"Boohoo! Get away from me! I'm not fusing with you anymore... boohoo."
Tian Meng waved his stubby little arms and shouted in a voice tinged with tears.
"Enough, quit whining. I asked you a question. Why won't you answer?"
Yang Lin picked at his ear with his pinky and spoke casually.
"Boohoo..."
"Tch, Unlimited..."
"Hey, stop, stop, stop! I'll talk! I'll talk!"
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hurriedly stopped crying and returned to normal.
He had no desire to experience that feeling of having his brain violated again.
Yang Lin sat cross-legged, hovering in midair with perfect composure.
He extended a hand, adopting the air of someone ready to listen attentively. The scene was as pretentious as it could possibly get!
He truly displayed all the grandeur of the king of show-offs!
Next, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm quickly explained his God-Making Plan to Yang Lin.
Then his two mung-bean-sized eyes stared fixedly at the white-haired youth before him.
He believed that, after hearing his persuasive pitch, this youth would definitely fuse with him. After all, who could resist the temptation of becoming a god?
This youth's talent was simply terrifying.
That domain in particular still left Tian Meng shuddering whenever he thought about it.
With such powerful talent, combined with him-the continent's very first million-year soul beast-they would surely be able to create a deity!
"Oh~ That's certainly an ambitious plan..."
Under Tian Meng's expectant gaze, Yang Lin slowly uttered those cruel words.
"But I'm not interested! Just fuse with Yuhao. He's someone blessed with tremendous fortune."
"Aw, come on. Think it over again!"
Tian Meng kept circling Yang Lin, pleading with him.
It was quite a comical sight.
"I already told you I don't need you. Becoming a god or whatever-I can do that myself. I don't need anyone else's help. After all, I'm the strongest!"
In a calm voice, Yang Lin delivered the most arrogant declaration imaginable!
Tian Meng was clearly stunned by those words! Then his eyes instantly lit up.
Such confidence, such bearing! Such talent and strength!
If this youth doesn't become a god, heaven itself must be blind!
And so he continued pleading:
"Hey, look, if the two of us powerhouses joined forces, wouldn't that make it even more certain? Big brother! Just take your little brother along!"
His enormous head was practically rubbing against Yang Lin's trouser leg.
"No, no. Keep making noise and see if I don't-Unlimited..."
Yang Lin assumed an opening stance!
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm instantly backed down! He realized that this youth truly did not want his power.
Reluctantly, he crawled over to Huo Yuhao, an extraordinarily aggrieved expression actually appearing on his insect face.
Then he pressed his head directly against Huo Yuhao's and began fusing with him!
Spiritual-type soul masters were rare to begin with. If he let this blue-haired boy slip away too, who knew when he would find another?
Although this boy was a little weak, he believed that, with all the guidance he, the great Tian Meng, would provide, the boy could definitely become a god!
Damn it! I practically threw myself at you to give you my spiritual origin, and you still refused! White-haired brat, you'll regret this someday!
Yang Lin simply propped up his head and looked at the system panel.
As expected of one of the most important figures in the original story.
In just these few minutes, he had contributed nearly fifty thousand Emotional Value.
That was even more than Huo Yuhao, the protagonist, had given him.
Of course, this was mainly because Yang Lin's Unlimited Void had left Tian Meng deeply traumatized.
Most of that Emotional Value had come from enduring the domain, Unlimited Void.
[Host: Yang Lin] [Clones: ...] [Emotional Value: 79009/1000000]
Tch, this one trip has almost matched an entire month of my past earnings!
What miserable days those had been... He had worked himself to death every day, only to earn a hundred thousand Emotional Value a month!
On top of that, he had to make all his clones act like little menaces every day just to squeeze single-digit amounts of Emotional Value out of those NPCs.
Nothing like now, when hundreds of Emotional Value rolled in with barely any effort.
Hua Mulan drilled in the military camp every day, yet the Emotional Value she collected in a month did not even total ten thousand.
There was no helping it. Most people in the military camp did not even have names in the original story, and most were relatively weak. Naturally, they could not provide much Emotional Value.
Zoro and Li Bai had it a little better. At least there were people around them who had names in the original story.
Ji Juechen of the Sun Moon Empire stood out in particular. Although he had not appeared often in the original story, the Emotional Value earned from him was hardly less than that from the Hongchen Siblings.
That was also why people at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy could often see the moss-headed Zoro fighting Ji Juechen, who wore white from head to toe.
Those two brought in a little over forty thousand Emotional Value each month.
Angel Yan spent her days hunting down evil soul masters. The Emotional Value she earned directly and indirectly each month also totaled a little over forty thousand.
Wu Liuqi and Kai were complete freeloaders!
The remaining ten thousand came from Yang Lin's other, less important clones.
Naturally, Yang Lin had not created only these few clones over the years.
He had also created plenty of clones with little strength, mediocre talent, or even no soul power.
Since these clones were weak, they naturally required less Emotional Value, so Yang Lin had created quite a few of them.
He had dispatched the clones throughout the continent to gather all kinds of intelligence.
This intelligence network deserved much of the credit for Angel Yan always knowing where evil soul masters were and slaying nearly ten thousand of them over the past six years!
If anyone tries to harm the protagonist group now, I'll fight them over it!
Yang Lin thought to himself.
The members of the protagonist group were all scarce resources. Losing even one would cause him tremendous heartache.
There was no helping it. Now that he had grown used to feasting on fish and meat, he certainly would not agree to go back to choking down bran and vegetables.
He could not just leave that seventy-odd thousand Emotional Value sitting unused forever. Yang Lin understood the principle of making money breed more money.
How can I use this Emotional Value to get the best results? I've got it!
Yang Lin came up with an excellent idea and immediately began creating a clone in the system.
The phantom of a tall, broad bear slowly took shape, growing more and more solid.
If someone well versed in soul beasts had seen this phantom, they would certainly have cried out in surprise:
A Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear!
A Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, famed for being able to fight ten-thousand-year soul beasts at just a thousand years old!
That was right. This time, the clone Yang Lin was creating was a soul beast.
A thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear!
His reason for not creating soul beast clones before had been simple: they could not provide him with the corresponding Emotional Value.
Most soul beasts lacked intelligence, which also meant that most soul beasts could not provide Emotional Value.
As such, creating a soul beast and sending it into the Star Dou Great Forest would yield practically no Emotional Value.
The returns did not justify the expense. Naturally, Yang Lin would not engage in such a losing business!
During those years when Emotional Value was scarce, he had not been wealthy enough to squander it at will.
Let's add a mechanic that guarantees you'll drop an external soul bone when killed. OK, perfect!
Seeing that fewer than ten thousand Emotional Value remained, Yang Lin still felt a pang in his heart.
But once he thought about how his upcoming plan would earn him even more Emotional Value, it did not hurt quite so much.
There was no helping it! Poverty had scared him stiff.
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