Su Cheng was walking toward the Elder Hall when a streak of golden light suddenly flashed in from the side, and a figure lunged toward him.
Seeing that the two were about to crash into each other, Su Cheng raised a finger and tapped it lightly—landing directly on the other party's smooth forehead.
"What are you doing?"
Looking at the blonde girl before him, who already reached the height of his chest, he showed a helpless expression.
"Teacher, you don't need to do this. My grandpa already said it—the matter of the ninth soul ring isn't something I need to worry about."
The girl lifted her head to look at Su Cheng. Her eyes—already showing signs of peerless beauty—sparkled like starlight.
"Who said I'm worrying about your ninth soul ring," Su Cheng replied indifferently.
Hearing this, Qian Renxue rolled her eyes, clearly telling him to stop pretending. "I saw everything at Grandpa's place."
"Your martial soul only needs one ninth soul ring, right?"
"So that means…" Qian Renxue reacted, "I can start absorbing a 100,000-year soul ring at rank 80?"
She didn't doubt that, with this teacher's help, she would be able to achieve it in the future.
"I believe that, for a soul master, the importance of the Martial Soul True Body surpasses even the eighth soul skill."
"Martial Soul True Body…"
Qian Renxue repeated the words softly, then suddenly came to her senses.
Her eyes widened. She looked at Su Cheng with utter disbelief.
"That's impossible… I can't do that…"
"Don't worry, I will assist you."
Su Cheng patted her shoulder. "Go advance to Soul Ancestor first. The rest isn't something a little girl like you needs to worry about."
If there was a chance to absorb a 100,000-year soul ring at rank 70, what Qian Daoliu would choose to do, and whether he had the means to obtain such a soul ring, Su Cheng didn't know.
But it was always better to be prepared.
"I'm not little," Qian Renxue said unhappily. "You're not even a few years older than me."
"Being older than you is enough."
Su Cheng answered casually, continuing toward the back mountain.
Qian Renxue snorted lightly and followed.
"Teacher, what exactly is going on with your martial soul?"
"What do you think?"
Hearing his counter-question, the girl spoke her earlier guess. "Is it related to the attributes added to the martial soul by soul rings? Martial souls also have attributes. Malignant mutation of a martial soul seems to be caused by the change of its inherent attributes."
Su Cheng nodded. "You have some comprehension. At least those books weren't wasted."
Given this world's limited knowledge and perspective, reaching this level of deduction was already impressive.
The entanglement of attributes within a martial soul was far more complicated than it seemed.
Even though Su Cheng understood the principles of the five elements' mutual generation and restriction, and had long developed certain ideas, actually putting them into practice required years of accumulated experience.
He did not hide anything and briefly explained the theory behind martial soul mutation and secondary awakening.
After hearing this, Qian Renxue fell silent.
In recent years, under Su Cheng's guidance, she had read quite a few books, but she still believed she could never possess Su Cheng's kind of spiritual intuition.
This teacher always found paths no one else could imagine.
Often, the most important and most difficult step was always that first spark of inspiration.
"Learning without thinking leads to confusion; thinking without learning leads to peril." Seeing Qian Renxue bow her head in deep thought, Su Cheng continued:
"I asked you to read more books to broaden your horizons.
"You are gifted, but your accumulated knowledge is insufficient. Blind speculation is like building a tower on sand. The more whimsical your ideas, the more likely you are to go astray.
"Now that you've read enough, it's time you spend more effort thinking—or else knowledge will only confine your intuition.
"Take your time and figure it out."
"…"
While talking, the two had already reached the back mountain of the Spirit Hall once more, entering a dim dungeon.
The dungeon was empty except for the torches on the walls used to illuminate the place.
At the cage at the dungeon's deepest end, a Holy Light Beast slightly over ten thousand years old was tightly bound. Its broad wings drooped weakly onto the ground, and its powerful limbs were covered in wounds.
Hearing movement, it slowly opened its eyes to look at the arrivals. Its once radiant snow-white fur was now dull, yet its pure, holy aura still gave off an undeniable sense of sanctity.
This Holy Light Beast was precisely Qian Renxue's target on this trip.
Despite how pitiful it looked in its severely injured state, its true strength was extremely great, and under sunlight its recovery ability was exceptionally strong. That was why it was imprisoned underground—to suppress it.
"Do it," Su Cheng said after confirming it had lost all ability to resist.
Qian Renxue nodded, took a deep breath, retrieved a long sword from her soul tool, and stepped forward.
With a single clean thrust, she finished the soul beast.
A pitch-black ten-thousand-year soul ring slowly rose.
Su Cheng nodded inwardly, impressed by the good luck.
Soul beasts with holy or evil attributes were not few, but soul beasts with such attributes as their primary attribute were extremely rare—even rarer than those with ultimate attributes.
If they weren't lucky, they would have had to settle for a fire-attribute soul beast for Qian Renxue's fourth soul ring—but the enhancement it would provide to her Angel Martial Soul would be far inferior.
Even more fortunate, the soul ring's age was perfect.
Since Qian Renxue didn't leap ages on her previous rings, a fourth ring exceeding ten thousand years was already her limit.
And that was only because Su Cheng had spent years strengthening her body and spirit, combined with the deep foundation of her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
"Good. Begin preparing to absorb this soul ring."
Su Cheng looked at Qian Renxue, signaling that the next step could begin.
He had already taught her the method and acupuncture points for silver-needle stimulation.
Qian Renxue did not answer. She took another deep breath, silently taking out the silver needles and pre-prepared medicinal solution from her soul tool.
Seeing this, Su Cheng prepared to leave the dungeon and stand guard outside.
"Teacher… wait."
A slightly trembling voice suddenly came from behind.
"What is it?"He stopped, puzzled, and turned around.
What entered his eyes was Qian Renxue's bowed figure.
Her face was covered by the shadow of her lowered golden hair, making her expression unreadable.
Her fingers gripping the needle case were faintly trembling.
"I've never practiced identifying those acupuncture points. Please help me."
"?"
For a moment, Su Cheng didn't even comprehend what she was saying.
After a few seconds, he finally spoke again:
"What did you just say?"
"I can't perform silver-needle point stimulation. Please help me!"
Su Cheng's voice grew increasingly cold."Qian Renxue… what madness are you talking about?!"
When absorbing the fourth soul ring, the main acupuncture points stimulated were on the Ren and Dai meridians—almost all located on the abdomen and waist area… extremely sensitive locations.
How could he possibly lay his hands on those?
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