Their commission was suspicious.

"jingle!"

The wind chimes rang.

"Lord Chen Luo, I've arrived." Saeko Busujima said to Chen Luo as she entered the bar.

"..." Chen Luo remained silent.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Chen Luo staring at her, Saeko Busujima was a little flustered, wondering what she had done wrong.

Did I arrive too suddenly and disturb Chen Luo?

"You...you should still be in class, right? Did you skip class?"

"..." Saeko Busujima was stunned for a moment.

My own thought process is indeed unusual.

[How dare you criticize others? How long has it been since you went back to that school? Do you know you've been having Chiyo Mikoto attend classes for you? She's almost depressed!]

"..."

As it turns out, the intensity of studying in the final year of high school is unbearable, even for a ghost.

"Sir, as agreed, I've come to ask you for the doll coins," Saeko Busujima said politely to Chen Luo after closing the door.

"You still can't stop thinking about the amusement park." Chen Luo sighed.

This was the agreement between Chen Luo and Saeko Busujima: if Saeko Busujima lost her Paradise Adventurer identity due to the overlay of world lines, Chen Luo would be responsible for restoring it.

Chen Luo did not refuse, but instead reminded Saeko Busujima that if she did not want to continue being an adventurer in Paradise, this would be a good opportunity to leave.

But Saeko Busujima clearly declined the opportunity.

It's normal that Saeko Busujima was able to find the bar on her own, because all the adventurers in the park know what the bar's entrance looks like. Chen Luo had also said that if these adventurers were in mortal danger, they could try to take refuge in the bar. However, so far, the total number of adventurers who have taken refuge in the bar is no more than 100.

Firstly, the adventurers in the Paradise knew that disturbing Chen Luo's bar business wouldn't be good. Secondly, the adventurers in the Paradise generally couldn't tolerate situations that could lead to their death, and would usually rush up and explode with the opponent, rarely leaving with a complete corpse.

Anyway, you can be resurrected after you die.

"Wait, no, Saeko Busujima, come here for a second." Chen Luo had just taken out the doll coin but then put it down and instead beckoned to Saeko Busujima.

Saeko Busujima obediently came to Chen Luo's side, whereupon Chen Luo grabbed her chin.

"Hmm, this is not normal, very abnormal, hiss..." Chen Luo carefully observed Saeko Busujima's face.

To be precise, Chen Luo was seeing through the surface to the essence, using his investigative abilities to observe the other party's soul.

Saeko Busujima, who was being scrutinized closely by Chen Luo, gradually blushed.

Why are you blushing like a teapot?

"What happened, Lord Chen Luo?" Only after Chen Luo released Saeko Busujima did she manage to calm herself down before asking.

"I have good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?" Chen Luo asked.

“Good news,” Saeko Busujima said.

It's clear that Saeko Busujima is a rather traditional person.

"The good news is that you no longer need to consume the Doll Coins. In a maximum of one hour, you will return to being a Paradise Adventurer." Chen Luo's gaze was somewhat complicated.

"Hmm, what do you mean?" Saeko Busujima asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Because... although it's not quite appropriate for me, the ability holder, to describe it this way, let's put it this way: the ability to create puppets is extremely polluting," Chen Luo said.

"What's the meaning?"

"Because of the overlap in world lines, and because you, as a native of this world, reversed time, it's true that you lost your identity as an adventurer in Paradise. Due to the world line reset, your soul did indeed rewind. But there's a tiny little problem," Chen Luo said, pinching his fingertips.

"What's the problem?"

"Before we go on, I'd like to ask you, do you know the principle behind dollification?" Chen Luo asked.

"I'm not entirely sure," Saeko Busujima shook her head.

Who says adventurers in the amusement park have to know the principles of dollification?

Just as humans don't understand all the principles behind the many elements that make up the human body.

"Soul dollification, to be precise, is using some special energy to modify your soul, transforming it into the desired form, and leaving a mark on your true spirit. It's not about leaving some kind of energy to keep it effective and make you loyal to me, as some people imagine," Chen Luo said.

Since energy will eventually run out, this form of control is actually the least secure way to manage it.

"And the most important thing in this process is to leave a mark in your true spirit. This is the final 1% of 100%. There is a big difference between 99% and 100%."

The true spirit is the microcosm of the entire soul, a storage container for the soul's data. It is the proof that distinguishes this person from others.

As long as the true spirit remains, even if the soul is ravaged and broken, with enough soul energy, it can gradually recover to its original state.

"So?" Saeko Busujima tilted her head, somewhat puzzled.

"The current situation concerns your soul. Because the regression has indeed returned you to the state before the apocalypse, both your soul strength and physical strength have returned to the level of an ordinary person before the apocalypse. However... the imprint in your true spirit has not changed."

"Originally, the goal was to modify your soul, forcing your true spirit to internally form the mark of an adventurer from Paradise. Now, because the shape of your soul doesn't match your true spirit, the true spirit is changing your soul according to the mark within it, turning you into an adventurer from Paradise," Chen Luo said.

If a normal true spirit is a blank sheet of paper, then being personified is like writing the five words "Loyalty to Chen Luo" on it.

It's probably no longer possible to force the true spirit to change its mark by altering the soul, because the "commands" written by the puppet have already filled all the remaining space of the true spirit.

Therefore, Saeko Busujima is currently undergoing a self-dollification transformation.

This is actually a form of protection, involving one of the adventurers' biggest trump cards – resurrection.

While the souls of adventurers in Paradise may be interfered with, the True Spirit will not. Modifying the True Spirit allows adventurers who, after self-destructing and suffering a soul attack, to be resurrected in Paradise with their souls reshaped according to their unchanged True Spirit, unaffected by the soul attack they suffered before death.

Chen Luo originally thought that the world line overlay could change the True Spirit Mark, but he did not expect that the puppetization ability would be so stubborn.

“And until your soul is completely transformed, you will still maintain your old habits,” Chen Luo said.

"What do you mean?"

"Now, show me how you self-destruct," Chen Luo suddenly said.

“Yes, sir.” Saeko Busujima’s eyes instantly turned blood red.

"That's what I mean. Even if the True Spirit hasn't finished modifying your soul, you'll still habitually obey my commands absolutely." Chen Luo snapped his fingers, directly interrupting Saeko Busujima's self-destruction process.

In layman's terms, Chen Luo's puppetization altered the factory settings of the other party's soul. Therefore, no matter how much the factory settings are restored, the other party's true spirit will still be in the state it was in when the soul was puppetized, and the true spirit will in turn affect the soul.

In other words, although Chen Luo cannot currently use the group network to boss Saeko Busujima around because she cannot receive the signal, if Chen Luo were to state his demands in front of her, she would immediately put them into practice.

The other party is indeed no longer Chen Luo's puppet, but the other party still retains the "habits" of being a puppet.

Moreover, because the other party's true spirit is reversing the transformation of their soul, they will be able to safely regain their Paradise Adventurer identity in less than an hour.

Good news: Factory reset has been achieved.

Bad news: The factory settings have been changed.

Once the soul reproduces the mark recorded by the true spirit, it will naturally be able to connect to the community network.

"Then, sir, what's the bad news?" Saeko Busujima asked.

"Well, that... Saeko Busujima, you understand, right? The true spirit is naturally the most important part of the soul, but the collective network is essentially a network of souls. Only when the soul conforms to the shape of the collective network can it be connected to the collective network. It's like a USB interface can't be plugged into a Type-C interface."

So whether in Chen Luo's view or in reality, Saeko Busujima is not Chen Luo's puppet, at least not now.

Saeko Busujima's current soul form cannot connect to the group network. This is because the true spirit needs time to modify the soul form.

"so?"

"Your group network account has been deleted, and all the Paradise Coins you've accumulated are gone."

"!!!" Saeko Busujima's expression remained unchanged, but Chen Luo's investigative abilities revealed that Saeko Busujima's emotions were fluctuating violently.

"Hey, wait a minute, I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush. Even though your account has been deleted, once you create a new account, 10 Paradise Coins will be immediately deposited into your account, along with 100 Merit Points."

"Thank you, sir." Upon hearing the word "meritorious service," Saeko Busujima immediately broke into a smile.

Saeko Busujima was happier with the merit points than with the Paradise Coins.

Besides the fact that merits can be exchanged for more important, forbidden, and core things, this also means that Saeko Busujima's actions "helped" Chen Luo.

Because only by helping Chen Luo can one gain merit.

This is the significance of merit. It is currency, but it is also a form of recognition.

In the group network settings, Paradise Coins are displayed normally, while Merit Points are displayed as [Merit Points: 0/0].

Even if you spend your merit points, the merit points you have earned will not be erased.

"Sigh, although he's no longer a puppet, his logic is no different from when he was an adventurer in the amusement park." Chen Luo shook his head.

The puppetization is indeed gone, but the logic of prioritizing Chen Luo's needs, which was altered by the puppetization, remains unchanged.

"I always feel like this puppet-like ability is like a stubborn virus that can't be eradicated even with worldline overlay," Chen Luo complained.

“Normal SSS-level talents would probably become ineffective due to the overlap of timelines,” Root suddenly said next to Chen Luo.

"You mean my talent is abnormal?"

"Normal my foot! Your talent was either drawn from a lottery of your own talents or it underwent conceptual modification. In short, it's a derivative of your own talent, like the rope tied to a crab, sold at the crab's price. When one person attains enlightenment, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. Although your performance in normal situations won't be abnormal, there will always be some special characteristics, such as higher priority. As for this puppet-like ability... it's probably this kind of stubbornness, like being shameless?" Genyuan guessed.

"Is there a solution?" Chen Luo asked.

"A solution? You mean to make sure that when the world line overlaps, even the shape of the soul can't be changed, so that your Paradise Adventurer account won't be canceled? Then why don't you just have your Paradise Adventurer run far away when the world line overlaps?" At this point, Genyuan glanced at Saeko Busujima, whose face still showed some heartache.

The Paradise Coins and items will be confiscated after the account is deleted, which is not a big problem. However, it is heartbreaking to lose some special achievements as a result.

If a game company mistakenly cancels your account with UID 10001314, then asks you to register a new account and compensates you with the same amount of wealth as the original account, would you be willing to do so?

This UID might be worth more than your account.

Fortunately, he also had meritorious service.

But heartache is heartache.

"No, I wanted to ask if there's a solution to the changes in the True Spirit? Like modification or repair?" Chen Luo said.

“It’s difficult.” Genyuan shook his head.

So there is a solution?

“Yes. Ask your teacher. A transcendent being can do anything,” Genyuan said.

The alteration of the true spirit through personification essentially fills all the gaps in its structure. Conventional methods simply cannot repair or overwrite it.

If they really intend to use brute force to repair it, the only possibility is that the true spirit will also explode.

Actually, using the Primal Stone should also solve the problem, because the ability to transform into a puppet is now attached to Chen Luo's wish talent, and the essence of the Primal Stone is also higher than that of puppetization.

However, the problem is that repair is often more difficult than destruction. Chen Luo would probably need to spend a lot of raw stones to modify the true spirit of an adventurer in Paradise.

"Besides those who transcend?"

"Why do you keep asking this?" Genyuan asked, somewhat curious.

"Actually, I'm not worried about Paradise Adventurers leaving me, because if they don't want to be Paradise Adventurers, there are plenty of others who are. Besides, apart from a few villains, the other Paradise Adventurers join voluntarily, and I won't stop them from leaving if they want to... although it's probably very difficult. What I'm worried about is what if there's a way to modify True Spirits, and if a Paradise Adventurer is caught by the other side and can't be resurrected after self-destructing?" Chen Luo said with some concern.

It's not a good thing for adventurers in the amusement park to get into the habit of self-destruction.

"Use raw gems."

“But I now have over 20 billion Paradise Adventurers, oh no, over 30 billion.” Chen Luo was somewhat conflicted.

Chen Luoke does not have more than 30 billion yuan worth of raw stones.

And to be honest, Chen Luo probably wouldn't be willing to spend more than 30 billion raw stones on this matter, as he felt it would be a huge waste.

“Silly boy… There are over 30 billion adventurers in Paradise, but there’s only one network, right? If you protect each individual adventurer, and 10 adventurers are simultaneously attacked by attacks involving True Spirits, you’ll lose 100 Primal Stones. A billion adventurers would mean a billion Primal Stones. But if you protect the network, and the network is connected to the True Spirits of all adventurers in Paradise, even if you are attacked 10 billion times per second, you’ll only lose one Primal Stone. It’s like your soul being attacked multiple times at the same time; it’s based on time, not the number of attacks,” Root said.

"Auntie, how did you know?"

"Nonsense, you're in the Vortex of Origin, your soul is attacked by hundreds of billions of times every second, yet the Origin Stones are still being deducted time and time again, aren't they?" Origin waved his hand.

"Oh, so that's how it is... wait, hundreds of billions of times per second?" Chen Luo was taken aback.

“Yeah, you think a mage enters the Root, takes a quick look around, and leaves. In reality, a mage probes the entrance to the Root Vortex and then turns around and leaves. Do you think everyone is as naive as you, going straight into the Root Vortex?” Root rolled its eyes at Chen Luo.

“Actually, I feel you don’t need to worry about attacks involving true spirits. Those who can break through your puppet-like defenses and attack true spirits are probably similar to you, holding power and hoping to transcend. They are probably preparing to transcend and stay away from worldly affairs. Like you, would you trade anything other than earning primal stones?” Genyuan asked.

Even if one has authority, the probability of transcending it is not high, but it is better than having no authority at all.

"No." Chen Luo shook his head.

For Chen Luo, not giving him raw stones in the transaction is just being a scoundrel, isn't it?

For Chen Luo, who possesses the Wealth Dao Fruit channel, having the Paradise Adventurers explore the Dimensional Sea market is merely to give them a broader future; it offers them little benefit.