After confirming that there were no particular issues requiring attention in the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
In short, after inspecting her future domain.
Ning Rongrong finally set off for Vast Sea City with Dugu Yan and Lou Gao.
Speaking of soul tools.
Lou Gao was now a solid level 7 soul mentor.
You must know that a fixed level 7 soul tool, if aimed accurately, could severely injure an average Soul Douluo without issue.
While ordinary level 7 soul tools were slightly weaker than Soul Sages of the same rank.
For auxiliary soul masters, soul tools were epoch-making items.
Not everyone was like Ning Rongrong, wielding the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to smash people around impressively, nor like Ning Fengzhi, using mirror replication to create a copy of a Title Douluo for defense, plus having several hundred-thousand-year soul bones as trump cards.
Most auxiliary soul masters were basically combat weaklings.
What?
The frontline tank and fighter are gone, and it's game over, Barbie Q.
For auxiliary soul masters, delicate and easy to push over, if unprotected.
Men might fare slightly better, but women, well, it might be like walking into a goblin horde.
Hmm?
Why did she think of a goblin horde…
Scratch that, scratch that.
Overall, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's overall strength had risen another notch in the past two and a half years.
Currently, the soul tools used by the Heaven Dou Empire to defend against the Star Luo Empire at the border were just ordinary retired items from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
As for soul tools being replicated, what a joke!
Even if Tang San's Purple Demon Eyes stared until they turned cross-eyed, he couldn't replicate them.
The anti-piracy mode was something Ning Rongrong spent years developing. Otherwise, how could soul tools be sold externally? She didn't want to anger Gu Yuena.
You must know that once soul tools spread out.
The first to be affected would be the soul beast forces.
Currently, they were in a cooperative phase. Both Spirit Hall and Star Dou Great Forest wanted to lift the Dragon God's restriction rules, so it was better not to pull the dragon's whiskers and avoid making a certain silver dragon jump in rage.
As for soul tool anti-piracy, it involved formations from her own world.
With Tang San's half-baked skills, could he crack it in a thousand years?
The so-called anti-piracy meant you could dismantle it, but you absolutely couldn't reassemble it.
Moreover, doing anything beyond its intended use, like research.
The soul tools sold would self-destruct.
"What, you say this is a forced contract?"
Patents are just that willful!
At most, you don't buy. Our Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect sells soul tools with clear instructions about self-destruction reasons, playing fair and square, not wanting you to research them.
If you insist on researching and standing on our shoulders, how is that acceptable!
This is the so-called technological barrier!
Like importing a machine—if you don't pay, it locks up.
Don't talk about doing it for humanity.
Nonsense. If Tang San is so great, why doesn't he publish the Clear Sky Hammer's secret techniques?
It's all about your "justice" versus my "justice."
Making money, no shame in that.
"Rongrong?"
Dugu Yan's voice pulled Ning Rongrong back from her mental ramblings.
"Huh, what's up?"
Ning Rongrong looked up at Dugu Yan, who now carried a hint of mature charm.
"You seem preoccupied," Dugu Yan said with some curiosity. "Is there something wrong with my physique again?"
"Huh?" Ning Rongrong reacted, patting Dugu Yan's shoulder. "There's no problem. Senior Dugu is just too cautious."
"With the stability of the Misfortune Poison Body and your current control over it."
"You can absolutely reach level 80."
That's right, Ning Rongrong still felt Dugu Bo was too conservative.
Probably worried about accidents!
You must know that with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's resources, Dugu Bo could get as many herbs as he wanted in his name, even various poisons could be brought back for Dugu Yan to use, but Dugu Bo was still extremely cautious.
That aside, thinking of what Ning Fengzhi said about Dugu Bo's ninth soul skill—Jade Phosphor Divine Light.
Dugu Bo could fully control it, something even the original story couldn't achieve.
One could imagine, for his granddaughter.
Dugu Bo's understanding and use of poison had reached an unimaginable level, especially his control.
In short, he was probably worried Dugu Yan might go berserk and be unstoppable!
"Level 80, huh!" Hearing Ning Rongrong's words, Dugu Yan sighed. "I haven't decided what kind of soul beast to use for my soul ring."
"Snake-type with poison attributes, usually like that," Ning Rongrong said thoughtfully.
Dugu Yan was, after all, a soul master, unlike herself.
Absorbing a soul ring, besides attributes, also involved the growth potential of the martial soul. As for Yu Xiaogang teaching Tang San to absorb a poison soul ring with the life-attributed Blue Silver Grass, Ning Rongrong only found it absurd.
"Hm, Grandpa said the same," Dugu Yan nodded.
"He thinks it's best to absorb a Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor soul beast, but he's not entirely sure because my martial soul and physique are clearly different from his."
"Rongrong, is this really okay?" Dugu Yan was a bit worried. She extended her right hand, shaping her palm into a blade, infused soul power into it, and then forcefully slashed at her left arm.
"Swish—"
Her left arm, accompanied by a tearing sound, fell straight to the ground.
Scarlet blood oozed from the wound of the severed arm.
However, as Dugu Yan's pupils turned from black to light green.
The originally scarlet blood began to change.
Especially the severed arm, which turned into a cloud of green poisonous mist, quickly returning to the wound site, reforming into the complete arm as before, without even a trace of the cut.
"Uh, what's the problem?" Ning Rongrong blinked.
Lou Gao, standing nearby, twitched his mouth but said nothing.
In his heart, he muttered: "This isn't about whether there's a problem; is Dugu Yan even human anymore?"
Thinking of Dugu Bo discussing Dugu Yan's situation with him, full of melancholy.
Let alone a severed arm, even if that arm was burned to ashes in a fire.
Dugu Yan could regrow a complete arm from the original wound site, relying on the speed within her body, and the arm would be exactly the same as before.
This was even more absurd than Ye Renxin's Nine Heart Begonia.
"I can now use the body's toxins to reconstruct all organs, including the heart, and it only takes a thought and a bit of soul power. It feels so scary!" Dugu Yan said timidly.
"Grandpa seems very worried about this situation."
"So that's what you're worried about!" Ning Rongrong facepalmed. "Actually, this means you can control the Misfortune Poison Body very well."
"As your strength improves, as long as your soul isn't severely damaged or your soul's aura doesn't age, you basically won't die!"
"In some worlds' terms, this is the effect of your physique."
"As long as you don't use that physique, aren't you just like a normal person?"
"But…"
"Actually, in some worlds, or when strength reaches a certain level, things like regenerating from a drop of blood or regrowing limbs are normal."
Before Dugu Yan could finish, Ning Rongrong interrupted her overthinking.
Then, she reached to touch her right eye socket.
"Swish—"
A blood-stained eyeball appeared in Ning Rongrong's right palm.