Are you really trying to cultivate immortality? Something feels off.

*

Xie Weixing walked to the back of the mountain, where there was a small wooden house deep inside.

This is where he lives.

A short while later, a disciple-like person brought over a bag of herbs, claiming it was a haphazard medicine developed by Feng Yu to reshape spiritual roots.

The disciple, who possessed a fire elemental root, directly heated water in the bathtub and then poured all the medicinal herbs into it.

"Take a bath every day, and then meditate and practice as usual. See how it goes after half a month." The disciple honestly replied, "These are Master Feng Yu's exact words."

Xie Weixing nodded: "Your fire is amazing! I'm so envious. Can I use it for barbecuing?"

......

What's the difference between this and asking someone if their legendary, invincible, thunderous, world-destroying greatsword can be used to cut vegetables?

Disciple: What crime have I committed to deserve such words?

Xie Weixing: "Your look was really awful."

After his disciple left, he took off his clothes, sat in the hot water filled with medicinal herbs, and became drowsy.

I felt a warm sensation throughout my body, and my blood was flowing rapidly.

"Master," Xie Weixing said slowly, "that medicine that my so-called master researched seems to actually work. I wasn't a guinea pig for nothing, was I?"

System: It is indeed useful, but you have five spiritual veins in your body, and this medicine alone cannot repair them. For the sake of your five spiritual roots, Feng Hua Sect is willing to take out even the most precious medicines for research, but Feng Yu is not perfect. The subsequent medicines may very well clash with your spiritual roots.

It seemed to sigh: Being a free guinea pig is very risky, why don't you just follow the plot honestly?

"Is that so?" Xie Weixing leaned lazily against the bathtub, casually picking up a blade of grass and holding it in front of him. "A piece of trash with no spiritual power has lived a healthy life for so many years, and even almost killed Wen Fu, who was in the Qi Refining stage. Why do you think that is?"

System: That was because you happened to be in the right field and used the hidden blade. If Tan Suiting were standing against you today, would you have survived by such luck?

"No." Xie Weixing squeezed the wet leaves with his fingertips, leaving only dark green sap and delicate veins. His expression was indifferent. "Since this book only opens up this one observation room for me, then in a sense, I am clearly the protagonist, aren't I?"

The system wondered if it had misheard: Huh?

[Holy crap, why didn't you say so earlier?]

[It actually makes a lot of sense...making this staunch supporter of the main character waver a little.]

[Keep using these fallacies to get clicks, haha, just fool the audience, don't fool yourself!]

[No, that makes sense. Only this one observation room is open, so Xie Weixing is indeed the protagonist in a sense.]

[You didn't get to be born as the protagonist, so you just steal his stuff? Shameless, bro. I'm too lazy to criticize you. Just keep fantasizing about defying fate and see how miserable your end is.]

Xie Weixing lowered his hand and leaned against the bathtub in a very relaxed posture. His voice was clear and his tone was casual: "I don't care what other people think of me, but if someone has to win, why can't it be me?"

[Is this something I'd only hear from a cannon fodder character?]

[What's more attractive than his striking appearance is his overflowing ambition; this perfectly describes Xie Weixing.]

[You're so handsome, my idol!]

[The Attitude Guy of the Cultivation World]

[Just because of that sentence, Dad, I'm sticking with you. I trust you won't let me feel wronged.]

[Actually, many observation rooms from the protagonist's perspective also make me feel helpless. They have all the cheat codes maxed out, but they just can't pull it off. Watching someone who starts from nothing and climbs up step by step through their own strength is so satisfying.]

After taking a bath and changing into clean new clothes, Xie Weixing was so exhausted that she immediately went to sleep.

[Yeah, I just told you how hard you work, and when you came back from brushing your teeth you were already fast asleep like a baby. I don't know what to say to you.]

[Let him sleep... He's been throwing a tantrum all day, let him get some sleep.]

[I thought they were about to start training. All that shouting and yelling was hilarious!]

[His most active part is his mouth; what's with this self-assured, independent male lead act? He's not going to confess, is he?]

*

"Bo Yu, don't be sad," Song Lingyue comforted. "Xie Weixing was able to beat Wen Fu entirely by luck."

"If he doesn't want to give you a spiritual root, we'll find you another one."

"It's my fault," Su Boyu said, tears streaming down her face. "It's alright if my senior brother doesn't want to give it to me, it's just the sect's grand selection..."

"What senior brother? He was expelled from Qingyu Sect for his rebellious behavior. He doesn't deserve to be called senior brother by you!" Song Lingyue said indignantly.

Su Boyu pursed her lips: "This..."

"He's selfish, jealous of you, and ungrateful, that's why he doesn't want to give you the spirit core." Song Lingyue snorted coldly. "It's okay, we'll find you another one."

"Okay, thank you, senior brother, thank you, senior sister."

Wen Fu smiled gently: "Don't worry, Ling Yue and I will help you during this time. We will break through to the Foundation Establishment stage together before the sect selection. At that time, a sect will naturally choose you."

"Really?" Su Boyu's eyes lit up. "Thank you, I..."

"No need to thank me," Wen Fu said, the place where he was stabbed by the hidden arrow still throbbing. Thinking of someone, his eyes instantly turned cold. "That treacherous person doesn't deserve my and Lingyue's kindness. Junior brother, you are the most innocent and kind person I have ever met. I will always protect you."

"Yes." Su Boyu nodded vigorously.

Thinking of Xie Weixing, who had been taken away by a disciple of the Feng Hua Sect.

He suppressed the surging jealousy in his eyes.

*

Shen Chunri's words were true; Feng Hua Sect was indeed a place of outstanding people and abundant resources.

Xie Weixing would take a medicinal bath every day and then go out to the back mountain, where he could feel the terrifyingly surging spiritual energy at all times.

However, his cultivation level was limited, so he couldn't absorb much.

If the absorption is insufficient, the spiritual veins cannot be nourished by spiritual energy.

When the spiritual veins are depleted, the spiritual root cannot form a spiritual sea.

Without a spiritual sea, cultivation cannot improve, and the spiritual energy absorbed next time will only be less.

It's a vicious cycle that goes on and on.

No wonder Feng Yu said it was a miracle that this body hadn't perished yet.

That's exactly right.

Seeing all this spiritual energy filling the world every day but being unable to absorb it for one's own use is like looking at a pile of money but not being able to take it away. One would be furious to death, if not die.

Xie Weixing was so upset that he would lie on his bed and cry every night.

As for why he sticks his butt out, it's because it makes him look funnier and less miserable.

What exactly is your daily routine?

[This idiot is making me laugh to death!]

[My God, what are they trying to do? After giving up cultivating immortality, they can live a comfortable life just by telling jokes in an observation room.]

[Boss, can I still find happiness with you?]