The male supporting character was actually myself.

I wonder where that fox demon was teleported to. If Bai Yu gets there first, wouldn't I be doing all the work for her?

But for some reason, I couldn't get angry at this unassuming guy, and even developed a slight liking for him while chatting casually.

She frowned frequently as she spoke, so Qin Xiuer asked her about it.

"I'm very worried about Senior Brother Chen. I don't know how he is doing."

"And there's that fox spirit that forcibly broke free from the seal. She's weak right now, and I need to find her before Bai Yu does."

"Bai Yu? She's my senior sister, the prized disciple of the Qingfeng Sect leader..."

Lu'er didn't know what was wrong with her, but after sitting down to rest for a while, she felt a great liking for this mortal and told him everything she knew.

Looking at the favorability rating that had already been maxed out, Qin Xiuer felt a strong longing for the fox spirit and senior sister she had described.

He stood up, dusted himself off, and said in the concerned tone of the system's reminder, "I'll go with you to look for it. I might be able to help if there's any danger!"

Chapter 5 Cat Girl, change!

"Junior Brother Chen, we should have been teleported to some place somewhere in the Four Seas and Eight Deserts."

Bai Yu, holding the little red fox, looked somewhat helpless. "It seems that the major sects set up formations to teleport the ferocious beast to a remote and deserted place in order to prevent it from breaking the seal and causing chaos in the cultivation world..."

Before she could finish speaking, Chi Ling pouted with a knowing look, "You guessed wrong!"

That wasn't the work of any major sect.

I could tell just by the smell, it must have been dried ten miles away!

She knew that if I could break through the seal, no formation could kill me, so she set up a series of formations to teleport me to this godforsaken place. With her meticulous mind, she must have a backup plan.

However, too much time has passed, and many terrains have changed, so the inescapable trap she set up here has become ineffective.

"Hmph! That wretched Shili, I'll definitely kill her when I recover my peak condition!"

Jiang Chen asked curiously, "Shi Li has already cultivated to the level of a High God, so what grudge do you hold against him?"

"How would I know!" Chi Ling said with a look of utter despair. "You humans are too complicated and roundabout. How would I know what she's thinking?"

"You vixen don't seem very clever," he concluded tentatively.

Chi Ling: ╭(╯^╰)╮

Before it could think of a rebuttal, the world suddenly began to tremble violently.

After a few seconds, Bai Yu looked at her warily, "Did you make that noise?"

She twitched her lips. "You really think highly of me! That tremor could only be caused by the laws of heaven and earth. If I, a little fox who has been reduced to the point of having to reveal my true form, could have caused such a commotion, would you have been able to catch me?"

"There shouldn't be any major problems." Bai Yu sensed the situation and took out a jade bottle from his storage ring, handing it to Jiang Chen. "Anyway, we can't go back for a while, so let's just treat this as an opportunity for training."

I took the little fox to find some ingredients to cook something to eat;

"You're about to break through to the Mahayana realm; this Profound Spirit Pill can give you a boost."

Holding the jade bottle in his hand, Jiang Chen felt a surge of emotion and exclaimed sincerely, "Senior Sister, you're so kind to me, thank you!"

“Junior Brother Chen, when you’re out and about, the only people who can lend you a hand occasionally are your friends, but the only ones who will help you without hesitation are your senior sister.”

Jiang Chen: (?ω?)

White kitten: ? ? ?

Bai Yu blushed slightly, afraid that he would return the pills. She picked up the little fox and disappeared into the forest with a few leaps.

"Hey, hey, Senior Sister, wait a minute!" He looked in the direction she had left and muttered, "Aren't we going to discuss that... thing?"

"Host, I think the female lead probably didn't mean that." The little white cat covered its mouth and chuckled.

However, it quickly stopped laughing and cried out in alarm, "Oh no! Host, what's wrong with the script?"

Jiang Chen opened it and saw a line of red text: "Connection has been disconnected due to unidentified program intervention..."

"What does it mean?"

The little white cat nervously scratched its left and right paws, "I... I don't know either! I can't even access the forums now... Host, please wait a moment, let me check the emergency manual!"

It pulled out a small notebook and flipped through it for a while. "Emergency situations include, but are not limited to, disconnection due to intervention by unknown programs. The auxiliary system should stabilize the host's emotions and prevent it from seeing... the script?"

The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward. The little white cat looked up at its host and continued reading in a very low voice: "Follow the auxiliary system's employee manual and guide the host to complete the corresponding tasks."

Once the mission world ends, you will automatically return to the scenario selection space.

If, due to unforeseen circumstances, the final chapter mission is not released and a medal is not awarded, the assistance system can be applied for upon return…

"No problem." Jiang Chen pretended not to have seen the script and said slowly, "It basically means that it used to be able to play online, but now it's become a single-player game with disconnections."

The little white cat quickly put away the emergency manual. "That's the gist of it, right? Host, you didn't see the script, so just pretend you didn't."

"Um, what did the female lead give you just now?"

“Xuanling Pill, a very precious pill.” Jiang Chen looked at the jade bottle and explained, combining the original owner’s memories, “It is probably one of the most expensive pills in the script.”

If sold, a single Xuanling Pill can fetch over a million spirit stones.

While dealing with the little white cat, he pondered in his mind.

The vibrations caused by the laws of heaven and earth that Chi Ling mentioned earlier are probably the reason for the disconnection, but it's due to some unknown program intervention...

What does that mean?

Is someone trying to attack this mission world?

Could I find an opportunity to launch a counterattack from within and without, while the main system is unable to monitor me?

"Since the Mystic Spirit Pill is so valuable, why don't we try this?" The little white cat grinned mischievously and took out the Treasure Basin item from the system space.

This is a gold basin with a diameter of only about 30 centimeters, and a simple, beautiful and exquisite design.

If it weren't for the battery level display on one side, it would look quite impressive at first glance.

"Host, the battery starts consuming as soon as you put something in," the little white cat explained. "It has nothing to do with how much you take out; it's just a countdown."

So using this tool is all about speed!

Jiang Chen examined it for a moment and asked, "How fast are your hands?"

The fluffy little ball of fluff, holding its two short paws, said proudly, "I guarantee I can dig out a small mountain of magic pills for you!"

A man and his system squatted on the grass, guarding a small golden basin. He opened a jade bottle, and a refreshing fragrance wafted out. Jiang Chen placed a walnut-sized Xuanling Pill into the treasure basin.

"Watch my invisible claws!" The next second, the little white cat grabbed the edge of the golden basin and quickly pried outwards with its two hind legs.

One by one, the perfectly round replicas of the Mystic Spirit Pills rolled all over the ground.

The treasure basin's power was depleted quickly, but the fluffy ball's claws moved even faster. In the end, Jiang Chen could only see a white afterimage.

"Phew! The neutered version is really useless, it's too much of a waste of a cat." As the battery ran out, the Xuanling Pill in the treasure basin disappeared; the little white cat also collapsed on the ground, panting heavily.

Jiang Chen, who was in charge of collecting them, glanced at the system space and saw that the rare and precious Xuanling Pills, which were extremely rare in the cultivation world, had already piled up into a small mountain.

"Junior Brother Chen, look how many I've found..." He had just put away the treasure basin prop when he heard rustling sounds in the forest. His senior sister, dressed in flowing white robes like a fairy, had returned. She spoke happily, but her eyes fell on the little white cat lying on the grass, panting heavily, and she was immediately taken aback. "Where did this little cat demon come from?"

Jiang Chen: ? ? ?

noob:!!!

Bai Yu made a hand seal with his right hand, and a beam of white light struck the fluffy ball.

She instinctively scrambled to her feet, looked down at her transformed catgirl form, and screamed in terror, staring at her host with horrified eyes, "W-what happened?"

"Not only is it a beast, but it's a cub!" Bai Yu looked at her warily, then at his junior brother, and asked in a low voice, "I've only been gone for a short while, where did it come from?"

Touching her cat ears with her little hands to confirm she was in catgirl mode, Xiaobai blinked her big eyes, "I...I just ran here..."

Chapter Six: I've Been Looking for You

Upon hearing the presence of a demon, Chi Ling poked its head out, its narrow eyes releasing a ferocious beastly aura.

However, the little white cat merely glanced at her and didn't seem to care at all.

"Little cat demon, aren't you afraid of me?" it said fiercely, baring its sharp teeth.

Little White shook its head dismissively and reached out to touch the fox's fur. "It feels alright, but not as soft as mine."

Chi Ling: ...

Do I, a dignified demon lord, have no dignity?

Why isn't even a little cat demon with no cultivation afraid of me!

"You can't even transform properly." Bai Yu observed for a moment, then cast a spell on her, and the little white cat's ears and tail disappeared instantly. "That's good. At least mortals won't be able to tell that you're a demon."

Otherwise they will arrest you and kill or sell you.

"Little cat demon, where are you going?"

"I..." The little white cat hesitated for a moment, then turned around, hugged Bai Yu's leg, and looked up with teary eyes, saying, "I have nowhere to go, pretty sister, please take me in!"

Jiang Chen, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but facepalm.

Presumably a side effect of an unknown program invading the mission world, the auxiliary system was unable to maintain its stealth state.

It seems that the main system has encountered a rather serious crisis this time.

Bai Yu asked Xiao Bai a few questions seriously, but she brushed them off with the game's settings.

“Junior Brother Chen, I think the little cat demon must have eaten the Transformation Fruit by chance. Her own cultivation is so weak that she can barely protect herself, yet she can transform into human form.” She leaned close to Jiang Chen and whispered, “Why don’t we take her with us for now? It might be dangerous if we leave her here.”

The mission world is disconnected, and the script cannot be updated; the little white cat is being mistaken for a cat demon again.

Jiang Chen readily agreed.

"I picked a lot of mushrooms, let's make some mushroom soup!" Bai Yu handed the little fox to him and busied himself using his magic to start a fire and prepare to cook.

The little white cat leaned closer to take a look and whispered, "Pretty sister, are you sure these mushrooms are edible?"

"No, can't I? I think they're so big and beautiful..." Bai Yu paused slightly as she was preparing the kitchen utensils.

Sure enough!

Little Bai, his face slightly furrowed, glanced at the flower mushrooms and sang softly: "Red umbrellas, yellow poles, after eating, we lie down together on the plank. Lying on the plank, sleeping in the coffin, then we're buried together on the mountain. Burying the mountain, crying and shouting, relatives and friends come to our house for a meal. For a meal, there are umbrellas, and the whole village lies down on the plank together."

Bai Yu: (ー_ー)!!