Soon, the so-called "newbie rewards" appeared in the inventory, giving Ye Chuan a subtly absurd feeling. He couldn’t help but laugh at himself.
Earlier, because of a crack on his phone screen, he hadn’t realized that the Universal Landlord APP could be scrolled further down—nor had he known that the task interface was hidden there.
But it wasn’t too late. Luckily, he had discovered it after switching phones.
Ye Chuan mused to himself, then suddenly had a realization.
"Did you break the camera just to remind me there were unclaimed rewards, you little rascal?"
For a brief moment, Ye Chuan felt touched. He silently abandoned his earlier plan to sell the old BlueMi phone for 20 bucks on the second-hand market. After all, in a way, that old phone had been his lucky charm.
After collecting himself, Ye Chuan tapped the screen and opened the inventory to check the rewards. Since they were just newbie rewards, he didn’t expect anything too impressive.
"Couldn’t they at least give me an Emperor Evolution Card or something?"
[Item: First-Class Immortal Scripture
After learning, one can master the method of cultivating immortality.]
A cultivation manual?
Ye Chuan hadn’t expected the newbie quests to reward him with a cultivation technique. Surprised, he double-checked the description to confirm it was real. Once he verified it, his heartbeat quickened.
"Could this cure my illness?"
Truthfully, Ye Chuan didn’t have any grand ambitions at the moment. Living a decent life with enough money to spend was already more than enough for him.
Remembering the other quests, he quickly switched tabs and saw two more newbie quest rewards waiting to be claimed.
[Newbie Side Quest: Gain Bai Qianshuang’s Trust (Completed)]
[Newbie Side Quest: Feed Bai Qianshuang Once (Completed)]
…
Ye Chuan realized there were actually three or four unclaimed rewards!
"I never even collected these? Guess earning 2,000 a day made me too content."
Amused, Ye Chuan tapped "Claim All" in one go.
His inventory now held three different pills and a new book.
It felt like logging into a game after a long absence and finding a pile of free rewards waiting.
"Damn, this feels kinda satisfying."
"I wanna eat beef—hold the scallions, and hold the beef too."
After checking again to make sure no rewards were left unclaimed, Ye Chuan began inspecting his haul.
The first was the First-Class Immortal Scripture—presumably the cultivation manual. He took it out, holding a bronze-colored scroll in his hands. The cover was soft yet sturdy, with a strange texture that reminded him of the fabric of Bai Qianshuang’s robe.
It had a satisfying weight to it.
Ye Chuan stopped in a corner to examine it but had no idea how to actually learn it.
"It’s literally in my hands—how can I not figure it out?" Frowning, he started reading the contents word by word.
But the text was filled with obscure characters, making it nearly impossible for him to decipher. Even though he wasn’t a studious person, these words were beyond what an average student could recognize.
"Oh right, I can ask the money tree to teach me."
He immediately thought of Bai Qianshuang at home and was about to stash the scroll back into his inventory when his fingers froze.
By accident, he had double-tapped the scroll’s icon in the inventory—and now, next to the First-Class Immortal Scripture, new text appeared:
[Learn?]
Ye Chuan: "…"
"Wait, so I could’ve just clicked to learn it from the inventory this whole time?"
He felt like he needed an instruction manual for this damn app.
Hesitantly, he pressed the "Learn" button.
The next moment, a flood of knowledge poured into his mind, as if he had already studied the scripture tens of thousands of times.
The overwhelming sensation made him pause and take a deep breath. Now, he understood how to sense spiritual energy.
But since he was outside, cultivating wasn’t practical. So, he turned his attention to the other rewards.
Aside from the familiar Tiger Strength Pill and Deer Blood Pill, there was a new one—the Swift Step Pill.
[Item: Swift Step Pill
Mortal-Grade Elixir. Consuming one permanently increases speed. Effects diminish with repeated use.]
A speed boost?
Ye Chuan had zero resistance to the words "permanent increase." After all, these were tangible upgrades—and significant ones at that.
Without hesitation, he swallowed all the pills.
The taste was as weird as ever—like ingesting a rainbow of poison, with indescribable flavors flooding his mouth.
"Ugh—wait, can’t spit it out…"
Instinctively, he opened his mouth but immediately clenched his lips shut. The pavement in front of him was covered in dirty water—if he spat them out, he’d have to pick them back up from the filth.
Soon, the pills dissolved into warmth, flowing down his throat. He could already feel the changes in his body.
"My strength… cough… and my body feels much better too."
Checking himself, he realized his illness had mostly faded—the suffocating sensation in his chest was gone.
As for the speed boost, he didn’t notice anything obvious yet.
Pleased with his massive gains, Ye Chuan nodded and looked at the last reward—a book-like item.
[Skill: Spirit Eye
After learning, one can see spiritual entities.]
"Spiritual entities… meaning ghosts?"
Ye Chuan fell silent for a few seconds, then quietly closed the inventory without learning the skill.
"It’s not that Spirit Eye isn’t useful—it’s just that believing in science has better cost-performance."
"I’ll keep this for later."
Putting away his phone, Ye Chuan wasn’t scared—just… strategically cautious.
Who said newbie rewards had to be used immediately?
Hoarding them as assets was the smarter move.
Carrying breakfast, he finally arrived home. After checking the app’s logs and confirming Bai Qianshuang was awake, he knocked.
"Got breakfast. Wanna eat?"
"Just come in."
Hearing her indifferent reply, Ye Chuan pushed the door open.
Inside, the long-haired girl sat cross-legged on the bed, her pristine white robes untouched by dust.
For some reason, she seemed even more ethereal and detached than before.
"You absorbed spiritual energy?" Recalling the logs, Ye Chuan asked.
Bai Qianshuang nodded expressionlessly. "I finally sensed a trace of it."
"How long until you’re back at full strength?"
"Not anytime soon." She shook her head. Despite absorbing some energy, the ambient spiritual energy here was still too thin.
Returning to her peak combat ability would take years.
"Then let’s eat breakfast first."
"I have spiritual energy now. I’m not hungry." Bai Qianshuang replied coldly. "Mortal food taints spiritual purity."
"Oh please, it’s not like your spiritual energy is stored in your intestines." Ye Chuan rolled his eyes.
Bai Qianshuang: "…"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!
