"Are you sure it will work?" Ye Ling'er had already edited the message; all she had to do was press the send button to send it to her best friend.
"Don't worry, it's all covered!" Ling Yi nodded confidently.
"Could you provide more information?" Ye Ling'er still felt it wasn't very reliable.
Although my best friend's Illusion Spirit is a bit ugly, judging from his attire, he must be a rich young master, right?
An axe and a young master... they just don't seem like a good match!
"I'm an information merchant. Every piece of information, even every single word, has value. If you want more information, pay up!"
"You're such a money-grubber!" Ye Ling'er rolled her eyes and then pressed the send button.
A few seconds later, Ye Ling'er's phone rang.
Ye Ling'er pressed the answer button and, without waiting for the other party to speak, said directly, "Don't ask questions, just try it. Try it right now, and give me the results in ten minutes at most."
He hung up the phone after saying that.
Ling Yi gave Ye Ling'er a thumbs up.
"Hmph, I'm hungry! I need to eat! I haven't had a single bite since morning!"
"Here!" Ling Yi pointed to his small supermarket. "Take whatever you like. It's free, consider it my treat."
Ye Ling'er was speechless. In Ling Yi's shabby supermarket, the most expensive thing was those few bags of beef jerky.
"No, I want you to treat me to dinner."
"Didn't you say it was only half an hour?"
Ye Ling'er had forgotten about this; she really only had half an hour.
"Then you owe me a meal."
" Fairy Ye, you're being so unreasonable. You asked me to treat you to a meal, it's not that I didn't want to, it's that you didn't have time, and now you're blaming me? Am I the one who owes you a meal?"
What, you're not convinced?
Ling Yi was at a loss for words; this unreasonable behavior made it seem impossible to reason with her.
"Fine, I'll owe you a meal." Ling Yi surrendered.
"By the way, I have a question for you. Why can't the cultivation technique be practiced?"
Ye Ling'er immediately understood what Ling Yi was asking.
His expression turned serious as he said, "In the inheritance of the Illusion Spirit, spells, combat techniques, and the like, can be used directly once inherited."
Ling Yi nodded; he already knew this, as Ye Ling'er was able to use magic immediately after receiving the inheritance.
After receiving the inheritance of the Phantom Demon, he could directly use the Phantom Demon's moves.
"However, none of the inherited techniques can be practiced. According to our speculation, this is because the real world and the Fantasy World are different."
"However, although Illusion Martial Practitioner cannot cultivate, Illusion Spirit can. The process of Illusion Spirit cultivation is actually the process of converting Life Force into various energy systems."
"Then the Illusion Spirit will relay the feedback to the Illusion Martial Practitioner."
Ling Yi suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."
This is good; it saves me the trouble of practicing it myself.
"Can't Illusion Martial Practitioner really cultivate?" Ling Yi asked again.
"Yes, no!"
So it really can't? At least it's not my problem. I thought I was the only one who couldn't do it!
But if it can't be done, it's not a big deal anyway.
Just then, Ye Ling'er's phone rang again.
This time, before Ye Ling'er could speak, the other party spoke first.
Ye Ling'er held the phone to her ear for a few seconds, then placed it on the cashier's counter, letting the other end of the line chatter on.
"What's this?" Ling Yi pointed to the phone.
"Things are going very well. I didn't expect that my best friend would switch her weapon to an axe, and her affinity with the Illusion Spirit would instantly increase by five percent."
"However, she's a chatterbox. Aside from her first sentence, which was useful, everything after that was nonsense; listening to her or not didn't really matter."
"You really do know your best friend well!" Ling Yi chuckled dryly.
"She's quite the heiress, very wealthy!"
"Let me briefly explain my pricing. For every percentage point increase in compatibility, it costs 1000 Life Stone, with each ten percentage point increment representing a different tier."
Does pricing include a fixed price? That's a good idea.
"10% to 20%, one percent for every thousand Life Stone; 30% to 40%, two thousand Life Stone; 40% to 50%, four thousand; 50% to 60%, ten thousand!"
Good grief, it jumped to 10,000 right off the bat? Isn't that a bit shady?
But I like it!
"If that's the case, then 60 to 70 is 20,000, 70 to 80 is 40,000, and 80 to 90 is 80,000... Hmm, no, according to your calculation, it should be 100,000?"
Ling Yi gasped. 100,000 Life Stone —if they were priced at one million each on the official platform, how much would that be?
Oh dear, I've suddenly gotten bad at math. Can someone help me with this?
"No, no, no!" Ye Ling'er shook her finger.
"Sixty to seventy percent is twenty thousand, that's true, but seventy to eighty percent is one hundred thousand, eighty to ninety percent is one million, and ninety to one hundred million is ten million."
"Hiss!" Ling Yi gasped, "Damn, that's really dark!"
"So, my best friend still owes us 4,000 Life Stone. Don't worry, I'll get them back for you, not a single one will be missing."
Hmm, huh, they really are best friends.
"I can understand spending 100,000 to go from 70 to 80, since once you reach 80%, you don't have to worry about the Illusion Spirit betraying you. But spending a million to go from 80 to 90, and tens of millions to go from 90 to 100!"
"Putting aside whether anyone can actually produce that many Life Stone, even if someone could, isn't this price outrageous? Would anyone really be willing to pay that much?"
Ye Ling'er said helplessly, "Little newbie, achieving Illusion Spirit Compatibility of over 80% is incredibly difficult, especially for each additional percentage point."
"When the compatibility reaches 90%, the Illusion Martial Practitioner will enter a completely new world, or rather, that is the true starting point for the Illusion Martial Practitioner."
Ling Yi bent down and moved closer to Ye Ling'er: "Saying only half of what you mean can easily cause hemorrhoids!"
"Get out!" Ye Ling'er shoved Ling Yi.
"This is top secret of the Illusion Martial Army. Unless you join the Illusion Martial Army, don't ask."
"Hmm, let me guess!" Ling Yi sat back down in the recliner Later a relaxed, reclining posture.
" The Illusion Martial Practitioner, you must have already found a way to enter the Fantasy World, right?"
"How did you guess?" Ye Ling'er was genuinely surprised.
" Life Stone, and an empty storage backpack!"
Looking at the Life Stone in his hand that emitted Yingying green light, Ling Yi continued, " Life Stone, these things probably don't exist in the real world, right?"
"At first I was just guessing, but when you gave me the storage backpack, I was pretty sure it was something from a Fantasy World in a game."
"Since it's a product of the game world, it must have found a way to enter the Fantasy World."
Ling Yi paused, then continued, "Moreover, judging from your attitude towards the Life Stone and the storage backpack, it's clear that this storage backpack isn't particularly valuable."
"So, based on what you just said, I'd venture to guess that when Illusion Martial Practitioner's affinity with Illusion Spirit reaches over 90%, does that mean they're qualified to enter the Fantasy World?"
Ye Ling'er looked Ling Yi up and down. "Wait, are you really that smart?"
"Of course."
"You're not Parallel Phantom Demon, are you?" Ye Ling'er asked.
"Uh, Parallel Phantom Demon? Where did this new term come from? Explain it."
"You think you can guess? Go ahead and keep guessing!"
Ling Yi murmured, "Parallel, Phantom Demon, Parallel World?"
"This 'Parallel Phantom Demon,' could it be referring to Phantom Demon from Parallel World?"