This was even more useless to Chen Luo.
Because the Collective Network was the firewall around Chen Luo's soul. As long as someone's mental ability tried to affect him, the Collective Network would automatically resist it, defending against mental attacks by deducting Gold Coins. This was also a new function that came after the Domination talent upgraded to SSS rank.
However, the Collective Network had a limit when defending against such mental attacks. Once that limit was exceeded, it would trigger Chen Luo's true soul-defense mechanism—deducting Primogems.
But at least it deducted them less often than before, so he no longer had to worry about losing Primogems at every turn.
Though it still couldn't resist Aponia.
Because Aponia's Mind Control was genuinely powerful. Even with the firewall in effect, she could still influence Chen Luo a little. But as long as she affected him even a little, Primogems would be deducted.
Now that he put it that way, frantically eating Paradise Gold Coins seemed to have at least a tiny bit of use, but Chen Luo had actually experimented with it before.
The final result was that soul Gold Coins had a negligible effect on strengthening Chen Luo's soul. That was the real reason Chen Luo couldn't be bothered to eat Paradise Gold Coins.
As for why... after a long analysis by the Humanization Plugin, it came to a fairly reliable conclusion—subordinates were not allowed to talk back to their superiors!
The theoretical basis was that experience was the lower-grade soul-type energy obtained from puppets after the property of gaining drops from killing enemies, inherent to Chen Luo's EX-level talent, had been added to the Collective Network.
In other words, experience was essentially an inferior version of the ability that came with Chen Luo's EX-level talent.
As everyone knew, degraded