Ning Fengzhi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ning Fengzhi (宁风致)
Alias(es)	Sect Master Ning; Mine Manager Ning 23 62
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; subsequently Umbrella Corporation’s First Rare Metal Smelting Group 22 63 65
Occupation/Role	Former sect master; mine manager and subsidiary factory director under Qin Feng 27 64
Cultivation Rank	Spirit Saint 63
Martial Soul	Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, a support-type tool martial soul 24 27
Family	Ning Rongrong — daughter and intended successor 22 61
Status	Alive; remains among Qin Feng’s assembled personnel during preparations for the Sword of Damocles demonstration 73
First Appearance	Introduced through a calling card requesting a meeting in Chapter 21; appears in person in Chapter 22 21 22

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda — original support ability	24 26	Provides amplification through his martial soul. Its bloodline has a seven-ring physiological limit, which Qin Feng attributes to genetic-chain collapse under excessive energy load.
Technology-assisted lossless amplification	27	Receives an entry-level Universal Frequency Converter after signing Qin Feng’s agreement. Testing it on Gu Rong demonstrates a 40% increase in power amplification without discomfort. This is an equipment-based improvement, not a documented cultivation breakthrough.

Background / History

Wealth and the First Factory Visit

Ning Fengzhi leads the continent’s wealthiest sect and is described as its richest man. His sect maintains its own hidden-weapon workshops and controls seventy percent of the Heaven Dou Empire’s rare-metal mines. Seeking access to Qin Feng’s newly manufactured weapons, he sends a calling card to Umbrella Corporation 21 23 56.

He arrives with Ning Rongrong, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong, but receives no preferential treatment. When Chen Xin’s sword intent triggers an automated turret’s targeting system, Ning Fengzhi steps between them and declares peaceful intentions. Rather than retaliate, he recognizes the machinery’s strategic value and joins the merchants’ queue 22 23.

Inside the factory, he witnesses an automated line produce precision weapon components in 4.8 seconds. He immediately seeks an exclusive partnership. Ning Rongrong’s attempt to sabotage the machinery interrupts negotiations; Ning Fengzhi prevents the two Douluo from attacking, apologizes on her behalf, and secures an end to her electrical punishment 23 24.

The Resource Agreement

Qin Feng challenges the sect’s understanding of its martial soul, presenting a model that links its support to forced resonance, meridian damage, and reduced cultivation potential. Ning Fengzhi initially rejects the accusation, but recognizes that the sect’s history of stalled cultivators may support it. Qin Feng then offers lossless amplification and a possible evolution into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda 25.

After Orochimaru demonstrates genetic optimization on a Nether Wolf, Ning Fengzhi attempts to negotiate with money and treasures. Qin Feng instead demands ownership, mining rights, and control over all the sect’s rare-metal mines within the Heaven Dou Empire. The offered eighth-ring solution promises to bypass the bloodline’s energy bottleneck and increase total soul power by thirty percent relative to cultivators at the same level; Ning Fengzhi is not shown receiving this modification 26.

The possibility of Qin Feng taking the technology to Martial Soul Hall convinces him to sign despite his daughter’s and guardians’ objections. He receives the Universal Frequency Converter as a down payment and is appointed Umbrella’s mine manager 27.

Loyalty and His Daughter’s Training

Ning Fengzhi’s commitment deepens after witnessing Scrap King No. 2’s spatial-jump operation and touring the underground power facility. Qin Feng’s use of a living Thunder Tyrannosaurus as a long-term electricity source overturns his understanding of spirit beasts’ value. He pledges loyalty and is ordered to deliver the first batch of Vibranium ore within three days 29 30.

On a later visit with Chen Xin, he intends to recover Ning Rongrong and discuss business. Instead, he finds her proudly assembling gearboxes and approaching promotion to level-three technician. After a Douluo Terminator’s shield withstands Chen Xin’s thirty-percent-power strike, Ning Fengzhi agrees to pay for one thousand machines and his daughter’s training 61.

The accompanying contract places the sect’s mineral resources under Umbrella’s control for decades at an extremely low price. Qin Feng also conditions Ning Rongrong’s return on her ability to independently design and assemble a Douluo Terminator gearbox 62.

Restructuring the Sect

Back at the sect, Ning Fengzhi calls the arrangement an investment and announces integration into Umbrella Corporation. He orders all disciples to undergo three months of industrial-skills training, threatening expulsion and loss of soul power for refusal. The Second Elder responds by attempting to remove him and place him and Chen Xin under house arrest 63.

Qin Feng intervenes through drones, surveillance, and a space-based warning shot that vaporizes a sculpture. Ning Fengzhi apologizes for inadequate management and promises to complete the restructuring. With the opposition silenced, he takes charge of the renamed industrial subsidiary 64.

The former sect becomes the Umbrella Corporation · First Rare Metal Smelting Group · Seven Treasure Mountain Branch Mine. Wearing work clothes and a hard hat, Ning Fengzhi leads disciples to Mine Pit Number One to learn blasting operations, while Gu Rong supervises refining and purification 65.

Appearance

• Initial appearance: A middle-aged man with a scholarly face and gentle bearing; maintains an elegant, composed posture even while waiting outside the factory 22 23.
• Sect-master attire: Wears valuable robes and travels in lavish, pagoda-emblazoned carriages 22 61 65.
• Industrial attire: Replaces his sect-master robes with durable canvas workwear and a yellow hard hat; carries a loudhailer while directing miners 65.

Personality

Ning Fengzhi is courteous, commercially experienced, and capable of restraining stronger companions. He repeatedly stops Chen Xin and Gu Rong from escalating confrontations once he understands the danger. His outward composure allows him to keep negotiating even after public humiliation and his daughter’s punishment 22 23 24 26.

His adaptability coexists with pride in his sect’s inheritance. He reacts angrily when Qin Feng calls its support ability harmful, but becomes willing to reconsider when the explanation matches familiar cultivation bottlenecks. He ultimately sacrifices the sect’s economic independence for survival and the prospect of overcoming its bloodline limit 25 26 27.

He is openly doting toward Ning Rongrong, yet does not let her objections dictate his decisions. During the sect’s restructuring, this firmness becomes coercive: he demands unconditional retraining and refuses to reverse course when the elders revolt 22 27 63.

Abilities & Skills

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda

A support-type tool martial soul used to amplify other soul masters 22 27.

• First Soul Skill — Power Amplification: Demonstrated on Gu Rong during the converter test 27.
• Support applications: The sect’s martial soul can amplify strength and speed 22.
• Bloodline limit: Normally cannot accommodate more than seven soul rings 26.
• Resonance drawback: Qin Feng’s model attributes repeated uncorrected support to soul-power instability, meridian micro-tears, and diminished breakthrough potential 25.

Negotiation and Industrial Management

• Recognizes the military and commercial implications of automated mass production and seeks exclusive access to Qin Feng’s factory 23.
• Uses a lifetime of business-negotiation experience to attempt to regain leverage after the genetic-optimization demonstration 26.
• Directs the former sect’s workforce, assigns mining and refining teams, and enforces industrial retraining 63 65.

Equipment / Items

• Universal Frequency Converter: Palm-sized silver disc attached to the support recipient. Automatically scans their soul-power frequency and adjusts Ning Fengzhi’s support for lossless amplification 27.
• Internal communicator: Supplied by Qin Feng; receives communications from Umbrella’s personnel 29 30.
• Jade walnuts: Rolls two smooth jade walnuts in his hand during his anxious return journey to Nuoding City 61.
• Mining gear: Yellow hard hat, canvas workwear, and a loudhailer used after the sect’s industrial conversion 65.

Relationships

• Ning Rongrong — Daughter and successor. He protects her during the first factory confrontation and later recognizes her growing pride in technical work, although he fails to secure her immediate return 24 61 62.
• Qin Feng — Prospective business partner turned superior. Ning Fengzhi signs away mineral control, pledges personal loyalty, and becomes responsible for Umbrella’s subsidiary workforce 27 29 64.
• Chen Xin / Sword Douluo — Guardian and trusted companion, addressed as “Uncle Jian.” Remains loyal during the elders’ attempted coup and supports the transition to mining work 61 63 65.
• Gu Rong / Bone Douluo — Guardian addressed as “Uncle Gu Rong.” Participates in the converter test and later becomes deputy factory director overseeing refining 27 65.
• Second Elder — Internal opponent who attempts to depose him over the Umbrella agreement. Qin Feng’s intervention ends the challenge 63 64.
• Orochimaru — Qin Feng’s researcher. His genetic-optimization demonstration helps persuade Ning Fengzhi to accept the technological bargain; he later expresses interest in studying Ning Fengzhi’s bloodline 26 62.

Notable Quotes

“Boss Qin, name your price. The entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect wants to be your only client. No, the only... partner.” 23

“From this day forward, I, Ning Fengzhi, am your most loyal mine manager! Wherever you point, I shall dig!” 29

“From today onward, forget that you're soul masters! Forget the glory of the auxiliary system! Here, you have only one identity—miners!” 65