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Chapter 137 Amplification: Power Rune?! [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

"Never mind, I'll just have to make do."

At night, in front of the research lab, Chen Hong looked at Ning Rongrong outside with some disdain.

"Chen Hong! You've gone too far!" Ning Rongrong glared at Chen Hong with her puffed-up face, wanting to turn around and leave. However, considering Chen Hong's personality, she thought that turning around and leaving would probably be doing him what he wanted. With this in mind, Ning Rongrong became even more determined to stay.

"Is this too much? I have something even more outrageous to offer. Do you want to try?" Chen Hong glanced at Ning Rongrong speechlessly. He didn't actually have any problem with Ning Rongrong as a person, but he had a lot of complaints about her martial soul skills.

What Chen Hong truly desired were Oscar's three functional soul skills: soul power, detoxification, and flight. Once these three abilities could be materialized into artifact patterns, it would mean that Chen Hong's soul tool techniques would become much more diverse, instead of being limited to interfering with others in the mental realm as he was now. He couldn't even launch mental attacks and could only rely on the negative effects of mental focus and mental adrenaline to strengthen his mental will, unable to do anything more extreme.

Although he felt a little disgusted with Ning Rongrong, and it was quite obvious on his face, Chen Hong still invited Ning Rongrong to come inside with him. He found a clean place with cushions and had Ning Rongrong sit cross-legged.

Although Ning Rongrong was very annoyed by Chen Hong's perfunctory attitude, she still obediently followed his instructions, found a soft cushion, sat down cross-legged, and slowly calmed her mind and entered a meditative state at Chen Hong's prompting.

As Ning Rongrong gradually entered a meditative state and her mind began to empty itself, she suddenly felt her hand being taken by a pair of warm, fair hands. The warmth of the other person's hands made Ning Rongrong feel a little strange. She couldn't help but secretly open one eye to see what was happening.

Then, Ning Rongrong saw Chen Hong, with his resolute and upright features and closed eyes, sitting cross-legged facing her. Behind him, a yellow halo resembling a divine halo emanated. In the next instant, a purple halo suddenly appeared outside the yellow halo and was embedded in it, together forming a yellow-purple halo filled with an unknown divinity, radiating a powerful sense of mental pressure, and hovering in the center of the back of Chen Hong's head.

"Don't get distracted, calm your mind, let go of your mental defenses, and let your spiritual energy move slowly along with my mental fluctuations."

With his eyes closed, Chen Hong, exuding a divine solemnity, sat cross-legged opposite Ning Rongrong. His uniquely cool voice resonated deep within Ning Rongrong's heart.

"Oh." Ning Rongrong secretly glanced at Chen Hong, who had entered a different state, with one eye, then let out a soft "oh." Following Chen Hong's instructions, she lowered her guard and felt Chen Hong's soul power, along with his spiritual power, spread into her body through her palm. The weak soul power was easily broken down by Ning Rongrong's protective soul power, while Chen Hong's spiritual power took the opportunity to enter Ning Rongrong's soul power circulation.

At this moment, all of Ning Rongrong's spirit rings were revealed. Chen Hong selected Ning Rongrong's first spirit ring, Power Amplification, and then guided Ning Rongrong to slowly inject spirit power into her first spirit ring, guiding Ning Rongrong's spiritual power to feel the subtle circulation of spirit power within her body.

In Ning Rongrong's mental vision, the world was pale and pitch black. A gray current was helping her to mark the flow of soul power within the soul ring little by little with her weak mental power. Sometimes, Ning Rongrong's weak mental power could not perceive the fluctuations of the soul power nodes that were too faint. At this time, the current that emitted a faint gray aura actively left some illusory 'gray vortex' nodes in Ning Rongrong's pale and pitch black mental vision.

Ning Rongrong couldn't discern the subtle changes within the spirit ring, but Chen Hong, who seemed to possess an ultimate spiritual martial soul, could easily sense those subtle changes. He had possessed this ability since breaking through level ten, and now at level twenty-four, his ability to observe the subtle details was even more terrifying.

Within the spiritual realm, since Ning Rongrong was unable to perceive the flow and changes of soul power within the soul ring, Chen Hong acted as the guide, continuously leaving behind important gray vortexes in the vast gray-white world. This prevented Ning Rongrong's weak spiritual power from performing many actions; she only needed to lie down and let her spiritual power follow Chen Hong's spiritual power, constantly "occupying" those gray vortexes behind Chen Hong and leaving her own spiritual nodes within them, striving to make her spiritual power memorize these complex nodes.

Inside the research lab, Chen Hong and Ning Rongrong sat facing each other, cross-legged, their palms pressed tightly together. Chen Hong's pale white soul power and Ning Rongrong's light blue soul power were still dazzling under the bright lights of the lab. Where their palms met, white and blue intertwined and dissolved, eventually forming a faint blue-white vortex that slowly swirled around them.

Within Ning Rongrong's mental vision, an unknown amount of time passed. Ning Rongrong's consciousness followed Chen Hong's mental power, constantly trying to memorize the thousands upon thousands of simplified soul ring and soul power flow nodes. As the number of nodes to memorize increased, Ning Rongrong began to feel her mind becoming somewhat hazy and her brain becoming sluggish. Her mental power could no longer withstand Ning Rongrong's continued consumption, and various negative effects began to appear, attempting to stop Ning Rongrong from continuing regardless of her mental state.

"It's much simpler than I expected. Don't follow me yet. I'll try to complete the remaining nodes myself." Chen Hong's cold voice appeared in Ning Rongrong's drowsy mind through her mental vision, making her slightly more awake. She mustered her strength and nodded with difficulty to Chen Hong's mental will.

After leaving Ning Rongrong's consciousness behind, the gray current in Ning Rongrong's black and white sea of ​​consciousness accelerated instantly, moving rapidly in mid-air. Its swift speed dragged a long gray tail, like a brushstroke, and the resulting afterimage quickly sketched a mysterious and extremely complex gray three-dimensional texture in Ning Rongrong's mental vision!

This is a power pattern!

(End of this chapter)