Everyone Was Here, So Let the Fleecing Begin

Lin Yan looked in the direction Ning Fengzhi pointed. Sure enough, he found an emerald-green Soul Bone in the Emerald Swan's chest. It was actually a Trunk Bone, too-a sixty-thousand-year Emerald Swan Trunk Bone.

This was a Life Soul Bone. Should I absorb it?

Soul Bones could grow stronger too, couldn't they?

For the first time, Lin Yan felt torn over this Soul Bone.

He was torn because its attributes and quality were excellent, but its age was too low.

He could only extract it and put it into his Storage Soul Tool for now, leaving the decision for later.

Still, the Soul Bone dropping for Lin Yan also served to prove his claim to everyone.

"Heavens, this method really can increase the drop rate of Soul Bones! We were practically slaughtering Soul Beasts at random before."

"Stop, stop, stop." Hearing their words, Lin Yan immediately struggled to keep it together.

He had just made something up off the cuff. How had all these people taken it as truth? This was pure luck. Perhaps the drop rate was so high because two chosen ones had gathered here, along with him, the protagonist's daddy.

Still, Lin Yan could imagine them falling into some sort of rules-based horror story for a long time to come-before killing a Soul Beast, let it fall freely to its death, and the chance of a Soul Bone dropping would increase.

"I'm going to absorb the Soul Ring. It won't take long. Make yourselves comfortable."

With that, Lin Yan immediately jumped onto Kunpeng's back. Taking the Emerald Swan's corpse with its Soul Ring, he flew a thousand meters into the sky, then sat cross-legged, released his Azure Snake Martial Soul, and began absorbing the Soul Ring.

Lin Yan's Azure Snake Martial Soul had originally been nothing more than an azure snake, ridiculously tiny and ugly as sin.

Now, after several evolutions, it had long since grown to a meter in length. Its dark-green scales were sleek and hard, and even carried a blue-silver sheen.

There were no horns on its head. Instead, it had a blue-silver crown, the sign of his Martial Soul Mutation and its possession of life energy.

At the center of the crown was an energy core. Naturally, this was the Core of Life the Blue Silver Emperor had bestowed upon his Martial Soul, storing the power of life.

At that moment, the tremendous vitality contained within the Emerald Swan's corpse had yet to dissipate. Lin Yan drew all of it out to be absorbed by the Core of Life within his Martial Soul. Meanwhile, he desperately guided the energy within the Soul Ring into every limb and bone of his body. Finally, after being absorbed and refined through his meditation technique, it flowed into his dantian.

As a three-ring Soul Elder, with the model's support, he now absorbed a sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring with ease.

Lin Yan secretly reveled in delight. He had indeed made the right gamble. This Debt Collector Template felt amazing. Exploiting bugs felt amazing.

Other people his age could only absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring for their third ring, while his started straight at sixty thousand years.

He was not deliberately trying to show off. His talent was simply too weak, so he relied on the age of his Soul Rings to increase his Soul Power and make up for the gap in talent and age.

This was also unique across the entire Douluo Continent. He alone possessed such a template. Everyone else could forget about it.

What was that about there being no useless Martial Souls, only useless Soul Masters? Never mind useless Soul Masters-I say there's only a useless Grandmaster.

If your Martial Soul was trash, you had to make up for it elsewhere. Either cheat or wait to die. There was nothing else.

Time ticked by, second after second. The Emerald Swan's vitality was drained dry first. Then Lin Yan perfectly absorbed the sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring as well. It appeared beneath his feet before hovering steadily behind him.

Third Soul Skill:

Life Healing, ultimate group healing.

It could cleanse toxins, sustain Soul Power, and also provide Soul Masters with vitality.

Of course, it only cleansed other toxins. If the toxins were those it released itself, their fusion with this healing power would multiply the potency of the poisonous healing.

This Soul Skill was truly heaven-defying. It could heal and fight. Absorbing this Emerald Swan's Soul Ring had been the right choice.

Once the Soul Ring was fully absorbed, Lin Yan's Soul Power, which had been stuck at rank thirty, began skyrocketing wildly. It shot from rank thirty to thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, and only slowed at thirty-four. Even then, it did not stop, continuing all the way to rank thirty-five.

Absorbing a sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring, combined with his previous accumulation, had sent his Soul Power soaring all the way to rank thirty-five.

He did not know how many ranks of Soul Power he had accumulated before, but he felt that this sixty-thousand-year Emerald Swan could provide him with at least four ranks of Soul Power.

Normal Soul Masters could gain one or two ranks of Soul Power from absorbing an ordinary Thousand-Year Soul Ring, or three if they were lucky.

If absorbing a sixty-thousand-year Soul Beast only raised his Soul Power by one or two ranks, wouldn't that be laughable?

In short, his Soul Power had now surged by five ranks in one go. Although quite a bit had gone to waste, he had still made a killing this time.

With his cultivation talent, the higher his Soul Master rank and the older he became, the slower his cultivation would be.

Five ranks of Soul Power would probably have taken him five years. This had saved him that much time outright.

What did cheating look like? This was cheating.

In principle, the system did not allow him to exploit any bugs, but he had managed it anyway.

As the saying went, when difficulties left you without a way forward, rack your brains and you could always think of a solution.

Wasn't Lin Yan the best example?

He had absorbed the Soul Ring and successfully become a Soul Elder.

The Life Crystal Core of his life azure snake Martial Soul was also filled with vitality.

This vitality could be converted into Soul Power for him at any time, much like a soul tool Milk Bottle. It could also be converted into healing power and toxins, making it an extremely versatile energy. Having it counted as a trump card, the sort that could catch an enemy off guard and kill them at a critical moment.

After absorbing the Soul Ring, his Martial Soul had not evolved much, but the Soul Skill was satisfying, and he had also obtained a Soul Bone, which he had no plans for at the moment.

Still, this trip could be considered a complete success.

Lin Yan immediately directed Kunpeng to fly toward the people on the ground. He looked at them.

"Let's go. We're heading back. We're about to miss opening the shop this afternoon."

Absorbing the Soul Ring had cost him some time. Although matters in the Star Luo Empire had been handled fairly promptly, ending in an hour or two, he had spent several hours here. He would probably be late by the time he returned.

Hearing this, everyone stepped onto Lin Yan's Kunpeng. Then, racing like the wind and lightning, shifting in an instant, Lin Yan and the others soon returned to Suotuo City.

Even Lin Yan's eyes widened at the sight before him.

At that moment, the area in front of the Cultivation Room was even livelier than before he had left that morning. It was bustling on an unprecedented scale.

How had the crowd tripled when I'd only been gone for half a day?

Who exactly were all these people? Where had they come from?

Moreover, as Lin Yan looked at these people, he relied on his Titled Douluo-level perception-of course, a Titled Douluo did not possess this ability.

As a Titled Douluo who possessed the Xuanyuan Sword Martial Soul, he could sense countless powerful figures within the crowd, including at least a dozen Titled Douluos.

Among them were many Super Douluos, and even Limit Douluos whose auras far surpassed his.

His gaze immediately turned toward several concealed figures in the crowd.

"Well, well, even Titled Douluos are here.

So many top-tier powerhouses have gathered outside my shop. Has word of the shop spread in just a single day?

That's good, too. More people mean more orders, more earnings, and more feedback. He'll make a killing."

Everyone was here, so let the fleecing begin.