Zhao Wuji highly approved of Oscar's decision, so he didn't say more on this issue.
Thinking about the seven-hundred-year whale glue Oscar said he had auctioned, Zhao Wuji couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Ao, isn't that thing just for men to strengthen their virility? Can it really improve physical fitness?"
Hearing Zhao Wuji's question, Oscar didn't hide anything. After all, he would need Zhao Wuji and the others to help him find more in the future!
On his own, Oscar now had no power or influence. Besides getting incredibly lucky like today, he basically had no sources of information.
After thinking for a moment, Oscar said, "Teacher Zhao, actually I can't guarantee that this thing will definitely bring me improvement, but the books do describe it that way, so I want to try."
"If it works, then in the future my strength improvement will have another shortcut. Even if it doesn't work, I won't lose much."
Zhao Wuji nodded upon hearing this, thinking it made a lot of sense. After all, although a thousand gold soul coins wasn't a small amount, for Oscar it really wasn't much. So he didn't say more on this issue, just said:
"Then handle it yourself. If there's any problem, come find me immediately."
Hearing this, Oscar felt very warm inside. No matter what, Old Zhao genuinely cared about him.
"Understood."
Oscar agreed and left. Without wasting time, Oscar went directly back to his dormitory. Ma Hongjun was tired from playing during the day, plus he'd been beaten, so he was already asleep.
Back in his room, Oscar took out the seven-hundred-year whale glue and examined it carefully.
This was Oscar's first time seeing whale glue with his own eyes. The appearance he'd seen in books was somewhat similar to this, but people in this era didn't know its true uses and didn't have many detailed introductions.
Fortunately, Oscar not only knew the uses of this thing, but also understood how to use it. However, this required him to experiment personally.
This whale glue wasn't completely pure, because it appearing here might have already experienced a long time. Although taking it as-is was possible.
But to refine it to the extent of improving physical fitness, this thing had to be purified.
The purification method for this ordinary century-level whale glue was very simple - just heating with fire. But the flame temperature had to be controlled reasonably.
Otherwise, it might directly burn the whale glue away, ending up with nothing.
And Oscar wasn't worried about this now. Although he was only at twenty-two levels, from the moment he obtained his first soul ring, his spiritual power had already reached the Soul Elder level, and he could control it freely.
Now with the improvement of his strength, although his spiritual power hadn't increased much, it was already close to the Soul Ancestor level. Such fine control was completely no problem.
So Oscar didn't hesitate any longer. He took out a small furnace he usually used for refining medicinal materials and began the refining and purification.
This small furnace, although not a soul guide, was a treasure Oscar had picked up. He used this furnace when practicing alchemy.
The furnace wasn't large, only eighty centimeters high and sixty centimeters in diameter, round and chubby like a slightly larger steamer.
Oscar had fine charcoal outside his room, which he needed when refining medicine.
Setting up the furnace, lighting the charcoal fire, adjusting the temperature, Oscar put the whale glue into the furnace.
The charcoal fire under the furnace burned fully, instantly making the temperature continue to rise, then under Oscar's control reached a balance.
After the whale glue was put into the furnace, Oscar began to operate carefully.
First, under the continuous heating at high temperature, this piece of whale glue began to decompose. The originally dark golden fist-sized ball turned into a puddle of paste.
As the temperature rose another level, the paste became something like molten iron, and at this time the black impurities inside automatically separated out.
Of course, relying on it to automatically separate naturally wasn't possible. This was where Oscar's external help was needed.
Oscar took out a clean strainer and tongs, removing as many impurities as possible. Then the temperature slowly decreased, and the original solution gradually solidified into a round bead. The color of the bead was much brighter than the dark gold.
And not only was it much brighter, but the volume was only half of the original. A large part of it was impurities.
However, looking at this refined whale glue, Oscar smiled. Although he couldn't achieve 100% purification now, this was enough.
Oscar could confirm that even a seven-hundred-year whale glue could bring huge improvement to him at this stage.
Without any hesitation, Oscar stuffed this whale glue directly into his mouth. A strange scene occurred - after the whale glue entered Oscar's mouth, he didn't chew it much before it softened and flowed into his stomach.
Then a warm feeling came from his abdomen. Oscar instantly felt a heat rising from his belly.
Then Oscar didn't dare delay. He immediately sat cross-legged and began meditating to refine the whale glue.
As Oscar began his cultivation, gradually his body surface became red, and the heat in his heart grew larger and larger, as if many women were teasing him.
But Oscar had already anticipated this, so no matter how uncomfortable he felt at this moment, he endured it, with only one thought in his mind: to completely refine the energy of the whale glue and become stronger!
As Oscar entered deep cultivation, he no longer paid attention to the passage of time. Unconsciously, a night passed quietly. When Oscar opened his eyes, the first ray of morning light was already visible.
As soon as he opened his eyes, Oscar showed an excited expression. After a night of deep meditation, he now deeply understood how huge his improvement was.
Oscar couldn't help moving his body. Then a subtle cracking sound rang out. At this time Oscar felt that he seemed to have an extra layer of thin "armor" on his body. Looking, he saw that this thin layer of armor was a layer of black dirt, already dried and solidified grime.
Oscar immediately got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower, feeling much more comfortable.
During the shower, Oscar couldn't help clenching his fists, making crackling sounds.
Originally, after absorbing his second soul ring, Oscar's physical fitness had completely reached the Soul Elder level. After absorbing this whale glue, Oscar's physical fitness directly improved to near the Soul Ancestor level.
In other words, just one seven-hundred-year whale glue raised Oscar's physical fitness from a low-level Soul Elder to a high-level Soul Elder.
That was a span of nearly ten levels. And if Oscar were to train this himself, it might take at least a year.
It brought his physical fitness and spiritual power to the same level. Not only did his physical fitness improve, but he also became more adept at using his own strength.
And perhaps because it was his first time taking whale glue, Oscar's soul power also improved from early twenty-two to late, not far from breaking through twenty-three.
And Oscar had only just obtained his second soul ring less than half a month ago.
Such huge improvement made Oscar extremely excited, because this not only improved his strength, but with his current physical fitness, when he cultivated to level thirty, his third soul ring could at least reach the four-thousand-year level.
This was the improvement one whale glue brought him!
If before this Oscar hadn't had much confidence in joining forces with Ma Hongjun to deal with Bu Le, now Oscar was confident that he and Ma Hongjun could take down Bu Le together.
Because his physical fitness was already completely not weaker than his opponent. Although there was still a gap in soul power level, his strength wasn't just at twenty-two!