Ten Thousand-Year Seven Treasures

"Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, unusual Second Soul Skill, record it."

After seeing Ning Tian's unusual Second Soul Skill, Chen Yuan noted it down in his notebook as well.

The normal Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's Soul Skills were strength, speed, soul power, defense, attack, enhancement, followed by the Martial Soul Avatar.

In the original work, Ning Tian's unusual solution had only appeared briefly early on, then turned back into speed during Sea God Fate later on.

Was that a retcon?

Chen Yuan was very interested in Ning Tian's Second Soul Skill, which could remove negative conditions.

The three girls left the center of the field. They still had a match to play that morning, so naturally they would not simply head back.

Then Wu Feng spotted Chen Yuan writing something down in a corner. At once, the meekness she showed around Ning Tian vanished, replaced by wariness.

The kind of wariness one had toward someone who might steal away something important.

"Why are you here?!"

"Huh? Me?" Hearing Wu Feng's startled cry, Chen Yuan looked over with confusion in his eyes. "I have something to do, and the academy allowed me to come."

"Feng Mei, that is no way to treat our benefactor."

"How is he a benefactor?" Wu Feng muttered quietly. In her eyes, even without Chen Yuan, the guards hidden in the shadows would never have allowed anything to happen to them.

Still, Wu Feng would not openly contradict Ning Tian. She knew the sect's attitude toward Chen Yuan, and she did not want to see a disappointed expression on Ning Tian's face.

No matter how unwilling Wu Feng was to admit it, Chen Yuan surpassed her by far in both talent and strength.

If Chen Yuan had been born into the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, the one standing beside Ning Tian now probably would not have been Wu Feng.

Ning Tian did not pay attention to Wu Feng's feelings. This was not the right occasion; if necessary, she could comfort her after they returned to the dormitory.

"Senior Chen Yuan, have you used the Whale Rubber I gave you the day before yesterday? How did it feel?"

"Oh, that Whale Rubber..." Chen Yuan scratched his head. Talking about Whale Rubber with a girl in public felt strange no matter how he looked at it.

"I haven't had the time to use what you gave me yet."

"Whale Rubber is still medicine, after all. Senior, do not take too much at once. If you need any cultivation resources, just come to me."

"Our Nine Treasures Glazed Sect can definitely find them for you. As for the price, as long as it is not something like a Soul Bone, everything is half price."

Chen Yuan: How rich is the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, exactly? If this keeps up, I will fall for her way too easily.

Ning Tian's manner made it seem as though she did not care about Gold Soul Coins at all. She truly deserved to be called Douluo Continent's number one little rich girl.

The princesses of the Three Great Empires were rich too, right? But the throne and most of the wealth had little to do with them.

Ning Tian was different. The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect was ultimately a family power, and barring any surprises, she would become the next sect master. Her words carried considerable weight.

Wu Feng's mind was a little overloaded beside them. Since when had Ning Tian given Chen Yuan Whale Rubber? Had they met in private? Had someone stolen her place?

"May I ask what Senior has come to the Assessment Zone to do?"

"Nothing much. I accepted a task to help the teachers record some information on this year's new students. Of course, only things that can be observed."

Everything Chen Yuan recorded was something he had observed himself. If he encountered someone who had appeared in the original work, he used the details mentioned there in combination with reality to make notes.

There was no way that, after transmigrating, he would still follow the original work completely.

If he did that, Chen Yuan would never have intercepted the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and Electrolux ahead of time.

"Then... did Senior record the Second Soul Skill I used just now?"

"If that offended you, I can tear it up right now."

"No, no. Why not tell me your analysis, Senior? If anything is wrong, I can add to it."

"Wouldn't that reveal your Soul Skill?"

In a world where everyone had little creativity, every Soul Skill was the foundation of a Soul Master's livelihood, something that could not be shared with anyone untrusted.

After asking that, Chen Yuan felt as if his intelligence had dropped. The Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's Soul Skills had already been thoroughly researched, so what difference did revealing them make?

"According to my analysis, Junior, your Second Soul Skill should be classified as a purification-type Soul Skill. But it can only remove abnormal conditions directly inflicted by external forces, right?"

"For example, it cannot cure the physiological dizziness caused by being struck on the head."

That was purely a guess. Ning Tian's Soul Skill differed between the early and later stages, so Chen Yuan could only guess from her negligible amount of screen time in the original work.

If Ning Tian's Second Soul Skill could remove any negative condition, regardless of whether it was caused by an attack, then it would truly be an overpowered Soul Skill.

"Senior's analysis is correct. I never expected Senior to guess the general effect of my Soul Skill after seeing it only once."

No, no, no. Chen Yuan felt that he had simply played too many games; he had seen every kind of skill.

He just did not know whether the power of Ning Tian's Second Soul Skill would increase as her level advanced.

Just as the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's support effects increased by ten percent whenever it rose a major rank.

"Senior should know about the inherited martial soul of our Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, right?"

"I do. It is the continent's number one Support System martial soul, after all."

"Yes, number one on the continent."

Ning Tian's expression darkened slightly. So what if it was the continent's number one Support System martial soul? It still could not break through eight rings.

"Senior should also know that the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda's Soul Skill combinations are generally fixed."

"Our Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's predecessors poured countless efforts into it. Although they still failed to find a way to evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda..."

"Over such a long period of time, our sect did develop several different Soul Skills. My Second Soul Skill is one of them."

The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's predicament was known throughout the world. Their sect's name was fundamentally undeserved.

Those different Soul Skills were accidental products of their predecessors' explorations, but they had also brought the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect considerable benefits.

Although those Soul Skills were different, they had brought no real progress. The Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda remained a distant dream.

"If you tell me all this, won't your Nine Treasures Glazed Sect silence me?"

Chen Yuan put on a frightened expression. Seeing him like that, Ning Tian's mood improved considerably.

"Yes, we will silence you," Ning Tian said with a smile. "So Senior must keep it secret. If the sect finds out, even I, the Young Sect Master, will be punished."

"Mm-hm, I guarantee secrecy. Once it enters my ears, it will never leave my mouth."

After Chen Yuan said that, Ning Tian's previously heavy mood lightened considerably. She raised her head to look at the sky, feeling a long-lost sense of ease.

Ning Tian's Innate Soul Power was level 9.5, only a little short of Innate Full Soul Power. Otherwise, she could not have cultivated to three-ring Soul Elder at eleven years old.

It was precisely because of this that she had received the expectations of everyone in the sect.

Even though the hope was slim, everyone in the sect hoped Ning Tian could evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda and make the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's name a reality.

Naturally, even if Ning Tian failed, no one would blame her. The efforts of so many generations had been useless; there was likely to be no miracle in this generation either.

Looking at the azure sky, Ning Tian thought that if she had the chance in this life, she would definitely ask that ancestor in the heavens why, when she had still been in the mortal world, she had not passed down the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda martial soul.

Was it because Ning Rongrong and Oscar could not have children, or because they had never intended to leave descendants at all?

As the former Young Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Tian did not believe Ning Rongrong was unaware of how much effort the sect had expended over more than ten thousand years for the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

The booklet personally written by Ning Fengzhi, the sect master of that generation, was still enshrined in the sect's ancestral hall today.

The first Sword Douluo's sword had broken, and the first Bone Douluo's bones had shattered, all to seize back Sea God Tang San's corpse.

After paying such a price, what had the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect ultimately gained? A name: the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect.

Oh, and one confirmed method for evolving the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda: the immortal herb Aromatic Silk Beauty.

But no one had found that thing in ten thousand years. By now, some people in the sect even suspected that the immortal herb did not exist at all.

In this day and age, the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect could only barely be considered a first-rate power on the continent by relying on its accumulated foundation from ten thousand years.