Chinese animation: Starting with Bad Guys

"Qin Chuan, while Ya Ya's words may be extreme, her concerns are not without merit. This action could indeed trigger unpredictable turmoil, potentially threatening Tu Shan and even the entire demon race. Have you truly considered this carefully?"

Qin Chuan remained calm and composed in the face of the sisters' questions.

"This is easy. After I create a basic cultivation method for the human race, I will go to the One Qi Alliance of the human race to examine their magical treasures, talismans, and array formations. After that, I will create a cultivation method specifically for the demon race, used to drive, refine, and strengthen magical treasures."

He smiled faintly, as if he had already made up his mind:

"At that time, humans will have cultivation techniques and demons will be good at controlling treasures, so the balance can be maintained, and both sides may even have new ways to improve their strength."

Tu Shan Ya Ya seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world. She put her hands on her hips, stood on tiptoe, and tried her best to look more imposing, with her wine gourd swaying behind her.

"Who do you think you are? A creator god? You think you can just create cultivation techniques like that? And create two at once? One for humans, and one for demons? You don't even bother to think before you start bragging! Human cultivation techniques are so easy to create! We demons have been researching the Treasure Control Technique for so many years and we still haven't come up with a decent system, and you just spout off like that?"

Qin Chuan watched her bristle, his smile deepening, tinged with amusement:

"Oh? Miss Ya Ya is so sure I can't do it?"

"Of course!" Tu Shan Ya Ya retorted defiantly.

"Then how about," Qin Chuan suggested slowly, "we make a bet?"

"Let's bet! Who's afraid of who!" Ya Ya immediately took the bait. "What are we betting on? What if you lose?"

Qin Chuan said, "If I fail to create a basic cultivation technique for the human race, or an effective treasure-controlling technique for the demon race, then I lose. Otherwise, you lose. As for the stakes..."

He paused deliberately, looking into Ya Ya's defiant eyes, "The loser must do one thing for the winner unconditionally. How about it?"

"A word is settled!"

Tu Shan Ya Ya agreed without hesitation, her little mind already conjuring up a scene of victory, and she said triumphantly:

"Hmph! If I win, I'll make you my little brother! You'll follow me around like a shadow every day, and if I tell you to go east, you can't go west. You'll also have to shout 'Big Sister Ya Ya is the best in the world!' Hahaha!"

She seemed to already see Qin Chuan following behind her dejectedly, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Qin Chuan chuckled and shook his head: "Miss Ya Ya's wish is truly... quite childlike. As for what I'd need you for if I won..."

He deliberately looked Tu Shan Ya Ya up and down, and under her wary yet embarrassed gaze, he said leisurely, "I haven't thought about it yet, but it certainly won't be that childish."

"Who are you calling childish?!" Tu Shan Ya Ya was like a firecracker that had been lit, about to jump up instantly, her little fists clenched tightly.

"Ya Ya!" Tu Shan Hong Hong raised her voice at the opportune moment, with the authority of an elder sister, "Don't be presumptuous! Qin Chuan is a guest, and even more so, a benefactor! The bet has been made, so let's just wait for the result. Why make a pointless argument here?"

She turned to Qin Chuan, her eyes filled with a hint of helplessness and apology, "Qin Chuan, Ya Ya is young and impulsive, please forgive her."

"It's alright, Miss Ya Ya is straightforward and quite interesting."

Qin Chuan laughed, completely unconcerned about Ya Ya's flustered reaction.

Tu Shan Honghong sighed inwardly, knowing that the bet was now set in stone.

She had great doubts about whether Qin Chuan could do the same, but for now she could only take it one step at a time.

"Since it's settled, Qin Chuan, I'll take you to the library now. Rongrong, would you like to come along too?"

"Yes! Rongrong wants to go too!"

Rongrong nodded immediately. Although she didn't quite understand the difficulty of creating a cultivation technique, she was filled with curiosity and inexplicable confidence in Qin Chuan.

"Hmph! I'm going too! I want to see with my own eyes when your boasting will be exposed!"

Tu Shan Ya Ya followed him angrily, determined to keep a close eye on Qin Chuan.

The four of them walked together toward the important place in Tushan where the classic books were collected.

Sunlight filtered through the branches and leaves of the ancient tree, casting dappled shadows that elongated their figures.

Not far away, on the branches of an even taller ancient tree, Feng Xi's figure quietly emerged, her wide palace robes fluttering in the wind.

She took in everything that had just happened under the tree, her gaze lingering on Qin Chuan's back for a moment before finally settling back on the majestic and dreamlike Bitter Love Tree.

Her lips slowly curved upwards, her smile still gentle, but no longer possessing the dignified composure she had shown when facing Qin Chuan and Hong Hong. Instead, it exuded a deep, almost eerie coldness and scheming.

Her eyes were like an abyss, reflecting the swirling blossoms of the bitter love tree; her whispers were barely audible, only she herself could hear them:

"Creating cultivation techniques? Balancing the two races? Ha... what a naive and arrogant idea. However, such a variable is an unexpected bonus..."

She raised her hand, as if to catch a falling petal, her fingertips lingering with a faint, yet more profound, aura, the same as that of the bitter love tree:

“My three young ladies…you are the future hope of Tushan. Don’t worry, your aunt will definitely ‘nurture’ you into the most perfect versions of yourselves, for the sake of Tushan’s ‘great cause’…”

The petals vanished silently from her fingertips.

Feng Xi's figure disappeared silently from the spot, as if blending into the shadows.

Only the bitter love tree remains standing eternally, its pink petals still falling silently, covering all traces and concealing the quietly brewing, unknown dark plot.

Chapter 6 Initial Success of the Technique

The Tushan Library is not the magnificent palace one might imagine, but rather hidden deep within the mountain, protected by a powerful barrier, with only an ancient stone door at the entrance.

Tu Shan Honghong opened the stone gate with a special magic seal, and a unique aura mixed with the scent of ancient paper, ink, and accumulated spiritual energy rushed out.

The interior space was much larger than it appeared from the outside. Rows of bookshelves made of special spirit wood towered to the ceiling, displaying jade slips, animal skin scrolls, bamboo slips, and even stone carvings in various categories.

The soft light comes from the luminous pearls embedded in the dome and the self-illuminating moss on the walls.

"Qin Chuan, this way please. As agreed, all the books you can consult are in this area."

Tu Shan Honghong led Qin Chuan to a relatively isolated area:

"It mainly covers the basic operating principles of demonic power, general methods for absorbing and transforming spiritual energy, and an overview of some common physical characteristics and talents of demons. More profound inherited secrets, bloodline supernatural powers, and the unique emotional power application classics of my Tushan are not available."

Her tone was calm, but carried an unquestionable boundary.

Qin Chuan's gaze swept over the labels on the bookshelf, and he nodded slightly:

"That's enough. Thank you for your trouble, Miss Honghong."

He understood that these most basic things were precisely the "puzzle pieces" he needed most at the moment, to understand the underlying logic of this world's cultivation system and fill the gap in his understanding of "demon power," the core energy.

Tu Shan Rongrong curiously tiptoed to look around. She wasn't very interested in those profound words, but she enjoyed the quiet atmosphere of companionship.

Tu Shan Ya Ya leaned against a huge stone pillar a little distance away, her arms crossed, her face full of disdain that said, "Let's see what you can come up with." However, her eyes kept glancing at Qin Chuan, clearly indicating that she had not let her guard down.

Without delay, Qin Chuan casually took a warm, cyan jade slip from the bookshelf and immersed his consciousness into it.

Tu Shan Honghong stood quietly to the side, fulfilling her duty of "accompanying".

She looked at Qin Chuan's focused profile; his deep eyes seemed to be able to disassemble, analyze, and reconstruct every rune in the jade slip.

He read extremely quickly, often putting down a jade slip in just a moment and picking up the next one.

His movements were fluid and natural, without a trace of impatience, yet they possessed an almost greedy efficiency.

Time passed quietly in the library.

Qin Chuan's brows furrowed slightly at times and relaxed at others.

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the profound mysteries of the Nine Heavens Longevity Technique, like endlessly rotating stars, were undergoing a wondrous collision and fusion with the fundamental theories of the "demon power" of this world that he had just absorbed.

"I see……"

Qin Chuan realized the truth in his heart:

"The so-called 'demonic power' in this world is essentially still the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It is just that after being transformed by the special bloodline and life form of the demon race, it carries a stronger life imprint and racial characteristics. It is not that the human race cannot absorb spiritual energy, but that it lacks the 'container' and 'path' for efficient transformation and storage."

"The core of the Nine Heavens Longevity Technique lies in 'refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit,' with lofty aspirations, directly pointing to the origin of the Great Dao, and encompassing all things. It has unparalleled advantages in expanding the meridians and constructing the dantian and qi sea of ​​the human race. However, in this realm, it is necessary to adjust the 'frequency' of its absorption of spiritual energy to better match the characteristics of the spiritual energy in this realm, while simplifying its initial operation and lowering the entry threshold..."

While understanding the foundation of the demonic power system, he rapidly sketched out the basic cultivation techniques suitable for the human race in this world.

For him, this was more like a "translation" and "adaptation" task, compiling a basic program suitable for the "hardware" of the human race in this world based on the incomparably powerful source code of the "Nine Heavens Longevity Manual".

Tu Shan Honghong observed silently.

At first, she was just doing her job diligently, but gradually, she keenly sensed that something indescribable was happening to Qin Chuan.

His aura seemed to have become more harmonious and restrained, as if the knowledge from those basic scriptures, after being absorbed by him, not only did not increase his "demonic aura," but also made his connection with the surrounding spiritual energy more harmonious and natural.

This deepened the astonishment in her heart:

This person's level of understanding is simply unbelievable. Is he really just "checking"? It's more like... verifying and deducing?

Finally, Qin Chuan put down the last jade slip in his hand, which contained information about the basic operation of demonic power.

He let out a soft sigh of relief, a look of understanding flashing in his eyes, as if a layer of mist had been cleared away.

"Miss Honghong, the basic theories of Tushan are clearly organized and meticulously explained, which has greatly inspired me."

Qin Chuan turned to Tu Shan Honghong, who had been waiting patiently, and said with sincere gratitude:

"In particular, the discussion on the interaction between the nature of spiritual energy and life forms is the finishing touch. I have benefited greatly from it."

Tu Shan Honghong was slightly taken aback.

She had expected that the other party would have some complaints about only being able to read basic classics, or would show impatience due to the slow progress.

Unexpectedly, Qin Chuan was genuinely grateful and seemed to have truly gained something from it.

This made her feelings towards Qin Chuan even more complicated.

"It is Tushan's good fortune to be able to help you, sir."

Honghong responded politely, but a multitude of questions swirled in her mind:

What exactly did he realize? And how much progress did he make in creating cultivation methods for the human race?

"Hmph, putting on airs!" Tu Shan Ya Ya couldn't help but mutter under her breath from a distance. "What great gains can he possibly make from just this little bit of basic knowledge? I think he's just trying to save face after his boasting is about to burst!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Chuan simply smiled and ignored Ya Ya's provocation.

He looked at Tu Shan Honghong:

"What I have learned today is enough for me to digest for a while. The classics are vast and profound, and cannot be mastered in a day. I will take my leave now and will come to bother you again another day."

He needs time to integrate and deduce what he has learned today with the "Nine Heavens Longevity Manual" at a deeper level.

"Please go ahead, sir."

Tu Shan Honghong nodded.

Watching Qin Chuan calmly walk away, Tu Shan Honghong fell into deep thought.

Rongrong obediently walked to her sister's side and whispered, "Sister, can Brother Qin Chuan really create a cultivation technique?"

Tu Shan Honghong gently patted her younger sister's head, her gaze complex: "I don't know. But he is indeed different from others."