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— Chapter 84 —

“Run, Rongrong, Run!” A shout echoes in the artificial blue silver forest as the young lady of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan runs for her dear life.

Ning Rongrong no longer wore her fancy dress. She’s modeled a blue and silver gi, groveling on the muddy ground as she tries to run away from her chaser. The mud smudged her fair face, but one could see the excitement in her cyan eyes.

Behind Ning Rongrong is a pack of ten-year-old tamed ocelots chasing her at a slow but calculated speed. Of course, she doesn’t know these spirit beasts are under someone’s control.

After joining the summer camp, Ning Rongrong assumed it would be like another training camp for spirit masters. However, she was wrong.

On the first day, Han Yuan taught them the essence of survival, the ability to escape! He forced them to enter this forest and told them many spirit beasts would chase them down.

Their only objective is to run away and escape the forest.

This training method isn’t new for spirit masters because they must live in the wilds, like Star Dou Forest and Sunset Forest, countless times to hunt for spirit rings.

Still, Ning Rongrong, the sheltered princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, felt this was an entirely new experience.

“Run!” Ning Rongrong stomped the ground with her little legs and ran with all her might, crisscrossing from one tree to another. She was surprisingly nimble for her age.

While Ning Rongrong didn’t train seriously in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, don’t forget she had two Title Douluo and a cunning father who could determine her training path.

Since Ning Rongrong wasn’t a power-system spirit master, it was logical for her elders in the clan to drill her to dodge and run while building good stamina.

Unfortunately, Ning Rongrong didn’t realize it because she was too lazy to care. Well, that would change as time passes.

“Rongrong, here!” said Dugu Yan, hiding in a bush.

“I’m coming!” Ning Rongrong’s eyes lit up as she jumped into the bush.

Meanwhile, Han Yuan and Ning Fengyuan watched Ning Rongrong’s little actions from a grassy hill. The former got entertained, and the latter was puzzled.

“What do you think, Ms. Tutor?” asked Han Yuan. He has an innocent smile on his face.

Ning Fengyuan sighed, “Rongrong has always been lazy in the clan, but to think this kind of activity could motivate her to train is surprising. Maybe we haven’t taken the wrong method to train her, after all.”

“Well, that’s the thing. Sometimes, you can’t just force children to study or train.” Han Yuan commented casually. “You need to disguise it as a form of game. Therefore, you can make them happy while teaching them valuable lessons.”

“Aren’t you children, too?” Ning Fengyuan flashed an intriguing look at Han Yuan.

Han Yuan waved his hand, “What, no way? I’m only a little more mature than kids my age, so don’t overthink it.”

“Hmm, is that so?” Ning Fengyuan gazed deep into the boy’s electrifying eyes. She couldn’t read him at all.

“I think we should focus on something else now, right? After all, you come here to teach me Heart Distraction Control.” Han Yuan changed the topic smoothly. “I’ve wanted to learn it for over a month now.”

“Sure…” Ning Fengyuan replied with a nod.

She explained Heart Distraction Control, from fundamental multitasking to complex things like separating one’s consciousness into two, three, and seven, to performing different tasks simultaneously.

Heart Distraction Control wasn’t only cultivating one’s spiritual power. But also the heart, allowing a single thought to give birth to seven branches of control.

Han Yuan listened to Ning Fengyuan’s explanation and felt his knowledge about Heart Distraction Control was wrong. As expected, it’s not a simple multitasking technique!

This technique allowed Han Yuan to use spirit skills simultaneously with no delay, which meant he could do things instantly, whether with self-created skills or a simple combo.

However, Han Yuan’s best discovery is learning that “Heart Distraction Control” could enhance Mental Palace Art.

He has planned to create something similar to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) to increase his thinking and learning speed. He failed because his spiritual power and brain weren’t strong enough, but Heart Distraction Control seems to solve that.

He could also construct an extra storage unit or Random Access Memory (RAM) using blue silver grass in the Dao Academy and newly learned Dao of Soul, which would lessen his own pressure.

Once that happened, Han Yuan’s spiritual power would reach an entirely unknown height, and learning something like Sage Spirit Immortal Legacy wouldn’t be a problem.

Of course, Han Yuan must do a lot, like a lot of trial and error, to achieve all that.

Unknown to the fascinated Han Yuan, Ning Fengyuan always observed his movement and secretly nodded because his learning speed was faster than she expected.

“At this rate, he could master the 3rd stage of Heart Separation Control – Three Aperture Governing the Heart.” She mumbled to herself.

Han Yuan calmed down and praised generously, “This technique is more comprehensive than I thought.”

Ning Fengyuan giggled, “Right? That’s why, while our clan’s technique is pretty straightforward, no one bothers to fight us over it because learning it alone is difficult and requires too much time.”

“No one appreciates something that takes time when you can instantly increase your power with a good or rare spirit ring or spirit bone…”

“And that’s the world we live in…” Han Yuan agreed with Ning Fengyuan’s words. People in the Douluo Dalu, especially in this era, focus too much on spirit ring and spirit skills, ignoring the essence of martial arts, mental ability, and artistic concepts.

It’s not a freaking wonder that Douluo Dalu’s universe is at the bottom of the cultivation world when you have others who cultivated the essence of the universe, throwing the sun, moon, and stars like a frisbee.

Well, it’s not entirely the people’s fault.

The Douluo Dalu world merely works that way.

Han Yuan glanced at Ning Fengyuan’s profile and asked, “Ms. Yuan, since you’re the elder of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, your martial soul must be Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, right?”

A bitter smile formed on Ning Fengyuan’s face as she replied, “No, you’re wrong. My martial soul is, in fact, a mutated tool spirit called the Seven Treasure Glazed Reflecting Mirror.”

“However, just like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, my martial soul and cultivation are limited to level 79.”

“It’s like fate is playing a game with me.”

“A mirror, huh?” Han Yuan narrowed his eyes. A mutation of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda couldn’t be ordinary.

He started planning how to get Ning Fengyuan onto his bandwagon, as this noble woman was here to monitor him and Ning Rongrong. And he couldn’t have that.

He couldn’t let Ning Fengzhi get that advantage.

So, Han Yuan used the Eyes of Truth.

…

[Name: Ning Fengyuan]

[Race: Human]

[Age: 49]

[Martial Soul: Seven Treasure Glazed Reflecting Mirror (Mutated)]

[Spirit Rank: Level 79 (Spirit Sage – Peak)]

[Battle Prowess: Level 81 (Spirit Douluo – Peak)]

[Bloodline: Seven Treasure Bloodline (Mutated)]

[Description: The seventh elder of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, a remarkable woman from the same generation as the current clan’s head, Ning Fengzhi, whose dream is to break the limitations of her clan]

…

[Name: Seven Treasure Glazed Reflecting Mirror (Mutated)]

[A mutated version of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and turned into a four-sided mirror shaped like a prism with the ability to copy spirit skills and reflect damage]

[Note: The copied spirit skills only had 70% of their effect because of the flaw of her martial soul, and the same goes for damage reflection. It also could only copy three spirit skills at one time]

…

Han Yuan was amazed by this mutated martial soul because it was simply too good. Although 70% of the real thing isn’t good and three copies limit, conceptual spirit skills like Invincible Golden Body or Destiny’s Demise care less about this weakness.

‘This woman, I must recruit her into the academy!’ Han Yuan thought to himself.

Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi is sneezing in his office. “What is this? Did I catch a flu?”

“But the weather is nice…”

“Well, maybe someone is cursing me somewhere.” He chuckled because he had too many enemies.

Ning Fengzhi didn’t know that his daughter and the clan’s female elder were about to get poached by someone.

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