At the eastern city gate, transport carriages traveled tirelessly along the broad streets.
The man in black dragged another person along until they were a hundred meters away from the restaurant. Only after glancing back did he relax.
"Sanshi, was that really necessary? This is the first time I've seen you in such a sorry state. Are you really that afraid of him?"
"This isn't a question of being afraid. He's simply someone we can't afford to provoke."
"Was everything he said in the restaurant true, then?"
Xu Sanshi gritted his teeth. "Of course it was. According to my great-grandfather, the person he brought back then was very likely a Limit Douluo."
"A Limit Douluo, understand?"
Bei Bei said incredulously, "Really?"
Could the Cao Clan really be as terrifying as the rumors claimed?
Xu Sanshi snorted. "Why would I lie to you? Who knows how many years my great-grandfather has lived? He's eaten more salt than the two of us have eaten rice combined."
The two looked at each other in silence. Neither was in the mood to keep shopping, so they entered Shrek's eastern city gate, both intending to return to the academy and calm down first.
It was already late at night.
The shop had long since closed. Cao Yu returned to the dorm and lay down on his bed, too exhausted to move.
Several hundred fish-his hands had gone numb processing them.
Though it had been hard work, he had earned quite a bit that evening. He had to admit that Shrek's foot traffic was considerable.
Wang Dong was sitting on her bed cultivating. Before long, she opened her eyes and looked him over curiously.
"Where did you go this time? Why are you back so late? And you smell like fish. Tsk, tsk! Doesn't that stink bother you?"
She fanned her hand, seemingly trying to drive away the unpleasant smell.
But no matter what, the smell refused to dissipate, so he could only take some perfume from his storage ring and spray it around.
Wang Dong urged, "Hurry up and take a shower. You're filthy."
Looking utterly drained, Cao Yu said, "I'm so tired. I don't want to move. How about..."
Wang Dong pulled her blanket over her ears and made no sound for a long time, seemingly unwilling to pay him any attention.
He raised his hand and sniffed it. His expression changed; the smell on his body really had assaulted his senses.
After preparing a change of clothes, Cao Yu left the dorm and went to the bathroom to wash.
There was no hot water left at night, so he could only make do with a bucket of cold water.
Splash!
The bone-piercing chill passed through his skin into his nerves, making him feel an irresistible sense of refreshment.
Wouldn't this be even more thrilling in the depths of winter?
Cao Yu couldn't help letting out a strange "geigei" laugh.
He quickly got dressed. After returning to the dorm, Cao Yu sat beside his bed and began tallying the day's gains.
The shop transfer fee of 550,000, the ingredient purchases of 5,000, and the 100,000 in shop operating funds set aside for Huo Yuhao came to a total expenditure of 655,000 Gold Soul Coins.
Those expenditures brought him 65,500 Spending Points, while Tenfold Cashback brought him another 6.55 million in wealth. Perhaps before long, Cao Yu's personal wealth would break through the 600 million mark!
Checking the system shop, he discovered that quite a few new items had been added. Cao Yu kept opening their detailed descriptions and browsed until one in the morning. Like someone trapped in the mire of online shopping, he couldn't pull himself free, growing more alert the longer he browsed.
Oh man, this is addictive. I'll sleep later.
What should I buy with over seventy thousand Spending Points? It's so hard to decide!
After much hesitation, he finally chose to buy two Soul Bones of around 100,000 years and a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell Blueprint, leaving him with 1,000 Spending Points.
If he successfully developed this Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, it would be equivalent to an all-out strike from a Limit Douluo.
Its range was much greater, too, and it could easily be detonated. Seeing this, Cao Yu couldn't help growing excited.
He put the blueprint away, took the Soul Bone Fusion Platform out of the Ring of Destiny, and placed the two newly purchased Soul Bones inside along with the three roughly 100,000-year Soul Bones he had saved up.
Looking up at the sleeping Wang Dong, he covered it with a thick blanket and pressed the button, deliberately blocking the red light that emerged as the Soul Bone fusion began.
It was a shame about that 280,000-year Red-Eyed Golden Dragon External Soul Bone.
Since that Soul Bone had already been fused once, it couldn't undergo a second fusion. Otherwise, the Soul Bone's age and quality would have risen even higher.
While he waited, Cao Yu had no intention of sparing his remaining 1,000 Spending Points either. He opened the system's lottery panel.
"System, I want a hundred consecutive draws!"
[Ding, beginning one hundred consecutive draws!] [Ding, congratulations to the host on obtaining: Thank you for participating, Soul Power Enhancement Card! Thank you for participating, Thank you for participating, Level 6 Soul Tool Turret! Thank you for participating, ...] [According to the system's tally, congratulations to the host on obtaining the following one hundred rewards: Thank you for participating ×43, Soul Power Enhancement Card ×7, Soul Elder Experience Card ×16, Soul Ancestor Experience Card ×10, Soul King Body Experience Card ×6, Soul Emperor Experience Card ×5, Soul Saint Experience Card ×4, Soul Douluo Experience Card ×3, Titled Douluo Experience Card ×1, Black Hall Bearers Experience Card ×1, Level 6 Soul Tool Turret, 80,000-Year Purple Demon Beast Right Arm Bone, Card Fusion Module, Dream Entry Technique!]
"Holy crap! Come on, bro, you can't play like this!"
"A hundred draws can be this unlucky? All those 'thank you for participating' results-are you messing with me?"
"Spit out the Spending Points you swallowed!"
Cao Yu's face was as dark as Black Whirlwind Li Kui's. If looks could kill, the system would already have... Oh, he had only just remembered that the system wasn't a person. It was a thing.
[Ding, ...!!!]
System: You're a thing! You're not a person!
It seemed the lottery carried risks, and investments required caution.
The ten-draw pulls before hadn't been this much of a scam. Instead, the more he drew, the blacker its heart became.
[Ding, friendly reminder: the more draws the host makes, the lower the chances of winning become.]
"Why didn't you say so earlier? Forget it. Explain the card fusion template and Dream Entry Technique to me."
[Ding, card fusion template activated. System upgrading...] [Card fusion template: collect Soul Power cards of different levels and fuse them into specified cards through this template.] [Dream Entry Technique: I enjoy killing in my dreams-Cao Cao. The host can use the Dream Entry Technique to enter another person's dreams and become the dream maker. Once the other party's consciousness awakens, the host will be forcibly removed from the dream.]
Without examining the Dream Entry Technique closely, Cao Yu first threw his pile of useless experience cards, such as the Soul Elder through Soul Saint Experience Cards-several hundred in all-into the card fusion panel.
The system then provided three types of cards that could be generated: Soul Power Enhancement Cards, Black Pallbearers Experience Cards, and Limit Douluo Experience Cards.
He clicked generate.
The lower an experience card's level, the less it contributed, and vice versa.
Once the collection progress for one of the cards reached 100%, he could successfully obtain the corresponding card.
When the fusion ended, the three cards' completion rates were 60% for the Soul Power Enhancement Card, 23% for the Black Hall Bearers Experience Card, and 18% for the Limit Douluo Experience Card!
Having cleared out most of the experience cards he had no use for, he felt somewhat more at ease.
But no matter how Cao Yu looked at it, this seemed like Pinxixi's hundred-yuan cash redemption scheme from his original world.
The progress would reach 99.9999% and then refuse to budge.
[Ding, the host need not worry. This fusion module will not engage in such unscrupulous practices.]
(End of chapter)