System crash? I prove it with my control panel!

Luoyun Mountain.

From the pavilion deep in the valley came the sound of tinkling and knocking.

The servants outside were used to it and acted as if they hadn't heard anything, continuing to go about their business.

Only one white-robed disciple patrolling outside the valley would occasionally look up, his eyes filled with envy.

Then, the clanging sound gradually faded away.

A voice transmission sounded in his ear, "Ye Fan, go and deliver this month's talismans and magical artifacts to Senior Sister Liu, and also pick up the materials I ordered from her."

The young man in white immediately bowed and agreed, then quickly headed into the depths of the valley.

However, what he didn't see was that the servants behind him were also filled with envy as they looked at his figure.

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Inside the alchemy room.

Chen Wen's body surged with spiritual energy, which guided the earth fire to refine the bottom of the hilt of a foot-long sword in front of him.

After it was completely burned through, quickly bring the magic sword to your front, take a small stamp from the side, and press it hard on the bottom of the hilt.

He left a small "文" character on it as his own mark.

Then, he performed a hand seal and a spell to refine the essence with the spiritual spring.

The vessel is of medium quality!

Chen Wen also broke out in a light sweat, but he didn't pay it any mind. In an instant, he activated the Cleansing Technique.

He picked up the newly forged mid-grade first-tier magic sword, examined it closely, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Excellent, the magic array fits perfectly, and the shape is also the most popular style. The price should be around two thousand spirit stones."

He then casually tossed it into a pile of magical artifacts and paid it no further attention.

Dengdengdeng-

A series of crisp tapping sounds rang out from the magic circle.

Chen Wen waved his hand to dispel the formation.

The next moment, the white-robed youth pushed open the door and entered. His gaze swept over the magical artifacts scattered on the ground, and he immediately felt a chill. Senior Brother Jingwen's skills had improved again!

He quickly averted his gaze, bowed respectfully, and said, "Senior Brother Jingwen."

"Okay, go ahead."

Chen Wen casually waved his hand, letting them pack up the magical artifacts themselves.

He walked out of the alchemy room, made a hand seal and cast a spell. Instantly, the magic sword hanging at his waist was unsheathed and landed at his feet.

He lightly touched the ground with his toes and stepped onto the sword.

The whole person slowly rose up.

His expression was calm, but his gaze was somewhat cautious.

Fortunately, it did not fall to the ground and was successfully lifted to the second floor before slowly landing.

Ye Fan below sighed with envy again, "When will I be able to fly on a sword...?"

Chen Wen smiled, "It's still early!"

He knew he could hear him, so he said it on purpose.

He knew he could hear it, and he said it on purpose.

But this kind of unspoken sweet talk is extremely pleasing.

They arrived at a room and pushed open the door to enter.

Suddenly, a mixture of the scents of ink, paper, and animal hide wafted over.

Chen Wen remained expressionless; in fact, he seemed somewhat relaxed.

This is the talisman-making room he modified.

There are only a few squares among them.

A table by the window has writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone on it.

Behind them were several shelves with various materials for making talismans, mostly animal hides, animal blood, bamboo paper, and the like.

Only next to the table against the wall stood a cabinet, sealed by an array, containing neatly arranged talismans.

These were all made by him in a month.

Most of them are low to medium grade talismans, with only thirty high grade ones.

Before committing the crime, he did not rush to make talismans, but instead sat on a jade chair to the side and closed his eyes to rest.

At the same time, the panel was opened;

Name: Chen Wen (Chen Jingwen)

Lifespan: 12/310.

Race: Human.

[Spiritual Root: Mid-grade Wood Spiritual Root.]

Cultivation Level:

Qi Refining Level 7 (91/100)

Body Refinement Level 8 (91/100)

[Technique: Azure Nether Qi Guiding Technique MAX]

The First Level of the "Fusion and Decline of the Origin Technique": Great Success (25/100)

The Second Level of the Mysterious Yellow Heart Refining Technique: Beginner (15/100)

The first level of the "Gluttonous Blood Body Technique": Great Completion (50/100)

Techniques:

First-tier talisman: Mastery (1/100)

First-tier weapon crafting: Minor success (15/100)

First-tier formation: Minor completion (2/100)

Xuanwen: Dacheng (80/100)

Taotie Transformation: Beginner (10/100)

Divine Firmament Sword Control Technique: Beginner (99/100)

Innate Great Capturing Technique: Minor Success (10/100)

Xiao Ku Rong Shou: Da Cheng (11/100)

Life and death: Great achievement (20/100)

Soul Piercing Strike: MAX

Spring Breeze and Rain Technique: MAX

......

As shown on the panel.

In the blink of an eye, two years and six months have passed.

He often heard people say that seclusion was tedious and that they couldn't stand the loneliness.

For him, learning new things is always fun and never boring.

With the control panel by his side, every bit of improvement in his proficiency brought him immense joy.

His biggest gain over the past two years has been the continuous increase in contribution points, which has enabled him to continuously purchase various resources and thus improve his cultivation.

When he first went into seclusion, he could only earn contribution points by making talismans to buy materials for refining weapons and making talismans, which was not enough to make ends meet.

But later, when he was able to sell the magical artifacts he crafted, things gradually improved.

After that, he stopped pursuing a personal style and instead unified the style. Whatever was popular in the market, he would mass-produce semi-finished products and then inscribe magic arrays on them one by one, eventually forming an assembly line.

This led to a significant increase in his income.

Although the quality is somewhat worse this way, the quantity is greater.

Moreover, for each batch he produced, he would always create a single masterpiece as his signature piece.

The mid-grade magic artifact that was just engraved with my seal is an example of this.

Now, his income from weapon crafting and talisman making is several thousand contribution points every month.

You can’t spend it all, you can’t spend it all.

For this reason, he specifically requested that the income from weapon crafting be settled in spirit stones.

With enough contribution points, he exchanged them for a lot of materials and began cultivating the Gluttonous Blood Body Technique.

However, his proficiency increased too quickly recently, so he stopped cultivating. Even so, he has reached the eighth level of body refinement.

His cultivation level broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining without any bottlenecks.

However, flying on a sword at the seventh level of Qi Refining is still a bit difficult; more practice is needed.

However, the most obvious benefit of breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining is lifespan.

Their lifespan suddenly increased to over three hundred years, equivalent to the rise and fall of an ordinary dynasty.

It's the same thing—you can't possibly use it all up.

However, after gaining these lifespans, he also felt a sense of overflow, as this was the upper limit of lifespan for the Qi Refining stage.

To extend lifespan further, one must break through to the Foundation Establishment stage!

As for skills...

After mastering the art of talisman drawing, he can now draw mid-to-low-grade talismans with his eyes closed, while high-grade ones require a bit more care.

Moreover, he could instantly learn and draw any talismans he had never seen before, as long as he saw them once or twice.

However, his proficiency with talismans remained completely stagnant.

Chen Wen knew clearly that this was because he lacked a top-grade first-tier talisman.

However, top-tier items of the highest order are extremely rare.

Anyway, given his limited abilities, he can't get his hands on it; he can only wait and see at the auction later.

His skills in weapon crafting and formation making have steadily improved, but he has now reached the limit of these skills.

Unless some new skills can be found, proficiency will stagnate.

In terms of weapon crafting, he can only craft mid-grade first-tier magic weapons, and these can only be offensive types such as magic swords and magic knives.

He also had to admit that those magical artifacts such as bracelets, hairpins, and jade pendants were expensive for a reason, as they were indeed difficult to refine.

As for formations, he has mastered the first-tier high-grade trapping formation, the first-tier mid-grade spirit gathering formation, the soul sealing formation, the illusion formation, the five elements formation, and the first-tier low-grade five elements formation, etc.

He studied formations mainly to refine magical artifacts, so he had a deeper understanding of the Five Elements Formation.

It also suffers from a lack of inheritance.

However, he did manage to figure out the array plate, which he named the Dragon-Locking Spirit-Suppressing Array.

When Chen Wen saw the name, he couldn't help but complain. These days, every name has to have the character "dragon" in it. Doesn't this guy, who's trying to scam people, have any objections?

Is it the milk dragon that's locked?!

However, its most useful function is to conceal spiritual energy fluctuations, which can be used to hide temporary cave dwellings when going out.

It was a high-grade first-tier array plate after all, so he kept it.

As for magic, ever since he started earning contribution points, he has also acquired the Innate Great Capture skill, mainly thinking that in the future he can stretch out a big palm and strike out, which is quite domineering.

He wasn't disappointed after the training; it was quite convenient to use it to grab things when he had nothing to do.

As for its effectiveness against enemies? I don't know, I haven't tested it.

After choosing the Innate Great Capture Technique, he then chose the Soul Piercing Strike Technique.

He finally found a first-tier soul attack method on the second floor.

After obtaining it, relying on his talent and interest in soul attacks, he immediately trained it to perfection.

Even the art of gentle spring breeze and nourishing rain was only perfected afterward.

Its attacks are invisible, specifically designed to destroy the soul, making them impossible to defend against. If combined with a suitable magical artifact, it becomes even more powerful, invincible!

He was referring to that soul-piercing needle.

Although it's not his own yet, Chen Wen has learned how to solve the problem after getting involved in weapon crafting.

Finally, there is the Divine Firmament Sword Control True Technique.

Over the past two years, Chen Wen has been accumulating materials and studying them from time to time.

Even before he had begun cultivating, he had already comprehended it to the point of near completion.

Ye Fan has now been sent to bring back the materials for him. Once the materials arrive, he can begin to refine the first version of the Divine Firmament Sword Pill.

At that time, they will have another trump card up their sleeve!

Let's talk about interpersonal relationships.

As always, apart from Chu Feng, she had no deep friendships with anyone else, only superficial acquaintances, and they were just getting along on the surface.

Qin Shuiru was increasingly satisfied with him, after all, as soon as he received the task of breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining, he immediately went into seclusion and has not emerged since.

They would occasionally send someone to deliver tea or similar items.

He also promised that after he established his foundation, he would definitely help him find a source of earthly evil energy to aid in his foundation building.

Chen Wenxin, that devil, that wicked old woman.

He already knew that she had once acquired a malevolent aura.

As a result, he became successful at a young age, and with the instigation of others, he felt that he deserved better, so he gave up the evil energy and gave it to his sister, who was a close relative of his clan.

As a result, the sect ignored her. Some people in her family wanted to help, but others sabotaged her. So, she sent people into the secret realm several times but failed to bring out the Earthly Fiend Qi she wanted.

After meeting Chen Wen, she thought about training someone to bring her earthly evil energy.

As for her dear younger sister, she had already successfully completed her Foundation Establishment and no longer paid any attention to her.

Chen Wen's affection for her was originally limited to her appearance, and he chuckled upon learning this.

What kind of stupid person would do something like that?

In his past life, he often heard stories of people trusting their best friends more than their own family, but he always thought it was an exaggeration, since how could anyone be so stupid?

But I never expected to see him in this lifetime.

He thought she was being clever, but it turns out she was just pretending to be profound!

Of course, it's also possible that it's a story about a prodigy who gets tricked and then makes a comeback, but the probability of that is extremely low.

However, Chen Wen felt that she had been sending people over more and more frequently lately, which was very likely because she was preparing to let him enter the secret realm.

He still needs to prepare early.

Chen Wen thought to himself that once Ye Fan returned, the first thing he would do was to refine the Divine Firmament Sword Pill.

At this time.

The jade pendant identifying him at his waist suddenly vibrated, buzzing.

Chen Wen picked it up with a puzzled look and saw that it was a message from Liang Jiu: "I'm here!"

Liang Jiu? Why did he suddenly come?

Chen Wen stood up and walked out of the cave.

He had sent a message to Liang Jiu two years ago, but he hadn't replied.

He only found out later when Liang Jiu replied that he had gone into the Qingming Mountains to kill monsters.

He stopped paying attention after that.

After all, Chen Wen only cared whether he was still alive.

But why has he suddenly come here now?

Stepping out of the cave, one is immediately struck by the sight of a man in a green robe floating in the sky.

He had a handsome face, sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, stood seven feet tall, and had a robust physique, but there was a hint of evil between his brows.

Although he hadn't seen him for three years and had changed a lot, Chen Wen still recognized him as Liang Jiu because of that eerie aura.

However, I am no longer that ten-year-old little sprout. I am also seven feet tall and dressed in a purple robe. Am I not as good-looking as him?

Chen Wen waved his hand to dispel the formation, smiled slightly, and said:

"Brother Liang, come down and have a cup of tea."

"Thank you, Brother Jingwen."

Liang Jiu's lips twitched slightly, exuding an eerie aura, before he landed in front of Chen Wen.

Chen Wen felt a chill rise from the bottom of his heart. Why does this guy seem a little strange?

Although she was smiling, she gave off a cold and aloof feeling, as if strangers should stay away.

Moreover, Chen Wen could sense his cultivation level: Qi Refining Level 9!

Did he come here to invite us into the secret realm?

Chen Wen was puzzled, but his expression remained calm. He stepped aside, feigning to guide the conversation, and said with a faint smile:

"It's been a few years, Brother Liang, your cultivation has improved greatly. You must be about to reach the Foundation Establishment stage soon. I'm truly impressed!"

"Brother Liang's arrival was so sudden that I didn't have time to put away my fine tea. You're in for a treat today."

"Looks like I've come at the right time, hahaha :"

Seeing that Chen Wen was as gentle as he remembered, Liang Jiu noticed the sinister look on his face had faded considerably. He followed Chen Wen into the hall, shaking his head and sighing with a smile.

"Foundation building is no easy feat. I was too eager to make progress and wanted to achieve quick results, but it backfired. I lost my foundation and regretted it too late. Now I am not even as good as those who entered the field later than me."

Upon hearing this, Chen Wen paused in his tracks. "Oh, what do you mean by that, Brother Liang?"

Liang Jiu's face flushed slightly, but he still spoke frankly:

"A few days ago, I encountered a disciple at the ninth level of Qi Refining in the Qingming Mountains. We sparred for a while, but I was no match for him. When I came back and checked, I found out that he was a junior brother who entered the sect a year later than us. I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed~"

"sit!"

After Chen Wen led him to sit down, he brewed tea for him and said in surprise, "I've never heard of such a person before."

"It's normal that Brother Jingwen is living his own carefree life behind closed doors, unaware of worldly affairs."

Liang Jiu's voice held a hint of wistful envy as he inhaled the faint aroma of tea in the air and couldn't help but praise:

"Morning buds and evening blossoms? Fine tea!"

"I got it from my senior sister, Brother Liang, please have a taste."

Chen Wen smiled and pushed the teacup in front of Liang Jiu.

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