Apprenticeship

Li Xun's heart stirred, and he hurriedly bowed. "Li Xun greets his Teacher."

His Martial Soul was special, and ordinary people truly had nothing they could teach him.

Now that Ning Fengzhi wanted to take him as a disciple, he was naturally happy to draw their relationship closer.

Ning Fengzhi wore a smile. After seeing Li Xun perform the disciple's bow, he hurried forward and gently helped him up.

He gave him a careful look.

"Xiao Xun, from now on, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is your home. I'll arrange a place for you to live first."

With that said,

Ning Fengzhi nodded toward Chen Xin and Gu Rong before striding out of the hall.

Li Xun bowed to the two Titled Douluo, then hurried to follow Ning Fengzhi.

Watching the two figures leave, Chen Xin and Gu Rong exchanged a glance.

"This child's conduct and judgment aren't what one would expect at his age."

Gu Rong nodded at this. "He is indeed far too precocious. However, since Feng Zhi thinks there's no problem, it should be fine."

"And the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has indeed reached the time when it should start considering the next generation."

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect possessed formidable strength. The entire sect had more than five thousand people in total.

There were residences of every level.

What Li Xun hadn't expected was that Ning Fengzhi would arrange for him to live directly opposite his own residence.

"Young Master, the hot water is ready."

The speaker was a gentle woman in her forties named Xue Mei.

Two days ago, Ning Fengzhi had sent her to take care of Li Xun's daily needs.

"Good. Aunt Xue, I'll do it myself." Li Xun chased away Aunt Xue, who had wanted to help him wash.

Who could have known that it wouldn't be long before

Aunt Xue suddenly returned.

This startled him, and he hurriedly covered his vital parts with his hands.

Who would have thought that Aunt Xue had merely come to deliver some items before turning around and leaving?

Li Xun had worried for nothing.

Becoming Ning Fengzhi's disciple really does come with great benefits.

Li Xun tilted his head back and soaked comfortably in the hot bath.

After washing himself thoroughly, he went to take the silk clothes on the table.

But on top of the clothes sat a delicate golden-thread bracelet.

Li Xun carefully picked it up and examined it. "Master, this welcoming gift is a little too valuable."

This golden-thread bracelet was a Storage Soul Tool.

There were also a hundred Gold Soul Coins inside.

Soul Tools had yet to become as widespread as they would in later generations.

Whenever a Storage Soul Tool appeared, a crowd would fight over it, and its price could at one point be inflated to tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins.

From this item alone, one could see how much Ning Fengzhi valued him.

It seems that choosing to reveal my Twin Martial Souls was the right decision.

Li Xun looked at the golden-thread bracelet clinging tightly to his wrist and sighed inwardly.

Having a wealthy and influential Master really is wonderful. I don't have to worry about anything myself.

After tidying himself up, Li Xun drank a few small mouthfuls of porridge.

Although Wood Style nourished his body in return, this body had been frail for a long time. It wasn't suitable to eat too much at once, and he still needed to recover gradually.

After eating, Li Xun began studying his current condition.

The Soul Power cultivation method draws strength from the outside world, while Chakra is refined within the body. The two don't conflict.

Entering a meditative state, Li Xun could clearly sense a form of energy drifting between heaven and earth.

When this energy entered his body,

Li Xun slowly opened his eyes. "The two forces are entangled yet remain distinctly separate. What's more, Soul Power seems to be faintly showing signs of overwhelming Chakra."

"This may be the suppression of the world's laws, attempting to merge the two forces into one."

Chakra was unlike the orthodox Daoist internal energy of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, which was balanced and peaceful and could steadily coexist with every kind of power.

It was like an outside species that needed time to settle in.

Li Xun wasn't opposed to this.

If he relied solely on Chakra, then even if he cultivated to the level of Hashirama Senju, he would only have a lifespan of a hundred years.

Once those hundred years passed, no matter how powerful he was, he would be nothing more than a handful of yellow earth.

Now that Soul Power could raise his level of life, this could also be considered a good thing.

"My ability to control Wood Style is still here. It's just that my Chakra is too scarce and unstable, making it impossible to rapidly grow the Seed of Life. I may need this world's power as an aid to unleash the true strength of Wood Style."

The trees controlled by Wood Style's growth ability were not actually summoned.

Instead, they were catalyzed from seeds in the earth, or from Seeds of Life created through the user's bloodline ability and Chakra.

The stronger one's own power, the more Seeds of Life one could create, and the faster they would grow. The reverse was also true.

"It seems my First Spirit Ring should ideally be the kind capable of scattering seeds, like a dandelion."

"That would both reduce the consumption involved in creating Seeds of Life and expand the range of my techniques."

"For my Second Spirit Ring, I'll choose a Spirit Beast with an ability related to Rapid Growth to speed up the trees' growth."

"During battle, I'll spread out the First and Second Spirit Ring skills, then use Wood Style to control them." Li Xun lowered his head and pondered.

His idea was to use the First Spirit Ability for sowing, the Second Spirit Ability to raise the quality of the seeds, and Chakra as fertilizer, allowing the two powers to complement each other.

"Actually, Tang San could develop in this way too. There are many methods for cultivating grass species, and they grow quickly. If spread out, they probably wouldn't be much inferior to a domain."

"The first two Spirit Rings have low age limits, so choosing offensive Spirit Rings wouldn't bring much benefit."

"Tang San and I are both transmigrators, and we already have offensive methods of our own. Before reaching rank thirty, battles shouldn't be too difficult."

Li Xun suddenly thought of the man who had become famous throughout the Douluo Continent for his theories.

Grandmaster, Yu Xiaogang.

After Grandmaster took Tang San as his disciple, he analyzed the situation and said he would add toughness and poison to Tang San's Blue Silver Grass.

In the end, the Spirit Rings Tang San hunted with him were chosen entirely by luck. They were either a ten-year-old bamboo or a snake—and Tang San himself had killed that snake.

Li Xun couldn't help sighing at how changeable Grandmaster's theories were.

If Tang San hadn't had so many opportunities, his Blue Silver Emperor would probably have been ruined.

"Hmm, I remember Tang San seemed to have fallen into a slump during a tournament, only to be fooled into pulling himself together again."

If Li Xun were choosing Tang San's Spirit Rings, the first two would definitely be ones that passively increased his future potential.

At worst, the Second Spirit Ring could be Entanglement.

If Blue Silver Grass were spread across the battlefield and supplemented with some control-type Spirit Rings, it would presumably be stronger than simple Entanglement.

Of course, the Spirit Rings he chose for himself might not necessarily be correct either, but following the principle of overwhelming firepower could never be wrong.

Dispelling his thoughts, Li Xun began cultivating.

He needed to cultivate two kinds of power, making the difficulty far greater than that of Tang San's orthodox Daoist "Mysterious Heaven Skill."

Tang San only needed to circulate his cultivation method to absorb the energy of heaven and earth for his own use.

Li Xun, however, still had to cultivate them separately.

He still didn't feel comfortable asking about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Distraction Control Method. Without putting in hard work now, let alone becoming a god, even catching up to Tang San would be difficult.

Over the next ten-odd days, Li Xun stayed holed up in his residence, recovering his body and cultivating.

With the nourishment of Wood Style and nutritious meals, his body recovered quickly.

His formerly waxen little face gradually regained some color.

A few days earlier, Ning Fengzhi had come to find him, intending to take him and Ning Rongrong to hunt for Spirit Rings.

However, Li Xun had refused.

The age of the Spirit Ring a Soul Master could withstand was closely related to physical condition.

For a Soul Master's first Spirit Ring, because of factors such as age, the upper limit one could withstand was around four hundred years.

Li Xun's body was depleted and was still far from being able to absorb a Spirit Ring at his limit.

Not to mention that he wanted to surpass this restriction.

With Wood Style as his bloodline ability, his healing ability was extremely strong. Li Xun estimated that absorbing a five-hundred-year Spirit Ring shouldn't be a problem.

Even if there were some risk, it likely wouldn't be fatal.

Knock, knock, knock!

Just as Li Xun was cultivating, a crisp knock sounded at the door.