"Fengzhi, Fengzhi."
Gu Rong's calls echoed through the heart of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's grounds.
Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin, who were playing a game of chess, both looked up toward the voice.
"What's gotten into Uncle Gu?"
Ning Fengzhi was puzzled. Although Gu Rong was not normally as aloof as Chen Xin, he was still fairly composed.
Yet today, he sounded like a child who had found a new toy, unable to suppress the excitement in his voice.
"I'm not sure. Perhaps he encountered something interesting."
Chen Xin was not particularly curious about it, his manner as restrained as ever.
But barely had he finished speaking when Gu Rong appeared before them.
"So this is where you were. I've been looking all over."
Ning Fengzhi felt rather embarrassed. What was that supposed to mean? How hard could it be for a Titled Douluo to find someone?
Besides, he had only just heard the commotion before Gu Rong arrived, yet the man made it sound as though they had deliberately been hiding from him.
"Uncle Gu, what good fortune came your way to make you so happy?"
Seeing Gu Rong's undisguised smile, Ning Fengzhi could not help growing curious.
"It really is something good. Take a look at this first."
As he spoke, Gu Rong placed the Heavenly Eye he had just obtained from Mo Lin before them.
Looking at the smooth metal sphere before him, Ning Fengzhi immediately noticed something.
"A Soul Tool? The workmanship is quite fine."
"But since when have you been interested in these things, Uncle Gu?"
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect possessed plenty of rare treasures and had also collected many Soul Tools whose crafting methods had been lost.
Coupled with the innate treasure-appraising talent of his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul, Ning Fengzhi was naturally more than familiar with such things.
"It's not that I'm interested. This thing is different from those other Soul Tools."
"Different? How?"
Hearing this, Ning Fengzhi began to wonder.
He truly could not see anything special about the Soul Tool before him.
After all, it did not even rank among the Soul Tools he had encountered. At best, it was below average.
But Gu Rong would not try to fool him with something like this, which meant it possessed some special quality he had yet to discover.
"This thing is called the Heavenly Eye. As for why it has that name, you'll understand once you try it."
Gu Rong then explained how to use the Heavenly Eye to Ning Fengzhi, taking out another and pressing it into the hands of Chen Xin, who had remained silent beside them.
At Gu Rong's urging, the two followed his instructions and poured Soul Power into them.
Soon, astonishment appeared on both their faces.
"Heavenly Eye. What a fitting name."
Looking at the Heavenly Eye in his hand, Ning Fengzhi could not help exclaiming in admiration.
As the leader of a sect, he could naturally see the value it held.
Especially for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, which had started out in intelligence gathering, this thing was nothing short of a supreme treasure.
An eye that could be deployed flexibly-used properly, it would raise the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's strength by a considerable margin.
No wonder Gu Rong had been so excited. This truly was a fine thing.
However, Ning Fengzhi soon recovered from his excitement.
"What a pity that something so wonderful should be a Soul Tool."
Soul Tools were fine things, but the crafting methods left in this era were all but nonexistent.
Presumably, Gu Rong had stumbled upon such a miraculous item by chance.
If there were only a few, they would not be of much use.
A pity. What a terrible pity.
Ning Fengzhi shook his head, his heart filled with regret.
"What's this, Fengzhi? Don't tell me you're prejudiced against Soul Tools? Let me tell you, that way of thinking is wrong..."
"Uncle Gu, that's not what I meant."
Seeing that Gu Rong seemed to have misunderstood him, Ning Fengzhi hurried to explain.
"It's a fine thing. There just aren't enough of them."
Beside him, Chen Xin nodded in agreement.
"Indeed. Too few to be of much use."
Chen Xin shared Ning Fengzhi's view. Both felt there were too few of these things.
"True, it is a little few. I only bought a thousand this time."
Just then, Gu Rong abruptly tossed out that remark.
The two men, who had still been lamenting a moment ago, froze on the spot.
"How many? A thousand!"
Smack-!
Both slapped the table and sprang to their feet, their eyes gleaming as they looked at Gu Rong.
"That's right, a thousand. Don't worry. I checked all of them. There's absolutely nothing wrong with them."
"If that's not enough, I can buy more."
Clearly, Gu Rong was not entirely on the same wavelength as the two of them.
After all, he had already experienced this shock once, so he was far more resistant to it than Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin.
"Wait, Uncle Gu, what do you mean? You can order these things?"
Good heavens, had he misheard, or had the times left him behind?
Since when could Soul Tools be mass-produced?
"Yes, though they aren't cheap. Ten thousand Gold Soul Coins each. I was wandering around Heaven Dou City today when I happened to..."
Gu Rong recounted his experience to Ning Fengzhi in detail.
After hearing him out, Ning Fengzhi was rather stunned.
"A talent. This is an exceptional talent."
If things were truly as Gu Rong described, that young man must possess an extraordinary talent for Soul Tools.
If such a talent could be put to use by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, that would undoubtedly be ideal.
No! We have to recruit him. We absolutely must.
The language of flowers for geniuses was "too slow, and they're gone," and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were absolute experts in this field.
"Er... Fengzhi, about recruiting him, I think you'd better forget it."
Seeing that Ning Fengzhi wanted to recruit Mo Lin, Gu Rong's expression turned somewhat helpless.
"Hmm? What's wrong, Uncle Gu? Has the boy already been recruited by another faction?"
"No, it's just... the boy belongs to the Ye Family."
"The Ye Family? Which Ye Family?"
Ning Fengzhi was puzzled. For a moment, he genuinely could not recall which faction the Ye Family was.
"The Nine Heart Begonia lineage."
Before returning, Gu Rong had made a point of investigating Mo Lin's background.
Using the information at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's disposal, he had quickly uncovered Mo Lin's identity in full.
More precisely, Mo Lin had never concealed his identity at all. One could find it out simply by asking anyone.
But that was precisely the problem. He was an orphan whom the Ye Family had adopted as a child.
Moreover, he was Ye Lingling's future husband, and considering the relationship between Nine Heart Begonia and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect...
They could not be called mortal enemies, but their relationship was hardly good.
The title of the world's foremost support-type Martial Soul stood between them. That was the greatest original sin.
What was more, in earlier years, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had employed some dishonorable methods in an attempt to subjugate the Nine Heart Begonia lineage.
As a result, the people of that lineage still felt some aversion toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
If Mo Lin actually learned that these things were being sold to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, never mind recruitment-even doing business might become impossible.
Only after Gu Rong's reminder did Ning Fengzhi realize something, and his expression immediately began to shift uncertainly.
"How talented is he?"
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