The Continent's Earliest Martial Soul Hybridization Experiment! Please Keep Reading! Please Vote!

Chen Lin was now the least successful member of the Chen family. He was merely the Vice President of the Suotuo City Blacksmith Association. Chen Hong, who had once been a nobody, had successfully sold himself to Spirit Hall for a good price, and it looked like his worth would soon slowly surpass Chen Lin's.

As for Ning Lu, she was the hidden big boss of their family. The connections she commanded perhaps far exceeded what outsiders imagined. Ning Lu simply did not reveal them easily, lest she invite unnecessary trouble—except when it came to finding a daughter-in-law for her useless son.

At the dinner table, Chen Lin told Ning Lu and the others everything that had happened over the past week. When she heard that White Cloud Village had a highly valuable mineral vein, she suddenly smiled. "No wonder I've always liked that place. Looks like the Ning Clan Bloodline in me hasn't completely abandoned me."

Those who possessed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul were born with a talent for sensing gemstones and could discover many precious minerals. The successive sect masters of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had relied on this talent to gradually develop and strengthen the sect.

"Mom, are you from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Number One Support in the World sect?" After the meal, Chen Lin left for the Blacksmith Shop on business, while the remaining three sat in the second-floor attic eating pastries and drinking tea. Chen Hong finally asked his mother this question out of curiosity.

There were plenty of people surnamed Ning in the world, so Chen Hong could not be certain that Ning Lu was from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

"That's not quite right, you know." Ning Lu corrected his wording, then took Ye Lingling's hand beside her and smiled. "The Nine Heart Begonia is the Number One Support Martial Soul in the World."

If she had been an ordinary member of the Ning Family, they would never admit that fact even if it killed them. They would only attack the limitations of the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul from other angles, using that to prove that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was the greatest.

But was Ning Lu really a Ning Family member? She had not even inherited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul, so there was naturally no need for her to speak well of it.

And Ye Lingling? She was the future daughter-in-law Ning Lu had her eye on. Of course Ning Lu would speak in favor of her future daughter-in-law. After all, who knew? Maybe one day, the Nine Heart Begonia would become their family's Martial Soul.

After receiving such praise from Ning Lu, Ye Lingling's little face immediately flushed red with embarrassment.

Back home, she had heard plenty of Spirit Masters praise her family highly, but this was the first time a Spirit Master surnamed Ning had praised them like this.

"There's no harm in telling you now. I didn't tell you before because I was worried that a little brat like you, who already loves causing trouble, would become even more lawless. But now that you've earned Spirit Hall's attention through your own intelligence and talent, it's time for you to meet the people on the sect's side."

Smiling, Ning Lu took Ye Lingling and Chen Hong's small hands, pulling the two children close to her before gently explaining her relationship with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

It turned out that Ning Lu's father—Chen Hong's maternal grandfather—came from a Ning Clan Branch of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. His Martial Soul had mutated into the Seven Star Sword, and he served as part of the sect's relatively core mid-level defensive force. He also had some connection to Sword Douluo, one of the sect's consecrated elders.

Because the Seven Star Sword Martial Soul could not break through the bloodline shackles of the Ning Family, and all of its soul skills only enhanced the user himself—effects that also overlapped with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda—it could only ever stop at Rank 79, the realm of a Soul Sage. For an attack-type Martial Soul, this was undoubtedly fatal. That was why this small Ning Clan Branch was not particularly well-known and only appeared in certain core positions within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

"Your grandmother comes from a collateral branch of the Ye Clan with the Nine Heart Begonia. She and your grandfather are both in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Once I become a little stronger, I'll take you back to acknowledge your relatives." As Ning Lu said this, her voice unconsciously softened, and a trace of uncertainty seeped into her tone, as though returning to her parents' home meant entering a dragon's pool and tiger's den.

Although the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul could only be inherited by one person in each generation, that did not mean each generation could only have one child. It was simply that only one child could inherit the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul, while the remaining children would undergo healing-type mutations according to the genes of their parents.

That was right. Because the healing attribute of the Nine Heart Begonia was simply too powerful, aside from the one person who could fully inherit that bloodline power, if other children were born, the powerful Origin of Life of the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul master could affect the Martial Soul Variation of the fetus.

Even if the parent's Martial Soul was the Clear Sky Hammer, the descendant's Martial Soul might mutate into a Meow Meow Hammer that healed people while smashing them, or a Clear Sky Bamboo Shoot whose appearance practically screamed Life Aura.

Of course, it was also possible that they would not affect each other at all.

Chen Hong's grandmother's Martial Soul was the Begonia Flower Gourd, a small support-type gourd with begonia patterns crawling across its body. Seven Star Sword plus Begonia Flower Gourd equaled Seven-Colored Wine Gourd—Ning Lu's Martial Soul.

Chen Hong: Are you people researching Martial Soul hybridization technology here???

Perhaps this was Douluo Continent's greatest and most unpretentious Martial Soul hybridization experiment? They had continued hybridizing two Martial Souls that were already mutated and unstable in their traits, thereby creating an even stranger Martial Soul.

"Mom, I finally know why you don't dare go back. You ruined Grandpa and Grandma's Martial Soul hybridization experiment! Three generations of work, destroyed in one stroke! You found a useless dad and gave birth to a useless son. If I were you, I wouldn't dare go back either." When Chen Hong unleashed his sharp tongue, he did not even spare himself.

"Pfft! S-sorry!" Chen Hong's words successfully amused Ye Lingling beside him, but she immediately realized herself and apologized with a red face.

Ning Lu's face instantly darkened. She glared fiercely at Chen Hong, raised her hand, and knocked him on the head. "You little brat, are you itching for another beating? At least you have some self-awareness. If my Martial Soul didn't have its flaws, would I have let your father, that bastard, get such a bargain?"

Chen Hong's expression changed in surprise, and his eyes lit up as he looked at Ning Lu. He had not expected his mother to have such an unknown and complicated love story.

Perhaps due to the instability of a Mutated Martial Soul, Ning Lu's Seven-Colored Wine Gourd had an extremely powerful self-enhancement effect. The current limit for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Seven Star Sword in self-enhancement was a seventy percent boost across the board. The Soul Wine within the Seven-Colored Wine Gourd could provide others with a maximum seventy percent boost, but when Ning Lu drank it herself, the effect directly doubled to one hundred and forty percent!

There were only two drawbacks. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Seven Star Sword could complete their enhancement the moment their soul rings lit up, but the Seven-Colored Wine Gourd required the process of "drinking." Even if the wine was sent out wrapped in Soul Power, if teammates were too far away or too slow, they would not be able to get the wine. It could even be intercepted by enemies. Only when Ning Lu drank it directly herself was it most convenient.

The second drawback was that the Soul Wine with such powerful enhancement effects was incredibly strong.

If a battle dragged on for too long, she could easily lose control and fall into Drunkenness.