After the time travel, my cheat program disappeared.

Shi Yan suddenly fell into thought.

"Boss lady...you really didn't take advantage of me completely?"

I arrived in Frostwynn City in the early morning, and even though I was a little late, I still entered the tavern very early.

Can...

When I left the tavern and bumped into Ajiu in the market.

The shadows had already shrunk to the ground, clearly indicating that it was around noon.

Where was that period of time 'cut out' to?

"It's over——"

This is something I shouldn't think about too much.

The teacher decided to check the log later.

Check if you've been secretly taken advantage of.

If I've really been taken advantage of without anyone noticing... I'll get my revenge no matter what.

Back then, Hua Xiangrong took advantage of me while I was unconscious... and caused me to waste so much of my cultivation.

What if the landlady also took the opportunity to do something to herself?

He would definitely squeeze back all the cultivation he had wasted, bit by bit.

But... as soon as Shi Yan looked into his inner palace, he was completely stunned.

She opened her eyes.

Wenren Jiu was sitting opposite Shi Yan, her hands supporting her chin on the low table, her beautiful eyes fixed on Shi Yan.

She trembled with fright at Shi Yan's words.

The little rabbit jumped up shakily.

The girl quickly looked away.

Then... I quietly turned my gaze back to continue studying the teacher's words.

"Why isn't Sister Shiyan a boy...?"

With her hands supporting her chin, the girl gently bit her lip, as if still savoring the feeling of her lips and teeth being pried open.

When she came to her senses, she found that Shi Yan had opened his eyes again.

But this time she noticed that the girl stretched out her small hand and gestured in front of Shi Yan, but Shi Yan seemed not to notice at all.

Indeed... Shi Yan has no time to pay attention to the little girl's little tricks right now.

She closed her eyes and focused her inner vision on her dantian.

"I must have misread it."

Then, in disbelief, he opened his eyes and did it again.

"There must be something wrong with how I'm doing it."

But... it wouldn't make any difference if it happened again. Shi Yan looked around his Purple Mansion and felt as if he had been struck by five thunderbolts, as if a bolt of heavenly lightning had struck his head.

The Purple Palace was completely empty.

The once brilliant Milky Way has been reduced to just a handful of stars.

My cultivation... is gone?

Nor is it.

My own spiritual energy surged several times over.

To put it more confidently... if I were to face Shi Minzhou again now, even without any outside help, I could hold out for a long time.

Can--

You should say you've made a breakthrough.

Shi Yan stared into deep thought at the swirling mass in the very center of his Purple Mansion.

Yes... a lump.

Sharp and angular, pitted and uneven... a purple blob.

Shi Yan suddenly felt like he was about to collapse.

Others' golden cores are perfectly round and golden. Some people with great fortune even have extraordinary phenomena appearing on their golden cores.

The phantom images of mythical beasts like golden dragons and phoenixes embracing their elixir.

Originally, Shi Yan thought that he should be a White Tiger no matter what... right?

From any perspective, having inherited the "fierce god of the year," I should be considered a White Tiger.

But... why did it turn out like this...?

Looking at that purple, not-at-all-round lump.

All those crystals of my own... the purple aura filling the sky, in the end, all merged into this thing?

The teacher had a thousand words to say, but they were stuck in his chest and he couldn't bring himself to say them.

He had even prepared the breakthrough material "White Tiger Claw", but now he was in this situation.

How am I supposed to face people in public after this?

"Because he got drunk during his breakthrough... he molded his golden core into strange colors and shapes?"

This 'golden elixir' is probably not worth keeping.

Open your eyes.

Looking at Wenren Jiu, who was blinking at him, Shi Yan was so frustrated that he even wanted to take advantage of the girl on the spot to relieve his boredom.

They simply stopped trying to hide it.

The master said to bring his right index and middle fingers together and make a single stroke.

She was determined to see what kind of magical brew the tavern owner had given her, that just a small sip had made her so drunk.

He even molded his golden core into strange and unusual shapes.

only--

This time, Shi Yan had just opened his character attribute panel when he was completely stunned.

My progress bar has disappeared.

I spent over a month raising funds and only managed to get the progress bar to 90%, and now it's all gone!

Shi Yan felt a slight pang in her heart, but quickly... she realized what was happening.

The disappearance of the progress bar may also be related to the breakthrough in realm.

The [Ninth Level of Purple Mansion Realm] that had kept me stuck for so long... has finally changed.

On the status bar—

[Name: Shi Yan]

Race: Human

Gender: Female

【Charm: Graceful and Ethereal】

[Cultivation Level: First Stage of Cave Heaven Realm]

...

As expected, it was just as I predicted.

The Golden Core Realm is not the next stage after the Purple Mansion Realm.

I can no longer "swallow a golden pill and realize that my fate is not in the hands of heaven."

Oh.

It's just a 'kidney stone,' what's so great about it?

Shi Yan wanted to comfort himself.

But then he pressed his temples, feeling an even greater headache.

Compared to other people's beautiful golden cores, the purple lump in my own Purple Mansion looks more like a 'stone'.

Kneeling opposite Shi Yan, Wenren Jiu saw Shi Yan looking distressed and rubbing her temples with a headache, and assumed that Shi Yan's sister was still drunk.

She hurriedly sat up and gently took Shi Yan's hand.

The teacher stopped massaging his temples.

The girl gently massaged Shi Yan's temples, "Does your headache still hurt, sister...?"

"When we get to Frost Rainbow Valley, I'll tell them to make my sister a bowl of hangover tea."

"Sister, take a shower and get a good night's sleep."

"A-Jiu will escort my sister out of the valley then..."

Shi Yan enjoyed the girl's gentleness, then took her small hand and let go, saying, "I'm fine..."

"I just... have some wild herbs." Thinking about his strange golden core, Shi Yan was momentarily at a loss for words.

"Grass?" The girl's eyes widened in surprise.

As if he had been reminded of something strange, Shi Yan watched as the girl, who had just been gentle and charming, suddenly tightened her legs and started twisting them.

"This guy..."

"She looks even younger than Xiaxia, so why does her head contain so many strange things?!"

Although... it doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with it.

Sese is a pretty cute girl.

but--