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Chapter 380 Five 'Chosen Gods'! [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

"Brother Hong is the best!" Ye Lingling threw herself into Chen Hong's arms and then excitedly rewarded him with a kiss.

"Uh," Chen Hong tilted his head and pushed Ye Lingling's head hard with both hands, "There are people here, stop messing around."

"Your life rhythm is quite suitable for this place. As long as you are careful not to damage those immortal herbs, this place will be even more suitable for your cultivation than the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy."

Ye Lingling's life rhythm is a recently developed ability, which Chen Hong didn't know much about before. However, after observing Ye Lingling's performance with the Flower of Reincarnation in the simulated training ground, Chen Hong felt that Ye Lingling was quite suitable for the environment of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Valley.

Of course, Chen Hong didn't want Ye Lingling to extract the life energy of the immortal herbs and soul beasts. Instead, he wanted Ye Lingling to destroy the weeds in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Valley that were comparable in quality to spiritual herbs.

Weeds: You think you're so great! You're so high and mighty! You're like a blue light!

The shortcut to accumulating resources is exploitation.

Since the weeds in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Valley are constantly absorbing the energy of heaven and earth and stealing nutrients from other immortal herbs and soul beasts, it's better to let Ye Lingling benefit from it and let her steal the nutrients from the other immortal herbs and soul beasts.

Ye Lingling: There can only be one parasite like me!

Immortal Herb Soul Beast: Hmm? Something's not right with the plot! Before Ye Lingling arrived, I was going to have my nutrients stolen! Now that Ye Lingling is here, I'm going to have my nutrients stolen again! What a waste of my trip!

"Hello, young lady from the Nine Heart Begonia family." At this moment, the burly, gruff-voiced Golden Crocodile Douluo appeared before Chen Hong, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Bo. Accompanying him was Qian Daoliu, who should have been in a state of cultivation, but now looked somewhat somber.

"Greetings, seniors!" Ye Lingling blushed as she got off Chen Hong upon seeing that people had actually arrived, and greeted Golden Crocodile Douluo and Qian Daoliu respectfully.

"Senior, did you fail?" At this moment, Chen Hong looked at Qian Daoliu's somewhat unpleasant expression—no, he actually sensed Qian Daoliu's less-than-happy emotional fluctuations—raised an eyebrow slightly, and said with some surprise, "Failure was inevitable."

"No." Qian Daoliu interrupted Chen Hong, his voice calm. He glanced at Ye Lingling before finally looking at the not-so-blind Chen Hong and said, "Your soul power crystal seed is somewhat useful. It took me a day to refine it. As you said, the inside of the crystal core has an extremely compressed soul power structure, similar to the stamping press in your Chamber of Commerce's soul tool production workshop. In the past, condensing soul power was a rather abstract process, but the soul power crystal core has made it a concrete action. You only need to continuously inject your soul power into the soul power crystal seed, and eventually, with the help of the extreme structure inside the crystal core, you can complete the 'soul power stamping' in a time-saving and labor-saving way."

"I expect that the soul power crystal seed you casually created will save me half the time, and I am expected to be able to complete the path of the soul power crystal within three years."

Almost all of Chen Hong's creations possess only extreme 'physical properties', without any other mystical properties. The Soul Power Crystal Seed cannot directly become a Soul Master's Soul Core like a Celestial Star Luo Spirit Pearl, after all, it is a 'mortal object' that can be understood, only this 'mortal object' has a little bit of extreme properties.

The Soul Power Crystal Seed has a more fitting name: a modified version of the Particle Collider.

Of course, the specific effect is just as Qian Daoliu said, like a "soul power accelerator" that can assist soul masters in condensing soul power. If the Immortal-grade Star Luo Spirit Pearl is the "result", then the soul power crystal seed is the "means" and "path".

"How can you say it was just made up? It took a lot of effort!" Chen Hong was speechless. Did they really think his Blood Wheel Black Lotus Soul Eye had no side effects at all?

"Didn't you say before that you wouldn't spend any money?" Qian Daoliu retorted, bringing up Chen Hong's previous outrageous remarks.

Previously, Chen Hong was chewing on a peach from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Valley, saying that the Soul Power Crystal Seed was free, which made Qian Daoliu's eyelids twitch wildly.

So, you do know what hard work is?

Now, Qian Daoliu dares not use the various restorative immortal items in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Valley indiscriminately, for fear that Chen Hong might accidentally kill him.

Chen Hong: (pointing to his stomach) Senior, my tummy, I'm hungry!

Qian Daoliu: (With indifferent eyes) Hmph!

Chen Hong: (XX) *burp* He's dead.

"Hey, senior, don't always undermine me." Chen Hong chuckled at Qian Daoliu.

However, Qian Daoliu didn't say much on this topic. Instead, he calmly said to Ye Lingling, who was hiding behind Chen Hong and only peeking out, "If your abilities are really suitable for the complex environment inside the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Valley, then this place is indeed very suitable for you, just as Chen Hong said."

Although Qian Daoliu's tone was calm and indifferent, there was a subtle and complex emotion hidden deep in his eyes when he looked at Ye Lingling.

Ever since Qian Daoliu discovered that Ye Lingling seemed to be able to extract life energy from living beings (the Flower of Reversal, the Flower of Reincarnation), his heart had become extremely complicated. Having frequent contact with Chen Hong, Qian Daoliu naturally understood some of Chen Hong's outrageous and outrageous theories. Combining this with his own information channels as the High Priest of Angels, Qian Daoliu had a deep understanding of Chen Hong's outrageous theory that "evil soul masters are the chosen ones."

In a sense, "evil soul masters"—no, they should be soul masters who possess the ability to exploit all living beings—will find it easier to achieve greater success, or even become gods.

If we view the power of faith as a form of spiritual exploitation, although this idea is somewhat heretical, Qian Daoliu still wants to say that angel gods, and indeed all gods of faith, are a kind of "deification of evil gods." However, compared to the short-sighted exploitation of traditional evil gods, the methods of exploitation employed by deified evil gods are more "reasonable" and focused on sustainability.

Hmm. Thinking of this, Qian Daoliu couldn't help but recall certain specific events on the Douluo Continent, such as bandits who robbed and plundered, and the two great empires that exploited their people through exorbitant taxes. In essence, there was no difference between the two; the only difference lay in the methods. One could at best result in financial loss to avoid disaster, and at worst in the destruction of one's family and death; the other, as long as one behaved well, was not necessarily unable to continue living.

Having realized that the shortcut to accumulating "wealth" lies in the exploitative practices of Qiandaoliu, his mind was enlightened, and the way he looked at Ye Lingling changed completely.

The power of faith is a universal exploitative ability; as long as one's own strength is sufficient and one's comprehension is high enough, then all gods can use it.

However, the plundering ability possessed by the "Born Evil Soul Masters" is a unique path to life advancement that belongs to them.

Tang San is like this (Blue Silver Emperor + Eight Spider Spears), Bibi Dong is like this (Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor), Qian Renxue is like this (Faith Perception), Chen Hong is like this (Faith Specialization), and now, Ye Lingling is also like this (Life Plunder)!

(End of this chapter)