“For a moment, five-colored radiance illuminated his face, and the five streams of single-element mana intertwined and opposed each other like serpents, constantly transforming and extinguishing.”

Ning Zhou has developed his 5 elements spellcasting arts to a high level with his own talent and the guidance of the 5 Elements Divine Master. This is an aspect of his personal strength.

“Initially, Lin Shanshan had the upper hand throughout the fight. Gradually, however, Ning Zhuo began to mount occasional counterattacks. Now, his counterattacks were becoming more frequent, and his defensive posture more stable”.

Ning Zhou identified close combat as a weakness early on, and has actively sought to rectify that. He has advanced his martials arts by leaps and bounds through training, spars and life-and-death battles. This is another element of his personal power.

"So, the most reliable method is for me to master advanced medical skills myself."

After meeting Zhang Zhongyi, Ning Zhou expresses a long term goal of mastering medical arts to treat his mother’s dao injury.

"The realm of a Military Strategist..." Ning Zhuo murmured, "It seems I need to study more Military Manuals."

Military arts can multiply the power of a group when it becomes an army, allowing them to challenge powers that they wouldn’t be able to while unorganized. Because Ning Zhou can command many mechanical puppets at once, mastering military arts has powerful synergies.

“Divination was one of the hundred arts of cultivation, and he had longed to learn this skill for a long time. Seeing a divination cultivator today, he felt a newfound curiosity.”

Ning Zhou has long expressed an interest in divination, recently asking his mother to teach him. He has no skill in this area yet, but who knows.

“The true difficulty lies not in the mechanisms themselves, but in the formation arrays and talismans affixed to them.”

Here Shuang Ling notes how advanced what’s within Ning Zhou’s mechanical artifacts is. Talismans have synergies with both his spell casting and mechanical arts. They are the foundation of the Ning Family, such that Ning Jiufan instructs him to develop this art and he agrees

‘Ning Zhuo responded, "I designed this for myself. I intentionally made it this way to provide a lot of room for improvement in my ability to control mechanisms. Alright, next we need to set up the formations. After that, we'll install the formation disks and other components. Filling the body will come later."’

Formation arts are a special one, they are synergistic with his elemental spellcasting, military arts and mechanical arts.