Meng Hongchen was completely stunned, her little head buzzing.
Ring Explosion Cultivation? Controllable Ring Explosion? Explode and then replace? And, "spirit ring's self-editing and reconstruction"?
This completely overturned all her understanding of spirit rings! spirit rings... could be played with like this?!
She murmured to herself, her voice filled with bewilderment and shock: "spirit rings... turn out to have so many... unbelievable uses?"
"Of course." Kong Ming'an said with a smile, looking at Miss Meng's stunned and shocked expression, he suddenly found it quite interesting.
With a somewhat lighthearted yet serious tone, he slowly began:
"Everything is possible. The meaning of rules existing is to wait to be understood, to be utilized, and finally... to be broken, to become nourishment for new rules. And this is what I want."
Miss Meng's ice-blue eyes flickered slightly.
The words of a certain person just now had almost revealed a brand new World to her!
Compared to the World of Spirit Masters and Soul Engineers that teachers in the academy spoke of, the World depicted by a certain person at this moment was infinitely more interesting and magnificent than the former!
Her eyes brightened, and she looked at Kong Ming'an, her gaze shifting from the excited interest of before to a serious intensity now.
"Want to learn?"
"Mm!"
"You can."
"Mm... Mm?!" Miss Meng, who had prepared herself for rejection, was startled.
After a second or two of hesitation, she slightly raised her eyes to confirm a certain person's expression, and immediately, her eyes became filled with disbelief.
"Really... I can?!"
"You can, but..."
Kong Ming'an's lips curved slightly, and he spoke with interest: "...Answer me a question. If your answer satisfies me, I will teach you."
Miss Meng hesitated for a second or two, then responded seriously.
"...Good!"
Kong Ming'an nodded slightly. Once again, he let his gaze fall upon the translucent white spirit ring in his hand.
This time, he did not choose to detonate it. Instead, his palm was covered with a layer of even more precise and gentle spirit power, which he then slowly tightened.
There was no violent Energy impact, no dazzling light.
Under the guidance and kneading of the spirit power threads in his palm, the originally perfectly round and stable translucent white spirit ring began to slowly deform, like soft putty.
The edges of the spirit ring were no longer smooth, stretched and twisted by an invisible force, presenting an irregular shape, like dough that had been kneaded.
Although the spirit ring's light and Energy fluctuations still existed, its physical form was forcibly altered.
This bizarre and magical scene made Meng Hongchen hold her breath again, staring intently, afraid of missing any detail.
Maintaining the deformed state of the spirit ring, Kong Ming'an looked at Meng Hongchen and slowly spoke:
"If a spirit ring is artificially deformed and can maintain this shape for a long time... what new ideas would you have about the spirit ring itself?"
New ideas?
Meng Hongchen's small brows furrowed tightly, her ice-blue eyes fixed on the strangely kneaded spirit ring in Kong Ming'an's hand.
spirit ring... deformation... long-term maintenance... countless thoughts collided and reassembled rapidly in her mind.
A spirit ring is an Energy body... an Energy body can be shaped... shaped and maintained... a long-term maintained shaped Energy body... This... this feeling... Suddenly, a flash of insight, like lightning, cut through the fog in her mind! A concept she was incredibly familiar with, one she encountered day and night, instantly popped out!
"spirit tool?!"
Meng Hongchen cried out in surprise, her voice slightly distorted by excitement.
"Like... like a spirit tool?! Using a spirit ring as metal, using a spirit ring to construct a spirit tool!"
With approval, Kong Ming'an's lips curved into a satisfied arc.
An abundant curiosity in research, sufficient associative ability, and the ability to infer other things from one instance.
Undoubtedly, Miss Meng at this moment fully possessed all the conditions to become the "assistant" he envisioned.
He nodded slightly, affirming Meng Hongchen's answer.
"Correct answer."
In an instant, Miss Meng, for some reason, subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
She looked at Kong Ming'an's satisfied expression, then at the spirit ring in his hand that was no longer "ring-shaped" from being kneaded, and then thought of the "spirit tool" she had blurted out... For a moment, a strange sense of absurdity arose in her heart due to this subversive possibility.
Unconsciously, she still asked with some hesitation,
"...Really... can it be done this way?"
Kong Ming'an smiled slightly, but did not answer.
He extended his free left hand and, once again, took a Soft Bones Rabbit from a cage nearby.
Under Miss Meng's gaze, he skillfully twisted the Soft Bones Rabbit's neck to the right, then expertly grasped the translucent white spirit ring that emerged, and then... blue spirit power threads reappeared!
This... Miss Meng subconsciously took a step back.
A certain person's movements were exactly the same as when he performed the "Ring Explosion" in front of her just now!
Before her thoughts could settle, she saw Kong Ming'an's lips curve slightly, and then... the threads permeated!
"Buzz—!"
The translucent white spirit ring glowed brightly, just as it had before!
But this time, a certain person did not throw the spirit ring into the transparent isolation box nearby.
He merely gently raised his right hand, and the translucent white spirit ring, which he had been casually kneading in his palm, instantly flowed, stretched, and solidified like liquid metal.
In just a blink of an eye, a glove as thin as a cicada's wing, yet emitting a stable translucent white glow, seamlessly covered his entire right hand.
With calm eyes, at the moment before the explosion, his right hand, covered by the translucent white glove, spread its five fingers and precisely grasped the exploding spirit ring!
"Hiss—!"
The imagined earth-shattering explosion did not occur. Instead, there was a grating, sharp sound, as if space was being forcibly squeezed and torn apart.
Miss Meng clearly saw,
The explosive Energy, powerful enough to melt steel, seemed to hit an invisible barrier the moment it exploded between a certain person's translucent white glove!
The violent Energy seemed to try to break free, fiercely churning and roaring within the five-fingered cage formed by the glove, but it could never break through the glove's edge by a single hair's breadth.
All the explosions were firmly locked within the confines of his palm. Under extreme restraint, the explosion was like a fire whose fuel had been removed, its light dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After only a few breaths, an attack comparable to the explosion of a Level 3 fixed-load spirit tool cannonball collapsed and dissipated under the absolute control of that translucent white glove, turning into nothingness.
And a certain person... he just stood there silently, then slowly withdrew his hand covered by the translucent white glove, his movements as casual as if nothing had happened.
Miss Meng's expression completely froze, and she almost instinctively recalled the scene that had just occurred.
The instant transformation of the spirit ring's form, grasping the exploding spirit ring with bare hands, the annihilation of Energy after absolute confinement... Was this... truly real?
Kong Ming'an's eyes were calm as he slowly raised his right hand, covered with the translucent white glove.
The glove, formed from the spirit ring, was like a part of his skin, flowing with a faint glow as he moved, then, as if its Energy was exhausted, it transformed into speckles of starlight and dissipated into nothingness.
Looking at his unharmed, fair palm, Kong Ming'an's gaze fell on Miss Meng's small face, which was filled with shock and bewilderment, and a light smile unconsciously curved his lips.
With a hint of casualness, he chuckled:
"spirit rings, aren't they amazing?"
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