I Was Just Saying It-You Really Went and Made It Happen?

"Boss, why wouldn't you choose a hundred-thousand-year soul beast's soul ring instead of a ten-thousand-year soul beast's soul ring?

"Ning Fengzhi was utterly puzzled and could not help asking.

Lin Yan smiled.

"Do you think a powerful soul ring is a suitable one, and the stronger it is, the better?"

"Isn't that the case?"

"Of course not. A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring is good, and it can grant a soul master two soul skills at once, but those two skills are actually pretty similar, and hundred thousand year soul skills consume an especially large amount of soul power.

"So aside from providing a great deal of soul power, I think absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring isn't all that much better than absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.

"If you were choosing soul rings at my level, you wouldn't be so shallow."

Since he was a mighty expert in the realm of showing off, he could use the word "level" now, too.

"Boss, then how can you still absorb more after absorbing nine Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings?"

"Is that so hard to understand? My other set of soul rings only goes up to the seventh soul ring. I'm still missing two."

"You started absorbing Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings with your seventh soul ring?"

Upon hearing Lin Yan's words, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo all sucked in a breath of cold air, inwardly marveling at how terrifying he was.

According to Lin Yan, he had twin martial souls.

No one could start absorbing Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings from their first ring.

So the one he had primarily cultivated must have been his other martial soul. Only after cultivating to a level where he could absorb Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings had he begun absorbing them.

And according to Lin Yan, he had started with his seventh soul ring.

Being able to absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring for his seventh soul ring was simply terrifying.

So Lin Yan was not short on soul power now. No wonder he could choose whatever soul ring he wanted so willfully.

"But is there anything special about this Emerald Swan?"

"Don't tell me you don't recognize this soul beast?"

"We've really hardly ever seen one," Ning Fengzhi and the others admitted frankly.

Lin Yan shook his head.

"This is a Jade Swan, the strongest support-type soul beast.

"It contains more vitality than all of you put together. It's a truly top-tier soul beast, especially for support-type soul masters like you. For you, it's the cream of the crop."

"The soul rings your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect can add cover soul power, strength, speed, defense, attack, and amplification."

"But I've never heard of vitality.

"No martial soul's soul skills are set in stone. This formula is merely the optimal solution your clan reached through constant development and experimentation.

"It's not that you can't add other soul rings and obtain other skills.

"You've simply grown accustomed to these six strongest attributes.

"Actually, you could also try this Jade Swan.

"If you could change one of those attributes to vitality amplification,

"you'd find out just how good it feels."

"Really? This Jade Swan can actually provide a soul master with vitality?"

"Of course."

"Then where can we find Jade Swans?"

"This kind of soul beast is extremely rare and only lives in the Core Region.

"If you want to obtain this kind of soul beast's soul ring in the future, it'll be difficult.

"After all, those soul beasts are probably keeping a particularly close eye on you now. The moment you step into the Core Region, they'll likely catch you."

"That does seem to be the case."

After saying this, Lin Yan spoke no further and turned his gaze to the ten-thousand-year Jade Swan.

I'll be able to exploit the bug any moment now. This is a little exciting.

This Jade Swan's cultivation was as high as sixty thousand years, and it could provide him with immense amounts of soul power and vitality.

If absorbing this soul ring did not raise his soul power by four or five levels, he would shit while doing a handstand-and that was no ploy to cadge a free meal.

After all, there was something special about soul beasts like Jade Swans.

"Let's do it, then." Lin Yan was just about to kill it with a palm strike and obtain its soul ring when he discovered that it was immune to damage.

I'm screwed. The system set me up.

There was no counter to this top-tier open scheme. He could not inflict any damage on the Jade Swan now, so he could not kill it.

If he could not kill it, he could not obtain its soul ring.

If he deactivated Debt Collector Mode, never mind losing his air of mystery-that did not matter. The main issue was that his advantage in exploiting the bug lay in this invincible template helping him absorb powerful soul rings, letting him ignore his level and cultivation when absorbing them.

But now, without putting on the Golden Headband, he could not save her; with the Golden Headband on, he would have to forget her. He was just like the Great Sage now.

Without deactivating it, he could not kill it. If he deactivated it, he could kill it but could not absorb it.

The crucial thing was that the system was also giving him red-card warnings the whole time.

He had no idea what punishment it would give him, either.

He had already come this far. He could not let all his previous efforts go to waste!

"Fuck, does it have to be this nasty? Is there any way to make it die on its own?"

I've got it. Why not let it die in an accident? Soul beasts that die accidentally are ownerless. Anyone can absorb their rings, provided they do so before the rings disappear.

Normally, a soul beast that died accidentally could not possibly go undiscovered, so naturally its soul ring could not be absorbed by anyone.

This was one avenue to explore.

"Bone Douluo."

"Boss, do you need something?"

At this moment, Bone Douluo was not only wholeheartedly convinced of Lin Yan's strength, but also needed a favor from him. After all, he would have to ask Lin Yan to cultivate a child for him later.

There were three soul bones here now. Once they were sold, his share would be at least a few million. Together with his savings over the years, even if he could not get a perfect flawless child, an above-average one would be no problem. So he had to butter the boss up properly. Then the boss could arrange things for him ahead of time-wouldn't that be wonderful?

"Use spatial power to throw this soul beast high into the sky. Let it fall on its own and die naturally."

"Huh? Isn't this just a matter of one slash? Why make it so complicated?"

"You don't understand. When a soul beast dies this way, the drop rate for soul bones becomes much higher.

"I've personally verified all of this."

Lin Yan casually made something up to explain away his inability to damage them.

After this spiel, Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo naturally did not believe him, but neither contradicted Lin Yan.

They did not dare slight Lin Yan, either, so Bone Douluo immediately did as instructed. After all, it was nothing difficult.

He controlled spatial power and threw the enormous, unconscious Jade Swan thousands of meters into the sky without making any contact with it throughout the process.

Then it fell straight down. Lin Yan had also deliberately placed sharp stones on the ground.

The Jade Swan plunged from the sky like a missile, then slammed heavily into the stones.

With a thunderous crash, most of the stones on the ground embedded themselves in the Jade Swan's body, instantly turning its chest into a bloody mangled mess.

Just like that, the poor Jade Swan lost its life in a daze while unconscious, becoming a cold-uh, no, still-warm corpse.

Pale green life energy radiated from its body. Soon, all the soul power in its body condensed into a pitch-black soul ring tinged with pale green. This was the Jade Swan's soul ring.

Thank you for nature's bounty.

Lin Yan tried it and found that he could indeed draw it toward him. Yes, this method worked.

Anyone besides him could do it, too.

The system was not without a workaround, either.

But just as Lin Yan was about to absorb it, Ning Fengzhi suddenly adjusted his glasses and cried out in surprise:

"Boss, a soul bone! It really dropped a soul bone!"

Lin Yan:

*???*

Holy crap! I was just saying it, and you really went and made it happen?