Disciple Ning Rongrong

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

It felt as if the bracelet fit her perfectly.

Meanwhile, Lin Feng once again froze as though petrified, falling into a dazed state.

Zhu Zhuqing had seen this before and was no longer surprised. She simply stood quietly 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 chance, like time has stopped. It would've been great to do something else... Sigh, what a waste.

Lin Feng's consciousness had already sunk into his mind, and the system prompt sounded right on schedule:

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully accepting his second disciple: Ning Rongrong!]

[Direct Disciple Ning Rongrong has successfully been linked to the host's second Soul Ring slot!]

[The host's second Soul Ring age 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 thoroughly analyzed by the system! Exclusive Growth Gift Pack awarded:]

Martial Soul Advancement Pill 1: Optimizes the Martial Soul's origin to the greatest extent, greatly increasing its potential and guiding the Martial Soul toward beneficial evolution at a higher level.

Nine Revolutions Exquisite Dao 1: Built upon the supreme foundation that "support is the Great Dao," it contains the profound principles of precise energy control and law amplification.

[Recommended Subsidiary Cultivation Method:]

Supreme Induction Chapter: Greatly improves one's mental state cultivation, substantially enhancing Mental Power's resilience, purity, and capacity. It effectively resists external interference and mental demons, allowing the user to remain absolutely calm and stable while casting. It provides immense benefits to "Exquisite Heart Aperture" and "Spiritual Connection," doubling their effects.

[Compatibility Assessment: Perfect match! This disciple possesses enormous potential. This cultivation method combination completely resolves her early-stage lack of self-defense and her relatively limited amplification options in the later stages. It grants her diverse, strategic top-tier support methods such as formation construction, Mental Link, and energy control, ultimately guiding her Martial Soul to evolve into an integrated offensive, defensive, and support-type natal magical artifact—the Nine Treasures Exquisite Pagoda!]

[Summary of Nine Revolutions Exquisite Dao's core Ultimate Skills:]

Ultimate Form: Nine Treasures Exquisite Pagoda—Refines the Martial Soul itself into a natal magical 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. These may also be combined to form the "Nine Treasures Exquisite Formation," integrating group amplification, absolute defense, enemy entrapment, and counterattacks.

Exquisite Heart Aperture: A top-tier mental tempering and thought-calculation technique. It elevates thought speed, multi-threaded processing ability, and the precision of fine energy control to inhuman levels. It allows the user to precisely guide multiple amplification effects toward different targets at once and make millisecond-level adjustments in real time.

Spiritual Connection: A deep Mental Link technique. It can establish mental connections with teammates, instantly transmitting complex information without words, sharing battlefield perception, accurately deploying amplification effects, and even guiding teammates' energy to coordinate in launching combined attacks or constructing joint defenses.

Glazed Wall: A technique for converting between attack and defense. It can use refined 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 can carry Counterattack Damage effects.

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Good lord, the system really is generous to its own disciples. It keeps handing out incredible treasures.

Lin Feng secretly felt envious. Another day of being a tool.

Then he thought of how he could cultivate these heaven-defying techniques as well, and his mood immediately brightened again.

The system had promised to leave him some benefits, after all. Well, the promise might be huge, but it sure smelled sweet!

He collected himself and refocused his gaze, only to see two pretty faces of entirely different styles, yet equally pleasing to the eye.

It had to be said that aside from her spoiled and prideful personality, Ning Rongrong's appearance was indeed flawless. Pure, adorable, and exceptionally pleasing to look at.

She was the type who looked like a Goddess when quiet and a lunatic when active.

No matter. A wild temperament could be slowly trained.

Lin Feng nodded to himself.

"Teacher! You're alive again?"

Ning Rongrong hurriedly leaned closer, her eyes sparkling. "Quick, tell me! Are you going to start guiding me?"

Lin Feng's mouth twitched. Guiding her? How exactly was he supposed to guide her?

What was this girl thinking about all day?

He put on a stern expression and maintained his dignity as a master. "Since you have joined my sect, Your Master has naturally prepared a grand gift for you."

He turned to Zhu Zhuqing and instructed, "Zhu Qing, go close the courtyard gate. Your Master is going to properly 'guide' your Junior Sister! Such a secret cannot be exposed so easily."

Only after confirming that no one was watching nearby did Lin Feng carefully take out a pill the size of a ping-pong ball.

The moment Zhu Zhuqing saw it, 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 drawn entirely to the pill.

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

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

Lin Feng 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 so big. My throat's a little small..." Ning Rongrong hesitated.

"Of course you can eat it."

Lin Feng's tone was calm, but he dropped a bombshell. "This pill can help your Martial Soul undergo an essential advancement and transformation. Are you sure you won't eat it?"

"Martial Soul Advancement?"

Ning Rongrong's beautiful eyes instantly widened until they were round, and she nearly suspected she had misheard him.

It sounded like pure fantasy—more like something a con artist would say!

Seeing this, Zhu Zhuqing nodded repeatedly and forcefully, proving with her actions that Teacher's words were true.

Feeling the unprecedented yearning from her Martial Soul and seeing Zhu Zhuqing's confirmation, Ning Rongrong steeled herself. I'll gamble on it! Even if it's poison, so be it!

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

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

Boom!

The powerful energy instantly enveloped her seven-story pagoda. Ning Rongrong only felt as though her Martial Soul were undergoing a world-shaking transformation, with crisp crackling sounds erupting from within.

Before she could even react, the pagoda suddenly grew two levels taller out of thin air!

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

Nor was that all. Just like Zhu Zhuqing's experience, after transforming her Martial Soul, the vast energy still had a great deal left over. It directly pushed her Soul Power Level up two levels in a row, from Level 26 to Level 28!

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

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

"Husband... ah, no! Teacher! Teacher! My Martial Soul! It really advanced!!!"