"More or less."
Yang Lin nodded. This was also why Wu Liuqi was so keen on cutting other people's hair.
It was not just a hobby; it could also increase his soul power.
Hearing the affirmative answer, Mu En nodded and said with a smile:
"Then go ahead. It's been a long time since this old man last tidied himself up."
"Sure thing! Have faith in my skills. I guarantee you'll be the most dashing old man in the academy."
Wu Liuqi hurriedly took all his barbering equipment out of his Storage Ring and began bustling around Mu En.
"All right, get to work. I'll head inside."
Yang Lin waved and walked into the dormitory.
As he opened the door to Room 108, a musty smell poured out.
Dust and cobwebs covered almost the entire room.
"This really is filthy. Shrek clearly has plenty of money, yet they insist on all this nonsense."
Grumbling, Yang Lin walked inside, and tiny flecks of blue light began shining from his right index finger.
All the dust, cobwebs, and little insects flying around the room were sucked into the blue light.
Under the precise scrutiny of his Six Eyes, practically no speck of dust could hide.
In just one minute, the dorm room looked brand-new.
"Much better. Hey, old man, don't go watching me when I take a bath, all right?"
Yang Lin clapped his hands, then looked in a certain direction.
It was precisely where Mu En was.
"Haha, rest assured. This old man has no taste for peeping."
Mu En's voice rang out in Yang Lin's mind.
"You'd better not."
After saying that, Yang Lin quickly made his bed and flopped down on it.
He had earned quite a lot of emotional value today. It was time to think about how to spend it.
Open the panel.
Yang Lin gave the command silently.
[Host: Yang Lin] [Emotional value: 1,580,000/2,000,000] [Owned clones: ...]
"Nice, nice, nice. Just what I'd expect from Shrek."
Looking at his emotional value, Yang Lin grinned so widely that the corners of his mouth nearly reached his ears.
One and a half million emotional value! In the past, it would have taken him a year and a half to earn that much.
Now, he had amassed it in just one day at Shrek.
Next, I can create someone with Titled Douluo-level combat strength. Going without that kind of power forever won't do.
Yang Lin pondered silently.
Then he began creating a new clone.
"Level 96... As for his age... Somewhere in his thirties or forties. Since he's a Titled Douluo, he ought to have an ultimate attribute. Let's go with ultimate ice..."
Before long, the new clone was complete.
"Profound Ice Dragon Soars!"
A strong, resonant voice rang out in Yang Lin's mind.
Now approaching was the most refreshed and reinvigorated man in Battle Through the Heavens, a man who never fought in low-tier matches: Ice Emperor Hai Bodong himself.
That was right. The clone he had fashioned this time was Hai Bodong, the Hai Bodong from Battle Through the Heavens.
[Clone: Hai Bodong] [Gender: Male] [Age: 38] [Strength: Level 96 Super Douluo.] [Title: Ice Emperor] [Martial soul: Ice Dragon (ultimate ice)] [Soul ring configuration: Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, red, red, red.]
Looking at the illusory projection riding an ice dragon before him, Yang Lin nodded in satisfaction.
He had originally wanted to give him an Ice Dragon King martial soul, but that would have cost far too much emotional value.
So he settled for the next best thing: an ice dragon.
With ultimate ice, even at Level 96, he should be able to fight Xuan Zi, that overrated Level 98, right? He might even beat him.
That damned chicken-leg-muncher Xuan Zi was at the bottom of the barrel among Level 98 fighters anyway.
With Hai Bodong's ultimate ice, defeating him was only a matter of time.
Seeing that he had only a few tens of thousands of emotional value left, Yang Lin could not help sighing again.
He had spent it all so quickly. He still had to work hard to earn more.
"I'll send you straight to the Far North. You can hold the fort over in Dragon City."
Yang Lin pointed into the air, deploying his Hai Bodong clone to the Far North.
His clones had visited the Far North before and left markers there, so he could deploy him directly.
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the Far North.
Hai Bodong suddenly appeared there, dressed in blue-green robes and holding an ice halberd.
The aura of a Level 96 Super Douluo erupted outward.
The already frigid Far North seemed to grow several degrees colder.
Some nearby soul beasts of the Far North immediately began trembling in fear.
"The nearest city outside the Far North should be Dragon City. The main body's orders are for me to become a family's supreme elder there, then swallow up all of Dragon City's wealth and markets."
Hai Bodong withdrew his aura and continued murmuring to himself:
"That family seems to be called... the Mittel Family."
Indeed, those were the instructions Yang Lin had given Hai Bodong.
The Mittel Family was not some passing whim of Yang Lin's, but a foothold he had gradually established in a northern city several years ago.
However, since it lacked a powerful figure to hold the fort,
the Mittel Family was currently no more than a small-to-medium-sized family in Dragon City.
After all, Dragon City also had two relatively powerful families, the Heavenly Dragon Sect and the Earth Dragon Sect, keeping everyone else down. It was almost impossible for other families to rise.
The Heavenly Dragon Sect, in particular, had very close ties to Shrek.
Although Mu En did not belong to the same lineage as the Heavenly Dragon Sect, contact between them had never ceased.
Of course, once Hai Bodong joined the Mittel Family, the Heavenly Dragon Sect and the Earth Dragon Sect would be nothing more than roadside strays.
Hai Bodong leaped up, and an ice dragon appeared beneath his feet.
Riding the ice dragon, he checked his bearings and flew swiftly toward Dragon City.
But half an hour later, Hai Bodong spotted a pack of ten-thousand-year snow wolves pursuing a woman, so he rescued her along the way.
The woman looked to be in her twenties, with ice-blue hair and exceptionally beautiful features.
"Thank you for saving me, Your Eminence."
Su Tong bowed slightly as she spoke, her face pale.
She had come to the Far North to obtain her sixth soul ring, only to stumble into a wolf den.
If not for this Titled Douluo today, she really would have died.
Then she stole another glance at this Titled Douluo's soul ring configuration.
Once again, she could not help being stunned.
Isn't that far too outrageous...?
Su Tong thought to herself.
"You have ultimate ice too?"
Standing atop his ice dragon, Hai Bodong quietly looked down at the cool, aloof woman below.
Su Tong's heart jolted. She had never expected the secret she had hidden for so many years to be discovered so easily.
But quick-witted as she was, she soon caught the implication of his words.
"Too? Does Your Eminence also have ultimate ice?"
Hai Bodong nodded. "Indeed. I am Hai Bodong, and my martial soul is an ice dragon. Young lady, would you be willing to become my disciple?"
Su Tong's eyes widened at his words. Without hesitating for even a second, she dropped to her knees with a thud.
"Master, please accept your disciple's bow!"
She could become a Titled Douluo's disciple! And he even had an ultimate ice martial soul, just like hers.
Such an opportunity came once in a thousand years. Su Tong naturally could not let it slip away.
Hai Bodong nodded in satisfaction, then summoned another ice dragon.
"Climb aboard. Since you haven't obtained your sixth soul ring yet, I'll take you to find a suitable soul beast first."
"Thank you, Master!"
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