Chapter 8: Avatar

Chapter 8: Avatar

After Amon negotiated the terms with Yan Jin and Ma Wen, the latter immediately handed over this year's five hundred gold soul coins and tossed the keys to a property next to the Icewind Junior Soul Master Academy to Amon.

Leaving Thorns Manor, Yan Jin brought Lei Yin and the others over. Compared to the chaotic and dangerous West Street, the area next to the academy was obviously much safer.

"Are we going to live here from now on?" Lei Yin asked, still somewhat in disbelief, looking at Yan Jin with concern, "What did you do, Big Sis?"

He knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and to get so much, she must have paid an equal price.

"Ah, it's nothing, it's just that I might have to work for Ma Wen in the future."

"Ma Wen? That Madam Ma Wen?" Lei Yin exclaimed in shock.

"We all know that her businesses involve many dangerous areas, and working for her could cost you your life. Quickly return the money, we can't let you take such a big risk."

Yan Jin rolled her eyes: "Do you think it's still possible to return it now? If you want to go back on an agreement with Ma Wen, I'm afraid there will be a few more corpses hanging on the 'Jerky Tree' outside the city tomorrow."

The "Jerky Tree" was a large tree not far from the gate of Frost Leaf City, where people often found corpses inexplicably "growing" on the tree in the early morning, hanging like jerky.

Those who knew the inside story were well aware that this was done by the Ice Thorns Chamber of Commerce, as Ma Wen intimidated those who dared to offend her.

"You don't need to worry, I'm not working for her right away, it's in the future. What we've gotten now can be seen as her investment in us, or as an alternative student loan.

"Besides, I may not even need to work for her afterward, it might be a 'cooperation', which depends on the height I can reach by then."

"Also, you guys should wear these clothes when you go out in the future." Yan Jin tossed the clothes provided by the Ice Thorns Chamber of Commerce to Lei Yin.

This was the Ice Thorns Chamber of Commerce uniform that Yan Jin had additionally requested from Ma Wen, on top of the clothes she had to wear according to the contract terms.

This was also a guarantee of safety for her younger siblings. In Frost Leaf City, few dared to provoke the Ice Thorns Chamber of Commerce.

After reassuring Lei Yin, Yan Jin put on a black outfit provided by the chamber of commerce, stretched her arms, and muttered:

"Will I have to wear clothes like this all the time in the future?"

Amon smiled, "Although this may affect your ability to wear your favorite clothes and dress up in front of your classmates, on the bright side, having free clothes to wear isn't a bad thing."

"No, I don't care about dressing up, it's just that some of the women's styles are a bit cumbersome and not conducive to fighting. But why don't you have to wear Ice Thorns Chamber of Commerce clothes?"

"Because I'm not as noticeable as you. For example, in our school, not many upperclassmen know me, the teaching assistant, but everyone knows the famous student Yan Jin," Amon said with a smile.

"Oh, is that so..." Yan Jin said with a hint of suspicion, "You should give me my share, too."

Amon handed one hundred gold soul coins to Yan Jin.

The latter muttered in a low voice: "Why isn't it split equally? This is an investment for both of us, right?"

"Because this is the sponsorship I pulled," Amon explained, "And I will also provide you with guidance on the path of a soul master in the future."

In fact, most of these five hundred gold soul coins were what Ma Wen was willing to invest in Yan Jin's talent, with Amon being just an add-on.

She was willing to pay on the spot also because of her recognition of Yan Jin.

The essence of this transaction was Amon selling Yan Jin's future potential.

But Yan Jin herself didn't know. She only knew that Amon had negotiated many favorable conditions for them.

"Okay, that's reasonable." Yan Jin nodded, agreeing with this distribution, and felt that Amon was a good person.

The house Ma Wen lent them was not small and came with a yard.

Amon chose the easternmost room.

He made a trip to the school dormitory and brought his things out.

Back at the residence, Amon closed the door, and two streams of light flew out of his body, turning into two teenagers identical to him.

After this period of exploration, he also had a deeper understanding of the characteristics of his martial spirit.

The Worm of Time soul spirit, of course, was not as strange and powerful as a real Worm of Time, but only possessed some of its abilities.

The process of splitting was essentially the distribution of soul and soul power. Amon inherited the ability of the Amon avatar to use Beyonder powers, so he could sense the subtle changes in his own soul. Half a month of experimentation was enough for him to quantitatively analyze the progress of soul recovery and replenishment.

Setting his original complete soul as a standard unit of soul, and setting his cultivation speed in his original complete state as the cultivation speed of innate full soul power, a 10% soul share was approximately equal to innate level 1 cultivation talent.

Whether it was the main body or the clone, the soul was slowly replenishing. The clone with the larger allocated share had a faster soul replenishment speed. He roughly estimated that the main body, which had an 85% soul share, would take about a year to replenish 10% of its soul.

The clone with a 10% soul share would take far more than a year to replenish 10% of its soul, and the other one with only a 5% soul share would take even longer.

However, the replenishment efficiency of one clone with a 10% soul share was not as good as the sum of the efficiency of two avatars with a 5% soul share.

For Amon as a whole, the more avatars he created, the faster the overall soul growth rate.

Amon could not create avatars indefinitely, because to carry a complete consciousness, a minimum of 5% of the soul was required. In addition, the smallest soul power level unit of the clone was also half a level. Any lower, and it could not materialize a body and could not cultivate independently.

With a thought, he split another clone with a 5% soul and half a level of soul power. The clone with a 10% soul and a level 1 soul power, which was originally used for comparison, was also split into two half-level clones.

As the Worm of Time split, the soul power level of his main body also decreased to level 11.

Splitting into four half-level clones was his current limit. In addition, he did not intend to reduce the soul of the main body to below 80%, which would cause the cultivation speed of the main body to be too slow.

He needed to ensure that the cultivation speed of the main body remained at a certain level, otherwise, if his own soul power level was too low in the future, he would not even have the qualifications to participate in the plot, let alone seek benefits from it.

Amon had his own small goal - to become a god faster than Tang San!

Before Tang San became a god, the Douluo Continent received relatively little high-level interference from the God Realm. Once he became a god, the rule that gods could not interfere with the lower realm without reason would become a dead letter.

He casually condensed a monocle and put it on his right eye. The four clone Amons focused their attention on the borrowed books and began to study.

One Amon suddenly laughed. He remYan Jined his childhood dream, or rather, wish, before he transmigrated.

When he was in school, he had always hoped to have a few clones to help him with his homework and attend classes for him. Now, that wish seemed to have come true.

The clones only had half a level of soul power and very poor cultivation talent, but they were very suitable for studying. They could directly transmit what they learned to the main body through consciousness synchronization, thereby saving a lot of time.

The main body Amon sat on the bed to cultivate soul power.

Amon skillfully entered meditation. He felt as if he was in the void. There were light spots wandering around him, and as his mental power radiated, the light spots continued to approach him.

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