Ring Condensation, Three Ring Soul Grandmaster

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo did not disturb Ning Rongrong as she sank into thought.

The group silently returned to the hotel.

"Rongrong, if you can't figure it out, set it aside for now. Perhaps you'll have an idea in a couple of days," Ning Fengzhi asked tentatively.

"Dad, I'm not obsessing over it," Ning Rongrong said. "I've thought of a solution to the Soul Ring problem. I was just wondering where the Soul Power of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts goes after they take human form."

Observing Xiao Wu's Ring Condensation process had given Ning Rongrong considerable inspiration. She was fully confident she could condense Soul Rings that resonated with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and stabilize them.

"Since we're already in Notting City, it's fine to relax once in a while. Even playing around for a month wouldn't matter. Cultivation needs a balance between work and rest; that's the only way to progress quickly."

Sometimes, Ning Fengzhi felt that it would have been fine for his girl to cultivate using the spirit master system. There was no need for her to be so hard on herself and create an entirely new cultivation method.

"That would take too long. A month is enough time to do many things."

Ning Rongrong sat cross-legged in an open area, clasped her hands together, and began condensing her first Soul Ring.

As True Qi circulated, a hazy aura spread around her body. The faintly gleaming Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda emerged in outline, its illusory form gradually becoming real.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda slowly rotated, floating around Ning Rongrong.

The aura Ning Rongrong emitted during cultivation carried an oppressive force no weaker than that of a Soul Elder.

With a wave of his hand, Sword Douluo set up a Soul Power barrier around the room to prevent the aura from spreading outside. Then, he and Sect Master Ning Fengzhi retreated to one side and quietly watched Ning Rongrong sitting cross-legged.

The True Qi drifting around her body caused Ning Rongrong's waist-length hair to flutter gently.

The first level of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was covered in white radiance, which gradually compressed into a ring and became a white Ten Year Soul Ring.

Time passed second by second.

The snowy white ring slowly became speckled with faint yellow spots. The spots rapidly spread into the surrounding areas, and before long, the Ten Year Soul Ring had become a Hundred Year Spirit Ring.

Next, Ning Rongrong began condensing her second Soul Ring. It formed much faster than the first.

In the time it took to blink, two yellow Hundred Year Spirit Rings floated quietly around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Both rings carried a faint purple sheen.

Clearly, they were extremely close to the thousand-year threshold.

"S-Success?" When they saw that the Soul Rings had not shattered as they had before, shocked expressions appeared on Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo's faces.

Their widened eyes and slightly trembling bodies both revealed their excitement.

A new cultivation method—this was absolutely a new cultivation method.

The two Hundred Year Spirit Rings, which had initially carried a trace of purple, began to tremble slightly. Purple light slowly crept across the rings, devouring their original color and turning the entire rings purple.

A moment later, the purple receded.

The purple Thousand Year Soul Rings reverted to Hundred Year Spirit Rings once more.

"What's going on?" Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo looked at each other.

Could there be another problem?

Before coming to Notting City, Ning Rongrong had already been able to turn her first Soul Ring purple.

Why had the Soul Rings reverted to Hundred Year Spirit Rings after turning purple this time?

As leading figures of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, they could tell that Ning Rongrong's first and second Soul Rings were at least nine hundred years old, perhaps even extremely close to a thousand years. Otherwise, they would not have shown that faint purple glimmer.

Just as the two were at a loss, a third Soul Ring emerged around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda under Ning Rongrong's control. This ring slowly condensed, and compared to the earlier ones, its formation speed was even faster.

In half a minute, the third Soul Ring had fully condensed. It was not a purple Thousand Year Soul Ring either, but a Hundred Year Spirit Ring much like the first two, bearing a faint purple sheen.

"Phew—" Ning Rongrong parted her lips slightly and exhaled a breath of stale air.

"Three 999-year Soul Rings."

The hazy aura drifting around her body slowly withdrew into her. Ning Rongrong extended her palm, and the floating Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda slowly descended into it as though obeying her command.

The three Soul Rings on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda were yellow, yellow, yellow.

Looking at the Soul Rings on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, Ning Rongrong's lashes flickered as she fell into thought.

A Thousand Year Soul Ring needed a more stable structure. This would do for now!

"Rongrong, your current condition..." Ning Fengzhi's voice reached her, his expression hesitant.

"It's not a big problem. Condensing Thousand Year Soul Rings just takes a little time."

As she spoke, the three Hundred Year Spirit Rings on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul in her palm turned white in the blink of an eye, then became transparent and vanished. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda also dissolved into specks of light and entered her body.

"You can still freely alter the age of your Soul Rings?" Knowing that Ning Rongrong was fine, Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo finally relaxed. However, compared to Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo was more curious about the colors of the Soul Rings.

The last time he cultivated the Longevity Technique Rongrong had mentioned, the violent conflict between True Qi and Soul Power inside his body had caused his Soul Power to flow backward. It took more than a month for him to recover, but it had not been without benefits.

The colors of his Soul Rings had changed from yellow, yellow, purple, purple, purple, black, black, black, black to the ideal ring configuration: two yellow, two purple, and five black.

When Sword Saint Chen Xin had been young and inexperienced, he had suffered one regret. When absorbing his Fifth Soul Ring, he had accidentally misjudged the age of the Soul Beast and absorbed the Soul Ring of a 9,900-year Soul Beast.

After the reversal of his Soul Power, that nearly Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring had directly become a genuine Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.

The change in his Fifth Soul Ring had barely affected the strength of the Level 96 Sword Douluo.

But it looked good!

Now Gu Rong could no longer nag him over his miscalculation when absorbing that Soul Ring.

"Changing a Soul Ring's age is very difficult." Ning Rongrong pondered for a moment before answering Sword Douluo according to her own understanding. "The strength of a Soul Ring is tied to the Soul Beast's own strength. Once a Soul Ring forms, it is basically a fixed value."

"I can change mine because I do not borrow the power of Soul Beasts in the first place." Ning Rongrong saw what Sword Douluo was thinking. "As for why Sword Grandfather's Fifth Soul Ring changed from a thousand years to ten thousand years, I truly don't know."

"I see..." Sword Douluo was not particularly disappointed. They were cultivation methods of two entirely different kinds. If the principles behind changes to Soul Rings could be understood so easily, then one would not be a spirit master—one would probably be a god.

"Speaking of which, Rongrong, what is your current strength?"

"Somewhere between Level 30 and 40, I suppose. I can't determine it precisely." Seeing their questioning gazes, Ning Rongrong answered after some thought.

Soul Rings were of no use at all to her. She did not need to absorb them, and changing their ages was only meant to help her make better use of the True Qi within her body.

Perhaps it was a limitation of her Martial Soul, but even now, Ning Rongrong had no way to fight like a Battle Soul Master.

She could only stand in the back with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and cheer on the Battle Soul Masters in front.

If she wanted to change the frail, easily-overpowered nature of a Support Spirit Master, she could only wait until she opened the Governing and Conception Vessels, allowing the True Qi in her body to circulate completely and reach the Innate Grandmaster Realm. Only then would she know whether there was a solution.