Chapter 157: Lin Li is playing with credit

The Emperor's Teacher has seen a dragon, and Lin Li seems to have a chance to see the Holy Dragon Essence Blood. Is he going to become a little Emperor's Teacher?

That would truly be the most face-saving episode.

Not only that, his charm can be improved by another small level.

After reading the rewards, Lin Li read the task description again.

Sure enough, this magic treasure didn't come from a good path; it was created by an evil cultivator.

And this task, in human terms, is to let him do good deeds with a bad bottle, absorb the negative emotions generated by others into the bottle, and return a good mood to the other party. The task indicator is also a long progress bar.

After reading it once, Lin Li didn't care anymore. He wouldn't go out to study how to complete this task right now, but closed his eyes and sensed the "Bottle of Hidden Emotions and Desires" in his hand.

After Lin Li's successful refining, the connection with the magic treasure became tight instantly, and more detailed information about this magic treasure automatically poured into Lin Li's mind, which saved him from having to evaluate it:

"The function of the Bottle of Hidden Emotions and Desires will strengthen with his deepening refining and his own strength increase."

"It can only absorb sufficiently significant and strong emotional desires, and he needs to clearly capture that the other party has such desires and specify it when urging it. The magic treasure itself will not automatically feedback what emotional desires are around."

"Its absorption and output rely on fresh blood as a sacrifice. It can be sacrificed in advance, but advance sacrifice also has an absorption limit. Use requires consuming his own essence, energy, and spirit. Long-term use in a short period will lead to mental fatigue. This point is opposite to 【Ear Divine Ability】."

"Its casting distance, for him now, in an environment without any obstacles, is about ten meters."

"The emotional desires stored in the bottle have an upper limit, and the more complex the emotional desires stored at the same time, the smaller the total capacity, and the greater the mental consumption during use. Now because his strength is not enough, the upper limit should be relatively low."

"It cannot consume and swallow these emotional desires out of thin air. If he wants to empty the bottle, he must output these emotional desires to himself or other high-intelligence creatures, to be consumed by living things. If the emotional desires in the bottle come from transformable spirit beasts or cultivators, then low-level spirit beasts cannot be the target, and vice versa."

"It cannot re-absorb the emotional desires it outputs, and it will be damaged after being used to a certain extent, but after being completely damaged, it will begin to self-repair. Spiritual energy and essence blood can accelerate the repair process."

After digesting this information, Lin Li opened the computer, preparing to test it.

Baidu Netdisk, start.

The "Bottle of Hidden Emotions and Desires" was held in his hand.

Hey, don't say...

Fuck, humans who start thinking with their lower bodies are really too dangerous. Lin Li shook his head to dispel this damn bold idea and immediately urged the magic treasure according to his heart.

Bet all his credit, give it all to me!

The "Bottle of Hidden Emotions and Desires" glowed with a faint fluorescence that wasn't obvious at night. Lin Li didn't see any other abnormalities between himself and the bottle, but he just felt that the desires that were originally difficult to suppress gradually faded, and the tough guy gradually became tender.

Credit gradually lost, Lin Li completely became a person who lost credit.

Magic treasure is worthy of being a magic treasure; it has something.

However, it only absorbed the generated desires and didn't absorb the root cause, so if Lin Li looked up and continued to watch the screen on the computer, the tenderness would turn into a tough guy again.

If this magic treasure could deprive emotions, that would probably not be something Lin Li's strength could urge at all.

For Lin Li, the most important purpose of the experiment was to confirm that, as long as he ignored the unimportant fluorescence, the "Bottle of Hidden Emotions and Desires" had no abnormalities when used.

That is to say, it could be used without anyone knowing.

This magic treasure must have lethality. After all, when suddenly violent emotions pour into a person's body, whether it's great joy or great sorrow, it will cause serious damage, or even sudden death. From a hidden perspective, the lethality is stronger than the Clear and Righteous Thunder Control Method.

There is one more way of death that Conan can't guess.

However, this is under ideal conditions. With his current degree of refining and his own energy limit, the distance to being able to use it to kill people is probably not just a little bit.

Refining again needs spiritual energy. No rice makes Lin Li, a young woman who needs to continue cooking, feel very uncomfortable.

People can't always be unlucky.

Now he can only take one step at a time. The time was not early, so he put the magic treasure back into the 【Warehouse】 and Lin Li went to bed to rest.

"According to unofficial history, one day, Zhou Yu drank too much. Thinking of the recent humiliation, he said to the assassin subordinate he trusted: 'Zhuge Liang looks down on me!'"

And used his hand to make a knife gesture across his neck, signaling him to go assassinate. The loyal subordinate nodded and did it immediately.

That night, Zhuge Liang, Xiao Qiao, and Zhou Yu were assassinated by a mysterious assassin. This is the origin of the allusion of one plan harming three sages!"

"Is, is that so?"

"Is this, is this right?"

In the morning, when Lin Li arrived at the classroom,

Because Bai Bufan had brought his phone this week, Lin Li once again shouldered the heavy responsibility of smuggling breakfast.

After distributing the breakfast, Lin Li returned to his seat.

"Lin Li, tell me, why is it that as soon as one arrives at school, one gets so sleepy?" Bai Bufan yawned, saying lazily while rummaging through his breakfast.

"That's simple, because school is where dreams begin," Lin Li answered in a flash.

Bai Bufan: "..."

"Thanks, learned something new. Next time I get caught sleeping in class by the teacher, I'll know what to say." Bai Bufan gave a thumbs up; this was just too positive.

Lin Li, who had been reading, put down his book and began to think.

Would the system judge the desire to sleep as a negative emotion?

Because the "Bottle of Stored Emotions and Desires" actually had nothing shameful about it—one could just treat it as a handheld toy—and since it was small, Lin Li could materialize it directly in his pocket. He could take it out, and no one would find it strange if they saw it.

Materializing and taking it out, Lin Li aimed the bottle mouth at Bai Bufan, preparing to begin absorption.

—The bottle had already absorbed the duck blood offered yesterday, so it didn't need a blood refill right now.

Furthermore, Lin Li also had a box of duck blood in his schoolbag, just in case.

Lin Li's movements paused slightly.

Because he suddenly remembered there was still his own reputation from yesterday inside the bottle.

The jumble of emotions and desires inside the bottle would reduce the storage limit and increase his own mental consumption, so Lin Li thought about it and decided to first output the desires inside onto Bai Bufan.

Go!

"Cough, cough." Bai Bufan, who was drinking soup, began to cough violently. The soup almost came out of his nostrils; he pursed his lips, his expression strange and uncomfortable.

"What's wrong, Bufan?" Lin Li asked with concern.

"It's nothing, nothing." Bai Bufan waved his hand, saying with an indifferent face.

"Screech—"

A few seconds later, Bai Bufan shifted his butt backward, dragging his chair back about ten centimeters, creating a harsh friction sound against the floor, then leaned forward to continue drinking his soup calmly.

This caused the back that had originally been at a ninety-degree angle with his thighs to now become an acute angle.

This movement was to cover something up. Since they were both men, how could Lin Li not understand? He tilted his head toward the window and covered his mouth, starting to stifle his laughter.

The evil cultivator who invented the "Bottle of Stored Emotions and Desires" is truly a bastard.

I really want to meet them.

Soon, Bai Bufan finished his breakfast, threw it into the trash can outside the door, and continued to maintain that sitting posture. Then, after hesitating for a while, he patted Lin Li on the shoulder and asked worriedly:

"Lin Li, I have a friend whose Uncle Chen inexplicably arrived an hour late. Is this normal?"

"It should be normal, right? At our age, what's so strange about that?"

Lin Li pinched his own thigh, nodding while holding back his laughter.

"Is it really normal? There weren't any inducing factors at all. Do I really not need to go to the hospital to check?" Bai Bufan was somewhat distressed.

—Just a moment ago, his mind was purely thinking about taking a nap and how the breakfast tasted okay, but the next second, he suddenly wanted to escape. This shouldn't be happening at all.

"Your friend's Uncle Chen is late, why are you going to the hospital?" Lin Li asked with some 'confusion'.

"Hmm? Ah? Haha, that's true too." Bai Bufan was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head and laughed awkwardly, "I was worried and lost my head."

Three seconds passed.

"I mean I'm going to the hospital to see that friend of mine. That friend is not me," Bai Bufan added sincerely.

"Mm."

"Really!"

"Mm."

The bottle was now empty. After Bai Bufan turned his head away dejectedly, Lin Li aimed the bottle mouth at him again, preparing to absorb his sleepiness.

It failed; nothing was absorbed.

Oh, it's estimated that the previous incident made Bai Bufan wake up all of a sudden; the sleepiness should be completely gone.

His own problem.

He should have absorbed the sleepiness from Bai Bufan first, and then, in a "borrow and return" fashion, while returning the sleepiness to him, added a portion of reputation as a bonus.

Still too benevolent.

But it doesn't matter; in the morning at school, sleepiness is still very easy to find.

Especially those guys in the back row; they are big sleepers. Zhou Baowei, not far away, was already nodding off like a chicken pecking at rice.

Activating the magic treasure again, this time he could feel the desire known as sleep being sucked into the bottle, and Zhou Baowei's eyes also became less dazed, gradually returning to clarity.

Lin Li's gaze locked onto the progress bar of Task Four.

It went up.

This meant that his act of absorbing his classmates' sleepiness satisfied the system's requirements.

But the increase was a bit too small; if Lin Li hadn't been staring for a long time, he wouldn't have even known it had started to progress.

Lin Li wasn't sure if this task itself required a large amount of emotion, or if the desire of sleepiness wasn't considered negative enough in the system's judgment.

But anyway, since there was progress, he would just keep absorbing. Although Lin Li was in the last row by the window, the ten-meter distance was enough to cover everyone in the class. And whether each person was sleepy or not was actually quite easy to distinguish with the naked eye, so Lin Li began to absorb them one by one.

It was full.

Before the sleepiness of the guys in the last row had been fully absorbed, the "Bottle of Stored Emotions and Desires" gave Lin Li the message that it had reached its limit and could not take in any more.

The degree of refinement was still too low.

Lin Li opened the window and, with sharp eyes, found a bird perched on a tree.

The output failed. He tried several other animals outside the window that were within Lin Li's 'output' range, but the feedback was failure for all of them.

It seems this is what the "Bottle of Stored Emotions and Desires" meant by reproductive isolation in terms of emotional desires.

Closing the window and thinking for a moment, Lin Li output the sleepiness onto himself.

Holy crap.

He had practiced the physical chapters of the Eight-Section Brocade Body-Forging Technique this morning, so his body was a bit tired, and using the "Bottle of Stored Emotions and Desires" consumed his spirit, so his mind was also a bit tired. Once this sleepiness entered his body, it exploded instantly; Lin Li almost closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Outputted emotions cannot be absorbed again; this was an irreversible action.

Shaking his head, he struggled to dispel the sleepiness. It seems he couldn't harm himself like this.

Then who to harm?

"Lin Li, why do you keep looking at me?" Bai Bufan suddenly noticed Lin Li staring at him, and immediately crossed his arms over his chest, leaning back and asking vigilantly.

"It's nothing."

Lin Li hesitated.

Staring at Bai Bufan to fleece him was a bit too much.

Harming his brother like this, his conscience really couldn't take it.

During morning reading, Lin Li was the only one singing.

Bai Bufan had his textbook propped up in front of him, enjoying high-quality sleep like a baby.

(End of chapter)