Ning Rongrong: My Throat's a Little Small...

The moment Ning Rongrong finally slipped the bracelet onto her wrist, a trace of suspicion flashed across her face. She stared blankly down at her wrist, as though she had sensed some indescribable peculiarity.

It felt as if the bracelet fit her perfectly.

Meanwhile, Jiang Yunzhou once again became petrified, falling into a daze.

Zhu Zhuqing was already used to it. Unfazed, she quietly stood guard at the side.

Just as Ning Rongrong was about to voice her doubts, Zhu Zhuqing softly stopped her. "Don't disturb Teacher. It's one of his old habits. He'll be fine in a moment."

She obediently nodded, though she felt it was such a pity. What a perfect opportunity, like time had stopped. If only I could do something else... Sigh, what a waste.

Jiang Yunzhou's consciousness had already sunk into his mind, and the system notification sounded right on cue:

Ding! Congratulations, Host, on successfully accepting your second disciple: Ning Rongrong!

Personal disciple Ning Rongrong has successfully been bound to the Host's second Soul Ring Slot!

The Host's second Soul Ring Age Limit has dynamically updated to: 2,000 years

Ning Rongrong's information panel has been opened:

Name: Ning Rongrong

Qualification Rating: S-rank

Martial Soul: Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda

Current Soul Power: Level 26

Soul Ring Configuration: Yellow, Yellow

Ning Rongrong has been fully analyzed by the system! Exclusive Growth Gift Pack granted:

Martial Soul Advancement Pill ×1: Can optimize the origin of a Martial Soul, greatly increase its potential, and guide the Martial Soul toward beneficial evolution at a higher level.

Nine Revolutions Exquisite Path ×1: Founded upon the supreme principle that "support is the Great Dao," it contains the profound principles of precise energy manipulation and law amplification.

Recommended supplementary cultivation technique:

"Scroll of Supreme Induction": Maximally enhances one's state of mind, greatly strengthening the resilience, purity, and capacity of Spiritual Power. Effectively resists external disturbances and invasions of inner demons, maintaining absolute calm and stability while casting. It offers immense benefits to "Exquisite Heart Aperture" and "Spiritual Connection," multiplying their effects.

Compatibility Assessment: Perfect match! This disciple possesses tremendous potential. This cultivation technique combination completely resolves her early lack of self-preservation and the relatively limited forms of her late-stage amplification, granting her diverse, strategic, top-tier support methods such as formation construction, spiritual links, and energy manipulation. It will ultimately guide her Martial Soul to evolve into an integrated offensive, defensive, and supportive bonded artifact—the Nine Treasures Exquisite Pagoda!

Summary of the Nine Revolutions Exquisite Path's core ultimate arts:

Ultimate Form: Nine Treasures Exquisite Pagoda — Refines the Martial Soul itself into a bonded artifact. The pagoda possesses innate amplification Dao patterns, with each level corresponding to an ultimate amplification effect: attack, defense, speed, soul, protection, agility, strength, spirit, and life. It can also combine to form the "Nine Treasures Exquisite Great Formation," integrating group amplification, absolute defense, enemy entrapment, and counterattacks.

Exquisite Heart Aperture: A supreme method of spiritual tempering and mental calculation. It allows thought speed, multitasking ability, and precision energy control to reach inhuman heights. It can simultaneously and precisely guide multiple amplification effects onto different targets while making real-time millisecond-level adjustments.

Spiritual Connection: A deep spiritual linking technique. It can establish mental connections with teammates, instantly transmitting complex information without words, sharing battlefield awareness, and precisely applying amplification effects. It can even guide teammates' energies into cooperation, unleashing fused attacks or constructing joint defenses.

Glazed Wall: A technique that shifts between offense and defense. It can use pure Soul Power to instantly form an all-around energy shield, or condense a tangible glazed crystal wall for absolute defense. The crystal wall is incomparably sturdy and may carry a damage-reflection effect.

Good lord, the system really is generous with its disciples. More incredible stuff again.

Jiang Yunzhou secretly felt envious. Another day of being a tool.

Then he thought again. He could cultivate these heaven-defying techniques too, and his mood immediately brightened.

The system had promised to leave some benefits for him. Well, the pie might be huge, but it sure smelled good!

He composed himself and refocused his gaze, only to find two pretty faces before him, each with a different style yet equally pleasing to the eye.

It had to be said that, setting aside her tsundere personality, Ning Rongrong's looks were indeed flawless. Pure and adorable, she was quite easy on the eyes.

Hmm, she was the type who looked like a goddess when quiet and a lunatic when active.

It was fine. A wild temperament could be slowly disciplined.

Jiang Yunzhou nodded to himself.

"Teacher! You're alive again?"

Ning Rongrong eagerly rushed forward, her eyes sparkling. "Hurry, tell me! Are you going to start guiding me?"

Jiang Yunzhou's mouth twitched. Guiding her? How was he supposed to guide her?

What exactly was this girl thinking about all day?

He put on a stern face to maintain his dignity as her teacher. "Mm. Since you have entered my school, I have naturally prepared a grand gift for you."

He turned to Zhu Zhuqing and instructed, "Zhuqing, go close the courtyard gate. Your teacher is going to properly 'guide' your junior sister! This kind of secret cannot be casually exposed."

After confirming that no one was spying nearby, Jiang Yunzhou solemnly took out a pill the size of a ping-pong ball.

The moment Zhu Zhuqing saw the pill, she knew that this new junior sister's fortune would be no less than her own.

Ning Rongrong was still letting her imagination run wild. A grand gift? What kind of grand gift? Can it be converted into a wedding instead?

Her thoughts were quickly completely drawn to the pill.

"Eh? Teacher, what are you holding? Why... why does it feel like there's a voice inside my body screaming for me to hurry up and eat it?"

Her eyes shone as she stared fixedly at the pill, instinctively swallowing.

Jiang Yunzhou held the pill out before her. "Since you can sense it, then eat it."

"Ah? I really have to eat it? It's... it's such a huge pill. My throat's a little small..." Ning Rongrong hesitated.

"Of course you can eat it."

Jiang Yunzhou's tone was calm, but he dropped a bombshell. "This pill can help your Martial Soul undergo an essential advancement and sublimation. Are you sure you don't want to eat it?"

"Martial Soul advancement?"

Ning Rongrong's beautiful eyes instantly widened, and she almost suspected that she had heard wrong.

It sounded downright absurd—more like the pitch of some swindler!

Seeing this, Zhu Zhuqing vigorously nodded over and over, proving through her actions that her teacher's words were true.

Feeling the unprecedented craving coming from her Martial Soul and seeing Zhu Zhuqing's affirmation, Ning Rongrong hardened her heart. I'll gamble on it! Even if it's poison, so be it!

She took the pill and stuffed it into her mouth as though facing death without fear.

She had expected such a large pill to choke her badly, but the instant it entered her mouth, it transformed into a surging torrent of energy. There was no need to swallow; it rushed directly toward where her Martial Soul resided!

The powerful energy instantly enveloped her seven-level pagoda. Ning Rongrong only felt her Martial Soul undergoing an earth-shaking transformation, with crisp crackling sounds ringing out from within.

Before she could even react, the pagoda's body actually grew two more levels out of thin air!

The originally brilliant blue pagoda body transformed into a noble, mysterious, deep purple!

Moreover, just like Zhu Zhuqing's experience, an enormous surplus of energy remained after transforming her Martial Soul. It directly pushed her Soul Power Level up two consecutive levels, leaping from Level 26 to Level 28!

This sudden transformation completely stunned Ning Rongrong, before indescribable ecstasy flooded over her!

The instant the advancement was complete, she was so excited that she could barely contain herself. With a scream, she leaped up like an octopus and clung tightly to Jiang Yunzhou, babbling incoherently:

"Hubby... uh, no! Teacher! Teacher! My Martial Soul! It really advanced!!!"