A system prompt shattered his hopes. If he went out and paid a price, he could get some experts to join temporarily, perhaps as Honored Guest Elders. In theory, this would be equivalent to them joining the Merak Sect.
However, that would be meaningless. They wouldn't have two hundred favorability points toward Yi Tianyun. This favorability was tied to loyalty—the higher the favorability, the higher the loyalty. 'Would Honored Guest Elders hired with a few Soul Artifacts have high loyalty?'
Yi Tianyun himself wouldn't believe it, so that hope was dashed. He had wanted to take a shortcut to instantly gain a hundred million experience points or so, which would have made his power skyrocket, but that was no longer possible.
If he saved an expert whose favorability then continued to rise past two hundred, that would naturally count toward completing the quest.
