Chapter 162: Ning Fengzhi's Expectations
Ning Fengzhi doted on his daughter immensely. He patiently answered Ning Rongrong's questions.
Did he harbor any hatred towards the Spirit Empire? Certainly not, but his heart was indeed filled with a sense of melancholy and complexity.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had transformed from an independent sect into a vassal of the Spirit Empire. However, apart from that, their daily lives remained unchanged from before.
In fact, the disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could even obtain a considerable amount of resources from Spirit Hall, such as medicinal pills and whale rubber. The matter of whale rubber being able to enhance a Soul Master's physique remained a secret; Ning Fengzhi could choose some excellent disciples to consume food made with added whale rubber.
However, he could not inform them why this food could enhance a Soul Master's physique.
Ning Fengzhi also understood why Spirit Hall had to be like this; at present, whale rubber was already an extremely important strategic material. However, with the passage of time and the joining of various major forces, it would become impossible to completely conceal the effects of whale rubber.
Therefore, when Spirit Hall rewarded others with items that could enhance their physique, they would not directly provide whale rubber but rather add it to food.
This served as a smokescreen; others knew that this food could enhance a Soul Master's physique, but they did not know what the ingredients inside were.
After all, this food did not contain only whale rubber.
In addition, the Medicine Hall was also trying to combine whale rubber with other immortal herbs to see if they could refine body tempering pills, but this was still in the experimental stage. Directly consuming whale rubber could already enhance a Soul Master's physique, so the body tempering pill experiment was a secondary priority after the other medicinal pills mentioned earlier.
The purpose of refining it into a medicinal pill was to see if the side effects of whale rubber could be eliminated and to increase its efficiency in enhancing a Soul Master's physique. For example, a one-kilogram piece of fresh thousand-year whale rubber could enhance a Soul Master's physique by five hundred years, achieving an efficiency of fifty percent.
However, after refining it into a medicinal pill, could its efficiency be increased to seventy percent or more by combining it with other immortal herbs?
Then, the medicinal pills would be divided into nine levels, from one to nine, allowing for better rewards for meritorious Soul Masters. Otherwise, simply rewarding whale rubber would be somewhat monotonous.
Ning Fengzhi narrowed his eyes, looking into the distance.
It was only after he joined the Spirit Empire that he learned that all these things were orchestrated single-handedly by Hu Bai, a nine-year-old child! If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought someone was joking!
Upon learning how outstanding Hu Bai was, and considering the relationship between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall, the idea of a marriage alliance sprouted in his mind. Since the sect had already chosen to join Spirit Hall, and Spirit Hall was so powerful, the only way to strengthen their connection was through marriage.
However... to form a marriage alliance with the children of Spirit Hall's high-ranking officials, his incompetent sons seemed to fall short. And Rongrong was only three years old at the moment; her talent was still unknown. Although Rongrong had shown a bit of intelligence since she was young, which she inherited from him, it was clear she would grow into a great beauty and be popular with boys.
However, the women around Hu Bai were all no less impressive than Rongrong.
Qian Renxue was even Hu Bai's fiancée; what could his daughter compete with?
Therefore, after joining Spirit Hall for so long, he felt too awkward to speak with Bibi Dong or Qian Daoliu. And truthfully, with Hu Bai's appearance, he also worried, like an old father, whether Rongrong would be captivated when she grew up.
As for whether Hu Bai, already engaged to Qian Renxue, could still marry others? As long as Hu Bai had no objections, Qian Renxue had no objections, and Spirit Hall had no objections, then it was still possible.
Chen Xin: "Ning Fengzhi, I heard that Hu Bai has returned from the Extreme North. Aren't you curious about what he gained from this trip?"
Ning Fengzhi smiled: "To say I'm not curious would certainly be a lie. However, let's wait a bit longer. He should be going to the Star Dou Great Forest with Bibi Dong soon after his return, so I won't disturb him now."
"Alas, after joining the Spirit Empire for so long, we still haven't properly gotten to know this little fellow, Hu Bai. And I hear this little fellow has extraordinary luck and is very intelligent. I wonder if he can solve the flaw in our sect's martial soul?" Ning Fengzhi said, a hint of melancholy in his voice.
Gu Rong said, "I heard that Old Poison, Dugu Bo, was originally deeply poisoned due to his martial soul, but after joining Spirit Hall, Hu Bai solved it for him.
I knew it! Why did he suddenly choose to join Spirit Hall back then? So it was because of this!"
Logically speaking, no one on the continent knew about Dugu Bo's poisoning except for himself. But Gu Rong and the others keenly discovered it and inquired about it.
That was because Dugu Bo's hair color had changed. Originally, his hair was green, a pigment stain caused by the Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison entering his body. But now, after taking the antidote medicinal pill made by Yue Guan and absorbing the immortal herb, his hair color has returned to normal.
As long as Dugu Bo's cultivation improved and he condensed his own soul core, his toxins would be completely removed, or in other words, he would have free control over them.
Chen Xin, however, shook his head: "Fengzhi, you also know that the flaw of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul is too severe. This is because your martial soul's auxiliary ability is too powerful. Although your ancestors had a legend about the existence of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda above the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul, they did not leave behind how to compensate for the flaw.
Dugu Bo was poisoned; it wouldn't be difficult for Spirit Hall to solve it with a bit of thought. But yours is a flaw of the martial soul itself; solving it might not be easy."
It was no wonder Chen Xin was so pessimistic.
From the time he joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect until now, Ning Fengzhi had never stopped searching for a method of martial soul evolution.
Even though his cultivation was already at the peak of level seventy-nine, he persisted in cultivating every day. He hoped that one day, by accumulating his own soul power, he could break through this seventh layer.
But the truth was, it was useless! Without obtaining a soul ring, cultivating could indeed accumulate soul power, but unless a soul ring was obtained, the soul power generated by cultivation would not affect the Soul Master, and the total soul power would not increase; it could only be considered a futile effort.
And now, if Ning Fengzhi were to ask Hu Bai if there was a solution, Hu Bai could only tell him there wasn't one. The only Beautiful Silk Tulip had already been absorbed by his younger sister.
Perhaps there were still immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well that could solve the flaw of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul, but the level of such immortal herbs would at least be medium-grade immortal herbs. Why would they be given to Ning Fengzhi?
And immortal herbs of the same level as the Beautiful Silk Tulip were already gone.
If the yearning Heartbroken Red was the king of immortal grade herbs, then the Beautiful Silk Tulip's level was only slightly lower. Immortal herbs of this level were rare in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Perhaps there were still immortal herbs of this level outside, but none remained in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
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