By the time Father Lin finished his dinner, it was already dark.
Lin Yuan greeted his parents, left the house, and walked toward the Academy.
Before leaving, under the pretext that a classmate knew his family sold medicinal herbs and asked him to help sell some herbs their parents had dug up in the deep mountains and old forests,
Lin Yuan gave those medicinal herbs accelerated by Yan Beifei to Mother Lin.
Mother Lin had always been a smart cookie, especially when it came to business; she could be called an enhanced version of Flender.
Flender only knew how to arbitrarily raise prices by relying on his strength as a Spirit Saint.
Mother Lin would scam you while still making you feel like you had made a profit.
However, this time, Mother Lin was unusually generous, directly acquiring these medicinal herbs at market price.
In Mother Lin’s words, although she was not a Spirit Master, she also knew that there were teams among Spirit Masters, which required mutual help.
Perhaps they would become lifelong partners in the future.
She couldn’t let others suffer a loss.
This made Lin Yuan involuntarily sigh at his mother’s conduct in his heart.
What Transmigration, what Yu Xiaogang, what Shrek Seven Devils, what the Three Beauties of Spirit Hall, what Silver Dragon King—
None of them were as wise as a farmwoman from the countryside.
After sighing in his heart, Lin Yuan had no choice but to helplessly accept the several hundred gold coin given by his mother and return to the Academy.
This was almost most of the circulating capital of their Old Lin Herb Workshop.
That night, he acted as if nothing had happened.
He sat cross-legged for meditation and cultivation, quietly collecting the creation heaven-sustaining dew.
Early the next morning, as usual, he did one hundred push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, one hundred squats, and ran ten kilometers.
He attended classes normally in the morning, and during free time, he played around normally with a few “best friends”.
But as noon arrived, after confirming that Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Lin Tian had gone to the cafeteria, he didn’t even eat lunch, and went straight outside the Academy to buy a charcoal basin, a fine iron net, and some charcoal fire.
Then he quickly found a hotel far away from home and the Academy and opened a room.
Only then did he take out the light-yellow whale glue given by his mother.
This piece of whale glue was originally prepared by his mother for Yan Beifei.
At that time, there was only such a piece in the market, and she originally planned to scam that kid for another sum.
Unexpectedly, the other party delayed his return, resulting in it remaining unsold in her hands.
Of course, Mother Lin didn’t lose out either; after all, when this piece of whale glue was collected, it only cost nine gold coin.
The previous century-old mountain ginseng was enough to earn back two to three times the money for the whale glue.
Filling a bathtub with water, Lin Yuan asked the waiter for some ice cubes and threw them in.
After finishing all this, Lin Yuan lit the charcoal fire and threw the whale glue onto the grill.
The effect of charcoal roasting and heating was obviously much slower than a Spirit Master’s flame.
A full two and a half hours passed, and Lin Yuan was almost waiting to fall asleep before it melted into a jelly-like fluid, exuding a faint fishy-sweet fragrance.
He carefully scooped up a spoonful and put it into his mouth.
The warm fluid slid down his throat.
The initial taste was a bit fishy, and the aftertaste was a bit sweet.
Just a moment later, a hot current erupted from his lower abdomen and swept across his entire body.
Lin Yuan felt that his entire body’s skin was burning hot.
Not daring to neglect, he immediately made quick work of eating this egg-sized “jelly”.
Then he jumped into the bathtub, sat cross-legged, and used his Soul Power to guide that hot current to circulate through his Meridians.
Along with the operation of his Soul Power, a fine tearing sensation came from deep within his muscles, and something seemed to be squeezing in the gaps of his bones.
His whole body was aching and hard to endure.
After a full small half an hour passed, this soreness finally faded away.
Lin Yuan’s body gradually calmed down.
By the time the horizon was covered with orange-red sunset glow, Lin Yuan woke up from his meditative absorption.
Despite the same long period of meditation, this time there was no trace of fatigue in his body.
“It hurts for real, but the effects are also maxed out…”
Lin Yuan clearly felt that the places in his body where Soul Power was previously difficult to circulate had become unobstructed.
Along with that, his body had also become much sturdier, his muscle lines became increasingly obvious, although his figure did not change too much.
However, the contours of his shoulder bones and finger bones became obvious, his bone structure protruded, exuding a solid sense of strength.
When clenching his fists, the knuckles and edges on the back of his hands were clear.
Thinking about it, this should be the effect of the whale glue strengthening his Meridians, bones, and muscles.
It was almost catching up to the results of his more than three months of exercise.
As for expelling some Impurities in his body, Lin Yuan looked at the bathwater soaked black by sweat and dirt, and didn’t speak.
He immediately took a cold shower, rushed back home, and informed his mother of the useful information about the whale glue.
Upon learning this, Mother Lin was naturally overjoyed.
She immediately closed the shop door and ran to the medicinal herb market to hunt for whale glue.
Before leaving, she made a bold statement that she wanted to buy out all the whale glue in Nuoding City and feed it all to her son.
As for someone like Lin Tian, how could he be as important as her own son?
This made Lin Yuan feel a warmth in his heart.
However, doing so would very likely incur Lin Tian’s suspicion.
It might also attract the attention of other unknown Transmigrationrs.
After all, in Douluo I, this thing was just an aphrodisiac, yet Mother Lin was purchasing it on such a large scale.
With whale glue flowing into Nuoding City.
It was hard to guarantee it wouldn’t arouse people’s suspicion.
“It seems I cannot give Lin Tian no whale glue at all; I might as well just give him some leftovers.”
In this way, it could dispel Lin Tian’s suspicion and direct the attention of any potentially appearing unknown Transmigrationrs toward Lin Tian.
Secondly, he could take this opportunity to flow the gold coin in his hands back into his mother’s hands.
After all, this thing called whale glue wasn’t expensive right now, but before developing drug resistance, the gold coin required for a family that only had small assets—
were still a considerable expense.
…
Time turned around and around, and an academic year passed.
Notting Academy only had eleven months each academic year, and the remaining one month was the students’ vacation.
During these eleven months, Lin Yuan’s life was extremely regular.
Every morning, he fixedly did one hundred push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, one hundred squats, and ran ten kilometers.
He attended classes normally in the morning, frolicked with “best friends” during breaks, and played the role of an ordinary child.
At noon, he would go to the library to read books for half an hour.
After finishing reading books related to Spirit Masters and Spirit Beasts, he used this freed-up time, along with the afternoon, entirely for meditation to enhance his Soul Power.
At night, he still meditated and cultivated, and by the way buried the plastic Palm Heaven Bottle in an abandoned potted plant, covered it with a Magic Treasure fragment, and collected the green liquid.
He discovered that the effect of this plastic Palm Heaven Bottle was the same as the Palm Heaven Bottle of Han Li in the Human Realm in a record of a mortals journey to immortality World.
Every time it absorbed moonlight for seven days, it could condense a drop of green liquid.
After condensing the green liquid, he used it for a medicinal bath to enhance the quality of his Lone Bamboo martial soul.
Occasionally he returned home to see if his mother had purchased whale glue.
If she had purchased it, Lin Yuan didn’t even need to go through the trouble of running to open a hotel room and buying charcoal to roast it himself.
Mother Lin would prepare it herself.
As for Lin Tian’s side, even without Lin Yuan bringing it up himself, Mother Lin had already considered it.
After all, Lin Tian’s talent was right there, and rashly offending the other party was not a good thing.
Therefore, every time she purchased four or five pieces of whale glue, she would have Lin Yuan bring the lowest quality piece over to Lin Tian.
Consequently, during these eleven months, Lin Yuan successively consumed more than ten pieces of whale glue, whereas Lin Tian had only consumed a meager two pieces.