"Ning Tian, you... where are your Soul Rings???"
Those two yellow, gleaming, round little rings that everyone carried around with them?
Looking at his precious daughter running excitedly toward him, Ning Yi's mind was full of question marks.
"What damn Soul Rings? Dad, I'm not going to be an auxiliary Soul Master anymore!"
Ning Tian rushed over in delight and threw herself into Ning Yi's arms, making his body jolt as the Soul Power around him automatically activated to protect him.
"Oh, my darling daughter, why have you gotten so heavy? What have you been eating?"
Catching the bouncing Ning Tian, Ning Yi calmed the stirred Soul Power within himself, inwardly quite surprised.
"I'm not fat from eating!"
"Then tell Dad, what do you mean by not becoming an auxiliary Soul Master?"
Pulling Ning Tian out of his arms as she acted cute, Ning Yi placed both hands on her shoulders and crouched down to look at her.
Though he was deeply suspicious, he still wanted to hear the details from his obviously cheerful daughter. As the ruler of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, whose wealth rivaled that of nations, remaining calm before Mount Tai collapsed and unflustered when the Yellow River burst its banks was a basic quality.
Compared to that barbarian Dean who made a huge fuss just because one of his beloved disciple's Soul Rings changed color, Ning Yi remained calm even after his daughter's Soul Rings had vanished. He truly deserved to be the ruler of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect.
"You have to promise first that you won't tell anyone."
Although her Teacher had never said it absolutely had to be kept secret, Ning Tian, as her little follower, knew that her Teacher hated trouble. If it could be kept secret, then it was better to keep it secret.
Wasn't the first person to undergo Melting Ring someone who had basically never displayed it in public unless necessary?
Wealth should not be flaunted. As the little princess of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, Ning Tian understood that principle very well.
"Alright, Dad promises you. I'll keep it secret."
Only after bringing Ning Tian into his room did Ning Yi let her explain what had happened.
"This is one of my teacher's research results! It can absorb Soul Rings and strengthen the physical body."
As she spoke, Ning Tian rolled up her sleeves and revealed her slender jade-like hands.
"Look, like this!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Ning Tian pounded her little fists against her father's beloved, somewhat aged tea table, making it ring loudly.
"Oh, my darling daughter, stop testing it, stop!" Ning Yi hurriedly grabbed Ning Tian, discovering that her tiny body possessed strength utterly disproportionate to her age and size.
"Haha, relax. I was just teasing you. I held back."
Ning Tian seemed to have become increasingly lively and cheerful after becoming Chen Fu's disciple. After all, she was currently that person's only disciple, so she was naturally looked after to some extent.
"Hmm..."
Ning Yi instantly understood the significance of Chen Fu's research result. Although Ning Tian had only revealed the tip of the iceberg, from a merchant's strategic perspective, he found that this technique seemed to have considerable potential.
Ning Yi then asked Ning Tian for more information and details. When he learned that after Melting Ring, the Soul Rings could serve as "Soul Power singularities," continuously siphoning heaven and earth Soul Power to temper the body, his first thought was disbelief!
But he immediately realized that his daughter was standing right in front of him. Even if it could not yet achieve the theoretical effect, it still had an impact that could not be ignored!
If it truly could achieve Chen Fu's theoretical results, then enhanced battle Soul Masters without Soul Skills would not be much nobler than auxiliary Soul Masters without Soul Skills but equally powerful physiques.
Moreover, Martial Souls were innate, but not every member of the Ning family was willing to spend an entire lifetime as an auxiliary Soul Master hiding behind others, relying on wisdom to navigate between different factions and coordinate the relationship between the sect and its Venerables.
Why did every generation of Nine Treasures Glazed Sect Masters need to play the foolhardy rich young master in their youth, throwing money around to befriend geniuses? Because that was the nature of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect: it needed to divide benefits to maintain its inheritance.
"And Dad, I can fight too!"
After Melting Ring, Ning Tian had sought advice from Golden Scale. The Golden Dragon Martial Soul inheritor's intuition for the use of force had once even drawn considerable admiration from Teacher.
In Teacher's words, normal people needed to master techniques and calculate before reaching a result, while abnormal people simply used terrifying intuition to guess—and guessed right every single time. In Chen Fu's previous life, he had encountered a physicist surnamed Ding who possessed an unimaginably terrifying talent in the field of quantum physics.
"Hmm... then let's try it?"
Though his heart was full of disbelief, Ning Yi saw his daughter's confidence and felt some anticipation himself, so he agreed and went outside to make preparations.
Very soon, Ning Yi led a little boy into the courtyard.
"Do you remember him? Your cousin."
"I remember! He bullied me when we were little!"
Ning Tian immediately remembered that this Little Fatty was her eldest uncle's son. However, because his Martial Soul was not the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda but a Forest White Bear, he had taken his mother's surname.
The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect had many direct descendants of the Ning family like this who did not carry the Ning surname. This was the true foundation that allowed the sect to grow larger and stronger. The notion that the Ning surname equaled the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda helped the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect quietly develop and strengthen its own forces.
Since they were first cousins, Little Fatty Ling Yun was not afraid of Ning Tian, the sect's little princess. He would not yield any food worth fighting for, and even if Wu Feng came, she would not dare casually interfere in the squabbles between siblings.
"Ling Yun, Ning Tian recently happened to consume a spirit herb, greatly increasing her physique. She wants you to help test her limits."
Ling Yun was more than a year older than Ning Tian. Compared to Ning Tian, a two-ring Soul Grandmaster, he was already a three-ring Soul Elder.
"Sure, no problem." Although curious, Ling Yun readily agreed. He happened to be home anyway, and he had nothing better to do.
"Come on!"
Martial Soul Possession!
Roar!
Ling Yun took his stance in the center of the courtyard. The bloodline power of the Forest White Bear flowed through his body, and with Soul Power, his body began partially transforming into that of a bear.
He had bullied her all the time when they were kids because he had not known better. Today, he would let her get her revenge! Ling Yun thought that he would let Ning Tian hit him for a while. She was only an auxiliary Soul Master; even with a spirit herb, it could not possibly be too outrageous.
"Seven Treasures Glazed Light!"
Ning Tian chanted the Soul Incantation unique to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and a glazed treasure pagoda with seven layers and seven colors appeared in her hand.
But the way she held it...
"Ning Tian, does anyone hold a pagoda like that?"
We all lightly supported the seven-colored glazed pagoda radiating brilliant glazed light in one hand, elegant and graceful... so why did it change when it came to you?
"It's fine, it's fine!"
Ning Tian waved the pagoda in her hand, telling him not to mind such details. And honestly, as the layers of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda gradually narrowed, gripping the spire at the top actually felt rather good.
No wonder Golden Scale had sternly told her before that the sharply edged pagoda hammer was very suitable as a weapon.
"Second Uncle, she..."
Ling Yun's little face was full of confusion.
"It's fine, it's fine, continue..." Ning Yi felt that his common sense had suffered a heavy blow, leaving him somewhat exhausted.
"Haha, Little Fatty, take my hammer!"
Ning Tian swung the pagoda hammer at Ling Yun. The edges of the pagoda stabbed painfully into the arm he raised to defend himself!
"Why are you so strong?!"
After blocking several of Ning Tian's wide hammer swings, Ling Yun immediately realized something was wrong. This girl's strength was not weaker than his at all!
What the hell was this? Was that spirit herb not a little too ridiculous?
Roar!
The Soul Power around Ling Yun surged in an instant, and the two Soul Rings behind him lit up. As his body rapidly expanded, he slapped toward Ning Tian.
Bang!
Ning Tian's strength suddenly rose another level as well. The pagoda hammer wrapped in Soul Power swung against Ling Yun's bear paw, producing the sound of clashing metal and stone.
They seemed evenly matched, but her pagoda had spikes!
After exchanging several more rounds, Ling Yun only felt his palms go numb with pain.
Ning Tian's strength and physique were no weaker than his, while his beastified body was less agile than hers. As a result, every one of his attacks struck the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
Why was the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda so hard?
Every time he struck the pagoda body covered in "flying eaves and winged corners," Ling Yun pondered that question as pain surged through him.
Perhaps the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, as a Weapon Martial Soul, was first and foremost a pagoda-shaped Weapon Martial Soul, and only then an auxiliary one?
"Who told you to space out!"
Just as Ling Yun was wondering whether Ning Tian had truly been born into the Ning family, she seized the moment of his distraction and suddenly lunged forward. In a more agile stance, she dragged the pagoda hammer diagonally, slipping through the gap between the arm and waist of his bulky bearified body, then spun around and launched an upward, full-moon sweeping hammer slash.
"Seven Treasures Glazed Light, First: Slanting Moon Slash!"
Ning Yi: ???
Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda: ???
"Ah! My butt!"
Ling Yun staggered from the immense force and fell to the ground. As he turned his head, he caught sight of Ning Tian leaping high into the air.
"Seven Treasures Glazed Light, Second: Rod Strike from Above!"
Ha!
Ning Tian let out a low roar filled with all her essence, energy, and spirit.
Bang!
Ling Yun only had time to activate the enhancement skill of his third Soul Ring. Then everything went black before his eyes, and he remembered nothing more.
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