The male supporting character was actually myself.

"Having a good teammate really saves a lot of trouble." Jiang Chen watched from the first-person perspective of the Soul Weapon as the sect leader personally supervised Lin Xucheng copying the book, and nodded in satisfaction, preparing to seriously complete the task of refining the Dragon Roar Pill to lure Feng Li'er.

"Meow~" The fluffy dumpling munched on dried fish, staring listlessly at the script that had already started updating. It glanced back at its host, who was seriously engaged in alchemy in seclusion, frowned, and hopped away into the distance.

Sure enough, Lin Xucheng, who was copying books in the quiet room, was obviously trying to lower the sect leader's intelligence, and the halo kept trying to cover him.

"Sigh! Meow has really gone to great lengths for its host." The little white cat stroked its whiskers and shook its head, sighing, "I can't do without my cute and soft little white cat! Come on, whether you're a bug or not, since you can obediently follow my host's orders, you're a good person. Meow will help you share some of the pressure."

It jumped onto Yanxuzi's shoulder and began to openly fleece him.

With a quick reach and retraction of its claws, a wisp of protagonist's aura, radiating a shimmering white glow, was hooked down and wrapped around its almost invisible neck.

"How strange! How strange! How really strange!"

Yan Xuzi quickly noticed the anomaly. He was inwardly amazed but outwardly remained calm. He secretly observed that a small portion of the dazzling aura on Lin Xucheng's body was gradually separating from him, as if an invisible hand had pulled it down and turned it into something ownerless.

He squinted as he examined the area, but couldn't find the reason no matter what he tried.

Lin Xucheng, who was diligently copying the book with his head down, was obviously unaware of the situation and continued writing stroke by stroke; the separated aura quickly gathered into a small ball and floated out of the window, disappearing without a trace, only to begin separating and coalescing again a moment later...

Yan Xuzi held his breath and focused his mind, sending a wisp of his divine sense to quietly follow the drifting fortune. He was surprised to find that the ownerless fortune was flying at an extremely fast speed toward the mountain where Liu Jiangchen lived, heading straight for his alchemy room.

Thus, under the gaze of his divine sense, he witnessed the separated fortune merging into Liu Jiangchen, who was wholeheartedly engaged in refining pills!

"How strange! How can fortune be seized in such a bizarre way?" Yan Xuzi was shocked and finally understood the deeper meaning behind Liu Jiangchen's early morning visit to arrange things for Lin Xucheng.

Although we don't know how the other party did it, being able to resist and seize the other party's luck is naturally very good for the Xiaoyao Sect!

Yan Xuzi was quite pleased that there was such a person of great fortune in the sect. At the same time, he was also glad that he had changed his mind in an instant and followed Liu Jiangchen's suggestion, so that he could witness today's wonderful scene.

Just as the fluffy dumpling was diligently carrying the protagonist's halo right under Yan Xuzi's nose, a spatial rift suddenly tore open at the top of the enclosed Lingya Peak.

Wearing a red short skirt and adorned with red feathers and gemstones in her hair, Feng Li'er stepped barefoot onto the deserted summit. The array here had long been shut down by Yan Xuzi and had not even attracted her attention.

"Huh? That's strange!" Feng Li'er looked left and right but couldn't see any scenery except for the small, floating peak. She frowned, pouted her round, fair face, and muttered to herself in confusion, "Could it be that I miscalculated the location? Isn't this the Xiaoyao Sect?"

No one could answer her confusion.

Feng Li'er had no choice but to form a hand seal, take a deep breath, and sense her surroundings. After a moment, she suddenly opened her eyes, her face full of joy. "Found you! Liu Jiangchen, you definitely can't escape today! Hehehe, sweet and fragrant candy, here I come!"

"Congratulations, host, on completing the task. The reward has been sent to the system space." The fluffy dumpling, having carried the materials several times, finally saw its host finish refining the item.

Inside the opened alchemy furnace, a newly made pill spun around, and a dragon pattern could be vaguely seen coiling in mid-air, emitting a high-pitched dragon roar. Then, the dragon pattern returned to the furnace, coiled on the pill, and shone brightly, filling the air with the fragrance of the medicine.

"Haha, it really tastes like the Dragon Roar Pill!" Feng Li'er tore through space and arrived right above the pill furnace. A small, fair hand reached out and grabbed the Dragon Roar Pill, trying to stuff it into her mouth.

Jiang Chen had been waiting for a long time. With a thought, he used his soul weapon to bind her and pull her out of the spatial rift. "Caught a little thief who stole pills! How dare you come to the Free and Unfettered Sect to steal them? Aren't you afraid of being skinned alive and have your tendons pulled out?"

"Whoa!" Feng Li'er was stunned when she was thrown hard to the ground.

In her understanding, experts at the Nascent Soul Realm in the cultivation world were extremely rare, often appearing only briefly. Many sect leaders hadn't even reached the Nascent Soul Realm yet. The alchemist Liu Jiangchen was merely a junior who had just advanced to the Golden Core Realm; how could he possibly capture her?

"I know!" The girl in the red dress, who was bound tightly and unable to move, lay on the ground and cried out, "It must be those old monsters from the Free and Unfettered Sect who gave you some kind of protective magic artifact, right? Humph! They even dared to capture me, do you know who I am?"

The fluffy ball hopped over to her side, reached out a paw, and patted her face, saying disdainfully, "As expected, you're a complete idiot. You don't seem very bright. Host, you can't marry someone like this. She's easily fooled by a few words and will make you a cuckold."

Even without it saying so, Jiang Chen wouldn't be interested in Feng Li'er.

In the background setting of the mission world, the demon race has no human morality at all. If it weren't for the need to intercept Lin Xucheng and continue to rub against Lingya Peak, he wouldn't have bothered to provoke them.

"Who are you? Aren't you just a petty thief who failed to steal the pills and got caught by me instead?" Jiang Chen walked over and kicked her from above, then took the Dragon Roar Pill and put it into a jade bottle in front of her, storing it in his storage ring. He mocked, "I don't care who you are, if you're going to be a thief, you should be prepared to get caught and beaten to death!"

Feng Li'er watched helplessly as the pill was put into her storage ring, her mouth watering. She rolled around on the ground, whining and yelling, "Let me go! Let me go right now! I am the most noble princess of the demon race! Liu Jiangchen, you won't give me any candy and you're tying me up! If my father finds out, he will punish you severely!"

"Oh, you think this is your demon race's territory where you can do whatever you want? You think every man in the world is your father and has to put up with you? Dream on!"

"Waaaaah~ You dare bully me, I'm angry!"

"You annoying brat." Jiang Chen squatted down, looking at her with a slight frown. "What should I do with you?"

The guards bound him tightly and took him back to the demon clan, paraded him through the streets, and then handed him over to the demon king.

Or perhaps, according to the rules of the cultivation world, I'll arbitrarily deal with petty thieves. Shall I skin you alive and refine you into elixirs?

"Tsk tsk, I've heard that the demon royal family is descended from dragons and phoenixes. Are you a black bird or a black dragon? To humans, every part of your demon body is a top-quality ingredient for alchemy. It would be best to refine you into an elixir!"

Feng Li'er: (((;???;)))

Oh no, oh no, this is it, we're doomed!

All I wanted was to find some sweet and fragrant candy to eat. All I wanted was to capture Liu Jiangchen, a Golden Core Realm alchemist, and lock him up to make candy for me. Why did it turn out like this?

Her round eyes instantly welled up with tears, and as she looked at the mocking expression on the other person's face, her lips trembled and she burst into tears, "No! Please don't turn me into a pill!"

"Waaaah... I, the princess, have not done anything heinous, how could you be so cruel?"

Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow slightly.

Wow! It seems that some people in the mission world really haven't received any moral education, their values ​​are distorted, and they can't even distinguish between the five grains. No wonder they were completely fooled by Lin Xucheng.

"Has no one told you that stealing is an extremely heinous act? Stealing the fruits of other people's labor, how dare you say you haven't done anything immoral?" He simply sat down and took out a pill formula from his storage ring to show her. "See this? I've been searching for three long years just to gather the ingredients to refine this Dragon Roar Pill."

One of the herbs, Dragon's Breath Grass, is so rare that harvesting even one requires the lives of at least seven or eight mercenaries. At the auction, the competition for this rare herb became so fierce that murder, robbery, and other ruthless tactics were employed. I think obtaining even one to refine elixirs would be a life-or-death struggle.

Not to mention the arduous effort involved in refining elixirs.

After much effort, the Dragon Roar Pill was successfully refined and can save a cultivator's life in a critical moment.

If I hadn't caught you in time, you would have swallowed it like a candy. Your theft has wiped out all our efforts, and you still think you did nothing wrong?

Feng Li'er blinked her big, round eyes, a hint of confusion in them.

As the most beloved little princess of the demon race, she was born into a noble family and, thanks to the power of her bloodline, she directly condensed a golden core at birth.

Her powerful demon beast body allows her to directly contain and absorb the vast spiritual energy contained in rare and precious materials. As a result, she is nourished by the best rare and precious materials every day, so she can quickly break through and advance without having to work hard to cultivate.

Despite being a master at the Nascent Soul stage capable of tearing through space, Feng Li'er, spoiled and pampered, still hasn't developed a proper set of values.

In her opinion, aren't rare and precious materials readily available? Why bother searching for this thing?

"I...I don't know any of this, and nobody told me." She wasn't too brazen; after being sternly reprimanded by Jiang Chen, she didn't shirk responsibility, blinking innocently and saying, "Aren't pills meant to be eaten like candy?"

Jiang Chen: ...

Fluffy dumpling: (。oˇ?ˇo。)

Where did this idiot come from? Is she really brainless or is she pretending?

"Fine, you can copy the book too." Jiang Chen was speechless.

We can't waste precious time trying to instill correct values ​​in this brat from scratch. It's better to keep her under control first, see how things turn out, and then decide how to deal with Feng Li'er.

In the original storyline, she only appeared later in the story, and there were no messy entanglements like pregnancy or childbirth.

It's nothing more than handing over the demon race's treasures to the male protagonist like water, and at the critical moment when Lin Xucheng was seriously injured and needed to break through and rebuild, sacrificing the demon race's future by offering up the royal dragon vein to prolong his life.

There was no follow-up in the updated storyline that brought her into the story earlier, and Jiang Chen really didn't know whether the child who was divined to have the potential to become an emperor was just trying to fool the demon race or could really become a great help.

If someone really does give birth to a powerful child who can lead the demon race into a new era, I can't just let the demon race's opportunity slip away.

Let's see how the script team wraps things up. If all else fails, they can try to get Feng Li'er to forcefully push Lin Xucheng into marriage, have a successful child, and then go back to the demon realm to live a quiet life.

After an incense stick's time, Feng Li'er, realizing she had almost made a grave mistake and feeling remorseful, was locked in a quiet room by Jiang Chen. Bound by her soul weapon, she began to sit at a desk and diligently copy the book of moral exemplars—"How to Cultivate the Flower of Morality."

"Waaaaah... I was wrong, I was really wrong!" Feng Li'er sat at the table with snot and tears streaming down her face, copying the book word by word.

Her simple-minded persona prevented her from thinking about running away. Firstly, she knew that it was not easy for alchemists to refine pills, and that her theft was extremely despicable. She genuinely wanted to admit her mistake and accept punishment.

Secondly, since a dignified Nascent Soul Realm cultivator was powerless against a junior in the Golden Core Realm, she subconsciously assumed that Liu Jiangchen possessed an extremely terrifying magical artifact that could restrain her. Running away would be useless, and she might even be tied up and paraded through the streets as a public spectacle.

How could the proud little princess of the demon race make such a disgraceful spectacle?

It's better to just accept the punishment obediently. After all, Liu Jiangchen has promised that as long as you study diligently and behave well, you might even get some pills...

In the original storyline, the two people who should have been passionately engaged and deeply communicating at this point were instead, thanks to the successful implementation of Jiang Chen's Plan A, one was copying books in the sect leader's meditation room, and the other was copying books in Jiang Chen's meditation room.

"Forgiving others is being kind to yourself; respecting others is dignifying yourself; doing bad things will really bring retribution; accumulating virtue and doing good deeds will be true to your conscience..." Lin Xucheng rolled his eyes as he copied, thinking to himself, "Who the hell wrote this?"

I never would have guessed that the dignified Sect Master of the Free and Unfettered Sect would believe such foolish talk.

He couldn't help but find it laughable. This was the dog-eat-dog world of cultivation! What kind of nonsense about doing good deeds and accumulating merit, about forbearance and concession? How could that kind of foolish nonsense possibly work? In the history of cultivation, how many of those who became powerful figures did so through forbearance and concession?

I don't compete or fight for anything, and I don't even have the most basic cultivation resources. Even though I've done all sorts of bad things, I've never seen any retribution. I still managed to make decisive killings and successfully ascend to the upper realm to become the Nine-Sound Divine Child.

All of this in the book is just to fool idiots!

If they can fool everyone else into not competing or fighting, then these guys who write books can stand out from the crowd.

At first, Lin Xucheng thought it was a great thing to be able to escape the time of reflection and copy books, but he soon grew tired of it.

To sit upright and copy word for word without the slightest slack, while also enduring the onslaught of idiotic remarks, this torment is no less unbearable than that of Lingya Peak. When will it ever end?

Lin Xucheng increasingly missed his carefree days. Going down the mountain to train and enter the secret realm not only brought him many benefits but also allowed him to meet all sorts of people and encounter new things.

Especially now that he has reached the peak of the Golden Core Realm, his need to comprehend the Great Dao is becoming increasingly urgent. If he could happen to have a fortuitous encounter and find a suitable cultivation partner, or if a secret realm were to open somewhere that could help him break through in one fell swoop, how wonderful that would be...

Chapter Eleven: You Want to Call Me Dad?

"Copy the book carefully!" Yan Xuzi noticed that the other party was distracted, and with a flick of his finger, an invisible ruler struck the back of his left hand.

Just as he was enjoying his thoughts, Lin Xucheng was suddenly hit. He was in pain and shocked and almost jumped up, but he could only swallow his anger and lower his head to agree.

Then he calmed himself down and continued copying the book. A few breaths later, his left hand, which had been hit, swelled up. Lin Xucheng grimaced in pain, thinking resentfully: Ha, a real man can bend and stretch.

At this moment, I must endure humiliation and rely on the powerful fortune of the Xiaoyao Sect to strengthen myself. When I ascend to immortality, it will be the day I settle my scores and make you and your sect perish!

"Although this boy has a dignified appearance, a closer look reveals that his eyes have too much white and his gaze is not straight. He is obviously a cruel, mean, ambitious and arrogant person. Yet he has such a strong fortune and is protected by the Heavenly Dao. Heaven is unjust..." Yan Xuzi sighed inwardly, wishing that Liu Jiangchen would absorb all of this boy's fortune in one go.

Unfortunately, the whole process didn't last long before it stopped. He was anxious but couldn't help much, so he could only vent his anger on Lin Xucheng, not giving him any chance to slack off or cheat.

He copied until late at night before Yan Xuzi coldly waved his hand and opened Lingya Peak, letting him go back.

"Damn it, I copied for a whole day and didn't get a single word of praise. Now I have to come back and reflect on my mistakes?!" After the stone steps disappeared, the array was activated, and the spatial rift closed, Lin Xucheng, feeling utterly desperate, jumped up and down and cursed.

Then he suddenly realized that the sect leader might be secretly observing his every move, so he swallowed his displeasure and sat down cross-legged to circulate his internal energy to resist the double erosion on his body and mind.

In contrast, the simple-minded guy on Jiang Chen's side was much more reliable.

Feng Li'er, a master of the Nascent Soul Realm, diligently copied the book for half a day, learning a great deal of moral knowledge from it. She deeply regretted her theft and, as Jiang Chen had requested, wrote a thousand-word apology, which she read aloud with great emotion, vowing to "atone" for her unreasonable behavior.

He had only intended to keep her under control and wait for the plot to unfold, but unexpectedly, after planting a few copies of "The Flower of Morality," it actually sprouted and blossomed. He was stunned and asked in return, "How do you intend to atone for your sins?"

“I…” Feng Li’er blinked her big, round eyes, took out a black stone the size of a bowl from her storage bracelet, handed it over, pouted and whispered, “The book says that it is a great virtue to know one’s mistakes and correct them. Although I did not steal the pills, my behavior was already very bad.”

I'm giving you this Enlightenment Stone as compensation.

Furthermore... no one had ever explained these principles to me before, nor had anyone taught me them. It was only after meeting you that I read these books and learned the fundamental values ​​of being a good person!