At Qin Ming's request, the eight of them engaged in a chaotic free-for-all in the training ground. To be honest, it was more of a competition between the old and new team members. Only through this could the group members quickly understand each other's strength levels in the shortest time possible.
In an instant, the training field descended into chaos. Human figures flashed like lightning, and various colored lights collided and intertwined.
"Stinky snake! Your poison is splattering all over my face!"
"Hmph, I already said anyone can join. If you get poisoned, blame your own incompetence, you dead rabbit!"
"You wanna fight?"
"Come on then! Let's see who's afraid of who!"
The Shi brothers watched in complete bewilderment as Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan started arguing after exchanging just a few moves. The two girls had already begun quarreling. What were they supposed to do now?
Their gazes wandered around before landing on Ye Lingling, who was surrounded by Osler and Yu Feng. Why was it two against one?
Osler and Yu Feng probably didn't want to face Lin Yang directly and become his punching bags, right? So they had completely abandoned any sense of martial ethics and chosen a two-on-one tactic, focusing their attacks on the support-type soul master.
However, although Ye Lingling was struggling a little against the two of them, it didn't seem to be a big problem.
Ye Lingling was a support-type soul master, but over the past year she had consumed a large amount of various strengthening medicines. She had even eaten the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, the immortal herb most suitable for support-type soul masters.
That immortal herb had not only directly raised her soul power by five ranks, but had also compensated for the slow cultivation speed that was the biggest weakness of support-type soul masters.
Thanks to Lin Yang's guidance, Ye Lingling had become a completely different person.
Of course, the physical abilities of support-type soul masters were still a major weakness. Fortunately, she possessed Lin Yang's self-created soul skill "Flower's Breath," which compensated for her lack of strength with other techniques. With the addition of her healing soul skill, she no longer had to worry about getting injured.
Still, as time passed, the gap in stamina between her and the others would gradually widen.
Ye Lingling understood this clearly, but she was already very satisfied.
She was no longer the Nine-Hearted Begonia who could only hide behind others and provide support. She had become the "Flower-Calling Swordsman" Ye Lingling, possessing combat skills comparable to a power-attack type soul master.
At that moment, a voice suddenly reached the Shi brothers' ears.
"If you don't have any opponents, why don't you come play with me?"
The two men froze. They turned their heads toward Lin Yang, who was standing a short distance away, and said with bitter expressions:
"President Lin, please go easy on us!"
Lin Yang smiled lightly and said, "Don't worry. I always know my limits."
He did not release his martial soul. Instead, he waved his hand at the two of them bare-handed.
The Shi brothers exchanged a glance and instantly understood each other's intentions. Since the other party was being so arrogant, they decided not to hold back.
They were geniuses and had their own pride.
But the moment they started fighting, they realized that the opponent wasn't just arrogant—he was frighteningly strong.
The four newly added members had injected fresh vitality into the reserve team. While their overall physical abilities weren't outstanding, their personalities were very good. They got along well with Lin Yang and the others.
They all firmly believed that Lin Yang held absolute authority as the leader of the reserve team—because every single one of them had personally tasted Boss Lin's iron fists.
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Butterfly House.
The Butterfly Garden had become much larger compared to a year ago.
Lin Yang had purchased the houses to the left, right, and behind the original Butterfly House area, connected them together, and carefully divided each section.
Although there were far more people in the Butterfly Mansion now, there was no sign of chaos. On the contrary, every department was performing its role properly, and the entire place looked highly organized.
Of course, this was also thanks to Milan, the chief housekeeper of the Butterfly Garden.
Because Milan was there, both Lin Yang and Catherine had saved a tremendous amount of time.
Naturally, Lin Yang had not treated them unfairly. They had all begun receiving promotions and salary increases.
Today, the influence of the Butterfly House had already spread beyond Heaven Dou City and continued expanding into the surrounding city-states.
Since Lin Yang currently had no shortage of funds, he was considering opening several more Butterfly Houses (essentially branches of the Butterfly House).
Thanks to the Soul Return Medicine and Soul Burning Medicine, he had earned a considerable amount of gold soul coins.
As long as no one could replicate these two medicines, the market would remain under his control.
Furthermore, he had shown no intention of introducing other medicines. If his goal had been purely profit, the Soul Return and Soul Burning medicines alone would have been more than enough.
The most important thing was using medicine to improve physical strength.
Backyard of the Butterfly Garden.
Lin Yang had converted the entire building into a laboratory.
At this moment, his expression was serious. Scorching soul power surged from his palm and enveloped a pure white immortal herb.
The herb visibly withered before condensing into a lump of milky-white sap.
This sap was the entire essence of the Narcissus Jade.
Lin Yang then transferred the liquid into a larger container that already held a large amount of green solution.
This solution was made from various rare and precious materials. Just the cost of the ingredients alone had reached nearly four million gold soul coins.
The moment the two solutions came into contact, a reaction that seemed almost magical occurred.
The solution emitted a sparkling white light, and a rich herbal fragrance instantly filled the entire room. Even taking a single sniff made one feel as if their soul power circulation had accelerated.
However, as this happened, Lin Yang's expression grew even more grave.
There had only been one stalk of the Narcissus Jade. He would not get a second chance.
Failure would mean not only losing the precious immortal herb, but also wasting nearly four million worth of resources.
By then, there would be nowhere left to cry.
About an hour later, when the originally green solution had completely turned into pure milky white, Lin Yang finally let out a sigh of relief and revealed a relieved smile.
A great success!
This was the first time he had used an immortal herb to refine the Jade Bone Spirit Medicine.
Whether the result would meet his expectations, he still wasn't sure.
Using his soul power, Lin Yang extracted the medicine and filled eight small bottles—slightly more than he had expected.
Without hesitation, he drank the contents of one bottle in one gulp.
The medicine flowed into his stomach like a warm current. Lin Yang immediately sat cross-legged and began cultivating. His soul power seemed stimulated and began circulating violently.
As the fluctuating soul power around him gradually stabilized, a smile appeared on Lin Yang's lips.
"Indeed, the soul power circulation efficiency has increased by about 5%."
Five percent might not sound like much, but what if it was a permanent upgrade?
Improved soul power circulation efficiency meant he could accumulate more soul power in the same amount of time and recover faster.
Even when using soul skills, it could accelerate the condensation of soul power.
Most importantly, the Jade Bone Spirit Medicine worked on all soul masters.
Whether it was a one-ring soul master or a nine-ring Title Douluo.
Currently, there were almost no immortal herbs left in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Over the past year, the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid had been given to Ye Lingling, and the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower had been given by Dugu Bo to Ye Xuanyin.
It couldn't help Elder Ye reach the Title Douluo level, but it could strengthen the fire source of the Tyrant Red Flame Lotus.
Elder Ye might finally have the chance to witness the glory of that title in his lifetime.
Despite possessing so many miraculous immortal herbs, the old poisoner hadn't liked a single one.
The Fragrant Silk Beauty was the ultimate antidote, while the Snow White Swan's Kiss was an extremely potent poison that could kill with just a sip of water. The Silk Tulip had almost no effect for granting titles.
The only truly effective herb, the Acacia Heartbroken Red, was probably somewhere beyond the reach of this old poisoner.
Fortunately, they could now enjoy the benefits of the Narcissus Jade's skin and bone strengthening.