I'm quitting!

Chapter 37 I didn't have a choice before, now I want to be a good person

The fire in my lower abdomen had been burning for almost half an hour.

Lin Xiaofan sat cross-legged inside the bamboo shed, the veins on his forehead throbbing faintly. The blue ice and golden flames of his majestic Dao body flickered under his skin, like two armies locked in a stalemate, neither willing to yield.

"Old Xian..." he squeezed out the two words through gritted teeth, "bring up the complete 'settings' of the 'Secret Art of the Dark Sun'."

From deep within the belly of the sesame ball, a muffled electronic voice drifted out:

The user you are calling is currently incarcerated. Please—

"You think ten days is too short?"

As soon as the words were spoken, a blue light curtain emerged from in front of Maqiu's abdomen—

【The Secret Art of the Azure Sun, a pure yang attribute dual cultivation technique, consisting of five stages】

[First Turn - Intense Desire]

[Second Job Advancement - Spring]

【Three Turns, Intertwined】

[Fourth Transformation - Breeding]

【Five Turns - Follow Your Heart】

"So..." Lin Xiaofan slowly closed his eyes, "this is a book from beginning to end—"

[Male Dual Cultivation Techniques]

Old Xian thoughtfully finished the sentence for him.

[And it's ridiculously extreme... Of the five job advancements, aside from the first one which is used for laying the foundation, the remaining four are all geared towards the path of 'how to more efficiently gather stamina and reproduce'.]

"I didn't have a choice before, but now I want to be a good person...give me a chance to withdraw."

[Hehe, but boss, you've already started.]

[When you practiced dual cultivation to prolong your life, you were following the operational path of the "Secret Method of the Dark Yang." The embryonic form of the Dark Yang seed has already merged with the lotus in your dantian—if you don't complete the first cycle, the backlash from the pure Yang will only intensify, and at that time… you know what will happen~]

Lin Xiaofan sighed softly, opened his eyes, and focused his gaze on the first condition.

Yin essence is 100,000, Yang essence is 90,000.

"How do I get this?"

[Let's go through the conventional route~ Dual cultivation and replenishment. The Yin essence is taken from the female cultivator's body, and the Yang essence... well, you can produce it yourself. With the current foundation of the Rising Radiance Dao Body, accumulating two or three hundred in one night is no problem.]

Of course, if you are gay...

"No, thank you." Lin Xiaofan had lost his temper after being pestered by Lao Xian. "What's the order of magnitude of your Yin Essence?"

[To replenish the essence of a female cultivator in the Rejuvenation Stage, one can obtain approximately five to ten units... For the Fusion Stage, it ranges from twenty to forty units.]

Lin Xiaofan silently calculated for a moment.

Ten thousand essences of Yin.

Even if one were to search for female cultivators in the fusion stage, it would still require the absorption of three thousand of their essence.

"What genius came up with this cultivation technique...? Could anyone actually master it while still alive?"

[Mission: A seemingly useless disciple rises to become a notorious womanizer, making countless enemies, destined for eternal damnation and a terrible death.]

Lin Xiaofan stared expressionlessly at the pop-up task box.

"nerve…"

He slammed the panel shut with his palm, his gaze darkening.

The backlash from pure Yang energy is intensifying. Is there any way to achieve success overnight...?

Lin Xiaofan's mind raced as he went through all the resources he had at hand.

a long time.

"Old Xian, what is the essence of Yin Essence and Yang Essence?"

[The pure condensed state of Yin and Yang energies]

[The essence of Yin is predominantly cold, soft, and still; the essence of Yang is predominantly hot, strong, and active.]

"Can the Star Shadow Power cultivated in the 'Star Shadow Military Manual' be considered as refined Yin Essence?"

The attributes are barely a match, but ultimately fall short. Furthermore, the Yin and Yang elements of the same origin will cancel each other out, making it impossible to accumulate and refine them.

"Heh... what if they don't share the same origin?"

Lin Xiaofan smiled slightly and strolled over to the enlarged Sanqing Cauldron that had been used to brew milk tea earlier.

"With this cauldron in hand, roasting sweet potatoes, frying French fries, and brewing milk tea are all a breeze."

Could it be... that its true strength lies not in its ability to change size at will, but in its capacity to refine all things?!

"Indeed... Neither your think tank nor my transdimensional database contains any record of this cauldron, therefore we deduce that the Three Green Cauldrons is a 'conceptual cauldron' from outside the realm."

Old Xian was startled, seemingly having seen through his intentions: "You wouldn't... intend to refine the power of the Star Shadow using this cauldron?"

"I forced my own Star Shadow Power out of my body and poured it into the cauldron to temper it, removing my personal spiritual imprint and transforming it into a pure, ownerless Yin Essence, which I then absorbed back into my body. In this way, since we are not of the same origin, we will not cancel each other out."

Old Xian was stunned for a few moments: [Goodness...you're something else! You've turned a perfectly good Yin-Yang dual cultivation technique into something you only produce and consume yourself.]

With a slight thought, Lin Xiaofan solidified the wooden box containing hundreds of Huiyuan Pills.

Supply in place.

A dense aura of starlight surged from his palm and poured into the Three Green Cauldrons. True fire ignited at the bottom of the cauldrons, refining and purifying them with all its might.

Five hours later, the sky began to lighten.

The raw materials for 100,000 essences of Yin are all ready.

"Hoo... Next, the essence of Yang."

The boss only produces two or three hundred units a night; with a total output of ninety thousand, how long will it take?

So... let 'time' do the work for me.

[Fast forward the script? That would cost a lot of rebellion points.]

"I know... but money that doesn't circulate is no different from toilet paper."

After saying that, Lin Xiaofan took a deep breath and activated "script fast forward".

Om-!

An invisible ripple, perceptible only to him, quietly spread out.

Everything around seemed to freeze.

The bamboo leaves hovered in mid-air, and even the RGB lighting effect that flickered through the belly of the bamboo leaf was frozen in a single frame.

However, Lin Xiaofan's own time began to accelerate wildly.

In the outside world, it was only a moment, but in his perception, the sun rose and the moon set, and the stars shifted—he had been in meditation for a full twelve hundred hours.

During this period, the essence of Yang was consumed as the product was produced, and the Huiyuan Pill in the box was also almost completely consumed.

"Freeze!"

With both Yin and Yang elements present, Lin Xiaofan let out a soft shout.

Extreme cold and extreme heat collided violently in the dantian!

However, under the guidance of the "Secret Technique of the Dark Sun," the two extreme forces began to intertwine, rotate, and compress each other, like a vortex converging into one.

click -

A crisp cracking sound came from deep within the dantian.

Then, a golden seed the size of a grain of rice hung quietly in the center of a lotus flower interwoven with red and blue.

The Seed of the Sun has been formed!

Lin Xiaofan slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

The world instantly resumed its flow.

Bamboo leaves gently fell to the ground, and the RGB lighting effects of the old salted fish flickered as usual.

Outside, it was still that dawn.

But he sat alone for a full hundred days.

Lin Xiaofan tried to move his stiff neck—

Aren't you tired?

After a hundred days of intensive training, I felt no fatigue at all, but rather refreshed and my spiritual awareness was more than three times sharper than before.

"I underestimated the 'Secret Techniques of the Aoyang,' its practicality is unexpectedly high."

"How about it? The 'script fast forward' works, right?" Old Xian hinted.

"Hmm... Okay, I'll reduce your sentence." Lin Xiaofan raised an eyebrow. "Damn it, let her out."

Maqiu rubbed his belly, puffed out his cheeks, and opened his mouth—and Lao Xian was sprayed out.

[Ha! I, Lao Xian, am back!]

Seeing her dancing like a fish, completely carefree, Lin Xiaofan sighed and shook her head.

"Oh right, why hasn't my 'atmosphere narration' been refreshed?"

【ah…】

Old Xian's dance steps faltered.

Because... the special skills of the Rebellious Armed Forces are bound to the system's timeline, the "Script Fast Forward" currently only applies to you personally, so...

"Hmm... well, this is enough for now."

[Waaah... Boss, you're so kind! I want to have your baby fish!]

Lin Xiaofan's eye twitched, but he immediately pretended not to have heard.

As dawn broke, figures moved about on the mountain path, including Lin Xiaofan.

Firstly, to stretch my muscles and bones, and secondly, to check if the Script Management Bureau's "security patch" has been properly deployed. If it's not yet finished, I might be able to take advantage of the window of opportunity to rack up some more rebellion points.

"Spiritual wheat porridge! Freshly made spiritual wheat porridge—"

The shouts from the canteen suddenly reached Lin Xiaofan's ears. He rubbed his chin and moved away.

Upon reaching the porridge serving area, the disciple in charge of cooking immediately bowed slightly: "Good morning, Elder Lin. Would you like a bowl of spirit wheat porridge?"

"Don't you have milk tea?" Lin Xiaofan asked casually.

The disciple in charge of cooking was taken aback, a flash of confusion crossing his eyes: "Milk...what?"

"The milk tea, it's the one Elder Danxuanzi promoted before."

"Oh—" the disciple suddenly realized, but it seemed more like he was remembering something trivial. "That... well, I didn't prepare anything today... Spirit wheat porridge is also quite good, Elder, would you like a bowl?"

"No need... serve the disciples more; it's the time when they're growing." Lin Xiaofan waved and walked away, his brows slightly furrowed.

It wasn't that they "didn't want to drink it," but rather that they were "naturally ignored."

The feeling was as if milk tea had never occupied any place in their lives—it was merely a dispensable backdrop.

"It must have been the Script Management Bureau!"

[Correct!]

[This constitutes a large-scale, deep psychological suggestion, covering the entire cultivation world and implanted at the level of cognition.]

"You knew from the beginning?"

[Previously all were speculations, but now it can be confirmed that the Script Management Bureau currently possesses four methods to interfere with the direction of the script: memory overwriting, emotional suppression, psychological suggestion, and direct erosion.]

The core of this "security patch" should be to downgrade "milk tea" from an "important thing" to "irrelevant background information" in the minds of all the characters in the show.

"A good method... The affected people won't even realize that anything is wrong with them."

[Hmph, give me enough computing power, and I too can move the entire world.]

"Now that you mention it..." Lin Xiaofan murmured, "Covering the entire cultivation world, tens of millions of people, each person's underlying understanding needs to be precisely adjusted without causing any inconsistencies... Just how terrifying is the computing power of the Script Management Bureau?"

"Will they directly target me as someone to be ignored or someone to be killed?"

[Do you remember when Zhao Xiao, who was previously known for his data analysis skills, was recalled?]

Lao Xian's tone was unusually serious.

That's them collecting your parameters—behavioral patterns, decision-making logic, emotional responses... They're building a data model of you to target you precisely.

Lin Xiaofan paused in his tracks: "Building a model... targeting me?"

[Not bad... but there's no need to worry. Before the data is complete, if the characters in the story directly attack you, the price will be that they become aware of the existence of the "outside world," which obviously contradicts the original intention of eliminating you as a "rebel."]

"What if the data is complete?"

Old Xian remained silent for several breaths.

Do you believe in the bonds of friendship?

Lin Xiaofan was slightly taken aback.

"The world of cultivation, where the strong prey on the weak... is also into that kind of shonen manga style?"

【No】

I just want to say—no two leaves in the world are exactly alike. Even if they truly possess all your data, it only represents you at a certain moment… and you are always changing.

Moreover, the methods of data collection and presentation will inevitably introduce perturbation variables, meaning the resulting model will ultimately not be equivalent to yours. At that point, don't you think that overcoming that 0.01% difference with "friendship" is the ultimate solution?

The morning breeze rustled through the forest, sending the bamboo leaves flying.

Lin Xiaofan suddenly chuckled: "You've got some ideas... In my opinion, the Script Management Bureau should invite you to be its director."

【My first decree upon taking office will be—everyone must slack off, or face a tax!】

"Wow... I will lead the charge and fully support Director Ham."

Thus, the first round of "security patch" incidents has temporarily come to an end...?

swoosh-

Behind the tree, a scrambled string of data suddenly flashed by.

The silhouette, vaguely human-shaped, silently locked onto the retreating figure of the boy.