The ten million was pure profit. He had thoroughly exploited a bug in the system.
You won't let me use the template's combat power to make money, but they offered this money themselves. And if they have money to give away, they can't blame me. Heh heh heh.
He had more or less figured out the system's rules.
The system's settings were probably very comprehensive. It had even included combat power immunity to prevent him from using this to make money.
But its core judgment criteria probably hadn't accounted for his ability to squeeze some extra money out of the debtors.
Because in the system's judgment, the other party had chosen to go into debt precisely because they couldn't afford to pay.
In that case, once he had collected the debt in full, where would they get any more money?
That was the logic.
But some people had money and simply didn't want to repay it. The system had underestimated the treachery of the human heart. Of course he could squeeze quite a bit of money out of them.
With a few more customers like these, he would be swimming in money.
He had collected the debt, pocketed some extra cash, and advertised his business.
With everything brought to a perfect conclusion, Lin Yan had no reason to stay.
Besides, no matter how tightly they suppressed news of today's events, it would soon spread throughout the Star Luo Empire, and even the Douluo Continent.
After all, he had caused far too much of a stir, and the Zhu Family's movements had been far too conspicuous.
Twenty million Gold Soul Coins was no small sum. One could imagine how many people had been alerted by their having to produce it, especially on such short notice. This was the best advertisement.
The only faction to suffer in all this had emerged: the Zhu Family.
Lin Yan immediately announced their return journey, taking Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyou with him.
Only then did the vanished Kunpeng reappear, as imposing as ever.
But Lin Yan felt rather displeased at the sight of it. It was a pet that could only serve as transportation, and it wouldn't even cooperate with his showing off.
He would have to raise an awesome one of his own someday.
What belonged to him was best. What belonged to the system would always belong to the system.
The Kunpeng's reappearance greatly intimidated the Zhu Family. This was a divine beast, after all.
They had originally wanted to investigate Lin Yan thoroughly, but now they had abandoned that thought entirely. Still, as Zhu Wei watched Lin Yan's retreating figure, his eyes remained full of gloom, his gaze fixed on Zhu Zhuqing the entire time.
Since Lin Yan had blacklisted them and they could no longer receive cultivation services, they could only work through Zhu Zhuqing.
They had to first establish exactly what relationship Lin Yan and Zhu Zhuqing had before considering how to deal with her.
Thus, the Zhu Family immediately dispatched their spies to Suotuo City in the Heaven Dou Empire at the fastest possible speed.
After Lin Yan left, Dai Zhenghua also immediately unleashed his full aura and gave chase at a frantic pace.
Although he couldn't possibly match the speed of the Kunpeng's teleportation, he only wanted to reach Suotuo City in the Heaven Dou Empire sooner and place an order with Lin Yan as quickly as possible.
A child! A peerlessly monstrous prodigy of a child! I must have one.
As for money?
That's no problem at all.
High in the sky, the Kunpeng lightly beat its wings, racing like the wind and lightning. Everyone on its back was enveloped in a pale blue barrier that blocked the terrifying gales and the rending of space.
The Kunpeng shifted through space along the way, soon sweeping past the Star Luo Empire and reaching the Star Dou Great Forest before cutting straight across it.
But just as Lin Yan crossed the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, his Titled Douluo-level perception immediately pierced the layers of clouds, mist, and dense forest, catching several familiar auras below. He immediately directed the Kunpeng to stop.
If it couldn't even brake halfway, there was no point keeping the Kunpeng around. Lin Yan might as well kick it away and walk back himself.
Looking at those five familiar figures, Lin Yan immediately showed a trace of surprise.
Well now, all familiar faces.
The person in the lead was Ning Fengzhi, the sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect who had left yesterday. The two figures at his sides were both in rather bad shape.
One held the Seven Kill Sword, his sword intent surging to the heavens; behind the other, an ancient dragon coiled amid a dense aura of space. They were none other than Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong.
Protected in their midst were two more figures, one big and one small: Ning Rongrong and her daughter.
What was that thunderous name again?
Oh, Supreme Empress Ning.
It could give that Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise Edict he had encountered before a run for its money.
At this very moment, all of them were in quite a bad state.
With their lineup of two power attack system fighters and the strongest support, they should have been able to slaughter their way through this Star Dou Great Forest, which lacked Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts.
Even against those two hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts, the Titan Giant Ape Er Ming and the Sky Azure Bull Python Da Ming, they should have been undefeated. How had this happened?
Just then, a terrifying rumble suddenly came from behind them. Countless hoofbeats resounded throughout the forest, and even Lin Yan felt the earth-shattering tremors.
Lin Yan took a look. Good grief, even a beast tide had come.
Behind them, two enormous figures rampaged forward in relentless pursuit. They were the Titan Giant Ape, with its terrifying strength and gravity, and the winding Sky Azure Bull Python, whose sheer size was outrageous. These two hundred-thousand-year overlords were desperately pursuing them.
Of course, those two certainly weren't what had sent them fleeing for their lives.
Behind Da Ming and Er Ming was a dense, dark mass of soul beasts, both land beasts and birds, all crazily following Da Ming and Er Ming in pursuit of the five of them.
A small-scale beast tide like this, with a number of ten-thousand-year soul beasts and thousand-year soul beasts, plus two powerful hundred-thousand-year soul beasts who could match them evenly-it would have been strange if they hadn't run.
Good grief. Lin Yan couldn't help clicking his tongue.
Impressive!
He had only known that they were coming to the Star Dou Great Forest to kill soul beasts and test the drop rate of Soul Bones. He hadn't expected them to cause such a huge commotion that they had even stirred up a beast tide. Just how many soul beasts had they killed?
He couldn't leave this alone.
Of course, he wasn't drawing his sword to right an injustice he had happened across. He genuinely needed something.
He wanted to exploit not only the money-making bug, but also the bug in this debt collector model.
Since the system wouldn't give him benefits, he would find his own.
Who said he couldn't exploit bugs? As long as he was willing to use his brain, there were always more solutions than difficulties.
In fact, he had long since come up with plenty of ideas.
The system forbade him from using the template to make money, but this template did genuinely exist.
He had already left debt collection mode, but until he returned to the shop to complete the handover, his combat power would remain.
After all, the system's first priority was ensuring Lin Yan's safety-within debt collection mode, of course.
Only if Lin Yan failed to return for a full day would it automatically deactivate.
During this period, his cultivation, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones all remained. The debt collector model was still there, and he remained a Titled Douluo-level powerhouse.
Although soul beasts were immune to his damage, nothing said they were immune to anyone else's.
Couldn't he just restrain the soul beasts and let someone else kill them?
Wasn't that a perfect bug exploit? Of course, this wasn't his main objective.
Since he still had all his cultivation, there were far too many things he could do.
He only had one martial soul, and both his martial soul and his cultivation talent were poor. Aside from feedback, the only way to increase his strength quickly was to work on his Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
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