Chapter 163: The Banquet Invitation

The blessing of the Myriad Flower Psychic grants Ning Feiliu a simple disguise ability; in truth, it not only changes the color of his Soul Rings but also allows Ning Feiliu to significantly conceal his aura.

However, there is one shortcoming: while the color of the Soul Rings can be changed, the might and aura of the Soul Rings cannot be completely hidden.

Like the Soul Rings themselves, they actually possess what is called might and aura. (Original work setting)

Take a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, for example; in the original plot, Tang San absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as his Fourth Soul Ring, and the aura and might it displayed, crushing a crowd of Thousand-Year Soul Rings, made it possible for people to feel that it was absolutely a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Similarly, when Tang Hao released his martial soul and Soul Rings before Zhao Wuji, the might and aura displayed by that hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, which came from the sacrifice of his late wife A Yin, were also quite terrifying.

There is also the case similar to the Peerless Tang Sect era, where the hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring granted to Huo Yuhao by the Tianmeng Iceworm, once fully displayed, had a might and aura that could make one feel that the white Soul Ring on Huo Yuhao, which appeared to be the lowest-level Ten-Year Spirit Ring, was not that simple.

When Ning Feiliu releases his aura with full force, the aura that originally belongs to a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring will be completely exposed.

However, the disguise color of the Soul Rings will still not be broken, unless his soul power is exhausted, or he encounters a mental attack and is severely injured, making him unable to continue maintaining the disguise ability.

But regardless, with this ability, Ning Feiliu can slightly hide his true Soul Ring combination, so as not to attract overly astonishing attention.

Especially to guard against those fellows in the Spirit Hall; if the Spirit Hall were to see that his third Soul Ring is already a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, they might just have some ideas about him.

Now, disguising it as a Thousand-Year Soul Ring might make the Spirit Hall slightly lower their guard against him.

After testing his disguise ability, Ning Feiliu retracted his martial soul and Soul Rings in boredom.

He looked around, still feeling very bored...

Forget it, let's practice that unique skill of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect—Distraction Control.

Ever since he obtained this unique skill from his elder brother Ning Mingrui and triggered the quest, Ning Feiliu has also practiced it frequently.

But this unique skill is still somewhat difficult to learn; he has only just reached the entry-level realm—the level of the Three Apertures Imperial Heart.

However, after reaching the Three Apertures Imperial Heart, Ning Feiliu also seems to have a new idea for the practical application of the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon, which is to use the Crescent Moon Divine Weapons in both hands simultaneously as main-hand weapons to activate soul skills.

As early as when he first learned Distraction Control and grasped the simplest One Heart Two Uses, he had this idea.

It is just that for some reason, at that time, the realm of One Heart Two Uses was fine for fighting like left-right mutual combat or using the Crescent Moon Divine Weapons in both hands simultaneously as main-hand weapons to launch attacks, but activating soul skills...

It still didn't work.

But now that he has reached the realm of the Three Apertures Imperial Heart, he does have a feeling in his heart that he can barely use soul skill combinations in this way.

It is just that he has not yet put it into actual combat to test it.

Ning Feiliu plans to test it in the Great Spirit Arena after a while... he believes that skillfully mastering the combat style of using the Crescent Moon Divine Weapons in both hands simultaneously as main-hand weapons to attack and activate soul skills will be able to strengthen his combat power quite a bit more!

Just like that, after finishing his practice of Distraction Control that night, he began to use the concentrated moonlight dew to cultivate soul power.

After all, he is already at level 39 soul power now; raising his soul power by one more level will break through to Soul Ancestor.

Regardless, cultivation is the most important thing; it is the foundation that supports him in moving toward a more distant future!

Between each breath of Ning Feiliu, his soul power swayed with the moonlight, while steadily increasing at the same time.

The night passed without incident, and Ning Feiliu spent it in boring and dull cultivation again.

But there is no help for it; this ancient world just lacks entertainment methods at night, and he really cannot do anything other than cultivate.

After the moonlight faded and the sun rose, Ning Feiliu continued to cultivate for nearly an hour; the sunlight, which was more violent than moonlight because it was not filtered by the moon, mostly turned into pure soul power and merged into his body, while another portion turned into the uncontrollable Sun Destruction Power and condensed in the corners of his body.

"Hoo—" After cultivating for nearly an hour, feeling a sense of bloating pain in his body as if it were being supported by soul power, Ning Feiliu finally stopped.

Without the support of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, the extent to which humans can increase soul power in a short time is limited.

This is also something Ning Feiliu discovered after being able to use the Sunlight Breathing Method to rapidly increase soul power during the day, because the human body's organs, such as the meridians that contain soul power, are limited.

In fact, the process of increasing soul power level is not only a process of increasing the quantity and quality of soul power, but also a process of expanding the human meridians that contain soul power.

Some people are born with wide meridians and can contain a large amount of soul power; such people increase soul power very quickly, and at the same time, they basically do not encounter any bottlenecks before reaching the limit of their innate meridian capacity.

But some people are different; they are born with narrow meridians, and there may even be blockages, so the speed of improvement will be quite slow.

Therefore, they need more time to expand their meridians bit by bit every day with the increased soul power.

Ning Feiliu's body was likely in such a situation originally, which is why the speed of increasing soul power was extremely slow.

But he couldn't resist consuming three Immortal Herbs; the Blazing Apricot Delicate and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass might not have had such a great effect on improvement, after all, they did not increase Tang San's soul power level after he ate them in the original plot.

This proves that the Extreme Ice Power and Extreme Fire Power of these two Immortal Herbs might not act on the so-called meridians, but entered the user's cells and blood.

However, the Qiluo Tulip that Ning Feiliu swallowed was different; in the original work, it not only improved Ning Rongrong's martial soul quality but also increased her soul power level by quite a bit.

Therefore, the Qiluo Tulip should be able to improve the condition of Ning Feiliu's internal meridians.

Plus, Ning Feiliu swallowed a Mysterious Water Pill, so it can be said that the meridians in his body have become much clearer.

However, it doesn't matter what the condition of his meridians is now, because he is actually now, after continuously using the Moonlight Breathing Method and the Sunlight Breathing Method to cultivate, filled to the brim with soul power in his body, even if his innate meridians were as wide as a highway.

Now, to increase his soul power, he actually has to constantly expand his original meridian capacity, or... open up new meridians.

Just like Tang San opening up his meridians in the original plot.

And there is definitely a limit to expanding meridian capacity; it is impossible to expand it all at once, as the body would definitely not be able to withstand it.

In fact, even if an ordinary person cultivates for a day, they cannot reach the upper limit of meridian capacity that the body cannot withstand, but Ning Feiliu is different.

He has the Sunlight Breathing Method and the Moonlight Breathing Method, and his cultivation speed is very fast.

Especially the Sunlight Breathing Method; if it weren't for that indelible Sun Destruction Power contained in the sunlight, Ning Feiliu could absorb sunlight to increase soul power without any scruples, and the speed of that soul power increase would definitely be four times higher than the Moonlight Breathing Method!

Even because of that indelible Sun Destruction Power contained in the sunlight, Ning Feiliu's cultivation speed during the day is still three times that of his night cultivation.

After all, the sunlight during the day, unless it is cloudy or rainy weather, is usually several times stronger than moonlight, and even if one or two clouds block the sunlight, it only blocks a portion of it.

It is almost impossible for sunlight to be completely blocked, and Ning Feiliu can cultivate no matter what.

Therefore, his cultivation speed will be very fast, and it will be very easy to reach the meridian capacity limit.

Regardless, Ning Feiliu's speed of increasing soul power is extremely fast.

After just five or six hours of cultivation, he suddenly felt that the soul power in his body had increased by nearly two percent.

Normally, within three months, he would be able to break through to the Soul Ancestor realm.

This speed is absolutely astonishing to tell others; one must know that in the original work, it took Tang San half a year to break through from level 37 to level 40, which means it took six months to increase by three levels of soul power, averaging one level of soul power every two months.

However, referring to the situation of the soul power ratio gap that Gangzi mentioned in the original work, one knows that it is absolutely impossible to increase one level of soul power every two months on average.

Breaking through from level 37 to level 38 soul power is definitely much easier than breaking through from level 39 to level 40 soul power.

Therefore, even for Tang San in the original work, breaking through from level 39 to level 40 soul power would definitely require at least about three months of time.

Not to mention compared to others; for instance, Zhu Zhuqing, whose talent is basically confirmed to be the worst among the Shrek Seven Devils, reached level 38 soul power after consuming the Immortal Herb Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, but it still took her a full five months to break through to the Soul Ancestor realm.

In short, Ning Feiliu's cultivation speed is indeed quite fast.

Ning Feiliu also knows well the principle that one cannot eat hot tofu in a hurry, and he is content with his current cultivation speed.

Of course, it is certainly not as impressive as those fan-fiction protagonists who use the "divine enlightenment" cheat, where they can be instantly enlightened by a system from an ordinary person into a peerless expert at the Title Douluo level.

That must be very satisfying.

It is a pity that Ning Feiliu does not have such treatment and can only improve his soul power bit by bit on his own.

"I have an appointment with Sister Yan this afternoon... then I'll go stroll around the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena this morning first," Ning Feiliu stretched, loosened his muscles and bones, and muttered to himself.

The last experience of the battle with Ling Yue had also thoroughly beaten confidence into him.

However... he still needs to be a bit more cautious.

The two Blessing Skills, 【Summoning of the God of Smelting】 and 【Summoning of the God of Ice and Snow】, cannot be used too many times in a short period.

Too many bursts will cause the body to be unable to withstand the impact of repeated weakness and Soul Ring explosions.

Ning Feiliu decided to be a bit more cautious, but when challenging across levels, one can also choose their own opponents.

This is much better than in same-level battles, where one cannot know who the opponent is.

For example, in a same-level battle, even if Ning Feiliu is just over level 31 soul power, if his battle record is too dazzling, there is nothing you can do if the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena arranges a peak Soul Elder at level 39 for you.

But in cross-level challenges, it is impossible for Ning Feiliu to take the initiative to challenge a peak level 49 Soul Ancestor with his current cultivation of level 39.

The Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena would not be such a jerk as to arrange such a vastly mismatched opponent for him without Ning Feiliu asking to challenge one.

Thus, Ning Feiliu changed his outfit again and headed to the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena.

But on the other side.

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect castle.

"Father," Ning Mingrui looked at Ning Fengzhi before him and called out respectfully.

"Mingrui, are you doing well lately..." Ning Fengzhi looked at Ning Mingrui with a smile and said with an implied meaning, "Have you made any friends recently, Mingrui... It seems you have been going out a lot lately."

Ning Mingrui was stunned for a moment and said, "Father, I am just... going out a little bit; I have not been lazy about the family business at all."

He clearly thought that Ning Fengzhi was telling him not to go out so much and neglect the serious business of the family.

"No, that is not what I meant," Ning Fengzhi said with a smile, "I just think that you, Mingrui, can indeed get closer to some rather good friends... This will also be helpful for your future, won't it?"

"Last time, a disciple saw you and that student of Mr. Dugu, Yafei, walking out of the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena together, talking and laughing. How did you get to know that Yafei?" he asked again with a smile.

"Yafei?" Ning Mingrui was stunned for a moment, but he felt somewhat conflicted.

He really wanted to tell Ning Fengzhi that Yafei is Ning Feiliu, and Ning Feiliu is Yafei.

But he had promised Ning Feiliu that he could not leak his true identity.

So he still suppressed that impulse.

Ning Mingrui said evasively, "Just... met by chance. By the way..."

He looked at Ning Fengzhi seriously and asked, "Father, what do you think of Feiliu?"

"Feiliu?" Ning Fengzhi thought of this third son of his who was not outstanding. If Ning Mingrui hadn't suddenly brought him up, he wouldn't even have thought of this son with mediocre talent.

But he still said with a smile, "Feiliu is just like you all, he is Father's child. Although he is not outstanding, his character and such are not bad in daily life."

Ning Mingrui was silent, and then he said, "No, Father, you are wrong. Feiliu... is actually no worse than any of us siblings... No, he is definitely the most outstanding one among us siblings!"

"I hope Father can pay more attention to Feiliu... Sometimes, talent does not necessarily represent everything."

Listening to these somewhat serious words from Ning Mingrui, Ning Fengzhi was stunned, and he frowned.

But he thought about it and felt that this was probably just Ning Mingrui wanting to help his younger brother Ning Feiliu gain some of his attention.

"Feiliu... hmm, perhaps it is as you said, Mingrui, that besides talent, he is very outstanding." Ning Fengzhi nodded and affirmed insincerely, "How about this, another day you call Feiliu back, and also invite that friend of yours, and we will hold a dinner party for a casual meal? How about it?"

Hearing that Ning Fengzhi's mind was still on "Yafei," Ning Mingrui suddenly understood a little why Ning Feiliu thought that way.

He sighed and said, "Hmm... but, if that is the case, 'Yafei' probably won't accept the invitation..."

(End of this chapter)