The male supporting character was actually myself.

The fluffy dumpling's information was timely, and it resolved all the potential problems!

"Achoo!" Mu Liuli sneezed suddenly as she got closer to the town. She tripped and fell down a dirt slope. When she got up, covered in dust, she cursed angrily.

The mischievous white cat scratched its ear with its hind paw, "You piece of trash who spews filth, how come you didn't fall to your death?"

Mu Liuli stomped her feet to vent her anger, but as she looked at the sun nearing noon, her stomach growled with hunger. She swallowed a Spirit Recovery Pill to barely satisfy her hunger. She looked at the bustling village in the distance and muttered to herself, "What era is this? They still draw water from wells to drink."

"If I threw a bottle of poison in there and killed everyone in the town, System, you'd definitely give me a lot of rewards, right? And our relationship would recover quite a bit."

[If the host chooses to poison the seventh-level Foundation Establishment stage demonic cultivator hiding in the mountain valley, the reward will be much higher than poisoning the ordinary people of the entire village, and the affinity between the system and the host will also increase significantly.]

(ˉ▽￣～) Tsk~~

Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. How could a filthy system possibly have good intentions?

You're probably trying to harm me so the demonic cultivator can slap you to death and you can go find someone else, right? Hmph! I saw through your schemes long ago, and I'm not falling for them!

Going to provoke demonic cultivators or something, that's too dangerous.

In modern society, a delicate and fragile fairy can easily fool mortals with a little coquetry and cuteness. Why would I go looking for death by targeting demonic cultivators instead of harming ordinary people? Do you think I'm stupid?

If all else fails, you can always create a charming face and start a live stream, casually belittling and praising a few people to annoy them, and the rewards will be yours for the taking.

Of course, when it comes to doing bad things, you have to target the weak. After all, I'm just a lowly Qi Refining Stage 2 cultivator right now.

So I need to hurry up and become stronger. Once I'm stronger, I'll naturally punish the wicked and punish those who do evil to demonic cultivators! Right now, it's more realistic to think about where to steal a bottle of poison and throw it into the well...

"Pah! Just you wait and see. With my cute and cuddly little kitten here, you'll never succeed!" The little white cat was so angry when it heard that she wanted to poison him that it jumped up and down.

Mu Liuli had no idea that she had already been targeted. She ran all the way, feeling thirsty, hungry, hot, and exhausted. When she arrived at the ancient well at the entrance of town, she sat down and began to wash her hands and face in the water.

"Young lady, are you here for tourism?" The auntie who was drawing water from the well smiled and skillfully poured the water into her bucket, then pointed ahead. "My family runs a small shop over there, specializing in selling the town's local specialty—Yunshui cake."

The water used is sweet water from this 600-year-old well;

In addition, there's our own homegrown, irrigated with water from an ancient well, special Yunshui rice, a variety found only in our town. It's only available this season each year, delicious and inexpensive—I guarantee any girl will love it!

The aunt chatted with her for a few moments with a laugh before leaving with her water. As Mu Liuli responded, the smile on her face gradually turned wicked.

So that's how it is. This little town even has a tourism festival.

I was on the edge of town and couldn't see what was going on inside, but I imagine it must be quite lively. The locals go to the trouble of fetching water to make local snacks; what if they threw a few bottles of highly poisonous substances into the well…?

"Burp!" After washing her hands and face, Mu Liuli drew some water from the well and drank it all down. The well water was sweet and refreshing, and it had a unique flavor.

She casually tossed the water ladle aside, glanced at the well, and thought to herself, "What a pity, from now on this well will become the source of all evil!"

She didn't wander into the town; after all, who would open a pesticide shop on a tourist street?

Based on past experience, shops selling pesticides and rat poison in small towns should be located on streets close to farmland.

"This is Yunshui cake? Hmm, it's just so-so!" Mu Liuli passed by the aunt's small shop and, taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, she stole a box of cakes to fill her rumbling stomach.

The pastries were soft, chewy, and sweet, but they still failed to win her praise.

Mu Liuli ate a few pieces and felt less hungry. She casually threw the remaining pastries on the roadside and kicked them. "Making this kind of disgusting garbage to sell to tourists to cheat them out of money, ugh! In a little while, I will act on behalf of heaven and wipe out you unscrupulous merchants."

[Ding! You stole Yunshui cake, causing the kind aunt who helped you with your questions to suffer financial loss; you eat your food and then throw it away, wasting food. You are truly ungrateful and heartless.]

[Congratulations, host, you have received a reward: 10 Spirit Stones]

Only ten spirit stones? This disgusting system is getting stingier and stingier!

Mu Liuli ignored its despicable evaluation of her. After all, nothing good could come out of the stinking system's mouth. What angered her was that she had already lowered herself to steal things, but the system only gave her ten spirit stones.

Last time I took Lan Ying to steal clothes, we got two hundred spirit stones. The difference is too big, isn't it?

This filthy system, confess honestly, did you take kickbacks?!

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Vicious Woman Gets Struck by Lightning Again

"Five spirit stones are a bit too little, aren't they?" Mu Liuli tried to bargain by acting cute. "You're supposed to be a wise, powerful, and unique system, how can you give your host such a small reward? Even a system has its pride, right?"

[The host's theft did not cause more serious consequences. This system has strict enforcement standards. If you want to receive more and better rewards, please continue to do bad things.]

Pooh!

It was that same disgusting rhetoric of forcing people to do bad things again. With a long face, she quickly walked towards a slightly secluded street.

The fluffy ball followed behind her with a look of disgust and displeasure. "Hey! You steal other people's things to fill your stomach and then want to harm them. Trash like you should... ugh?"

It suddenly remembered something, and its big, deep blue eyes widened and sparkled instantly. "Aren't you always thinking about poisoning the people in town? If all that poison 'accidentally' ended up in your stomach... hehehe, that would be true justice!"

Thinking of this, the fluffy little dumpling felt incredibly clever and promising. With an air of nonchalance, it skipped and hopped around Mu Liuli's side, eagerly anticipating her stealing the poison.

In order not to alert the wild pseudo-master, Jiang Chen deliberately parked the helicopter in the nearby county town.

Fortunately, the group owner had extensive connections. Upon hearing that the elusive alchemist Feng Lingyu needed assistance, he immediately used his connections to contact the county branch of the High Martial Alliance stationed in the county town. After Jiang Chen arrived, he quickly got a car and headed straight to Yunshui Town.

"Host, have you arrived yet?" The little white cat was engrossed in its plan, wagging its fluffy tail excitedly. Upon seeing the message, it replied in a rapid-fire manner, "That wicked Mu Liuli is stealing pesticides. The pharmacy wasn't open yet, so she jumped over the wall to get in."

Right now, they're picking and choosing, complaining that the pesticides aren't toxic enough and insisting on finding something like paraquat or rodenticide to poison the well.

I plan to undermine her completely, and then find another opportunity to put poison in her food..."

Before it could finish explaining its plan, Jiang Chen interrupted, "Don't stop her from poisoning the animals."

Firstly, if you try to stop her, it will be easy to give yourself away. If she notices something is wrong, it could easily lead to complications.

Furthermore, didn't you overhear her conversation with the system, saying that the reward settlement could be taken back? Then why not take this opportunity to set a trap for Mu Liuli? Anyway, I'm a Golden Core Realm alchemist; even if the poison she threw into the well was potent, a few antidote pills would be enough."

Fluffy dumpling: (◎-◎；)

After a few hard spins, the CPU finally managed to understand what its host meant by "digging a hole."

If Mu Liuli successfully poisons someone and receives a reward, and then the host secretly detoxifies the person without harming anyone, the system she is bound to will take back the reward!

Hehehe... Who can blame me when alchemists are so invincible in the mission world setting? This new character card is just too useful.

The virus wanted a wild pseudo-host to fill the cup, but my host has already filled it for you, so don't be shy, hahaha~

"Okay, meow, host, come here quickly! Mu Liuli has succeeded!" The fluffy ball became more and more excited. It twitched its ears, stroked its whiskers with its paws, and stared intently at the other party's every move, acting as a cat-like monitor.

With her weak Qi Refining Stage 2 martial arts skills, Mu Liuli easily climbed the wall and jumped into the backyard of the pesticide shop.

No one was home when the owner of the pesticide shop opened, and the shop was locked.

Unable to pry open the lock, she simply jumped into the yard and started searching the warehouse.

Even though the packaging wasn't opened, the unpleasant smell of pesticides from the large stockpiles in the warehouse was still quite pungent. Mu Liuli covered her nose with her hand and looked at the words on the packaging with disgust.

"If only we had paraquat, that stuff would be deadly if it even stood on the ground!"

"Ugh, what kind of weird pesticides are these? Could they kill someone?"

"In ancient times, there were arsenic and poison, so why are there fewer of those deadly and incurable poisons now that we've traveled to the modern world?"

…………

She muttered to herself as she searched, and finally selected a few bottles of pesticides and rat poison that were advertised as extremely potent. She put them in a plastic bag and nimbly climbed over the wall to get out.

"System, just wait to settle my account!"

Alas, this is because the original owner of this body was too lazy to cultivate and study properly, and his talent was also mediocre.

If I were powerful enough to steal secrets, instigate wars, or research highly contagious viruses and release them to create plagues, would I need to go through all this trouble to do bad things?

"If you could really cause chaos in the world, you would definitely make me a saint in my physical body, right?" Mu Liuli glanced around to make sure no one was watching, then swaggered towards the well, lowering her voice as she sighed.

Surprisingly, the system did not respond.

She didn't take it seriously, focusing only on successfully poisoning the target to get the reward and become stronger, so she could do bigger and worse things and earn even more rewards.

Several people were chatting and laughing as they drew water by the well, while an old woman was washing clothes by a pond not far away.

"Damn it, don't you guys eat lunch? Why are there so many people?" Mu Liuli couldn't very well throw the poison in front of everyone, so she could only grumble and wait patiently from the side.

Two people carried water away, and a plump auntie squatted down next to the old woman with a basin of water and started washing clothes and chatting.

"Laiwang came back from the provincial capital yesterday, but the hospital won't admit him anymore. They said he can do whatever he wants. He's hopeless." The plump auntie's voice was loud, and her gossip went straight into Mu Liuli's ears.

The old woman sighed and shook her head, saying, "What a pair of unfortunate people. These two children are both so good, how come they had such a fate?"

"Who can argue with that? Both children have had a hard life. Laiwang was sickly before, and his wife managed to run a small business. Just when he was recovering and things were looking up, she fell ill again."

"Did you spend all that money you earned?"

"Of course! The hospital advised him not to throw any more money into it, saying it's a genetic disease and there's no cure. But Laiwang couldn't bear to part with it. He sold his house and land, and I heard he even sought help from many martial arts practitioners to treat him, but in the end, he was still brought back to die."

"You can cure the disease but not the fate. This young couple has such a good relationship. If Laiwang's wife really dies, who knows what will happen to him?"

"Sigh... Even martial artists can't save him, so what else can we do? Looking at Laiwang like that... his wife is dying, and he might not even have the will to live anymore. Let's take some things to them tonight. After all, we're from the same village, and it would be our way of showing our appreciation so she can have something nice to eat before she goes."

"That's true. Laiwang's family has nothing left, so where will they live now?"

"They're still living in their old house. The village chief, who bought their house as a last resort, can't even live there. Since things have come to this, how can we let the young couple live there?"

"Let's go see him together later. We can get some milk and fruit to help him get some nutrition and live a few more days..."

…………

Mu Liuli waited for an opportunity to poison the old woman who was washing clothes. She thought that since the old woman was thin and weak and washed her own clothes, she probably didn't live with the children. After poisoning her, she followed her and tied her up.

Abusing an old woman who was powerless to kill is surely an act of evil that is universally condemned, isn't it?

The system will definitely give generous rewards, and I can become stronger quickly without having to cultivate!

In the world of martial artists, having the biggest fist is the key to survival. Once you become so powerful that no one can punish you, what difference does it make if Mu Liuli's identity is exposed?

Unexpectedly, while staking out the place, she overheard some big gossip, and a new plan immediately came to her mind.

As the saying goes, "To kill someone is to destroy their spirit." I happen to have a cure-all pill, and manipulating people's hearts is the most interesting thing ever!

After waiting quietly for a while, the plump aunt and the old woman who were washing clothes chatted and left the well with their wooden basins. Mu Liuli's eyes lit up and she rushed forward and poured the pesticide she had already opened into the well.

After pouring it out, she tore open the bag of rat poison and sprinkled in all the white powder as well. Watching the various poisons slowly dilute in the water, a wicked smile appeared on her face. Then she packed up the bottle and bag and left.

[Ding! You poisoned the village well, indiscriminately attacking everyone and tourists in the town, polluting a centuries-old well. You're beyond human; you're a demon among demons!]

[Congratulations, host, you have received a reward: a top-grade wood spirit root.]

"Yay!" Mu Liuli jumped up excitedly upon hearing about the reward. This was the legendary Wood Spirit Root!

Only martial artists with wood or fire spiritual roots have a chance to become extremely rare alchemists. You should know that alchemists are highly respected. Even the powerful High Martial Alliance doesn't have its own exclusive alchemists!

If I could obtain the alchemy technique, not only would the High Martial Alliance be eager to help me, but even the relevant government departments would be eager to support me!