Let's be honest. Would a dignified Nascent Soul Stage great expert really sleep without the slightest bit of guard?
Ye Ling didn't believe it.
In a world full of deception and schemes, treating Bai Yiyi as an innocent, harmless girl was no different from treating his own life as disposable.
Of course, with his current level, even if Bai Yiyi let him attack her for a hundred years, he wouldn't be able to hurt her in the slightest. But she could very well end up being taken advantage of by him.
So Bai Yiyi's actions were clearly meant to test his character.
As the saying goes, you can know a person's face, but not their heart.
Although Bai Yiyi acknowledged his cultivation talent, talent had nothing to do with one's morals. Using this to test his character made perfect sense.
As Ye Ling gradually pieced everything together, he sighed inwardly at how cautious he had been. He had almost plunged straight into a gentle trap and fallen right into Bai Yiyi's scheme.
Who would have thought that Bai Yiyi, who looked so unreliable on the surface, could actually resort to a beauty trap? Luckily, he himself didn't have too many improper thoughts about her. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
The women down the mountain are tigers. The old monk really wasn't lying!
To take advantage of a Nascent Soul Stage great expert? Ye Ling knew that even with the System, he wouldn't be able to bear the consequences. Being driven down the mountain would already be Bai Yiyi showing mercy. More likely, she would just slap him to death on the spot.
Don't be fooled by Bai Yiyi's body, soft as clouds in the sky. The power contained within it made the now-calm Ye Ling feel a chill run down his spine.
If the True Qi in his body was a slowly flowing stream, then what lay within Bai Yiyi was a boundless ocean.
And more importantly, that ocean was entirely made of True Essence.
True Essence was the advanced form of True Qi, crushing it in terms of quality.
If you used money as an analogy, True Essence was like the US dollar, while True Qi was like the Japanese yen. The two were simply not in the same league.
The gap between Ye Ling and Bai Yiyi was countless times greater than the gap between Ye Ling and an ant.
Being called a great expert at the Nascent Soul Stage was no empty boast.
"Lust hides a blade. From now on, I have to be careful, careful, and even more careful. I can't let some female demon trick me into losing my body."
Ye Ling knew very well that a young man traveling the world had to protect himself. The restless thoughts in his mind gradually settled under the pressure of a powerful survival instinct.
After all this turmoil, Ye Ling was no longer hungry, but his mind was completely awake.
There was no way he could fall asleep now, so he began to explore how the System worked.
Last night, he had been too busy admiring Bai Yiyi's cute appearance and had neglected the System somewhat. After all, sitting face to face with Bai Yiyi, if he kept spacing out, she would definitely notice.
Now was the perfect time to get familiar with the System.
Fortunately, even with his eyes closed, Ye Ling could open the System in his mind.
He first glanced at the number in the top right corner. The points generated from Bai Yiyi's emotions: 585.
The number wasn't high, but he was extremely satisfied.
After all, this was only because he was dealing with Bai Yiyi. If his Master had been some old man instead, he might not even know how points in the System Shop were obtained.
In his mind, true enlightened experts were always steady and composed, with firm Dao hearts. They would never make a fuss over trivial matters.
With a single thought, he immediately understood the mechanism behind earning points.
First, these points were called Emotion Points. Any emotion produced because of him could be converted into points.
Second, as long as something was within his field of vision, he could absorb Emotion Points from it. It wasn't limited to Bai Yiyi alone.
Seeing this, he couldn't help but let out a breath of relief. If it only applied to Bai Yiyi or only his Master, then this feature really would have been pretty useless.
But if even random passersby counted, then he already had a plan in mind—
Showing off? That's my specialty!
Once his cultivation was strong enough, he could just find some large gathering, step up, and throw a few casual moves. The surrounding crowd would definitely gasp in unison.
As for losing?
Have you asked my System about that?
It wasn't that he looked down on the locals. He genuinely believed this world had no shortage of geniuses. But compared to an existence as unreasonable as the System, even geniuses would inevitably look dull.
Lastly, any kind of emotion could be converted into Emotion Points, but you couldn't keep farming a single person. Moreover, each type of emotion had a daily cap.
The System didn't list specific values, mainly because it varied from person to person. Some people were naturally emotionally intense, so their caps were higher. Others were emotionally indifferent. Unless Ye Ling did something truly remarkable, he wouldn't be able to extract even a single Emotion Point from them.
Ye Ling understood this limitation. Otherwise, if points could be farmed endlessly, all it would take was tying someone up and torturing them. Emotion Points would be absurdly easy to obtain.
After understanding Emotion Points, Ye Ling shifted his focus to the System Shop.
The items in the shop were dazzling and varied, each one sounding more outrageous than the last.
The Vast Sea Art, All-Phenomena Gravity Pull, Twist the Void…
Just the names alone were enough to set one's imagination running wild, but Ye Ling quickly noticed something important.
Every one of these cultivation methods came with prerequisites.
Take All-Phenomena Gravity Pull, for example. If he wanted to purchase it, the host's Master first had to acknowledge that gravity existed in this world.
In other words, if Ye Ling wanted to buy that cultivation method, he would have to ask Bai Yiyi—
"Do you believe in gravity?"
Damn it!
Just imagining that scene made Ye Ling cringe. It wasn't something a normal human could do. You'd have to transcend humanity itself.
In short, aside from the most basic consumables, everything in the System Shop required fully meeting certain prerequisites before Emotion Points could be spent.
As for the basic consumables, they were nothing more than healing medicine or Qi Replenishing Pills. And if he wanted higher-quality pills, he would still need to meet additional prerequisites.
That said, if the descriptions in the System Shop were to be believed, then even buying a single item from it would be enough to shake the entire cultivation world.
No surprise there. Not a single item inside didn't violate common sense in the cultivation world.
So calling it useless? Ye Ling didn't think so at all. After all, the rewards were proportional to the effort, and often far exceeded it.
At the same time, he also discovered that the System Shop allowed enhancements.
For example, the Small Formless Sword and the Great Void Record he obtained from Bai Yiyi could both be enhanced through the System Shop, though doing so required Emotion Points.
Unfortunately, his points were far too few. He couldn't afford to enhance either of them.
The one thing that did comfort him was realizing that the amount of Emotion Points required for enhancement could be used to judge an item's value.
As a side note, as a cultivation method, the Great Void Record was worth ten times as much as the Small Formless Sword, a high-grade Spirit Artifact, and was on par with many of the cultivation methods in the System Shop.
Good grief. He'd really picked up an incredible treasure.
Thinking of Bai Yiyi, Ye Ling felt his heart grow hot with excitement.