Comparing the effect of "Life Link" with the two passive effects obtained by Ning Yuan, on the surface, Ning Yuan can be said to have suffered a lot of losses. So why did Ning Yuan feel that he was taking advantage?

Before answering this question, let's ask another question.

If the soul contract is so powerful, why is it rarely seen? As far as Ning Yuan's "personal experience" is concerned, it doesn't seem that there is much difficulty in concluding the soul contract. Why don't you see anything like this on the player forums at all?

Before Ning Yuan digested the contract information, he also felt that both the ritual and the method of concluding the contract were too simple and even hasty. But after digesting the information of the soul contract, Ning Yuan had to say that everything was just looking "simple".

Although the soul contract does not have clear requirements for the two parties to the contract, there are two prerequisites, one is that the parties to the contract must be the opposite sex without kinship, that is, they must be men and women without blood relationship; The second is that the soul power of the person who dominates the soul contract must reach the "Liuli" level, and it must be above the "Qingli" level. Let's talk about the unique classification of soul power later, everyone just needs to know that the so-called Qingli-level soul power is at least equivalent to the spiritual power of a heaven-level Hou-level cultivator who specializes in magic.

After reading the premise, everyone knows that if you want to conclude a soul contract, one of the people who signed the contract must reach the heavenly level, not to mention the strength, and the soul power must reach the heavenly level. And if a person's soul power wants to reach the heavenly level, then the minimum strength must basically reach the high level of the earth level, that is, the handsome level, and close to the level of breaking the mirror. From this point, the possibility of the proliferation of "soul contracts" has been blocked.

Then, when the "soul contract" is concluded, the person in charge must complete an extremely complex seal during the conclusion of the contract, which can be visualized, but must be accurate. In the event of a mistake, the Soul Pact Ritual is automatically interrupted, and the Pact can only be re-concluded after three months. And whether the contract is interrupted after the start of the contract due to an error in the seal or the contract is successfully concluded, when the blood of the two parties is fused, due to the influence of the power of the rules, the person who dominates the contract will be subjected to a certain degree of backlash, and most of the consequences of the backlash are that the dominant person will lose one-third or even two-thirds of his soul strength temporarily, ranging from three months to a year, that is to say, the person who dominates the soul contract will fall into a long-term state of weakness.

In this sense, many people are actually reluctant to conclude a soul contract, because no one knows what will happen in the time of weakness, and if they are attacked, it is likely that they and even the person who made the contract will fall into a situation from which they will never recover.

Finally, although the effect of the "Soul Pact" is very strong, to some extent, it is equivalent to a weakened immortal body effect for the individuals on both sides, but it is only for individuals.

"Life Link" shares "life", but it also shares "death". Originally, the injury of a single person became two injuries at the same time due to the influence of the link, although the damage became half, but the injury that originally existed only in one person became a double one, if the two were fighting together or one person in a completely safe environment, it was okay to say, but if two people were in different places at the same time, the consequences were very terrible just to think about.

Therefore, if you really want to say that the "soul contract" is a "double-edged sword" that really hurts others and yourself, it is naturally understandable that it is not popular in the Nino Continent.

If you really want to give full play to the effect of the "soul contract" to the best or even invincible, you must meet all the conditions.

The strength of the two parties to the contract should not differ too much, at least one of the two parties to the contract has a very high degree of regeneration talent, one has a strong defensive talent or exercises, equipment, etc., one of the two parties to the contract has been in a safe environment for a long time or the two parties to the contract maintain a high degree of peer status, and the party with strong defense takes the initiative to bear damage during the battle, and other conditions and factors can play the effect of the soul contract "life link" to a near-invincible effect.

Since no matter how you look at the "soul contract", it is quite a chicken-ribbed existence, why did the heavenly puppet girl still sign a contract with Ning Yuan, and why did Ning Yuan feel that she had taken a big advantage?

Let's not talk about why the Heavenly Puppet Girl concluded a soul contract with Ning Yuan, the reason may be very simple or complicated, but it can be judged from Qin Yirou's words that at least in Qin Yirou's eyes, it is necessary to be able to conclude a soul contract with the Heavenly Puppet Girl, and she just admitted that Ning Yuan has such qualifications.

After completing the information of obtaining the soul contract, Ning Yuan also thought that he had taken a great advantage, especially after turning the "Life Link" into two passive blessings because of the Heavenly Puppet Girl.

As for why? Let me sell it first.

Ning Yuan saw that Qin Yirou seemed to have plans to go outside, and hurriedly said, "Wait, I have something to ask." ”

Qin Yirou stopped, turned to look at Ning Yuan, and asked indifferently, "What's the matter?" ”

"That," Ning Yuan tightened up a little uncomfortably in Qin Yirou's indifferent eyes, raised his left hand and pointed to the wrench, "There are a lot of materials here, and some of them seem to be used for city building." I'd like to ask if it needs to be taken out. ”

"There's no need." Qin Yirou glanced indifferently at the wrench in Ning Yuan's hand, vetoed Ning Yuan's idea lightly, and said casually, "The building materials in there are basically things that will only be used after the city develops to the city level, and they belong to special auxiliary materials. ”

"The rest will have to wait for you to recruit relevant talents above the senior level before you can use them, so in addition to the money, you should keep the dust first."

After speaking, when he was about to turn around and leave again, Ning Yuan once again stubbornly stopped: "Wait, I still have something to ask?" ”

Qin Yirou raised her willow eyebrows slightly, her indifferent gaze shot at Ning Yuan's somewhat embarrassed face with a sharp aura, her eyes flashed slightly, and she retracted her gaze and walked back to the seat.

"Say it." Qin Yirou said in an indifferent voice without any emotion.

Ning Yuan swallowed slightly and said, "I want to ask, what should the demon beasts do when they attack the city in a month?" Can those guard puppets alone survive the siege of the demon beasts? ”

"Demon beast siege?" Qin Yirou's indifferent tone said with a little doubt in his tone, "Why are you worried about the demon beast attacking the city if you haven't upgraded to the city level?" ”

"Upgrade to city level?!" Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then his thoughts changed sharply, and he quickly reacted, "You won't encounter a demon beast attack before the city level?" ”

"Nature." Qin Yirou said indifferently as a matter of course, "Whether it is a village or a town, it has no impact on the demon beasts, only when it is upgraded to the city level, a city-state can be regarded as having the ability to threaten the safety of the surrounding demon beasts, and they will come to attack the city, intending to stifle this threat." And as long as it doesn't succeed once, except for the beast tide period, the demon beast will not attack the city again. Because that would not be worth the loss for the demon beast. ”

"Although the demon beast cannot communicate, it is not without intelligence. They also have the instinct to seek advantage and avoid disadvantage. ”

"In other words, is the Monster Siege a threshold specifically for the player lord?" Ning Yuan lowered his head and pondered, "That's right, compared to the aborigines, there are indeed a lot more ways and opportunities for players to get a heart in the city, and it's a lot easier. ”

"Rules specific to you?" Qin Yirou raised her eyebrows slightly, and said indifferently with some kind of assertive tone, "Then the strength of the demon beast siege will definitely not exceed your ability to bear it." ”

"That's what I thought too." Ning Yuan nodded, raised his hand and knocked on his eyebrows, and said, "A month's time should be that the village has just been upgraded to a town in terms of the player's normal progress, and the Chosen Circle has a minimum of fifty people a day, and a maximum of 100 people, plus the outcasts outside and the captives after the bandits, etc., the population is not a problem for players in the early stage." The key is to have some necessary building facilities and upgrade the towers and walls that the town must build. ”

"From the point of view of the upgrade rules given by the city knot, the village must have shops, restaurants, workshops, schools and other corresponding supporting facilities to meet the needs of the residents, in addition to the city walls and towers that can basically reach the outside of the enemy, and then need source coins and some materials containing energy to sacrifice to improve the urban area of the city's knot. As far as the player is concerned, a month in the village is about the right time. ”

Ning Yuan thought for a while, looked at Qin Yirou and said, "From the outside world, as long as the location of the city chosen by the player is not some particularly dangerous territory, it is indeed not difficult to carry the attack of a demon beast with little strength with the help of the town guard troops sent by the superior alliance, but we have no outside conditions here. The factors of the Dragon Prisoner Jedi itself and the urban characteristics of the Dream of the Rim limit the growth of the population, and we have no superior affiliation alliances, so we don't have any foreign aid. In this case, to be honest, I don't have much confidence in carrying the demon beast to attack the city, even if the strength of the demon beast is not high. ”

"The original safe zone is five thousand miles west of the cliff of the Fulong Mountain Range in the east, including Longman Lake and Xiling, which is enough for a city to upgrade to the city level safely and safely, and can repel the city-level monster attack at a very small cost." Qin Yirou obviously understood what Ning Yuan meant, and explained lightly.

However, although we considered the fact that there was no regular displaced population in the Land of Dragons, we did not take the population factor into account too much considering the number of non-people in the western tribes. It would not have been thought that the urban character obtained by building a city here would naturally have the effect of population suppression. After all, we will definitely come to build a city with enough people to upgrade the city to the city level in a short period of time to be able to establish a firm foothold. ”

"But now everything is different." Ning Yuan said.

"Not bad." Qin Yirou said lightly in an inexplicable tone, "Everything is different. ”

"The Qin Alliance has disappeared into the long river of history, and you have obtained the legacy of the Qin Alliance. What wasn't a problem with population is now your city's biggest problem. ”

Ning Yuan nodded.

"Don't open the city before the monsters attack the city." Qin Yirou suddenly suggested.

"Why?" Ning Yuan frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly, "What Yuanmeng lacks most now is population, and without population, cities can't be upgraded, and if they can't upgrade, they can't get the blessing of the city, without a certain number of fighters and the blessing of the city, it's impossible for Yuanmeng to survive the monster siege, right?" ”

"Normally, it does." Qin Yirou nodded, "Even if the Four Gates Array has suppressed the danger of demon beasts to the minimum, the cluster of demon beasts still has devastating destructive power against towns that lack population. ”

Then he faintly added: "If it weren't for us." ”

Ning Yuan's eyes lit up slightly when he heard this.

"Can the guard puppet block it?"

"What is the scale of the monster siege?" Qin Yirou didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

Ning Yuan recalled the data on the forum and said: "All the demon beasts within a hundred miles around the city limits, there is no limit to the species, mainly the local demon beasts of ordinary strength, the demon beasts with the highest strength are the leaders, and there will be elites and leaders for the demon beasts with a population of more than 1,000 people. ”

"The duration of the siege?"

"Three days." Ning Yuan replied.

"I can't stop it." Qin Yirou said lightly.

"Can't stop it?!" Ning Yuan was surprised, "Then you ......"

Before Ning Yuan's words fell, Qin Yirou said lightly in the second half of his sentence: "Just rely on the words of the guard puppet." ”

"Ugh." Ning Yuan was stunned, a little unsure of what to say.

Qin Yirou glanced at Ning Yuan indifferently and said, "What do you think about holding an entire city with thirty guard puppets?" ”

"I'm ......" Ning Yuan choked again.

Truly. Regardless of the design scheme given by Tuyan, it must include the entire city-wide design scheme. Although Ning Yuan did not enclose the scope of the village to the maximum, it was by no means something that could be defended by thirty guard puppets. Unless these puppets can fly. Or when the demon beasts attacked the city, Ning Yuan gave up other facilities and directly concentrated the defensive forces in the most important sacrificial ancestral hall.

But in this case, Ning Yuan might as well push all the village construction activities to be carried out after the demon beasts attack the city. It was obvious that Ning Yuan was not willing to do this.

Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan's somewhat unwilling look, and said lightly: "The population problem can be slowed down first, after all, this place is special, although there are rules and regulations, but if the residents are attacked by demon beasts before they completely return to their hearts, even if at least half of the people who join the household registration will choose to break the contract and leave, and the vast majority of the civilians in the other half of the population will die from this demon beast siege." And neither population flight nor attrition is a good thing for a city. Especially newly built cities. ”

Seeing Ning Yuan's expression of listening, Qin Yirou continued: "This is the land of dragon hiding, and it is a treasure land that all forces want to enter. After the citizens defect, the news here will spread as soon as possible, which will be very bad for you. ”

"But as long as the Chosen is opened, the news here will inevitably spread, right?" Ning Yuan asked.

"Nope. You don't understand. Qin Yirou sorted out her thoughts and said, "After a city-state resident becomes a naturalized city-state, it takes at least one year to leave the city-state, and it also takes a year to join another city-state after automatically leaving the city-state. In other words, under normal circumstances, news will not spread here for one to two years. ”

"In one to two years, with the products here, as long as you don't mess around, it is enough to firmly grasp the hearts of the people." Qin Yirou continued, "If there is no demon beast attacking the city in the first month, or delaying the time of the demon beast siege by three months, I have no objection to you opening the Heavenly Chosen to increase the population, after all, it is easier to build a home together to make the people of the city return to their hearts." But time is too tight. Rather than sacrificing the Chosen Population in vain and releasing the news early to lower the basic popular sentiment of the city-state, then it is better to make sure that the Heavenly Chosen will be opened after surviving the siege of the demon beasts. ”

Ning Yuan pondered Qin Yirou's words and brought up what he didn't understand.

"You just said that the depletion of the population will reduce the basic morale of the city? What is this setting? What else is there to break the deed? Will the citizens of the city be automatically teleported back to the outside world after breaking the deed? ”

"What do you think the Heart of Rules is based on?" Qin Yirou asked rhetorically.

"Nature is the rule." Ning Yuan replied without thinking about it.

After finishing speaking, he was stunned.

"Noticed?" Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan stunned, and said lightly, "Rules, to be precise, the laws and laws between heaven and earth, all of these exist objectively, and they don't exist because there is no rule heart." Cities can still be built without rules, and some invisible blessings will also exist after the city develops. ”

"And there are no restrictions on the city's set, it's much freer." Ning Yuan thought along Qin Yirou's train of thought, "But why is the city-state built on the foundation and core of the city's knot? What is the difference between a city with a city heart and a city built independently? Ning Yuan raised his eyes and looked at Qin Yirou and said suspiciously.

"Do you know what you call the 'heart of the city' why we call it more of the 'heart of rules'?" Qin Yirou's eyes looked at the front of her indifferently, and the pupils in her eyes said to herself in a gentle tone as if they were out of focus, "Because it can concretize the rules of the Heaven and Earth Family and the artificially formulated rules, giving a strong binding force at the oath level." It can speed up the development of a city, reduce the difficulty of a city's management, enhance the cohesion of a city, the sense of belonging of the city's citizens, and give the city special capabilities. It is the heart of the city where rules are cohesive. ”

Raising his hand to straighten the green silk of his sideburns, Qin Yirou's indifferent eyes looked at Ning Yuan with a scrutinizing gaze and said: "Although the city established by the heart of rules has many limitations, the area of the city, the upper limit of the population, the strength of the cultivators and even the choice of urban functional buildings, it has to be said that it allows many people who are not proficient or even ignorant of urban construction to know how to build and even run a city through simple guidance, making the city the help and cornerstone of many cultivators' cultivation." ”

"The concretization of rules can make it easier for practitioners to understand and comprehend the Tao, so that the rules formulated by people can play their due role more effectively. It also allows a city to take shape earlier and have the corresponding power, and then naturally exert this power. ”

Qin Yirou paused, raised the little finger of his right hand again and swiped the green silk on his sideburns, his quiet and indifferent eyes glanced at the inexplicable distance, turned his head and looked at Ning Yuan again, who seemed to understand or not, and said, "Do you know how long it takes for a city of tribes and non-people to take shape?" ”

Ning Yuan shook his head slightly. He didn't even know what the tribe was like, let alone their urban development.

"It takes about five to ten years for a tribal city to go from design to construction to completion. Then the migration of the population takes at least two to three years or even longer. The integration and initial governance of the migrated population took at least five years, and the process from a small city to a prosperous medium-sized city-state took about fifty to a hundred years. During this period, there were various problems that needed to be constantly adjusted. ”

"Although the city built by the heart of the rules also needs to be constantly adjusted according to the situation, the journey from a village to a medium-sized city-state only takes five to ten years as long as the population source is stable and sufficient, the resources are abundant, and the quick success is urgent. And because of the rules, it is much easier to integrate and govern the population. As long as the lord of the city does not die, the city can naturally remain quite stable. ”

"What is the basic people's heart? This is the natural force for maintaining stability, which is the foundation of the people's will. Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan and said.

"Is it a manifestation of the concretization of rules?" Ning Yuan suddenly said to himself, "Do you express the subtle things in reality in an intuitive and patterned way?" It's really game-like! Ning Yuan, who was muttering to himself in a low voice, suddenly thought of something, frowned slightly, and said secretly in an undetectable voice: "No, it has been reported that the space compression technology and the automation construction technology of intelligent puppets have made a key breakthrough, if you think like this, I am afraid that in a hundred years, things like portable bases are likely to become the norm, and there may be many such devices already existing in the material warehouse of the shelter." And the construction of the city-state here is a rehearsal to some extent? ”

After thinking for a while, Ning Yuan temporarily put down his thoughts and asked Qin Yirou, "Then what's the matter with the city people breaking the deed?" ”

"The heart of the rules has a change in purity, you know, right?" Qin Yirou looked at Ning Yuan and said lightly.

Ning Yuan remembered the display information on the panel and nodded. There are indeed settings for purity.

"Although the city built by the heart of rules can bind the behavior of the citizens through a concrete oath of rules, it does not control the thoughts of the citizens. The purity of the heart of rules is the spiritual feedback of the citizens of the city to the city and the city owner, negative feedback will pollute the heart of rules and reduce the power of the heart of rules, and positive feedback will further enhance the power of the city. And the resentment brought by the death of the city's citizens is the force that can pollute the heart of the rules the most. The death of a large number of city citizens will severely damage the heart of the rules, and when the city citizens are completely disappointed with the city and the city lord, they can use the negative power in the heart of the rules to directly break the shackles of the city people, which is the destruction of the contract. After breaking the contract, the Heart of the Rules will assume that the person who broke the contract has never joined the city, and then teleports the original Chosen inhabitants directly back to where they were before stepping into the Chosen Circle. ”

Ning Yuan's eyes flashed, and he said secretly: "Is this a precautionary setting to prevent the city master from getting angry and angry after the city people break the deed?" ”

After knowing the information he wanted to know, Ning Yuan thought for a while, and then agreed to follow Qin Yirou's suggestion and put the opening of the Heavenly Chosen after surviving the siege of the demon beasts.

However, how to survive the demon beast siege, Ning Yuan still hadn't gotten a clear answer, so he asked Qin Yirou again.

"It is true that the thirty pseudo-'body ghost' guard puppets alone can't stop the all-round attack of the demon beast group, but with traps, formations and other means, as well as broken steel, their words are partially certain. If you can build some specific buildings within a month, you will have a better certainty. ”

Qin Yirou thought for a while, looked at Ning Yuan, and said bluntly, "But you are an unstable factor. ”

"Me?!" Ning Yuan raised his hand suspiciously and nodded at himself.

"The war between the demon beast and the city-state According to the laws of this world, as long as the city lord dies and is reincarnated, the city-state will directly lose all the blessing effects. At the same time, it directly determines the failure of the city-state. ”

Qin Yirou said with a hint of disappointment in her tone: "You are too weak. You may be able to fight with one or two monsters, but as long as there are more than ten monsters besieging you, you will be in a situation from which you will never recover. ”

Ning Yuan heard the words "You are too weak" again, and his face was still a little unnaturally red.

It stands to reason that he is already very fast in cultivating this thing, but it is true that he is still too weak compared to the plural demon beasts.