Death?
Everyone present was stunned. Before they could ask questions, Ning Rongrong explained:
"To break through to a higher realm, you need the mental resolve to pay with your life. With only six days, we can only use unconventional methods."
"But rest assured, even if you break through to Title Douluo using unconventional methods, it won't affect your future cultivation progress, and it might even improve your own aptitude to some extent."
As Ning Rongrong's words fell, she could even hear the rapid breathing of the enshrined elders present.
"I… I don't know what the success rate is." Wang Teng's breathing grew heavier.
Title Douluo—that was the pinnacle existence on the continent.
Even a level 91 Title Douluo stood at the peak of the continent.
Wang Teng had asked the key question that everyone present was concerned about.
"The success rate so far is one hundred percent."
"Hiss—" Wang Teng's body trembled nonstop. He was no longer young; among the enshrined, he wasn't the oldest, but breaking through to Title Douluo still had slim chances.
"Then I…"
"I know you're all anxious, but please don't rush. Let me finish." Ning Rongrong raised her hand to stop the chattering voices of the many enshrined elders.
"Only two people have undergone this experiment so far, and the success rate is one hundred percent."
"But both of them said they wouldn't want to go through that process again."
"Why is that?" Wang Teng asked instinctively.
"The process is like being taken by dozens of burly men stronger than you, one after another."
Silence—
The hall fell into dead quiet.
"Ahem, cough cough~ Choose your words more appropriately. There are so many people here!"
Ning Fengzhi slapped his chest a few times, nearly choking on the tea he had just drunk.
The enshrined elders below also had subtle expressions.
Although Ning Rongrong and that certain pagoda spirit had the nickname of little demoness in the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, did she dare say anything?
And saying it in public, right in front of Ning Fengzhi.
Did she have no sense of shame?
Looking at Ning Rongrong's unchanged expression, everyone felt a sense of awe, like gazing up at a high mountain.
As expected of Ning Fengzhi's daughter—she truly surpassed her master.
Not only was her strength formidable, but also…
Forget it, better not think about it.
If Ning Fengzhi held a grudge later and made things difficult, it wouldn't be good.
"Uh… Is the wording wrong?" Ning Rongrong's voice was calm. "Then let me rephrase it."
Ning Rongrong seemed completely unaware of what she had just said.
Still so innocent and straightforward.
"In summary, it's like hovering between life and death multiple times."
"The ones who have truly experienced this process in the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School are only two: Shui Cangyue and the fallen enshrined elder, Wang Quan Fugui."
When mentioning Wang Quan Fugui, Ning Rongrong's voice seemed a bit downcast.
"It's them…"
Wang Teng, who had been extremely embarrassed earlier, was now completely shocked upon hearing the main topic.
Shui Cangyue's Title Douluo strength was already unbelievable. Although she was an enshrined elder of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, they weren't completely ignorant of the outside world.
Back then, Shui Cangyue was just a Soul Douluo, yet she leaped to Title Douluo with a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
As for Wang Quan Fugui, he had become a Title Douluo in just a few short years in Vast Sea City, but he had already fallen in the previous beast tide, and everyone didn't know what to say.
"Yes." Ning Rongrong nodded at Wang Teng's astonished look. "Shui Cangyue was the first, and it was my first attempt. She experienced the boundary between life and death seventeen times before breaking through to Title Douluo."
"And Enshrined Wang Quan… fifteen times."
"That's also why they're unwilling to discuss it afterward. Besides involving my martial soul, that experience isn't something they want to relive."
"I wonder how the Young Sect Master will help us improve our strength?" From Ning Rongrong's words, Wang Teng roughly guessed that this involved a secret of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but he was still somewhat curious.
"Simply put, it's about expelling impurities from your bodies, similar to a medicinal bath."
"But the effect is better, and it involves my martial soul and abilities."
"I won't go into specifics, and it can't be widely promoted anyway."
"My father's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda can't do this."
"I… I see!" Wang Teng nodded.
Over so many years, only two had broken through to Title Douluo. If it were really that easy, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School would have stacks of Title Douluo long ago.
"Using this method consumes a lot from me." Ning Rongrong sighed. "If I hadn't killed those sea soul beasts and obtained a few hundred-thousand-year soul rings earlier, I wouldn't have done this."
"But it's still a bit of a pity to see the hundred-thousand-year soul rings disappear."
"On my side…" Ning Rongrong hesitated for a moment before speaking. "In handling the sea soul beast incident, besides the soul rings sealed by the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, I also collected five hundred-thousand-year soul bones and 135 other soul bones."
"Among the 135 other soul bones, there are 33 ten-thousand-year soul bones, 75 thousand-year soul bones, and 27 hundred-year soul bones."
As she spoke, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda flickered slightly. Three piles of soul bones were placed in front of Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo, while the five hundred-thousand-year soul bones were placed on the desk beside Ning Fengzhi.
"Hiss—"
Soul bones, treasures of blood and river.
Looking at the items scattered on the ground, everyone's gazes were hard to tear away.
Besides Ning Fengzhi and the other two, the enshrined elders below had flushed faces, as if their essence had been drained, and there was even greedy desire.
To be honest, even seeing this greed in the enshrined elders' eyes, Ning Rongrong found it normal.
After all, who isn't greedy!
You can't expect everyone to be a saint.
"Ahem—"
Ning Rongrong cleared her throat lightly, and a faint pressure rose.
The enshrined elders present were suddenly startled.
Especially seeing Ning Rongrong's expression turn to shock.
Soul rings, plus soul bones, combined with Ning Rongrong's earlier words, everyone pieced together a terrifying picture: Ning Rongrong had single-handedly slaughtered all the soul beasts that launched the beast tide.
So many soul bones—how many soul beasts had to die?
Good heavens, this seemingly unreliable Young Sect Master in front of them was actually a god of death!
Ning Rongrong ignored those ghostly expressions and said: "On my side, there's also a 600,000-year soul bone, which is that Sea Princess's soul bone. As for what a 600,000-year soul beast is, you can ask my father. In short, its strength is around level 99, but this soul bone has other uses for me, so I won't put it in the distribution."
"600,000-year soul bone…" The enshrined elders present exchanged glances.
Had the Young Sect Master become this outrageous?
Suddenly expanding the camp, killing in all directions, even chopping down a soul beast with limit Douluo strength?
This was someone even Sword Douluo couldn't handle.
"Hiss—"
Everyone sucked in cold breaths again.
The enshrined elders' expressions, changing dramatically like a Sichuan opera face-change, Ning Rongrong found quite interesting. After thinking, she said:
"For the soul bones and soul rings taken out, I'll take a share for Dugu Yan."
"One hundred-thousand-year soul bone, three ninety-thousand-year soul bones, plus one hundred-thousand-year soul ring—that's it."
Seeing Ning Rongrong take these key items, no one spoke up.
However, Ning Rongrong still explained: "This time, to exterminate the sea soul beasts of the beast tide, Dugu Yan's strength was indispensable. These rightfully belong to her."
"I dealt with these hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, including that 600,000-year Sea Princess."
"But these soul bones below hundred-thousand-year were all actually taken down by Dugu Yan herself…"
By saying this, Ning Rongrong decided to assist Dugu Yan and further elevate her strength.
But the soul bones produced by over a hundred thousand soul beasts were all due to Dugu Yan's poison; she was merely recovering those soul bones.
After hearing Ning Rongrong's explanation, the enshrined elders present all shuddered.
Over a hundred thousand soul beasts, including ninety-thousand-year soul beasts, wiped out with just two skills?
In the past, there was the slaughter of Dugu Bo; now, there's the beast slaughter by Dugu Yan.
Good grief, this grandfather-granddaughter pair isn't sent by the King of Hell to rack up performance, is it!