The twin martial souls he had displayed when awakening his martial soul had not merely appeared in Spirit Hall's records; other Soul Master factions had learned of them too, so he had no need to hide them.
After the Fish Intestine Sword appeared in his hand, an invisible force suddenly lifted it. The sword hovered in midair, darting left and right as his fingers moved.
"Amazing! It's the same ability as Grandpa Sword's!" Ning Rongrong could not stop clapping at the sight.
"If Sword Douluo heard you say that, he'd give you a beating." Hearing Ning Rongrong's dangerous remark, Qian Renxue could not help shaking her head. "Sword Douluo's ability comes from becoming one with his sword, controlling it through sword intent. Brother Tang Mo's ability leans more toward controlling a sword with soul power."
Clearly, Qian Daoliu, with nothing better to do, must have developed the ability to retrieve objects from a distance by projecting his soul power, using it to amuse Qian Renxue.
Otherwise, Qian Renxue, who had left for the Heaven Dou Empire at nine, could not possibly have spotted the key to Tang Mo's trick at a glance.
Indeed, Tang Mo's trick belonged to the Object Control Method. By continuously feeding soul power into an object, its quality would improve over time, and the Soul Master supplying that power could form a certain connection with it, allowing them to control its flight.
The most remarkable part of this method was that, once an object had been lifted with soul power, a person only needed to stand on it to fly with its help.
However, the speed and carrying capacity of this low-end version of object flight were directly proportional to its consumption. The faster and higher it flew, and the heavier the load it carried, the more outrageously its consumption would soar. In terms of energy efficiency, it fell far short of Sword Flight. It could only be used to show off before others, not for traveling.
Thus, hardly anyone chose to fly on objects this way. At most, they would directly control an object to attack an enemy.
"So that means you're even better, big brother?" Ning Rongrong asked.
Tang Mo and Qian Renxue exchanged a glance, each seeing speechlessness in the other's eyes.
"I think I might need to hide in the Elder Hall for a while when I get back." Tang Mo curled his fingers, and the Fish Intestine Sword returned to hover three inches above his palm. "Remarks like yours could easily bring Sword Douluo to my door to beat me up, Young Miss Ning."
"If you like, you could actually go to the Worship Hall," Qian Renxue suddenly said.
As soon as she said it, Qian Renxue felt some regret. She was currently impersonating Xue Qinghe. How could Xue Qinghe possibly have connections in the Worship Hall?
"No, thanks." Tang Mo raised a hand in refusal. "If Sword Douluo went to the Worship Hall, it really would be a case of enemies meeting with eyes blazing red."
At his words, Qian Renxue raised her hand and pressed its back against her face, hoping its coolness would quickly lower the heat in her cheeks. Unfortunately, it was merely a cup of water against a blazing cartload of firewood.
She had indeed disguised her appearance with a secret art, but to avoid exposing any flaws, her normal reactions were not concealed. Thus, the blush on her face was spreading little by little.
Ning Rongrong looked in confusion at the suddenly blushing Qian Renxue, then at Tang Mo, unable for the moment to understand what had happened between them.
"Want to learn?" Tang Mo suddenly asked Ning Rongrong to ease the somewhat awkward atmosphere.
To be honest, Tang Mo sometimes could not understand what these Soul Master sects were thinking. It was one thing for those with beast martial souls to rely entirely on soul skills, but why was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect the same?
The Clear Sky Sect could develop a whole collection of self-created soul skills for the Clear Sky Hammer as part of its sect's foundations, yet through all its years of inheritance, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had only the Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart, an ability for dividing one's attention among multiple tasks.
Could the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect not create some self-created soul skills for escaping or protecting themselves?
Although the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Soul Masters had teammates to protect them, not every teammate could be relied upon on a battlefield. Moreover, an enemy's first reaction upon seeing a support system Soul Master was to dive into the back line and take out the support.
Even if they could not develop offensive self-created soul skills, how could they fail to develop even movement-type ones, leaving them to flee on their own two legs whenever danger struck?
Even if self-created soul skills required extraordinary talent, Feng Xiaotian had managed to develop Gale Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes through his own research. No matter how often the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect failed its shiny rolls, surely it could produce at least one freakishly gifted individual.
After thinking it over, he felt the problem still lay with this world. Support system Soul Masters had never realized that, besides relying on their teammates, they could become the heavy hitters themselves and carry their teammates.
"Can I?" Ning Rongrong looked at Tang Mo in disbelief. "That ability of yours should be a self-created soul skill, big brother. I remember my father saying that self-created soul skills are usually closely guarded secrets, and they have special requirements for martial souls too. Even if you were willing to teach me, I wouldn't be able to learn it, would I?"
The Tang Sect's fundamental cultivation method was the Five Treasures Body Protection Method, and its supreme sect art was Dan Shi. As for its other abilities, it was not that they were weak, but they had not reached the level of closely guarded secrets.
This was especially true of Object Control. In Tang Mo's previous life, quite a few factions possessed cultivation methods for Object Control. It was just that not all of them used the Object Control Method as their core practice, and each faction made certain improvements to its method to better suit its own disciples.
"It isn't a closely guarded secret, and it doesn't discriminate between martial souls." Tang Mo then changed the subject. "Do you have a weapon like a dagger on you?"
"Let me look." Ning Rongrong rummaged through the Storage Soul Tool she carried, finally finding a small dagger less than thirty centimeters long.
The dagger was lavish in appearance, gold and red throughout, with a great many red gemstones adorning its hilt and sheath. Numerous gold threads decorated the gaps between the gems.
Shing!
When Ning Rongrong drew the dagger, a gleam of cold light flashed before Tang Mo's eyes.
Whoosh!
Tang Mo plucked out a strand of hair, held it against the dagger, and blew gently. The hair was instantly severed in two.
A dagger that could sever a hair blown against it was certainly no ordinary item, but an exceptionally sharp treasure.
"This is a treasure my father obtained from the Gengxin City auction house, personally forged by the Divine Craftsman Lou Gao." Ning Rongrong's face was full of pride.
Although blacksmiths held a low status on the Douluo Continent, that applied to ordinary blacksmiths. As a Divine Craftsman, Lou Gao was not among them.
Whether weapons or armor, every piece he produced was a treasure. Ordinary people had no chance to even see Lou Gao's work, much less the substantial funds needed to acquire a piece.
Moreover, Lou Gao had spent recent years pursuing a higher realm in the art of forging, so he no longer readily crafted items. In recent years, his works could be said to have a price but no supply.
Tang Mo glanced at the dagger and, sure enough, saw Lou Gao's mark near the hilt. He also spotted signs that extra gemstones had been added to it.
Lou Gao's craftsmanship was exquisite. Although the person who had set the gemstones was no poor craftsman either, they still fell short of Lou Gao, leaving the dagger with an overall sense of disjointedness.
It was rather like adding a few charcoal strokes to an ink-wash painting. Although the charcoal marks were faint, their style was distinctly out of place.
Ning Fengzhi had probably bought this dagger to spare Ning Rongrong some effort when delivering the final blow to soul beasts.
Afterward, he had thought of Ning Rongrong's fondness for shiny things and added a pile of gemstones, like drawing legs on a snake.
Tang Mo reached out, projecting his soul power into an invisible hand that supported Ning Rongrong's hand and placed it in his own.
"Follow my guidance and feed your soul power into this dagger little by little."
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