Ning Fengzhi sternly said:
"Qinghe, I must remind you of one thing. Judging by the time I've interacted with this child, if you want his assistance in the future, then you can't try to recruit him, only try to be a true friend."
Xue Qinghe looked distracted a moment, his gaze meeting Ning Fengzhi's. After a long time, he slowly nodded,
"Teacher, I understand. Thank you for your directions."
On the way back to the Academy, Tang San's head was filled with what Xue Qinghe said. 'Father, for what reason did you clash with Spirit Hall, what about mother? Even though what Xue Qinghe had talked about hadn't mentioned his mother, Tang San still felt that his father's seclusion was directly related to his mother.
The teahouse wasn't far from the Academy, and Tang San returned very quickly. He headed directly to the log cabin in the Academy forest, it had practically become their exclusive training spot.
Right now, not only had the team returned, but Grandmaster and Liu Erlong were also back. Only Flender wasn't present.
"Little San, you're back."
Grandmaster saw Tang San return, and waved at him.
"Teacher, are you looking for me?"
Tang San asked as he walked over.
Grandmaster shook his head, saying:
"I will train Rongrong alone, you come too. What I say should be useful to you as well. Training her also needs your cooperation."
"Eh?"
Tang San looked at Ning Rongrong to the side. Right now the others were all in the vicinity of the log cabin, perhaps cultivating, or perhaps sitting together and chatting, but Ning Rongrong was at Grandmaster's side.
"Follow me."
Grandmaster brought Tang San and Ning Rongrong into the depths of the forest, and not even Liu Erlong followed.
Having walked several hundred meters, Grandmaster stopped in a relatively spacious area.
Ning Rongrong somewhat nervously asked:
"Grandmaster, what special training do you have in mind for me?"
Even now she still had a trauma from Grandmaster's special demonic training.
Grandmaster said:
"Rongrong, if I'm not mistaken, your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School should have a technique called Heart Separation Control. To what degree have you cultivated it?"
Ning Rongrong looked distracted a moment, afterward answering:
"Right now I've just cultivated it to Three Aperture Governing Heart. I can just manage to use it."
Grandmaster's brows wrinkled slightly,
"Which means, still only the most elementary level. My special training for you is in this special area."
"Even though the battle today was an easy win over the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy second team, their second team absolutely doesn't represent the overall strength of all advanced Spirit Master academies. Especially now that Tang San and Dai Mubai's strength has already been revealed. The opponents you will confront in the future will only be stronger and stronger. And that evolved Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit of yours can be said to be extremely gifted and rich in resources, one might say that your ability will have an extremely effect on whether you will be able to become champions."
Ning Rongrong giggled, saying:
"Grandmaster, are you praising me?"
Grandmaster's complexion was stiff:
"I'm not praising you. Rather praising your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's spirit. It's still very difficult to reveal its might with your present capability. It doesn't have a very large effect on the team in a fight."
To the side, Tang San astonished said:
"Teacher, Rongrong is already on the fortieth level, her auxiliary is already outstanding. Able to simultaneously boost us fifty percent in four categories at the same time, that instantly erupting strength is practically enough to let us promote one class!"
Grandmaster calmly said:
"You're not wrong, right now she can boost you fifty percent in four attributes. Then, you ask Rongrong, if you Shrek Seven Devils were in a fight together, and she boosted the six of you at the same time, how long could she keep it up?"
Tang San puzzled looked at Ning Rongrong, whose complexion had also changed somewhat,
"Grandmaster, how do you know the secrets of our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School?"
Grandmaster said:
"Don't forget that I come from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, also one of the three upper sects. The secrets of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's Spirit aren't so secret, it's not strange that I know about it. Not just me, but practically all formidable Spirit Masters would know. But despite this, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is still the most powerful auxiliary system Spirit Master clan, do you know why this is?"
Ning Rongrong blankly shook her head.
To the side Tang San couldn't help saying:
"Don't tell me it's because of that Heart Separation Control you mentioned? Teacher, can't you explain it clearly, what's the secret of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit?"
Ning Rongrong looked at Grandmaster who nodded, saying:
"Right, the reason why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda holds the title as the number one auxiliary system spirit is admittedly related to the spirit itself, but this Heart Separation Control is even more important. It's admittedly important to raise spirit power, but to your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, this Heart Separation Control is even more important. If my guess is correct, then Rongrong's father, school master Ning's ability in Heart Separation Control should already have reached the Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart level. Tell me if I'm wrong, Rongrong."
Ning Rongrong nodded, and at the same time cleared Tang San's doubts,
"Our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit's secret lies in spirit power consumption. The higher the level of spirit power, the higher the spirit ring, the more clear the disadvantage is. In my present condition, if I simultaneously boosted the six of you fifty percent in all four aspects, at most I could only endure for three seconds."
"Three seconds?"
Tang San was gobsmacked.
Grandmaster lowered his voice:
"I called out Rongrong alone in order to keep everyone from hearing this secret. This world is impartial. Even though the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is powerful in support, it also has its limitations. Because a Spirit Master's spirit power is finite, no matter how good your spirit is, if you don't have spirit power to support you it won't be able to show sufficient results. Because the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's support ability is too powerful, its spirit power consumption is subsequently also frightening. Consider, for Rongrong to boost all six of you with fifty percent in four attributes with her fortieth level spirit power, what kind of concept is that? If it could be kept up for a long time, then wouldn't it be unparallelled? I recalled this issue that day when Rongrong assisted Flender and the others in when we were hunting spirit beasts. If it can't be settled satisfactorily, then it will be very difficult for her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit to show adequate results in your future matches."
Tang San now understood,
"Then you're saying that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's Heart Separation Control is the way to deal with it?"
Grandmaster nodded, saying:
"That's right. What's called Heart Separation Control has the effect of controlling different spirit abilities at once. This control method is useful to any Spirit Master, but the effect is particularly pronounced for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. For common Spirit Masters, more powerful abilities consume more spirit power, but this isn't the case for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. Each of their spirit abilities will consume the same amount of spirit power on the same level. Simply put, if Rongrong was a twentieth ranked Spirit Grandmaster, then the spirit power consumption of her two spirit abilities would be the one. Once she reached the thirtieth rank, the spirit power consumption of her three spirit abilities would still be the same. But because the boost rate has gone up, the spirit power consumption has also changed to two, and so on in a similar fashion. Thus, if she simply releases all her spirit abilities to boost at once, the spirit power consumption would be an astronomical figure. Let alone her, even a Title Douluo would find it very difficult to support that kind of drain."
"And Heart Separation Control is the key point to settling this issue. One might say that in battle, the support needs of each combatant is different. For example, with Rongrong's current four spirit abilities, what's most important for you is only the spirit power boost, and her other three effects would be useless, it would only drain her spirit power. But Dai Mubai needs attack, defense, and spirit power boosts, agility amplification isn't as important. Being able to amplify them all would admittedly be good, but when spirit power is limited, boosting the key areas is undoubtedly where the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda can completely display it's support capability."
"The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's Heart Separation Control is split into five levels, Three Aperture Governing Heart, Four Aperture Constant Heart, Five Aperture Dispersed Heart, Six Aperture Wishful Heart, and Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart. Each level represents how many spirit abilities can be controlled at once and how many times they can be released. Such as Three Aperture Governing Heart, it indicates you can simultaneously manipulate three kinds of spirit abilities to accurately support three targets, Four Aperture Constant Heart indicates the ability to simultaneously manipulate four spirit abilities to support four targets. And under such accurate control, you can accomplish the degree I spoke of before, conducting the most suitable support to the people that need them the most."
Here, Grandmaster paused a moment, continuing after giving Tang San a meaningful glance:
"The effect of Heart Separation Control isn't very large for common Spirit Masters, because the spirit power consumption of each spirit ability is different and there is little need to release all spirit abilities in one. Consequently, the cultivation method for this Heart Separation Control has been gradually lost with time. Only the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School would have it. Rongrong, I hope that before the finals you will be able to at least reach the Four Aperture Constant Heart stage. Like that, you can at least support four of your comrades at once, releasing different supporting spirit abilities at different times. This is the true secret of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. Understand?"