Their commission was suspicious.

Since Chen Luo had already uploaded Yakumo Yukari's S-rank talent to the group network, Yakumo Yukari's upload this time will not have any impact on the group network. It's practically free!

So even though Yukari Yakumo was furious about Chen Luo judging her age, she still had to honestly upload her talent. Is this what they call being all talk and no action?

"Heh." Chen Luo couldn't help but sneer as he watched Yakumo Yukari upload her talent while angrily preparing the materials for the Shikigami-forming ritual.

You think you can just give her a kiss and not need to set up a shikigami ritual? You're dreaming!

Women will only slow down Chen Luo's rate of earning gold coins!

Most importantly, even if Chen Luo wanted to kiss Yakumo Yukari, he wouldn't give it to her.

Yakumo Yukari's words are highly unreliable in bars. Anyone who actually believes her might end up having their face rubbed against a keyboard by her.

Moreover, Chen Luo was quite stingy when it came to the amusement park coins.

Compared to the Abyss Gold Coins, which are only symbolic and lack the special significance of registering with Chen Luo, where a single high-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for a large number of gold coins, the special nature of Paradise Gold Coins is obvious.

It was originally created using experience, an extremely precious form of soul energy.

Experience is finite. Although the network has accumulated a vast amount of experience through the efforts of hundreds of millions of puppets (the experience gained by the puppets is split 50/50 with the network), the puppets still need to receive rewards for performing necessary actions that don't involve killing monsters, such as supporting the lower levels, crafting potions, or maintaining order.

The puppeteers were willing to work for free because everything about them belonged to the puppeteers, but Chen Luo wanted them to reap the rewards of their efforts.

Therefore, even if a large amount of experience is stored in the group network, this experience is constantly being used elsewhere.

In short, even the landlords didn't have any surplus grain.

Chen Luo only has a few tens of millions of Paradise Gold Coins as freely usable cash.

So being frugal is good.

"Give me 1000 Paradise Coins." Yakumo Yukari said while busy preparing for the shikigami ritual and drawing up the blueprints in her hand.

"Hmm... does this have anything to do with setting up the shikigami ritual?"

“Of course, Paradise Coins are essentially a type of soul energy, and if you want the highest-level shikigami transformation ritual, you need to use this kind of thing. Although I’m a little reluctant, Paradise Coins are really the most efficient, convenient, purest, and cheapest soul-type item I can get right now,” said Yukari Yakumo.

The key is that it's cheap.

If it were a regular shikigami signing ceremony, Yakumo Yukari could easily set it up, but Chen Luo insisted on the highest level, so what could Yakumo Yukari do?

Moreover, since the flower petals are almost completely purified and dissipated by Chen Luo, it's natural to need some soul energy replenished.

"Here you go. 999 gold coins for the handling fee, one gold coin." Chen Luo threw a sack of gold coins in front of Yakumo Yukari.

"Why is there a handling fee? Besides, I'm doing work for you. Shouldn't you be going to Fox Palace to collect your debt?"

"That's right. Hana Sanri, remember to return my 1001 gold coins later. Otherwise, I'll eat Fox Palace in one bite."

"..." by Hana Sanri

Chapter 1640 Hana Sanri: Lord Kitsuri, could you please be a little more reserved? Stop licking me!

"How did we end up back in Inazuma?" Ying asked, puzzled.

"Because both Fox Spirit and Hana-sanori are beings nurtured by the land of Inazuma, and Hana-sanori has wandered this land for 500 years as a wandering spirit. The power of this land is undoubtedly most suitable for the two of them," said Yukari Yakumo, a professional shikigami user.

Not only does Yakumo Yukari have the extremely excellent shikigami Yakumo Ran, but Yakumo Yukari's shikigami also have their own shikigami of their own.

"Sigh, it's so good to have Paradise Coins, such a versatile material. Back in the day, Lan... never mind, let's not talk about it."

"Is this why you let Lan work for you?" Chen Luo stood at the bar entrance, petting a fox while watching another fox busy on a patch of land.

"I've already done everything that required thinking, so what's wrong with letting Lan do the work? Besides, why are you protecting him like this? Do you have a crush on my Lan?"

[Oh, right, right, you only wrote a title for an 800-word essay, so at least you put some thought into it, right?]

Yakumo Yukari's shikigami ritual this time was almost a complete copy of Yakumo Ran's ritual recommendation, without Yakumo Yukari mentioning it at all.

Using your brain is indeed tiring. Even brains used hundreds of years ago are tiring now, right?

"Come to think of it, I've forgotten when it was, but I think you sold Lan to me, right?"

"Huh? You must be dreaming. With a shikigami as good as Ran's... how could I possibly sell it?"

"Fine. Let's not dwell on this. But can you explain why you only gave Lan 666 of the 1000 Paradise Coins allocated to you?"

666 is a very important number, both in the Bible and in mysticism.

"Because there are still some Paradise Coins that Hana Sanri needs to consume to strengthen her current state," Yukari Yakumo said.

"But Hana Sanri only got 66 Paradise Coins. What about the rest? Did you eat them?"

"Yes, I ate it." With that, Yukari Yakumo tossed a Paradise Coin into her mouth and crunched it.

The way to use Paradise Coins is that simple, boring, and tedious.

However, if you don't want to use this useless ritual, you can directly use your spiritual power, demonic power, or Honkai energy to make it touch the Paradise Coin, and then you can absorb the soul-type energy called experience inside.

"You're so blatantly embezzling gold coins," Chen Luo complained.

"Why can't I be aboveboard if I embezzled money through my own abilities?" Yukari Yakumo said confidently.

"I just sold my talent for 10 Paradise Coins, and now I'm already being greedy. That's not even worth a few hundred Paradise Coins."

That's right, an S-level talent can be sold for 10 Paradise Coins.

Although 10 Paradise Coins sounds like a huge number, enough to grant Chen Luo 10 wishes, the thought that selling them to Chen Luo for 10 coins would give all of Chen Luo's dolls the right to use this talent makes it seem not so expensive after all.

Besides the inherent value of the talent itself, these 100,000 Paradise Gold Coins also come with the right to use them.

Killing 10 zombies will earn you one Paradise Coin, meaning a talent with an exceptional S-rank ability is worth 100 million zombies.

This wouldn't necessarily cause the monetary system to collapse, because a unique S-class talent is truly enviable.

Furthermore, Paradise Coins, as a special and versatile type of soul energy, possess the characteristics of a general equivalent.

In fact, a typical S-rank talent wouldn't even sell for 10 gold coins, but Yakumo Yukari's talent is considered quite outstanding even among SS-rank talents.

"If you want to have more Paradise Coins, you need to increase your income and reduce your expenditure. There are already few ways to obtain coins, so you should cherish them even more once you have them," Yukari Yakumo said while eating Paradise Coins.

"Why are you staring at me while you're eating the Paradise Coins, and why are you biting them so hard?" Chen Luo tilted his head.

"Because I like you." Yukari Yakumo stared intently at Chen Luo.

[Because Paradise Coins are earned using experience points, and experience points are stored in the community network, which belongs to you, when Yukari Yakumo is consuming Paradise Coins, she feels like she's about to devour you.]

"???"

Are you sick in the head?

However, ever since Chen Luo saw Yakumo Yukari's logic and felt that it seemed to make a little bit of sense, he could no longer look at her eating Paradise coins the same way.

"Sigh, when will I be able to save up 100 million Paradise Coins? Speaking of which, how many Paradise Coins did your dolls cost to buy my talent? 20?" Yakumo Yukari asked.

"...You really should be hung from a street lamp!"

"My talent is so unique, shouldn't I be able to sell it for a higher price?"

"However, you'll be disappointed; it's actually only 10,000 gold coins, ten times cheaper. Basically, all talents are priced this way."

"Couldn't you have set a higher price? It's so cheap, why don't you just give it away for free?"

"You think I don't want to give it away for free? I'm selling my talent just to give them some motivation, right? Otherwise, why would I make money off them? If I really wanted their stuff, they'd even donate a kidney, you believe me?"

"Tsk, a bunch of fanatics." Yukari Yakumo looked disgusted.

Yukari Yakumo dislikes dealing with fanatics the most.

"The ceremony is ready. Throw Hana-sanri and Kitsune-saigu in. Oh, and Chen Luo, could you help me purify my soul corruption?" Yakumo Yukari suddenly said after swallowing a Paradise Coin.

"...How many Paradise Coins did you eat?"

"Probably less than 500?"

"...Didn't I tell you? In your condition, you can only eat a little over 100 a day at most."

Consuming too many Paradise Coins can lead to soul corruption.

"So that's why I came to find you, right? Quick, pat my head."

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"It costs money."

"I understand. This world is really strange. If this were Gensokyo, I bet countless people would want to pat the head of the youkai sage, but here you're charging them."

"Who cares? You know the rules, the price is 1:1."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense."

Yukari Yakumo found Chen Luo's nagging annoying, so she simply picked up Chen Luo's hand and placed it on her hair.

After Chen Luo sighed, he handed the Fox Palace in his arms to Hana Sanri beside him and then let her enter the ritual.

The ceremony will be presided over by Yakumo Ran, so it's a sure thing.

Soul alienation is generally irreversible, but there is one exception: immediately after consuming a large amount of gold coins (not exceeding 10 times the normal digestion rate; Yukari Yakumo's normal digestion rate is 100 coins/day, so the maximum amount Yukari Yakumo can consume is no more than 1000 coins) and then performing a head pat.

If they dare to delay even a little longer, they will undergo a truly irreversible transformation into a soul puppet.

That's why Yakumo Yukari only dared to eat Paradise Coins in front of Chen Luo.

A head pat can reverse soul alienation, but the head pat itself also produces a soul purification effect, which can also be considered a kind of soul alienation.

That's why Chen Luo had some reservations about what Yakumo Yukari did.

The reason for setting such a high price is precisely to dissuade people from using this method.

Since Yukari Yakumo is not exactly a silly, cute, and innocent girl, but rather the opposite, the head pat has a huge impact on her personality. Therefore, Chen Luo has to give Yukari Yakumo some time to recover after patting her hair for a few seconds.

After repeating this process five times, he finally helped Yakumo Yukari resolve the soul distortion problem caused by the 500 Paradise Coins.

At the same time, the ritual, which was created using Paradise Gold Coins and many other precious materials, suddenly emitted a burst of light that shot into the sky, attracting Chen Luo's attention.

As the light faded and the gold coins and other materials vanished with the wind, Hua Sanli emerged from the formation, carrying Huzhaigong in her arms.

And Hana Sanri's body finally shed that faint sense of transparency, solidifying completely with the help of the fox palace's demonic power.

According to Yakumo Ran, the shikigami bond was formed very smoothly and successfully this time, without any unexpected problems.

Therefore, Yakumo Ran also received 500 Paradise Coins as a reward from Chen Luo...

The money that Yakumo Yukari had just paid Chen Luo was used.

When she learned about this, Yukari Yakumo's expression was quite interesting.

Hana-sanri uses the same Shinigami-binding ritual as Yakumo Ran. Yakumo Ran can use Yakumo Yukari's gap abilities, so Hana-sanri can also use some of Kitsui-gumi's power.

Because of the deep bond between them, Hana Sanri can sense the specific situation of the Fox Palace as long as she is within a certain range of the Fox Palace.

For example, vague thoughts or the like.

This will allow the master and the god-slayer to work together more seamlessly.

But this also raises a new problem...

"Oh, Hana-san-neechan, why are you wearing a mask again?" Hotaru was happy to see Hana-san no longer having to worry about survival, but also a little puzzled.

"It's nothing, I'm just used to wearing it, so it feels a little strange taking it off," Hana Sanri said, covering her face with the fox mask she was wearing.

"Then you'd better get used to it quickly." Ying didn't suspect anything.

But only Hana-san knows the truth behind having to put the mask back on...

Hana Sanri was deeply shocked as she watched Kitsai-miya being teased and playfully biting Chen Luo's finger in his arms, completely unable to control the expression on her face.

Lord Fox Palace, what on earth are you doing?!

Having learned the true situation of the Fox Palace, Hana Sanri was greatly shocked by the current attitude of the Fox Palace and Chen Luo.

In order to uphold the dignity of Lord Fox's Retreat, Hana Sanri plans to wear a mask for the next two days to avoid giving away Lord Fox's disguise due to her own expressions.

However, Hana Sanri also breathed a sigh of relief. This at least proved that Lord Kitsai-no-miya had entered into the God-Slaying Contract with him while he was in a conscious state, and that Lord Kitsai-no-miya did not dislike him, but was quite satisfied.

This dispelled Hana Sanri's initial nervousness about how to face Lord Kitsai-no-miya.

But... Lord Fox Palace, could you please be a little more reserved?

Chapter 1641 One punch made Yakumo Yukari cry out in pain!

"Hello everyone, my name is Hana Sanri." Hana Sanri, having removed her mask again, solemnly introduced herself to the members of Chen Luo's family.

Hana Sanri saw members among these people whom she had never dared to imagine before, which is why she was so serious and even took off her mask.