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Tang San didn't care about the fact that he was famous.
Although the Martial Soul Newspaper was already flying all over the sky, besides Matthew Nuo, Su Yuntao, Sisi, Wang Sheng, and Xiao Wu, only the principal of Notting College, Director Su, Mo Hen, and a few others knew that he was the Tang San.
As for the others, even if they were standing in front of him, they wouldn't believe that he was the author who wrote "The Self-Positioning Analysis of Soul Masters", only thinking that he was a child with the same name and surname.
How many people in the Douluo Continent were called Tang San?
Tang San didn't know, but the number was definitely over a thousand. The probability of him being found was possible, but not very likely.
As for whether Tang Hao would find him, Tang San said, with a guy like Tang Dahammer whose limbs were developed but his brain was simple, he would only believe that the Haotian Hammer was awesome, and wouldn't care about any theories he came up with — the pride cultivated by the Haotian Sect blinded Tang Hao's vision, even though Tang Hao was now in a state of "deep sorrow"
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"Regarding the years of the soul ring a soul master can withstand, from the first ring to the second ring, it has been written in great detail. It also includes the effects of whale glue, which should allow me to openly use the second soul skill in the future." Tang San tidied up the theory he had written, which was a full centimeter thick, and could be published as a book, rather than being published in the Martial Soul Newspaper.
That was obviously not appropriate.
Tang San also realized that this was a problem, and decided to write a simpler theoretical report to be published in the Martial Soul Newspaper, while the rest would be used to publish a book... no, two books.
In the future, every time he increased a major level, he could write a book on how soul masters at that stage could judge how many years of soul rings they could withstand, and how to enable themselves to absorb soul rings with higher years.
"In that case, regarding the best combination of soul rings, I can only mention the evolution of the best soul rings from ancient times to the present, and explain that the years of soul rings absorbed by human soul masters have actually been increasing, and then point out the effects of thousand-year whale glue and ten-thousand-year whale glue."
Thinking of this, Tang San felt that he should really buy some whale glue to study, so as to explain it in detail, making his theory more convincing, rather than relying on the settings of the novels he read in his previous life to speculate.
Researchers must be down-to-earth!
So, Tang San went to the pharmacy in Nuoding City and asked the shopkeeper if he had whale glue for sale.
The shopkeeper of the pharmacy was a kind old man. Seeing that it was a child who came to ask about whale glue, he was a little puzzled: "Little friend, you want to buy whale glue? Are you buying it for an adult in your family?"
"Yes." Tang San didn't want to explain too much, so he went along with the shopkeeper's misunderstanding, "I heard that this thing can temporarily increase a person's strength."
"Well~ it seems that's not wrong." The shopkeeper's expression was strange, but thinking that it was a child, he just stopped there and didn't say anything else. Instead, he took out two boxes of whale glue and said, "I have ordinary whale glue here, which is produced by ordinary whales, and then there is whale glue from thousand-year soul beasts."
"There's thousand-year-level whale glue?" Tang San was surprised. He didn't expect that a small shop in Nuoding City would have thousand-year-level whale glue. It was just that the piece he took out was a little small, only the size of his fist.
"Yes, but not much. The one in front of you is the only one in the pharmacy. After all, whales all live in the deep sea, and even if those soul master adults go to hunt them, it's very difficult." The shopkeeper explained, "I guess there's not much thousand-year whale glue in the entire continent, but basically none of it can be sold. However, small pharmacies like mine have more or less some."
"Why?" Tang San was puzzled, "Isn't whale glue an aphrodisiac? Don't those nobles chase after it?"
"Uh... so you know." The shopkeeper was a little speechless, but he still explained, "The effect of thousand-year whale glue is relatively strong. If the person who takes it is not a soul master, they will die of excitement. As for soul masters... to put it bluntly, unless there's really a problem in that aspect, no soul master will buy this kind of thing. They'll be laughed at by other soul masters."
"I see." Tang San nodded and asked again, "Then do you have ten-thousand-year-level whale glue here?"
The shopkeeper's eyes immediately became vigilant, and he asked, "Where did you hear that?"
"It really exists." Tang San didn't expect that a small pharmacy in Nuoding City would actually have ten-thousand-year whale glue. Could it be that he had guessed wrong before, that there was still a lot of ten-thousand-year-level whale glue on the continent in this era?
"It does exist, but don't think that there's a lot of ten-thousand-year-level whale glue on the continent. I dare say that if you count them one by one, without comparing the size of each other, the number will definitely not exceed the number of hands and feet, and basically all of them are bought by some nobles for collection." The shopkeeper said carefully, "When it reaches ten thousand years, everything on a soul beast is a treasure. Even though ten-thousand-year-level whale glue can still only be used as an aphrodisiac, it also has collection value. It's just that no one dares to eat it, and ten-thousand-year-level whale glue is as hard as ore. Some sculptors will buy it to practice their skills."
"Shopkeeper, are you selling that ten-thousand-year whale glue?" Tang San asked.
"No, I'm going to keep it as a family heirloom..."
"How much does the whale glue cost?"
"For the ordinary one, one silver soul coin will give you a pound; for the thousand-year level, one gold soul coin will give you half a tael."
"Then how did you buy that ten-thousand-year whale glue?"
"When I was young, I saved a soul master. He didn't have any money at the time, so he gave me that ten-thousand-year whale glue that was as big as a head." The shopkeeper saw that Tang San really wanted it, gritted his teeth, and said, "My son is getting married recently, but he needs a thousand gold soul coins as a dowry, and my son also wants to move out from here, which means he has to buy a new house in the city. If you can come up with five thousand gold soul coins, I'll sell it to you."
The ten-thousand-year whale glue in this shopkeeper's hand was as big as a human head?
Tang San was shocked, then calmed down and asked, "If I buy it, can you give me some thousand-year whale glue?"
"At most, I'll give you the thousand-year one in front of you, plus ten pounds of ordinary whale glue." The shopkeeper said with some heartache.
"Okay, I agree." Tang San took off the wrist guard with his left hand and took out a soul card.
"Soul master..."
The shopkeeper immediately became respectful and hurriedly went to the back room to take out a box that was a little bigger than a human head. He opened it, revealing the dark and shiny ten-thousand-year whale glue inside.
It was indeed the size of a human head.
Tang San's mood became cheerful.
After paying the money, he put this piece of ten-thousand-year whale glue, a fist-sized piece of thousand-year whale glue, and ten pounds of ordinary whale glue into the gem of the storage wrist guard on his left hand, then bid farewell to the shopkeeper and quickly went to the Martial Soul Hall.
"I'm really lucky. I bought a ten-thousand-year whale glue that's as big as a head, a fist-sized thousand-year whale glue, and ten pounds of ordinary whale glue for five thousand gold soul coins."
After returning to the study in the backyard of the Martial Soul Hall, Tang San immediately took out the three kinds of whale glue and observed them carefully.
Using soul power to soften the ordinary whale glue, the fishy smell dissipated and it became soft.
Tang San tore off a piece the size of a fingernail and put it in his mouth. He swallowed it and felt his whole body warm up, but the strengthening effect on his body was close to zero.
Maybe ordinary whale glue didn't work on him, or maybe ordinary whale glue didn't have the effect of strengthening the body.
Then, he used a small knife to cut off a piece of thousand-year-level whale glue the size of a fingernail, softened it with soul power, and the brown color faded, turning into orange-yellow, like honey.
Tang San quickly swallowed it and found that it was completely different from ordinary whale glue. It was very smooth in his mouth, but the taste was not very good, with a fishy smell.
After swallowing it, he circulated his soul power and immediately felt a surge of blood rushing to his head, circulating in his body, as if his whole body was heating up.
Tang San immediately circulated the simplified blood and qi transfer method he had created by studying Wang Sheng's first soul skill, "Tiger King's Blood and Qi Transformation", to maximize the energy's strengthening of his body.
Thirty seconds later, the heat dissipated, and Tang San felt that his body had become a little stronger.
"Thousand-year whale glue is effective on me, but the effect is extremely weak, better than nothing." Tang San turned his attention to the ten-thousand-year whale glue that was the size of a human head, used a small knife to cut off a small piece, and was about to try it, but he found that the inside of this ten-thousand-year whale glue was actually another substance... Could it be that he had been cheated by the shopkeeper?
No, whale glue was basically a whole piece, and the shopkeeper was just an ordinary person. It was impossible for him to use soul power to melt it and then attach it to other objects.
Moreover, whale glue, after a thousand years, could not be boiled with hot water.
Could it be...
Thinking of a possibility, Tang San immediately used the Mysterious Jade Hand, pinched the small knife, and carefully scraped off the hard ten-thousand-year whale glue. Finally, he revealed a deep blue transparent round bead.
"Whale pearl! The inner core of a ten-thousand-year-level whale soul beast!" Tang San was very excited. Although he didn't know how long this thing had been stored and how much energy it had lost, as the inner core of a ten-thousand-year soul beast, it must contain extremely vast energy. If he could digest it, it would definitely be of great benefit.
However, how should he use it?
The inner core of a soul beast could also be called a soul core. Perhaps he could observe it to see if he could also condense a soul core in the future.
A soul core, for a soul master, the greatest benefit was that it could allow the soul master's soul power to recover faster and with higher quality.
In this era, soul cores had not yet appeared, but there should be prototypes, such as: Dugu Bo's poison pill.
Tang San suppressed the urge to immediately study this whale pearl, put it into the white jade belt, and then began to study the strengthening effect of ten-thousand-year whale glue on the body.
After taking the ten-thousand-year whale glue softened by soul power, Tang San found that his physical fitness had obviously increased. It was just a small piece, but it had increased by nearly one level.
Then, he continued to take it. After taking nearly half of it, he found that his physical fitness could no longer be improved. He figured that it had reached the limit of his current age group.
Gathering the remaining ten-thousand-year whale glue fragments, Tang San found that it was only the size of a fist, and couldn't help but laugh: "I said why the shopkeeper was so happy, selling it for five thousand gold soul coins. It's at least ten-thousand-year-level whale glue, and a piece that big is worth at least ten thousand. I guess he had already discovered that there was something else inside this ten-thousand-year whale glue, and felt that it might not be valuable, so he was embarrassed to cheat me."
At this time, the Nine-Jointed Jade that Tang San used as a hair tie jumped from the back of Tang San's head to the table, pointed its tail at the ten-thousand-year whale glue, and then pointed at its mouth.
"Want to eat? Here."
Tang San picked up a piece of ten-thousand-year whale glue the size of a fingernail and fed it to the Nine-Jointed Jade, which swallowed it in one bite, squinted its eyes in satisfaction, and jumped to the back of Tang San's head again, re-tying Tang San's hair into a ponytail.
Tang San didn't care, and continued to study the effects of whale glue, using various methods to abuse the whale glue to see if there were any other more suitable ways to take it.
"Speaking of which, it seems like there's a lack of hundred-year whale glue?"
Tang San thought of this problem and immediately ran to the pharmacy. The shopkeeper was relieved when he learned that Tang San wasn't here to return the goods. He replied, "Whales all live in the deep sea. When soul masters go to hunt for soul rings, it's at least the fourth soul ring, and they'll only choose thousand-year ones. Hundred-year whale glue is even rarer than ten-thousand-year ones."
"It turned out to be for this reason." Tang San didn't expect that the reason why hundred-year whale glue was rare was because of a demand reason.
But thinking about it, it made sense. Whale soul beasts all lived in the deep sea area. Even if their martial soul was a whale, it was impossible to go to the deep sea to hunt in the first soul ring. There were too many unsafe factors.
After thanking the shopkeeper, Tang San spent another three hundred gold soul coins to buy all the thousand-year whale glue in this pharmacy before returning to the backyard of the Martial Soul Hall.
At this time, Xiao Wu happened to be practicing tree climbing.