"Well, child, no need to be so formal. We're family now. If you're willing, you can call me Uncle Ning." Ning Fengzhi said with a kind smile.
"Okay, Uncle Ning." Tianlin didn't stand on ceremony at all. After all, addressing someone was also a way to build a closer relationship.
Ning Fengzhi was definitely the most qualified sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. To his own people, he was both authoritative and benevolent. To outsiders, he always had that approachable demeanor.
Therefore, since he took over as sect master, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School had an excellent reputation in the soul master world.
Perhaps Ning Fengzhi's smile was seven parts genuine and three parts fake, with a hint of hypocrisy. However, if a person could only be a hypocrite for a while, they would naturally be scorned by everyone once exposed. But if they could be a hypocrite for a lifetime, then there would be no difference between them and a saint.
It was under Ning Fengzhi's leadership that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School had reached its current position as the second most powerful sect in the world.
"Then I'll call you Little Tian from now on. Come, Little Tian, come up to the main hall and let us see your Spirit!" What Ning Fengzhi was most concerned about was Tianlin's talent.
After all, it was just a message from an outer disciple. He only believed what he saw.
"Yes!" Tianlin stepped forward, extended his right hand, and summoned the Demon Sword with his mind.
In an instant, sword intent gathered in the hall, as if countless sword shadows appeared in all directions, capable of piercing the enemy's heart in an instant.
"What a terrifying Spirit! Without a single spirit ring, it actually possesses such sword intent!" Chen Xin said in surprise. With his skill, he could naturally see that this sword intent did not come from Tianlin, but from the sword itself.
"Sword Grandpa, I'm scared!" Ning Rongrong pouted, as if she was about to cry, and buried her head deeply in Chen Xin's arms, afraid to show her face.
Being locked on by such a huge sword intent, it was as if the sword was right on her neck. How could a little girl not be afraid?
"Rongrong, don't be afraid, Grandpa's here!" Chen Xin waved his hand, and an even stronger Seven Kill Sword intent spread out, instantly dispersing Tianlin's Demon Sword intent.
As expected of Sword Douluo, in the mastery of the sword, no one on the entire continent could surpass him.
Tianlin steadied himself and said, "Uncle Ning, two Titled Douluos, this is my Spirit, the Demon Suppressing Sword. The sword intent just now was my Spirit's innate spirit ability, Phantom Sword, one sword transforms into ten thousand swords, killing all enemies!"
"Innate spirit ability, truly extraordinary. Old Sword Man, this and your sixth spirit ability, Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, seem to have the same effect!" Gu Rong, Bone Douluo, exclaimed.
Chen Xin nodded, "That's right, and it's even more powerful than my Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, because this innate spirit ability can grow with Tianlin's level. Perhaps in the future, it can rival some Titled Douluos' ninth spirit ability."
"Sword Uncle, I think this child is quite fated with you. Why don't you take him as your disciple? Don't you still not have a successor?" Ning Fengzhi suddenly suggested.
Tianlin was grateful upon hearing this. This was his main purpose in coming to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.
Chen Xin considered it, "I can allow him to call me teacher first, and I will be responsible for guiding his cultivation afterwards."
He didn't directly agree. Teacher and master were completely different. There were teachers everywhere in the academy, but there could only be one master. Chen Xin was very strict in choosing people. In addition to talent, perseverance, character, and integrity were all within his scope of consideration.
However, Tianlin could be considered to have gotten an opportunity. Chen Xin didn't directly refuse, but instead gave Tianlin a probationary period. Only when he was satisfied would he formally accept him as a disciple.
"Thank you, Teacher. This disciple will definitely cultivate diligently and strive to gain Teacher's approval as soon as possible!" Tianlin walked up to Chen Xin and bowed.
Seeing this, Chen Xin was even more satisfied. His subtext had been completely guessed by him. With such talent and intelligence, he was afraid that it wouldn't be long before he really had an direct disciple.
"Your name is Tianlin, right? My name is Rongrong. I'm the eldest miss of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. Since you've joined the sect, you have to listen to me from now on and be my little brother." Ning Rongrong jumped out of Chen Xin's arms, with tears still on her face, obviously very dissatisfied with Tianlin scaring her just now.
"I can protect you, but I won't be a little brother." Tianlin immediately refused. He didn't want to indulge this little devil.
"Sword Grandpa, look at him!" Ning Rongrong immediately complained without saying a word.
"Alright, Rongrong, it's enough that Tianlin promised to protect you. You have to become good friends with him and not use your power to bully others." Ning Fengzhi immediately taught.
As a support-type soul master, what she needed most was to find a comrade who could entrust her back to. With Tianlin's talent, he hoped that he could become the person Ning Rongrong needed.
Just like himself, he would never put on the airs of a sect master in front of Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo. In his heart, the two Douluo were his comrades and family, Ning Fengzhi's family.
"Rongrong, listen to your father. Tianlin's Spirit does not allow him to bow his head to anyone." Chen Xin was a swordsman, a swordsman with a sword heart, who could not bow his head to anyone or anything. Only by moving forward courageously could he reach the pinnacle of the sword.
"Hmph, none of you are helping me. Rongrong hates you!" Unfortunately, Ning Rongrong was too young to understand her father and grandfather's good intentions. She threw a tantrum and ran out without even saying goodbye.
"Alas, this child." Ning Fengzhi sighed and looked at Tianlin. "I'm really sorry, Tianlin. My daughter is spoiled. Go and rest first. Tomorrow morning, Uncle Jian will take you to the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain your first Spirit Ring."
"It's okay, Uncle Ning. Then I'll take my leave." After Tianlin finished speaking, he withdrew from the main hall.
A disciple had been waiting there for a long time. He was arranged by Ning Fengzhi and was responsible for taking Tianlin to the room where he would live from now on.
The wealth and generosity of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was indeed unimaginable. He, a newly entered disciple, actually had an independent room, and it was both luxurious and spacious. Living in this kind of place every day was simply extravagant enough to be struck by lightning.
Of course, this was only for Tianlin. After all, with his talent, he was a reserve Titled Douluo of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. Other disciples did not have this treatment.
Tianlin was not in a hurry to rest. Instead, he came to the desk, took out paper and pen, and began to consider his Spirit Ring configuration. No one knew the Demon Sword better than him, so he had to consider how to choose the Spirit Rings himself.
The growth method of the Demon Sword was somewhat different from other swords. The Spirit Rings it needed to absorb were not in terms of sharpness or hardness, but rather the major attributes.
Water, fire, wind, thunder, earth.
These five major attributes, after different fusions, could give birth to different Spirit abilities, with as many as dozens of permutations and combinations.
Tianlin had to choose the nine strongest and most practical ones from these dozens of types to be his own Spirit abilities!
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