that the Spirit was not damaged by relying on a strong Qi and Physical Body.
"Silence, what kind of decorum is this?"
Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin' lightly reprimanded the excited crowd, but his slightly trembling beard told people that his heart was equally uncalm.
"Whether it's useful or not, we'll know once we try."
After everyone quieted down, Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin' stood up, bowed to Chu Shanhe, and said in a deep voice, "Sect Master, this matter is of great importance. This old man requests an on-site inspection."
The Body Sect has extremely high attainments in the Dao of Qi and blood. In the past, they had never connected whale glue with body cultivation. Now, with just a hint, they knew that this matter was mostly true, but because it was so important, seeing was still believing.
"It should be so." Chu Shanhe also nodded heavily. He had gathered everyone precisely for this matter.
Then Chu Shanhe cast his gaze towards a figure sitting on the left, and everyone else did the same.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Jiang Wu's face immediately darkened, and he roared, "Why are you looking at me? I don't have any!"
"Cough cough, Second Brother, look at this…"
When Jiang Wu was young, he was obsessed with Cultivating, so his personal problems were put off. It wasn't until a few years ago that he found a young wife, but after all, his age was there, and some things were still a bit beyond his power.
Although Jiang Wu hid this matter very well, when women chatted about gossip, they would blurt out anything, so everyone knew that Jiang Wu had whale glue on him, they just didn't expose it.
Looking at everyone's strange gazes, Jiang Wu's face also flushed red, and he secretly thought: This silly girl, why does she blurt out everything?
"Cough cough cough," Looking at Jiang Wu's flushed face, Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin' also coughed lightly, forcing down the corners of his mouth as he said to Jiang Wu, "I heard that a new pharmacy opened in the small town outside, with a wide variety of medicines. It should sell this item. Jiang Wu, you make a trip, go quickly and return quickly."
"Yes, sir." Then he rushed out of the hall like an arrow leaving the bow.
"Hahahaha!" After Jiang Wu had gone far, everyone's laughter was no longer suppressed, and the entire hall seemed to be trembling.
"Heh… cough cough, everyone, restrain yourselves a bit. Little Wu will be back soon." After laughing for a while, Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin' looked at everyone with a serious expression.
Sure enough, in less than two minutes, Jiang Wu returned, holding a rather large jade box in his hand.
"Sect Master, I bought the item back," he said, then presented the jade box.
Chu Shanhe looked relieved, took it, and opened it. Inside, there were more than a dozen pieces of whale glue of various sizes and colors, scattered about.
"Hmph, looking at this color, it must be at least seven or eight thousand years old, right? To have such a rare item, this pharmacy is quite powerful!" Zhou Zheng next to him couldn't help but exclaim.
"Pfft × N"
Jiang Wu's face immediately darkened.
"Indeed, if you eat this stuff, even a Spirit Saint probably couldn't handle it." Huang Qiyi sneered from the side. Spirit Saint, Jiang Wu was like him, both were seventy-ninth level Spirit Saints.
"I can't take it anymore, I can't hold back, hahaha!"
Jiang Wu's face returned to calm.
"Alright, alright, everyone quiet down," Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin' again came out to mediate, and incidentally changed the subject, "What about the person for the experiment?"
Chu Shanhe pondered for a moment and said, "Let Seventeenth Elder do it. Eight-thousand-year-old whale glue, for a Spirit King, the medicinal effect will certainly be sufficient, and if it's useful, the effect will also be very obvious."
Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin' nodded, then used spirit power to transmit his voice. Soon after, Seventeenth, with an excited expression, once again arrived in the hall.
"Seventeenth Elder, do you know why I called you here?"
"Reporting to Second Elder, Seventeenth Elder knows." Seventeenth looked firmly at the two people at the very front, knelt on one knee, "This Disciple's Aptitude is insufficient. To go further, I can only go all out, fight against Heaven for my fate. Please, Sect Master, Second Elder, grant my wish."
The two invincible Titled Douluo in the world both sighed to the sky at this moment: "Foolish child!"
Foolish, since the founding of the Body Sect eight hundred years ago, it had also fallen to rock bottom, barely surviving, but it was precisely with an unyielding Qi that it persevered.
Everyone in the Body Sect, who among them was not foolish?
After speaking, Chu Shanhe's majestic Qi and blood immediately surged into the whale glue.
The extremely potent and pure spirit power spread outwards from Chu Shanhe as the center. The space in the entire hall began to distort at a visible speed—this was the power of a fire-attribute Spirit Bone from Chu Shanhe's body.
A moment later, the whale glue transformed into a liquid suspended in his palm, emitting waves of an unpleasant fishy odor. He retracted his spirit power and handed the whale glue to Seventeenth.
"While it's hot."
Seventeenth immediately took the whale glue, ignoring the nauseating stench, quickly put it into his mouth, sat cross-legged, and began to circulate his meditation technique to refine the energy. Subsequently, his body temperature rose sharply, his skin burned red, and his face became ferocious.
Everyone present was staring intently at Seventeenth, fearing they would miss a single detail.
After a long time, Seventeenth was already drenched in sweat. If one ignored his flushed skin, he looked as if he had just been pulled out of water.
The next moment, everyone's pupils suddenly contracted, because a thin layer of black Impurities slowly squeezed out of Seventeenth's skin.
The most impatient Huang Qiyi lowered his voice and roared, "Impurities! It's Impurities! This whale glue actually has the effect of cleansing the marrow and tendons!"
The effect of whale glue in enhancing Qi and blood and improving Physique had always been within everyone's expectations, but its effect of removing Impurities and cleansing the marrow and tendons was completely unexpected.
There was no other reason; medicines that boost Qi and blood were not uncommon, but most of them had one characteristic: they would leave certain Impurities in the body, which, in a sense, was a depletion of one's potential.
However, this whale glue could actually cleanse the marrow and tendons while improving Physique, which exceeded everyone's expectations.
This meant that in the future, even if Body Spirit Masters could not undergo a second Awakening, extraordinary powerhouses could still emerge. How could this not be a delightful surprise?
Chu Shanhe stared intently at the layer of Impurities on Seventeenth's body, laughing wildly, "Good, good, good, Heaven truly wants to prosper my Body Sect!"
Three consecutive "good" words swept away the years of pent-up frustration in his heart.
He knew that the Body Sect would usher in a period of great prosperity, and in the future, batch after batch of Body Spirit Masters with a second Awakening would appear.
Within a hundred years, the Body Sect would replace the Clear Sky Sect and become the true number one Sect in the world, even if it was the Clear Sky Sect led by Tang Chen.
Majestic spirit power enveloped Seventeenth, and hearty laughter echoed through the hall. Everyone was venting their inner joy, and even Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin', who was usually the most reserved, let out the most unrestrained laughter of his life at this moment.
After a long time, Seventeenth slowly opened his eyes. Looking at the excited crowd, he was about to say something when he suddenly frowned. He looked down and indeed saw a thin layer of Impurities on his body, and at the same time, a fishy smell rushed into his nostrils, the pungent odor going straight to his head.
"Ugh…"
Chu Shanhe and Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin' didn't care if he stank or not. They flashed to his side, placing both hands on his shoulders simultaneously, and powerful spirit power surged through his body, carefully examining every change in his Physical Body.
After a long time, after checking twice, both of them opened their eyes at the same time and exclaimed, "The meridians have widened by nearly 10%, the toughness of the Physical Body has increased by more than 20% compared to before, and spirit power has also increased by half a level."
Hua Shuwen, Second Elder, titled 'Jade Skin' added, "Seventeenth Elder's current situation is like having absorbed an eight-thousand-year-old top-tier spirit ring."
On the Douluo Continent, there were only two ways to break the shackles brought by the Spirit and Innate spirit power.
One was to become a fallen Spirit Master, using fallen methods to find another path and achieve a curve-overtaking; the other method was to absorb powerful spirit rings and Spirit Bones to change one's Aptitude, defying Heaven and changing one's fate. Powerful spirit rings and Spirit Bones were no weaker than any Heaven And Earth Treasure, they were truly external cheats.
"Hahahaha, my Body Sect shall rise greatly in the world!"