Aromatic Silk Beauty, the Birth of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!

Above the Sky Curtain, the scene shifted.

The ancient secret manual bearing the sect's thousand-year wish was slowly unfurled by an invisible hand beneath countless gazes!

The scroll was completely blank.

There were no obscure cultivation techniques as imagined, nor were there any profound and complicated formation diagrams.

There was only a painting.

In the painting was an immortal herb!

Its entire body was radiant gold, its flower blooming with nine petals. Its sovereign nobility and splendor imprinted themselves deep within everyone's eyes!

The next moment, five bold, sweeping characters appeared beside the immortal herb!

[Aromatic Silk Beauty!]

Boom!

Within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, thunder seemed to explode in Ning Fengzhi's mind!

He stared fixedly at that immortal herb, frozen in place, forgetting even to breathe!

"Aromatic... Silk Beauty..."

His lips trembled, every word seeming to be squeezed out from between his teeth.

"Quick! Investigate it! Search through every ancient record in the sect! Find information on this immortal herb!"

Ning Fengzhi's voice was hoarse, carrying a trace of madness even he had not noticed!

Very soon, an elder came scrambling back, clutching a yellowed fragmentary scroll. His voice warped with excitement. "Sect Master! We found it! Ancient records state that there truly is a spiritual treasure capable of making up for Martial Soul defects, but... but what it was has long been lost!"

Lost!

The ultimate answer that had plagued the sect for centuries now lay bare before him without the slightest concealment!

As long as they could find this Aromatic Silk Beauty...

Could their Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect recreate the glory of their ancestor, Ning Wuqian?!

The Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo beside him exchanged a glance, each seeing irrepressible fervor in the other's eyes!

At the same time, elsewhere.

Sunset Forest, Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

"Holy shit!"

A heaven-shaking curse burst from Dugu Bo's mouth!

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he leaped three feet into the air, pointing at the image in the Sky Curtain with eyes wider than bronze bells!

"Isn't... isn't that the flower in my medicine garden?!"

He remembered it clearly!

Right beside the Yang Spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, there grew an identical golden tulip!

He had always thought it was merely an ornamental plant that looked a little prettier than usual. He could not even be bothered to spare it another glance!

But now, the Sky Curtain was telling him that this thing could evolve a flawed Martial Soul?!

It could turn the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's defective Martial Soul into the legendary Nine Treasures Glazed Tower?!

Then... then his granddaughter Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul...

Then the poison in his and Dugu Yan's bodies, the poison embedded deep in their bones and impossible to eradicate for generations...

"Haha... hahahaha!"

Dugu Bo suddenly threw back his head and laughed wildly, his laughter filled with boundless ecstasy and relief.

As he laughed, two streams of murky old tears rolled down his ferocious face!

"Heaven has not forsaken the Dugu family! Heaven has not forsaken me!"

Hope for survival!

This was true hope, hope he could grasp in his own hands!

Everyone in the Chat Group was stunned by this sudden reversal.

[Commander of the Heaven Dou Royal Knights: Am I seeing things? Has Poison Douluo... gone mad?]

[Sect Master of the Divine Wind Sect: He seems to recognize this immortal herb? Could it be... holy shit! No way, right?!]

In an instant, countless gazes turned through the Sky Curtain toward Dugu Bo's location.

Jealousy, envy, and a trace of... deep apprehension!

However, the story within the Sky Curtain had not ended yet.

On the secret manual left behind by Ning Wuqian, new words emerged once more, every character carrying a crushing pressure.

[Aromatic Silk Beauty seizes the creation of heaven and earth. It can indeed perfect a Martial Soul, allowing the Three Treasure Glazed Pagoda to ascend in a single step and evolve into a god-grade Martial Soul—the Nine Treasures Glazed Tower!]

[However, a god-grade Martial Soul is not tolerated by heaven and earth, and its fortune is unique. Since I have already attained it, it cannot appear again in later generations. If one person is forcibly made to consume it, that person may obtain the Nine Treasures, but their bloodline descendants will forever fall to the Three Treasures, with no possibility of further advancement!]

Boom!

The hope that had just begun to rise was ruthlessly shattered by those words!

The fervor on Ning Fengzhi's face instantly faded, leaving behind only ashes of despair.

He staggered back a step and collapsed onto the sect master's throne, every ounce of strength drained from his body.

So... that was how it was!

Only one Nine Treasures Glazed Tower could exist in a generation!

Ancestor Ning Wuqian had ascended, which was why his descendant Ning Tianbao had the chance to inherit this god-grade fortune.

But if Ning Tianbao succeeded, then his descendants would sink forever!

This was not a choice at all! It was trading the future of the entire sect for one generation's glory!

It was a deal that would leave them without descendants!

The Chat Group erupted in an uproar as well.

[Ghost Douluo of Spirit Hall: So that's how it is. Now it makes sense. If Nine Treasures Glazed Towers could be mass-produced, what the hell would anyone fight for? The continent might as well change its surname to Ning!]

[Yu Yuanzhen of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan: A god-grade Martial Soul should have been a unique existence! The Heavenly Dao is fair!]

Within the Golden Hall, Qian Renxue nodded slightly.

So this was the true limitation of a god-grade Martial Soul!

A Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect that could be passed down generation after generation and a Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect with only one generation of glory were threats on completely different levels!

Just as everyone thought this was the conclusion, Ning Wuqian's notes in the Sky Curtain changed once again!

[However, of the fifty paths of the Heavenly Dao, one yet escapes. There is another method.]

There was another way?!

Ning Fengzhi suddenly raised his head, a spark reigniting in his eyes!

[Take the petals of the Aromatic Silk Beauty and dissolve them in Rootless Water, diluting its divine medicinal power before distributing it among the entire clan.]

[This way, though the Nine Treasures cannot be attained, the bloodline of the entire clan can be elevated. The Three Treasure Glazed Pagoda will permanently evolve into—the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower!]

[Though the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower is not god-grade, it still stands at the peak of the continent. It can bear seven rings, enough to establish a sect and pass it down for generations!]

One choice was the "Nine Treasures Glazed Tower," achieving greatness for himself while exhausting the sect's future fortune.

The other was the "Seven Treasures Glazed Tower," sacrificing his own path to godhood to benefit the entire clan and forge a foundation that would endure for generations.

The choice lay before Ning Tianbao, the ancestor who founded the sect!

Within the Sky Curtain, the young Ning Tianbao looked at the immortal herb before him, one that could let him ascend to godhood in a single step. Then he looked at the clan members behind him, their eyes full of expectation yet also inferiority.

Struggle flashed through his eyes, followed by hesitation, before finally transforming into unprecedented resolve!

He did not choose to swallow the entire immortal herb.

Instead, he carefully plucked the petals, dissolved them in water, and personally distributed it to every clan member!

Buzz—!

When everyone drank the diluted medicine, dazzling pillars of light shot into the sky from every clan member!

The pagoda Martial Souls that had originally possessed only three layers of halos began growing upward above everyone's heads!

Four layers!

Five layers!

Six layers!

Seven layers!

When every pagoda finally settled at seven layers, the entire sect erupted in earth-shaking cheers!

It was the cry suppressed for countless generations! The wild joy of breaking free from fate!

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!

From that day onward, it was born!