Ning Fengzhi's Predicament
Zhou You didn't reveal himself for long. After the Ning Clan saw him clearly, he immediately withdrew his Soul Ring.
"Now the sect leader should understand that the lifespan of Soul Ring can be increased, and I am proof of that. However, this requires a large amount of Spirit Medicine, so this method is very expensive."
"However, I think the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has no shortage of money and Spirit Medicine resources."
Through years of research, Zhou You not only optimized the original [Marrow Cleansing Liquid] formula, but also developed several drugs that can continuously improve the physique of Soul Masters.
Because of the abundant Heaven and Earth Vital Energy in this place, he even successfully replicated some ancient elixirs that he had only seen in ancient books in his previous life but could not reproduce due to the limitations of the environment.
These pills are of little use to adult Soul Masters, because their bones and meridians are already fixed and cannot be improved without strong and potent medicines.
However, for a young Soul Master like Ning Rongrong who has just embarked on the path of cultivation, the effects of Spirit Medicine are significant.
As long as she takes the medicine gradually and refines its power, even if Ning Rongrong hasn't learned the [Threefold Reversal], she can still forcibly expand the upper limit of her Soul Ring absorption under the accumulation of Great Medicine power.
Similarly, the problem of insufficient Soul Power can also be solved by taking potions; it's perfectly normal for Support System to carry red and blue potions when they go out.
This way, there's no need to waste a single Immortal Herb.
Even the rarest Spirit Medicine can still be found, especially since the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well can continuously produce rare Spirit Medicine of high age.
Zhou You could easily do this medicinal herb business with the Ning Clan, supplying them with Spirit Medicine on a long-term basis, and tightly binding the two forces together through mutual benefit. Wouldn't that be better than the dignified Princess of the Spirit Hall becoming someone else's apprentice?
Anyway, with that spring there, the Spirit Medicine grow back as fast as chives, just like they're cut down.
Immortal Herbs, on the other hand, are truly rare and precious treasures that can only be encountered by chance. Even though they can grow in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, their growth rate is far inferior to that of Spirit Medicine.
Upon hearing this, Ning Fengzhi used immense willpower to temporarily suppress the shock in his heart. After careful consideration, he had to admit that the plan was indeed quite appealing, and it was not beyond his comprehension.
Assuming everything goes smoothly as Zhou You said, Rong'er could indeed break through the limitations of previous Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and become the first Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect School successor with more than seven support Soul Skills...
However, this did not solve the fundamental problem, and there were too many variables.
Unless the inherent limitations of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda are resolved, future generations of the Ning Clan will continue to face the same predicament.
Moreover... given the current growth rate of the Soul Master population, the number of Soul Beasts of suitable lifespan may decrease in the future. It's estimated that even Ten-Thousand-Year Rank Soul Beasts will be hard to find, and even thousand-year-old ones would require digging three feet into the ground...
Ning Fengzhi began to suspect again. Was he still a little angry? Was he subtly targeting him?
He organized his thoughts and carefully asked, "Excuse me, what about the second method?"
"The second method can solve this problem completely at its root," Zhou You said somewhat reluctantly, but he still had some principles after all.
"Ultimately, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul has its limits. Based on the Soul Ring per level, if this Martial Soul Evolution to the ninth level and become the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then it can naturally break through the natural upper limit of the Martial Soul. As long as your daughter leaves offspring in the future, then there will be a chance for a new Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul to awaken among the Ning Clan members in the future."
Ning Rongrong blushed slightly upon hearing this. "Leaving offspring? Brother Zhou You's words are too blunt! It's so embarrassing!"
In fact, Zhou You had also thought about why Ning Rongrong in the original work had already Martial Soul Evolution into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in the later stages, but the Ning family in later generations could only awaken the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
He speculated that there were two possibilities.
First, there is the degeneration of Martial Souls. As time goes by, no new Titled Douluo have appeared in the next generation, so the Martial Souls gradually degenerate. Originally, they could awaken the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but they slowly degenerated into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with only seven layers.
Martial Soul can degenerate, a fact well documented in the Spirit Hall's Library with numerous examples proving this. In ancient times, many Martial Soul possessed god-like abilities, but as their descendants declined, these Martial Soul gradually degenerated, eventually becoming ordinary Martial Soul.
However, this kind of Martial Soul degeneration is not permanent. Martial Soul families that were once powerful still have a certain chance of experiencing a "reversion to ancestral" phenomenon in their descendants, allowing them to reappear with a god-level Martial Soul.
Yan is a living example. [Flame Lord] belongs to the ancient Martial Soul. His Martial Soul is not mutated, but "reverted" to its ancestral form.
Secondly, Ning Rongrong did not leave any descendants, and her Martial Soul genes could not be passed down.
As we all know, with each realm Soul Master crosses in their cultivation, their life level rises a notch. In the original story, when she and Oscar were truly together, their cultivation levels were already close to the Titled Douluo level, making it extremely difficult for them to have offspring.
Zhou You personally prefers the second option, since the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's mechanism is already quite overpowered, providing a 10% boost to low-level Soul Masters and a 10% boost to Titled Douluos. This kind of support that ignores the difference in item level is one of the reasons why it has an upper limit.
Moreover, in order to better utilize auxiliary Soul Skills, the Ning Clan also developed the skill [Heart Separation Control], which can apply amplification to different Soul Masters at once, meaning one person can heal an entire team.
If Zhou You remembers correctly, after Ning Rongrong's Martial Soul was upgraded to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in the original novel, her eighth and ninth Soul Skills were almost beyond the scope of support, with things like "Divine Light Body Protection" and "Invincible Divine Light"...
However, if Ning Rongrong had Martial Soul Evolution before reaching a high level of cultivation and then left behind descendants, theoretically she could have passed on the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
This is certainly a better method, the only downside being that it consumes Aromatic Silk Beauty.
After Zhou You finished speaking, he looked at Ning Fengzhi: "The Aromatic Silk Beauty is the only Immortal Herb that can evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine-Story Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. You are very lucky; I happen to have one on hand, but..."
Ning Fengzhi's mood was like a roller coaster, experiencing one up and one down. Now, with Zhou You's "but," he plummeted from the highest peak to the bottom of the cliff.
"But what?"
"This Immortal Herb is extremely precious. As for how precious..." Zhou You thought for a moment, "It's even rarer than Soul Beast that Human Form Transformation after 100,000 years."
This analogy chilled Ning Fengzhi to the bone. He knew that in the tens of thousands of years of the Douluo Continent, the number of sightings of Transformed Soul Beasts could be counted on one hand, demonstrating just how rare they were.
For a moment, Ning Fengzhi even had the thought of "taking it by force," but this thought was quickly suppressed by reason.
Putting aside the fact that he might not be able to defeat Zhou You at all, as a Support System and a pampered sect leader, he might not be able to beat this strange Soul King Zhou You in a real fight. He'd be lucky if he didn't get captured by the other party.
Furthermore, the other party's identity is not simple either. Whether it's the reputation of the pseudonym "Lord of the Clouds" or the most valued new generation of the Spirit Hall, neither of them is someone he can afford to offend.
Moreover, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect now has Chrysanthemum, Ghost, and Poison as guests. These three Titled Douluos are not to be underestimated. If a real fight breaks out, even if the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect wins, it will be a Pyrrhic victory, and they will still face the Spirit Hall's relentless pursuit.
Ning Fengzhi's face fell; no wonder Zhou You looked so reluctant when he talked about this plan.
Since he couldn't steal it, he had no choice but to try every possible way to get the Immortal Herb from the other party.