The male supporting character was actually myself.

Not to mention the abundance of precious pills prepared specifically for the protagonist in the alchemy room, the top-grade magical treasures in the armory, the stacks of rare and incomplete books in the library, and the numerous heirlooms left by the original owner of the palace in the main hall and secret chamber...

To prevent Lin Xucheng from benefiting from regaining his strength, Rongtuanzi even drained the spiritual water fountain in the courtyard, scooped out several large fish that were about to transform into dragons, and stuffed them into a bucket to be processed by its host later.

So when Lin Xucheng, full of anticipation, struggled through the jungle for half a day but didn't find a single spiritual herb, he couldn't help but feel strange. "This shouldn't be the case. The spiritual energy here is rich and the vegetation is lush. Logically, there should be many top-grade medicinal herbs growing here. How come I haven't seen a single one along the way?"

He wanted to find some medicinal herbs to stop the bleeding and ease the pain in his wound so he could quickly reach the center of the secret realm to search for more opportunities. After all, once his cultivation level dropped to the Foundation Establishment stage, he could no longer even fly on a sword.

After searching diligently for a long time, and with the wound becoming increasingly painful from the friction of walking, Lin Xucheng found no medicinal herbs. He had a bad feeling.

"Pah! Ever since I got dragged into this mess by that little bitch Zhou Zhixue, I've been so unlucky lately that even drinking cold water can cause me to choke!" He leaned against the tree trunk, looking down at the fresh bloodstains that had just dripped onto his snow-white clothes, gritting his teeth in hatred. "It was too good for you to die so easily! You jinx, running into you was the worst luck I've ever had!"

"Achoo!" Inside the Hehuan Sect, which wasn't too far away as the crow flies, Third Dream, who was becoming increasingly alluring through her cultivation of the Enchanting Technique, sneezed and felt a chill run down her back.

The male cultivator, who was already completely infatuated with her, hurriedly flattered her, saying, "Junior Sister Meng'er is so frail, have you caught a chill here? Why don't you rest in my courtyard for a while? I have a great treasure for you to see!"

"Senior Brother~" Third Dream's eyes sparkled as she leaned against the stone pavilion pillar with a charming smile. "I've only been a disciple of Master for a short time, and my strength is still weak. How can I possibly withstand Senior Brother's affection? I'm afraid I'll be entangled by Senior Brother's superb skills and lose even more of my chance to advance."

After saying that, a sad expression appeared on her face, and she pouted and said aggrievedly, "Master said that if I can't break through as soon as possible, I'm afraid... I saw Senior Sister Liang die a few days ago, and Meng'er was so scared, waaaah..."

Having mastered advanced seductive arts, Third Dream's every smile and frown made the handsome young man unable to resist her charms.

He immediately patted his chest and assured her, "Senior brother has already entered the Nascent Soul Realm, how could I bear to use my cultivation techniques to seize junior sister's meager spiritual power? I only felt sorry for junior sister Liang's death and dissipation, and I was afraid that junior sister Meng'er would not be able to advance smoothly either."

Don't worry, with your senior brother personally guiding and assisting you in your cultivation today, your junior sister's power will surely increase rapidly!

Besides, you've only been a disciple for a short time, and you haven't even practiced the cultivation techniques yet. Your senior brother will personally guide you to gradually become proficient, so that you can master the art of replenishing yin with yang in the future, which will be helpful for your trials on the mountain."

"Senior brother, you're so kind!" Third Dream, through tears, smiled and reluctantly followed the other to his cave dwelling.

Before long, the aura of beauty and charm flowed, yin and yang were in harmony, and the Great Dao was unblocked.

"No wonder the sect leader personally accepted her as his last disciple. I have to say that Third Dream was born to be a member of our Hehuan Sect."

"It's really... Other fellow disciples who learned the cultivation techniques all had to go down the mountain to find some mortals for dual cultivation before they could gradually grasp the essence and transition to falling in love with other cultivators. Junior Sister has only just started cultivating, yet she's already making even her Nascent Soul stage senior brother lose control!"

"They were much better than us from the start, and they had their senior brother guiding them personally!"

"Given time, she will surely achieve great things. If our Hehuan Sect could produce another enchanting woman as beautiful as our ancestor, that would be a truly magnificent thing for our great Hehuan Sect."

"You know what, Third Dream really does have some potential..."

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The Hehuan Sect has never been valued by righteous sects. Although the number of disciples in the sect is not large, the atmosphere is relatively united.

In addition, with the added advantage of being a disciple personally taught by the sect leader, and with the personal recommendation of the alchemist Liu Jiangchen, no one in the entire sect maliciously ostracized the talented and beautiful Third Dream.

Having already mastered a high-level seductive technique, she thrived in the world with ease.

As he circulated his cultivation technique and felt the pure spiritual energy surging into his body and quickly becoming his own, Third Dream experienced for the first time the benefits of the Joyful Union Sect. It was nothing more than talking about love and indulging in pleasure, and he could easily and happily take the spiritual energy refined by the other party for himself.

Is there any spiritual practice in the world that is easier than this?

As long as you keep your true heart and don't fall in love, and see through and understand that all men are just passersby, merely stepping stones and furnaces on the path of cultivation, and you are not blinded by love and flirting with others everywhere, you can easily advance in your cultivation!

She felt the fullness of the abundant spiritual energy within her body, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

Lin Xucheng, you must live well and cultivate diligently. Once I advance to the Golden Core Realm and descend the mountain, you won't be able to escape my grasp!

"Damn it, what kind of crappy place is this?!" Lin Xucheng, limping and struggling, finally managed to emerge from the jungle and enter the ancient and massive palace. Looking at the vast, empty house, devoid of even a single extra stone, he roared in despair, "Where are the pills? Where are the cultivation manuals? Where are the inheritances of our predecessors? Why is there nothing here?!"

The fluffy ball of fur sat on the roof beam, slowly licking its paws. "Meow? You're quite greedy, wanting everything."

Be content! If this palace weren't so vast that it couldn't be uprooted, I wouldn't have even bothered to leave you a house to shelter you from the wind and rain.

It glanced at the mountain of goodies in the system, and looked at Lin Xucheng with a greedy glint in its eyes, "You really are the script team's favorite son, giving away way too many freebies."

Whether Meow can make a fortune in this mission world depends entirely on you! Please do your best!

After suffering setbacks one after another, Lin Xucheng, whose glory had faded considerably, was filled with disappointment and sat down heavily in the empty hall, feeling so desolate that he was almost in tears.

Full of hope but utterly devastated, they couldn't even find a single healing pill!

His storage ring was taken away when Yan Xuzi imprisoned him at Lingya Peak. Now, apart from his natal sword, which he no longer has enough spiritual power to wield after his cultivation level dropped, he has nothing of value.

"boom!"

He slammed his fist on the cold jade slab, crying out in anguish, "Heaven is unjust! From the very beginning, I, Lin, have defied the heavens to cultivate into an immortal, and countless hardships have not diminished my resolve. And now I've fallen to such a state..."

Lin Xucheng grew increasingly grief-stricken, and the halo around him began to glow.

Crimson blood dripped from beneath him into the cracks of the stone slabs in the hall, and a strange light vanished in an instant.

"Holy crap, they looted everything and there's still something left for the protagonist?" The fluffy ball of fur was stunned as it licked its paws. "This protagonist's luck is just too unfair!"

Chapter Twenty-Two: You Don't Deserve It!

"Does it feel like a sign of blood recognition?" Jiang Chen frowned slightly as he looked at the message the little white cat sent in time and quickly replied with a few suggestions.

Stories about cultivating immortality usually have very imaginative plots.

Sometimes, the ruins and secret realms are designed with some ingenious ideas, and magical treasures that people could never have imagined will make a grand appearance.

Forget about it, those are all for the main characters. Under the protagonist's halo, they might accidentally activate the bond and become loyal and obedient.

However, since the fluffy dumpling had already scoured the secret realm so thoroughly, even storing the artifact where the original owner of the palace's soul resided and awaited inheritance in the system space, the fact that it could still unearth an Easter egg now most likely meant that it had opened some kind of secret passage.

Perhaps even all the treasures that Xiaobai painstakingly collected were not as valuable as this one thing that ended up in Lin Xucheng's hands.

"What a pity, the secret realm is in an unopened, enclosed space, so it's impossible to locate it." Jiang Chen tapped his fingers slowly on the table and sent two more text messages to Rong Tuanzi.

Unable to access the system himself, he could only remotely control the auxiliary system and tried every means to intercept it.

Otherwise, if Lin Xucheng were to obtain the heaven-defying artifact, wouldn't the world descend into chaos?

But if it really is the blood-binding-to-master method, then it's highly likely that a divine artifact will be created that can be freely controlled and placed inside the body, making it impossible for a novice to even steal a home.

Jiang Chen took out the script and glanced at it. The script team had only arranged some benefits for the protagonist to escape danger first and then pick up the spoils. They probably hadn't figured out how to explain the subsequent plot yet, so they hadn't been able to update it.

"Then we can only look for clues in the original plot and see if there are any other leverages we can use to counterbalance Lin Xucheng..."

Just as the Best Supporting Actor was diligently searching the overturned fishpond for any potential big fish to appear, Lin Xucheng in the secret realm was experiencing great joy after great sorrow.

Immersed in extreme disappointment and even despair, he didn't even notice that the blood that fell onto the stone slab disappeared instantly.

However, a feeling suddenly popped into his mind—it came from this enormous palace!

"This is..." Lin Xucheng was shocked for a few moments before instantly understanding from the message, "A weapon refiner! This place was originally the cave dwelling left behind by an ascended weapon refiner. My god, the senior is indeed an amazing talent!"

A remarkably talented weapon refiner actually transformed his own cave dwelling into a divine artifact!

The senior was focused on comprehending the Great Dao and did not take on any disciples. When he ascended to immortality, he wanted to leave some wealth for the cultivation world that had nurtured him to become an immortal. Therefore, he did not take his cave dwelling with him but sealed it off to await a destined person.

The most important thing in cultivating immortality is opportunity.

Since I am about to ascend and depart, I would do my part to leave some opportunities for future generations.

Moreover, those who are destined to receive the inheritance can also cultivate the Great Dao and ascend to the Immortal Realm. This is a rare and auspicious opportunity, and they may even meet again in the Immortal Realm in the future.

"Heaven rewards those who persevere! With this divine artifact at my disposal, I will surely achieve immortality in the future!" Lin Xucheng was so excited that his whole body trembled slightly.

This is a complete and actual palace complex!

At this point, it has already recognized its master by blood and can shrink and be absorbed into the body at will, constantly nourishing itself with spiritual energy to repay its master.

When needed, it can fly out at will and instantly grow larger. As long as the opponent's strength is not strong enough to reach the Nascent Soul stage, with its current Foundation Establishment stage power, it can forcefully crush the opponent to death with the palace!

From now on, there will be no need to worry about not having enough storage rings or other auxiliary items.

The entire palace stretches for dozens of miles, including areas such as medicinal fields and spirit pet gardens. Any item placed inside can be enlarged or shrunk without any impact.

This is truly an essential tool for killing people at home or on the go!

At this moment, the palace complex that had just awakened from its slumber was slowly rising from the ground, causing the ground to tremble slightly and produce a huge rumbling sound.

“This is truly a treasure!” He limped out of the hall and backed out of the palace complex. As he watched the enormous object slowly rise from the ground and sensed the new “link” in his mind, Lin Xucheng gave the order, “Shrink, shrink it even more so that the master can have a good look at all the sights.”

Upon receiving the order, the palace complex spun rapidly and quickly shrank to a size of one meter square, glittering and floating in mid-air towards its new master.

The massive complex appears even more exquisite when scaled down, like a perfect work of art!

Fluffy dumpling: (?ω?)

Wow! The protagonist's halo is terrifyingly powerful; even the houses they encounter seem to have come to life!

I must say, the house is quite beautiful.

At first glance, it looks almost like an architectural model, with white walls, red tiles, carved beams, painted rafters, pavilions, and winding paths. There are several inner gardens alone, not to mention the magnificent, ethereal main hall. If I could take it back and give it to my host, he could meet the girl he loves, get married, and announce it to the world, living together in such a beautiful house…

The little white cat's deep blue eyes seemed to be gleaming with golden coins. It looked up at the sky somewhat timidly, hesitated for two seconds, then clapped its paws and made up its mind, "Never mind! I'll just intercept it first. If the main system finds out, I'll sue the script team for having warped values! Yes, that's it, meow represents justice!"

Secretly encouraging himself and finding an excuse, the fluffy ball of fur leaped up like a cute tiger descending a mountain, pouncing towards the divine artifact that was slowly flying through the air towards Lin Xucheng.

"Give it to me! Divine artifacts are for good people, you are not worthy!" The next second, it scooped up the palace complex, which had shrunk to a square meter, with its little paws and put it into the system space.

Lin Xucheng: 《(;'Д`)》

Where are the gods and the divine artifacts?

Where is my enormous, god-like artifact?

Where did they go?

He was stunned for a while before he came to his senses from the sudden situation. The phantom of the palace in his mind was still there. The bond between him and the palace had not disappeared, so why did it suddenly disappear?

No matter how I call out to him, there is no response.

Having never experienced anything like this before, Lin Xucheng frowned and pondered, "Could it be that the time wasted was too long and too much energy was consumed, so it ran out of energy and couldn't respond after just a blood oath? Or... as the master, my strength is too weak, and my Foundation Establishment stage spiritual power can't support the summoning of a divine artifact, just like my natal sword that is currently dormant?"

The bond was still there, just not perceptible; he didn't speculate in any far-fetched directions.

After all, he was the only living person present; there was no way someone could be lying in wait to intercept him without being detected. After thinking it over for a while, Lin Xucheng concluded that the problem lay with him.

It must be because he fell to the Foundation Establishment stage and had new and old injuries that hadn't healed, so his spiritual power wasn't enough to support him. That's definitely it!

"Although I can't use it now, as long as I nourish it with my spiritual power, it will definitely become my greatest help in the future." Lin Xucheng, who was unaware that he had fallen into the clutches of a greedy cat and would never be able to have a divine artifact in his life, was in a great mood.

The secret realm was deserted after the loss of the massive palace complex, but fortunately, the rich spiritual energy made it a good place for cultivation. He sat down cross-legged, intending to take this opportunity to cultivate properly, at least to heal his injuries before making further plans.

He had already suffered serious injuries while searching for spiritual plants for True Person Qiubai in the secret realm and had not been able to recover. Then, he was punished to reflect on his mistakes and suffered some hidden injuries under the wear and tear of the Spirit-Seizing Array. When the powerful man Suo Nan drained his golden core, he reversed his spiritual power and aggravated his injuries. In addition, there were still bleeding wounds on his body. He had not been able to find any useful pills or medicinal materials to treat them. All of these would require a long period of cultivation to recover slowly.

Lin Xucheng wasted no more time, and began to circulate his energy by forming hand seals and breathing in spiritual energy.

"Host, quickly praise your cute, beautiful, and capable little kitty!" The fluffy ball of fur shook its fur and wiggled its round little bottom as it bounced around, relaying the message to its host. "Hehehe, you guessed right, it really is a blood oath."

But I easily caught the moon with my paw, and now that magical artifact is lying in the system space!