Chapter 117

Perhaps it really was a way to make money.

Zhao Chi only thought for a moment before replying immediately.

Zhao Chi: [I'm sure. Thank you, Instructor Li.]

Li Li Ruanyu: [You're welcome. I'll be there in about ten minutes; I'll call you when I arrive.]

Zhao Chi: [Understood, thank you.]

He closed the system.

Tang Ruan was still quietly looking at him from the side.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Tang Ruan smiled: "Then what should I look at? Does my lord not like me looking at you?"

"I like it, go ahead."

"Mm."

"Let me get on you two more times."

"Mm, okay."

Another 10 minutes passed, and the control ability over Tang Ruan's body increased by another 2%, reaching 69%.

Before the second 10 minutes were even up, the overall control level had broken through 70%.

At the beginning, the speed of improving control was very fast; after all, the effect from being unable to move to being able to move was visible to the naked eye.

But now, he couldn't even perceive where the progress was.

It was probably in some details.

At this time, Li Li Ruanyu called via voice call:

Li Li Ruanyu: [Zhao Chi, I'm at your door; come out and get it.]

Looking at the time, it was indeed about ten minutes.

Zhao Chi said to Tang Ruan: [Tang Ruan, I'm going out for a moment; I'll be right back.]

Tang Ruan: [Okay, my lord.]

Zhao Chi clicked to return.

The scenery before his eyes changed.

He was back in that messy little wooden house.

But Zhao Chi didn't care anymore; living in the territory was fine, this was just a teleportation point.

The moment he pushed the door open, Zhao Chi froze.

"Damn..."

He saw that the hand pushing the door was a fair, tender little hand—a woman's hand, not his own.

In an instant, Zhao Chi felt his blood freeze.

He was driving Tang Ruan and had come to the Great World.

Summoning territory residents privately would lead to punishment.

Tang Ruan hadn't expected that she would be brought out by Zhao Chi either.

Now the two were one, and Zhao Chi could feel Tang Ruan's inner emotions.

Tang Ruan could also feel Zhao Chi's inner emotions.

Tang Ruan hurriedly asked: [My lord, what's wrong? Why are you so panicked inside?]

Zhao Chi didn't answer.

He had already teleported back to the territory in an instant.

He quickly opened the system.

The message bar was empty.

There were no warning notifications.

Didn't receive a warning?

Why?

Zhao Chi was a bit puzzled.

Usually, when summoning territory residents privately, the system would issue a warning.

After successfully summoning a resident, the system would also receive a fine and an arrest warrant.

And now, the system had no movement at all.

Could it be... that when he and Tang Ruan were one, the system didn't identify Tang Ruan?

Instead, it identified Zhao Chi directly?

That wasn't right either; all the attributes were Tang Ruan's.

Could the system have identified Tang Ruan as the lord?

That was very likely!

In this way, there would be no obstacles to entering and exiting the two worlds?

Besides Tang Ruan, when he was in Gu Qing's body, he should be able to bring her out too.

What about other subordinates?

That should work too.

This wasn't an amazing ability, because originally, one could summon subordinates at any time.

It was just that it was artificially restricted and monitored now.

Zhao Chi had now bypassed this rule, but this opened up a lot of possibilities.

Zhao Chi hadn't figured out what he could do with this yet, but it would always be useful.

A minute later, Zhao Chi exited Tang Ruan's body.

He put on his clothes and went out again.

Li Li Ruanyu's small mechanical vehicle was parked outside, and she was leaning against the car door with her long legs, waiting for Zhao Chi.

Zhao Chi said apologetically: "Sorry, Instructor Li, I came out late."

Li Li Ruanyu waved her hand: "Open the system, I'll send it to you. You still have space in your system storage, right?"

"Yes, thank you."

Li Li Ruanyu transferred the supplies over, and Zhao Chi also transferred the money over.

[You have obtained items]:

[Cotton Silk] ×30

[Moon Gel] ×2

[No-Return Grass Juice] ×30

[Swan Mushroom Serum] ×2

[Stocking Fashion Blueprint] ×1

Li Li Ruanyu nodded: "Alright, how is your development going?"

"Developing normally. It's only the 9th day, still in the early stages."

"Mm, how much did your family increase the monster quota this time? Did they allocate it to you?"

Zhao Chi sighed: "I don't know. Our patriarch hasn't said yet; I guess they'll call us for a meeting later."

Li Li Ruanyu nodded: "Many people are complaining about those rebels, saying it's because they caused trouble that the nobles had to divert manpower, which led to everyone's monster quota increasing. Do you have similar thoughts?"

Zhao Chi was a bit surprised.

Such topics had never appeared in the academy.

Instructors wouldn't ask students like this either.

Zhao Chi thought for a moment and said: "Instructor Li, shouldn't we avoid such topics? Aren't you being monitored?"

Li Li Ruanyu smiled and shook her head: "Monitoring isn't that omnipotent; it doesn't affect speech and the territory."

Zhao Chi didn't know why she was being monitored.

Nor did he know which aspects of her were being monitored.

He thought for a moment and said: "The first enemy is the monsters..."

Li Li Ruanyu nodded: "That's right. Keep developing, I'm leaving."

Zhao Chi hurriedly stopped her: "Instructor Li, I have another question to ask. Do you have time?"

Li Li Ruanyu opened the car door.

Now she closed it again.

"Alright, what question?"

"Instructor Li, do you know about the Body Driving Technique?"

Li Li Ruanyu nodded: "Although it's not my major, I do know a little about this primary spiritual art. Did you get a skill book? But this skill is useless on humans unless you catch some undead races; then you can barely use it."

Zhao Chi nodded: "Mm, I understand. I saw a note on this skill book saying that there might be a serious backlash, or even disappearance. I'm not quite sure what that means."

Li Li Ruanyu said: "Oh, this is a very basic concept. You haven't taken undead major courses, so you don't understand. Let me explain it to you simply."

Zhao Chi nodded, listening carefully.

Li Li Ruanyu said slowly:

"This skill is very common.

"If a lord chooses races like skeletons or zombies that have no intelligence, they basically have to learn this skill.

"Just like how you learn encouragement, you can choose it from the beginning.

"The Body Driving Technique has two aspects that need attention: one is [Body Matching], and the other is [Target Cooperation].

"[Body Matching] can be seen as how well it matches the lord's race.

"The higher the matching degree, the more the target's strength can be exerted.

"And it can also transfer the user's talents, enhancements, skills, and other abilities over.

"We are all humans, so naturally, the matching degree with the human race is the highest, reaching over 95%, or even 99%.

"The matching degree with humanoid races like orcs and elves is also not bad, around 80%-90%.

"Other demi-humans are relatively lower, such as harpies, centaurs, nagas, etc., around 60%-80%.

"And non-human races or non-biological races, such as shadow leopards, stone men, golems, etc., have a very low matching degree, perhaps less than 30%, or even 1% or 0%.

"It can be said that the closer the genes are to humans, the higher the matching degree.

"However, the matching degree of some undead races is not low.

"For example, humanoid skeletons have a matching degree as high as 60%, and humanoid zombies can even exceed 80%, after all, they were humans before they died.

"So this skill is best used on them.

"If the matching degree is low, not only can the user not transfer much ability, but even the original body's performance will be restricted.

"For example, with a 60% matching degree, the driver can only transfer 60% of their own ability, and at the same time, can only exert 60% of the body's strength.

"If the matching degree is too low, there is no great significance in driving."

Zhao Chi nodded.

Regarding the matching degree, he could roughly guess its use.

When he drove Tang Ruan, except for her basic attributes, all other attributes and skills were directly stacked 100% onto Zhao Chi's values.

It was equivalent to the two people's abilities merging.

Because his and Tang Ruan's body matching was 100%.

If the matching was 50%, then both sides could only stack half of their strength.

Li Li Ruanyu continued:

"Then there is [Target Cooperation].

"This is another key point.

"When you control a body, you can devour the original owner's mind to achieve the purpose of permanent occupation of the body.

"Some people who are dying will use this method to occupy a young body.

"Similarly.

"The owner of the target body can also choose to devour you.

"After all, you can bring various bonuses.

"If you are completely devoured, you will disappear, but the bonuses will remain.

"The original owner will be permanently strengthened until they devour the next target.

"So theoretically, both sides have reasons to attack; it's really dangerous if there is no trust.

"This is why absolute trust is required."

So that was the reason.

Zhao Chi suddenly realized.

It turned out to be so dangerous?

When he occupied Tang Ruan and Gu Qing just now, they could also choose to devour him?

No wonder complete trust was required.

Fortunately, Tang Ruan's cooperation with him was 100%.

Li Li Ruanyu continued:

"[Target Cooperation] will change; the reflected values can be used as a reference, but cannot be trusted absolutely.

"If it's a race without thoughts like skeletons or zombies, the cooperation degree can exceed 95%.

"Through long-term practice, reaching 99% is also possible.

"But if the target chosen is an intelligent race, then no matter what kind of intelligence it is, there is danger.

"Especially high-intelligence races, such as orcs, elves, humans, etc.

"These races have their own personalities and thoughts, and it is usually difficult to trust the other party completely.

"Unless it's between husband and wife, or parents and children, it will be higher.

"Usually, if the cooperation degree can reach over 60%, you can try it.

"But if it's lower than 40%, don't try it at all.

"Even if you can win by fighting with soul power, you will inevitably be injured, and what is injured is soul power."

Soul power, very mysterious.

Without formal entry into the system's identification, Zhao Chi couldn't see his soul power information either.

But this thing should exist.

Through Li Li Ruanyu's few minutes of explanation, Zhao Chi finally understood completely.

Zhao Chi thanked her: "Thank you very much for the patient explanation."

Li Li Ruanyu didn't seem to have had enough.

She gave Zhao Chi a few more precautions.

Zhao Chi nodded repeatedly.

Li Li Ruanyu said: "That's about it. If you have time, you can take undead courses; you can audit them, those instructors are more professional."

"I will definitely go listen when I have time."

"Any other questions?"

"Not for now."

"Alright, then develop well. I have to leave quickly, I still have business to attend to."

"Take care, Instructor."

Li Li Ruanyu sat in the mechanical vehicle, with one long leg still stepping outside.

"By the way, Zhao Chi, if you capture an undead race and use this Body Driving Technique, remember to come out before teleporting, otherwise there will be a fine. Of course, the system will also remind you."

Zhao Chi had originally wanted to ask.

But he had concerns and didn't ask.

He didn't expect Li Li Ruanyu to say it just right.

Zhao Chi also asked along the way: "Can it be detected like this?"

Li Li Ruanyu looked at the watch on her wrist.

Then she climbed out of the car again.

Zhao Chi felt a bit embarrassed: "Instructor Li, if you have things to do, go ahead and get busy. Don't worry about me, I was just asking out of idleness."

Li Li Ruanyu smiled: "I can still spare 5 minutes for you. Let's treat this as private guidance. Anyway, you are my student, and guiding you is my duty."

Zhao Chi thanked her: "Alright, I have no other questions, just that one just now."

Li Li Ruanyu shook her finger: "That's a big question."

"Ah?"

Li Li Ruanyu spoke to herself: