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Shi Quan's wooden house wasn't large; it contained only a bed, a desk, and a bookshelf, with simple and unadorned decorations.
The three of them sat down casually.
After they were seated, Ning Fengzhi spoke directly, "Shi Quan, I have a request for you today."
Shi Quan's eyes flickered slightly, and he quickly said, "Uncle Ning, please speak freely. Whatever it is, I will do my utmost to help."
"With your words, I am much more at ease," Ning Fengzhi smiled faintly and continued, "Shi Quan, I have heard about your Blue Silver Grass theory—the Acquired Martial Spirit transformation and the improvement of one's Innate talent. This action is truly unique in the world. I want to know, can your Blue Silver Grass theory be applied to other Martial Spirits?"
"Indeed," upon hearing Ning Fengzhi's words, Shi Quan understood his intention and said, "Uncle Ning, my Blue Silver Grass theory is currently only applicable to my Blue Silver Grass Martial Spirit. I am not certain if it applies to other Martial Spirits, because each Martial Spirit has its own unique characteristics, and the characteristics of Blue Silver Grass are almost one-of-a-kind. However, one thing is certain: whether it is a Martial Spirit or one's own talent, besides Innate Awakening, one can also compensate for Innate deficiencies through Acquired effort. It's just that the methods for compensation need to be discovered through our own efforts."
Upon hearing Shi Quan's initial words, Ning Fengzhi's eyes visibly dimmed, but after hearing Shi Quan's later words, the light in Ning Fengzhi's eyes clearly brightened again, and his gaze towards Shi Quan held a few more hints of approval.
"Shi Quan, you are right. I also believe that Innate deficiencies can be compensated for through Acquired effort!" Ning Fengzhi nodded in strong agreement and asked, "Shi Quan, how much do you know about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Spirit?"
"Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda?" Shi Quan gently shook his head and said, "Uncle Ning, isn't that your Martial Spirit? I only know that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is the number one auxiliary Martial Spirit in the world, possessing powerful auxiliary abilities far exceeding those of the same Rank."
Ning Fengzhi did not feel proud after hearing Shi Quan's praise; instead, he sighed and said, "The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is indeed the number one auxiliary Martial Spirit in the world, but heaven is also fair. While the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda possesses the most powerful auxiliary abilities, it also comes at a huge cost."
"Isn't it just that it can't advance to an eight-ring Spirit Douluo? What's with the act?" Shi Quan looked at Ning Fengzhi's hesitant expression and secretly complained in his heart, but on his face, he still had to feign a confused look towards Ning Fengzhi. "Cost?"
"Unable to advance to an eight-ring Spirit Douluo for life," saying this, Ning Fengzhi's face was filled with even more worry.
"Unable to Breakthrough eight rings? How can this be?" Shi Quan looked at Ning Fengzhi in surprise.
"Shi Quan, do you know why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda can only be called the Seven Treasure?"
Ning Fengzhi sighed softly and then summoned his Martial Spirit. A glazed pagoda emitting colorful light appeared in Ning Fengzhi's hand, and beneath him, seven spirit rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black—quietly emerged.
"Because the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda only has seven layers, and each layer of the glazed pagoda can only bear one spirit ring. Therefore, absorbing seven spirit rings is the limit of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda."
Shi Quan looked at the brilliant and beautiful Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda before him. Regardless of anything else, this Martial Spirit was indeed beautiful.
"Uncle Ning, do you mean that you want me to help you find a way to evolve and transform the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Spirit, so that it can absorb more spirit rings?"
Ning Fengzhi slowly retracted his right hand, nodded, and said, "Exactly. In fact, it is mentioned in the ancient texts of my Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda can evolve. Above the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, there also exist the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. But unfortunately, the ancient texts do not specifically mention the exact method for Martial Spirit evolution. Our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has always been diligently researching and searching for a way to evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but with very little success."
At this point, a bitter smile involuntarily appeared on Ning Fengzhi's lips, and his gaze towards Shi Quan carried a hint of expectation.
To pursue the method for the evolution of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could be said to have spared no effort, but just as Ning Fengzhi said, the results were minimal. Let alone the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, they couldn't even evolve the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
So now, facing any opportunity, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would seize it tightly. Even if the person before them was just a ten-year-old boy, as the Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, one of the Upper Three Sects, he still lowered his status and specifically came to visit, hoping to seek a glimmer of hope from this Genius theoretical boy.
Ning Fengzhi looked at Shi Quan with a sincere expression and said, "Shi Quan, you were able to research the evolution method for the Blue Silver Grass Martial Spirit, and it is this point that gives me hope. Therefore, I want to ask you to help the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect research the evolution method for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda."
"Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, you say?" Shi Quan murmured softly, then continued, "Uncle Ning, please rest assured, I am aware of this matter. I will do my best to help you research the evolution method for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. However, as you know, my current main research directions are plant-type Martial Spirits and ultimate spirit rings. At present, I don't know much about gem-type Martial Spirits, so I'll have to trouble you to help me collect more information about gem-type Martial Spirits. If possible, please also provide me with a copy of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's historical research data on the evolution method of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Spirit, which will make my research more convenient."
Whether he could actually research it was one thing; at least the words had to sound good and sincere.
Seeing Shi Quan agree, a smile appeared on Ning Fengzhi's lips. "Shi Quan, then I'll trouble you. I'll prepare the things you need. It's truly troublesome to ask for your help on our first meeting. Please accept this."
Saying this, Ning Fengzhi took off a silver-white bracelet from his wrist and handed it to Shi Quan. The bracelet was inlaid with several snow-white gems, entirely silver with white patterns, looking very exquisite.
Shi Quan quickly waved his hand in refusal, "Uncle Ning, you are too kind. I don't need this gift, after all, I haven't really helped much yet."
Ning Fengzhi, however, became serious and said sternly, "Shi Quan, you are being too polite. You call me Uncle Ning, so as an elder, how can I not give a first-meeting gift? It's nothing great, just take it. If you can help the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect research the evolution method of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in the future, then you will be the benefactor of the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. At that time, I will prepare a grand gift for you."
"Then thank you, Uncle Ning," Shi Quan no longer declined and accepted the bracelet from Ning Fengzhi.
Ning Fengzhi introduced, "Shi Quan, this bracelet is called the snow jade bracelet. It is a spirit tool. Each gem on it provides ten square meters of storage space. You only need to inject spirit power to put items in or take them out."
Shi Quan looked at the five snow-white, jade-like gems on the bracelet and thought to himself, "Ning Fengzhi is truly generous."
Tang San's Twenty Four Moonlit Bridges had twenty-four jade stones, each with a storage space of one cubic meter, for a total of only twenty-four cubic meters of storage. Such a spirit tool was already considered top-tier.
However, the snow jade bracelet given by Ning Fengzhi could provide ten cubic meters of storage space per gem, totaling fifty cubic meters for five gems.
It wasn't just the size of the storage space.
A bracelet and a belt, the spirit tools themselves had obvious differences in size.
This snow jade bracelet was definitely the most top-tier spirit tool at present. Its value was probably over a million gold coins. Such an item was given as a first-meeting gift and was even called "nothing great."
The epitome of Versailles.
Although the snow jade bracelet was of no use to Shi Quan, it could at least serve as a cover for his hundred treasure pouch. Now he could freely use the hundred treasure pouch to store things without fear of suspicion.
Shi Quan showed a joyful expression and excitedly said, "Only Uncle Ning would dare to call such a good item 'nothing great' in this world."
"Haha," Ning Fengzhi laughed heartily and said, "Shi Quan, as long as you like it. We have nothing else, but our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is rich. Anything that can be bought with money is just that; truly precious things cannot be measured by money."
"Uncle Ning, you are right," Shi Quan replied with a smile, giving Ning Fengzhi a mental thumbs-up.
Rich and willful.
This was also a unique talent of gem-type Martial Spirits: appraisal. For a seventy-ninth-Rank gem-type Martial Spirit user like Ning Fengzhi, his appraisal ability could be considered the best in the world. Even if he couldn't identify the exact origin of an item, he could roughly assess and recognize its value and extraordinary nature.
However, this "best" was only temporary. Later, after Ning Rongrong's Martial Spirit evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, her appraisal ability surpassed Ning Fengzhi's.
After discussing serious matters, the three chatted for a long time. It wasn't until after lunch that Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe departed.
That afternoon, people from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect arrived again, bringing a whole cartload of books about gem-type Martial Spirits.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had been researching the evolution method of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Spirit for many years, so their data on gem-type Martial Spirits was definitely the most complete on the continent. However, in terms of comprehensive Martial Spirit theory, Spirit Hall was still the most complete.
If he didn't have the snow jade bracelet, Shi Quan truly wouldn't know how to handle so many books. Now, he could simply and directly store all the books in the snow jade bracelet.
As for the evolution method of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, the simplest way was the Immortal Herb Qiluo Tulip.
However, Immortal Herbs were almost unique existences, and for the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, it was merely treating the symptoms, not the root cause.
Regarding the Qiluo Tulip, the original description stated that it could absorb the essence of heaven and earth, and the light of the sun and moon.
If analyzed this way, the essence of heaven and earth and the light of the sun and moon are extremely compatible with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Spirit. If special means could be used to gather the essence of heaven and earth, absorb the light of the sun and moon, and transform these two into special energy to nourish the owner of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Spirit, then the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda might be able to transform and advance…