Ning Quan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ning Quan (宁泉)
Alias(es)	Sect Master Ning; Uncle Ning, as addressed by Tang Chen; Second Uncle, as addressed by Ning Zi 11 20
Gender	Male 11
Affiliation	Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect 10
Occupation/Role	Sect Master 10
Martial Soul	Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda 34
First Appearance	Chapter 10, “Clear Sky Squad” 10

Background / History

Sending Ning Zi to the Clear Sky Sect

Tang Yue approaches Ning Quan to request a support Soul Master for the newly formed Clear Sky Team. Ning Quan initially considers the implications of lending a disciple to another sect, an arrangement without precedent for his sect. After learning that the team is intended to become a trusted circle for Tang Chen’s future leadership, he selects his seven-year-old niece, Ning Zi 10 11.

Privately, Ning Quan tells Ning Zi that he hopes she will marry Tang Chen, whom he considers the greatest talent he has seen in nearly a century. If Tang Chen does not reciprocate, he suggests the first elder’s son as an alternative. Despite this political purpose, he sincerely asks Tang Yue to protect his niece, explaining that she has never experienced hardship 11.

Alliance and Financial Support

A year later, Ning Quan welcomes Ning Zi home and praises her advancement to level fifteen. He also meets Tang Chen, encouraging him to use the familial address “Uncle Ning” rather than his formal title 20.

Tang Yue proposes an alliance and shares Whale Rubber’s ability to strengthen the body, increase Soul Power, and permit the absorption of older Soul Rings. Tang Chen’s yellow-and-purple ring configuration convinces Ning Quan, who pledges that the two sects will share prosperity and danger. He then lends the financially strained Clear Sky Sect 200 million Gold Soul Coins 20.

When the Clear Sky Sect relocates to the Heaven Dou Empire, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect participates in negotiations for land and resources and contributes two billion Gold Soul Coins 32.

Pursuit of Martial Soul Evolution

At the Clear Sky Sect’s founding ceremony, Ning Quan discovers that Ning Zi’s Martial Soul has evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Learning that Tang Chen caused the transformation, he immediately seeks a similar opportunity for himself and his sect 33 34.

Tang Chen explains that Ning Zi’s Aromatic Silk Beauty is exceptionally rare, then provides four mature Speckled Gem Flowers as a less certain alternative. Ning Quan responds with lavish gifts, but later admits to Aodebiao that his exaggerated excitement was deliberate: he wants Tang Chen’s goodwill and assistance in a future crisis. He rejects Aodebiao’s suggestion to ambush Tang Chen 34.

During the ceremony’s tournament, Ning Quan asks Aodebiao to assess Tang Chen’s strength. Aodebiao estimates that an ordinary Soul Emperor could not defeat him, while remaining uncertain about a Soul Saint using Martial Soul Avatar 39 40.

Appearance

• Eyes: Described as gentle during his discussion with Tang Yue 10.
• Expression: Usually wears a gentle, scholarly smile; after Tang Chen leaves, his performed excitement disappears and this familiar expression returns 34.

Personality

Ning Quan maintains gracious hospitality even when privately irritated. Tang Yue recognizes that he would lose a verbal contest against him, while Ning Quan conceals his annoyance at Tang Yue’s blunt request behind tea and polite conversation 10.

His generosity is often calculated rather than impulsive. He treats wealth as a means of securing talented allies and future protection, but distinguishes cooperation from coercion by refusing to attack Tang Chen. His political matchmaking coexists with genuine affection for Ning Zi, whose safety and cultivation progress concern him 11 20 34.

Abilities & Skills

Political Negotiation

Ning Quan uses personal relationships and material support to strengthen his sect’s position 11 20 34.

• Places Ning Zi among promising Clear Sky Sect disciples, hoping marriage will reinforce the connection 11.
• Exchanges financial assistance for a closer alliance and valuable cultivation knowledge 20.
• Uses an intentionally extravagant reward to make Tang Chen feel indebted without demanding an immediate return 34.

Commercial Strategy

After learning Whale Rubber’s cultivation benefits, Ning Quan orders Ning Jinbao to buy all available pieces outside Spirit City, regardless of price, prioritizing older specimens 20.

• Rapid acquisition: Expects to secure most available stock before Spirit Hall reacts and predicts a price increase of at least tenfold 21.
• Concealment: Public purchases disguise the sect’s existing reserve of more than 100,000 pieces 21.
• Threat management: Reasons that doing nothing would reveal a hidden stockpile and invite seizure by Spirit Hall 21.
• Market positioning: Plans to sell some stock after its benefits become public, reducing Spirit Hall’s incentive to attack 21.

Talent Investment

Ning Quan explains that the sect maintains numerous treasure caches, invests broadly, recruits promising geniuses, and conceals the full extent of its wealth. He considers the gifts to Tang Chen expendable compared with the value of future support 34.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Storage Ring — Holds the treasures he presents to Tang Chen 34.
• Starcore Meteoric Iron — Gives Tang Chen an ore fragment later identified as exceptionally rare material from a destroyed star’s core 20 21.
• Four mature Speckled Gem Flowers — Receives from Tang Chen to purify and improve gemstone-type Martial Souls. Each person can consume them only once; Ning Quan doubts they can reliably produce a Nine Treasure Pagoda 34.
• Speckled Gem Flower seeds — Receives instructions that they normally mature in a thousand years, with growth accelerated by spirit springs or treasures containing life energy. No subsequent absorption or Martial Soul evolution for Ning Quan is documented 34.
• Reward offered to Tang Chen — Precious ores, rare herbs, five billion Gold Soul Coins, a 24,000-year Great Strength Vajra Bear left-arm Soul Bone, and a 35,000-year Gale Demon Wolf right-leg Soul Bone 34.

Relationships

• Ning Zi — His brother’s daughter and his niece. He arranges her placement with the Clear Sky Team, hopes for a politically advantageous marriage, and asks that she be treated well 11.
• Tang Yue — Fellow sect master and alliance partner. Ning Quan supplies a support member, accepts his Whale Rubber knowledge, and provides substantial financial assistance 10 20.
• Tang Chen — A prospective ally whose talent Ning Quan values highly. He welcomes Tang Chen as “Chen” and cultivates his goodwill through gifts rather than force 20 34.
• Aodebiao — The sect’s Golden Monkey guardian Douluo, whom Ning Quan calls “Uncle Biao.” Ning Quan relies on his protection and strength assessments but frequently finds his strategic understanding inadequate 10 21 39.
• Ning Jinbao — Head of the Seven Treasure Chamber of Commerce, entrusted with the large-scale Whale Rubber purchasing order 20 21.