Spell Creation Function

Lin Yun swallowed hard. No, he didn't quite understand.

What old immortals and eternal life? Weren't those just things from opera scripts? How could they actually be real when it came to Erlang?

Lin Dayou, being an adult, was much more composed. After digesting what Lin Xiao had said, he merely frowned and asked him,

"Are you telling the truth?"

Lin Xiao shrugged and replied,

"Would I dare lie to you? Besides, you can just go up the mountain tomorrow and see for yourself whether what I said is true or false. There's no point in me lying to you."

Lin Dayou glared at him.

"You've told more than enough lies since you were a kid."

Then, giving him another dirty look, he lowered his voice,

"For now, keep this a secret from the villagers. Otherwise, there'll be no end to the trouble. Just like you said, wait until you've successfully cultivated and gained enough abilities so you don't have to fear those petty troubles anymore. Then you can let them know."

After all, Lin Xiao's sect was built on the mountain right in the village. It would be impossible to hide it forever.

Lin Xiao naturally agreed; that was exactly what he had in mind.

Laying low and building up strength in the early stages was the golden rule!

Hearing Lin Dayou say this, how could he possibly disagree? He immediately nodded repeatedly.

Lin Dayou picked up his bowl of rice again and continued eating, saying to Lin Xiao between bites,

"Does this immortal cultivation of yours have any good farming methods we can use? If we could get better harvests from our fields, maybe one day we could also become wealthy landlords and eat white rice for every meal."

Lin Xiao quickly patted his chest and promised, "Just wait until my cultivation improves, and I'll look into it right away!"

Hearing this, Lin Yun chewed on his coarse grain steamed bun, his mind drifting to fantasies of the day when they could eat white rice for every meal.

Night fell.

After finishing dinner, helping his family clean up for a while, and finally washing up, Lin Xiao returned to his room under the moonlight.

Only now did he finally have the time to check out his First Level of Qi Refining.

He opened his status panel to take a look:

[Host: Lin Xiao (Idle Cultivation Activated)]

[Aptitude: Dragon Among Men]

[Gender: Male]

[Bone Age: 12 years old]

[Cultivation Base: 21/300 (First Level of Qi Refining - Second Level of Qi Refining)]

[Mental Art: Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Art (Comprehension 1/100)]

[Cultivation Method: None]

When coming down the mountain earlier, Lin Xiao had clearly felt that his physical constitution seemed to have improved.

On the way down the mountain and back home, he hadn't panted for breath in the slightest.

He even felt like he could sprint back and forth another eighty or a hundred times.

Other than that, he just felt a slight warmth in his dantian.

There was nothing else.

He tried to imagine a few minor spells, such as a Dust Removal Spell or Telekinesis.

It was completely useless.

Lin Xiao lay lazily on his bed.

"Could it be that cultivators in this world don't have any spells to use?"

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully unlocking the Spell Creation function.]

Hehe.

[Would you like to start creating a spell?]

Lin Xiao naturally chose yes.

Thus, the familiar little square grids appeared before him again. Four of them.

As usual, the first and second grids required paper materials and ink.

The third grid required a spirit stone, while the fourth grid required Lin Xiao's concept for the spell.

Unfortunately, Lin Xiao currently had no paper mulberry bark.

He pondered in his heart that tomorrow, he absolutely had to go pluck a massive pile of paper mulberry bark to store in his private inventory. This stuff seemed to have quite a lot of uses.

Tonight, he could only fall asleep harboring this minor regret.

The night passed in a flash.

The morning light was faint.

The neighbor's rooster opened its eyes, ready to get up and crow.

Lin Xiao, who was deep in slumber, was dreaming entirely about the contents of the mental art he had read with Fuzi during the day.

Then, in a state between sleeping and waking, he seemed to hear the system's voice.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for gaining enlightenment in a dream. Mental Art Comprehension +5. The effects of Idle Cultivation have significantly improved. Successfully advanced to the Second Level of Qi Refining.]

Lin Xiao groggily twitched his eyelids, but ultimately did not open them. He turned his head and fell into a deep sleep once again.

An unknown amount of time passed.

The sky was just barely getting light.

Lin Xiao, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly hoisted out of bed by Lin Dayou.

Without even waiting for him to put on his outer coat, Lin Dayou shoved several freshly woven straw mats made overnight, a bundle wrapped in a tattered cloth, and his outer coat into his arms, then tossed him out the front door.

Leaving behind only a single sentence, "Go up the mountain and cultivate, and don't come back until the sun goes down," he locked him outside the gate.

Lin Xiao, still bleary-eyed from sleep, stood disheveled in the morning wind.

He was so sleepy. He wanted to sleep and didn't want to cultivate this early. He could just idle cultivate!

However, based on Lin Xiao's understanding of his father, if he went back to sleep now, Lin Dayou would whip him with a fire poker for half an hour.

Resigning himself to his fate, Lin Xiao hugged the things Lin Dayou had shoved at him, turned around, and went straight to the Jiang household to drag Jiang Youfu out of bed.

He couldn't be the only one deprived of sleeping in.

Good brothers had to share their hardships.

By the time the two arrived at the sect, the sun had just barely peeked over the horizon.

They laid the straw mats out in the thatched shed. Today, they wouldn't have to sit on the bare ground.

Lin Xiao opened the bundle and took a look. There were two steamed buns, four sweet potatoes, and a water flask made from a large bamboo tube. The bamboo tube's seal wasn't very good, and it was leaking slightly, leaving a wet patch on the wrapping cloth.

Jiang Youfu also had a few steamed buns stuffed into his arms by Grandma Jiang.

Lin Xiao glanced around the thatched shed.

Starting today, the two of them would officially begin their cultivation halfway up this mountain.

Seeing Jiang Youfu relishing his steamed bun washed down with plain water, Lin Xiao suddenly remembered something.

He still didn't know how Fuzi's aptitude was!

The system should be able to check, right?

[Ding! Sect Member Panel function has been unlocked.]

Lin Xiao was already somewhat used to the system being on call.

He found the sect member information and opened it. Currently, Jiang Youfu was the only person listed inside.

[Name: Jiang Youfu]

[Gender: Male]

[Bone Age: 12 years old]

[Aptitude: Not the best, but not the worst]

[Cultivation Base: Mortal - Drawing Qi into the Body]

[Sect Status: Outer Sect Disciple (Modifiable)]

[Sect Position: None (Modifiable)]

...

Not the best, but not the worst?

What kind of aptitude evaluation was this?

Lin Xiao thought about it and decided to let it go. Considering that his own evaluation was "Dragon Among Men," he wouldn't bicker with a system.

This evaluation probably just meant that he belonged to the middle tier of humanity.

The cultivation base section, however, was a bit different from his own; it didn't have any numerical values.

However, seeing the "Modifiable" next to the outer sect disciple status and sect position, Lin Xiao decided to make a change.

Upon opening the modifiable options, he discovered that it was completely empty inside.

There was only a bunch of "Add" symbols.

In other words, he had to set up all the sect positions himself.

Lin Xiao paused.

Ah, this... Wouldn't he have to draw up a detailed tree diagram and carefully define and divide the functions of each position...?

Forget it. There were only two of them right now, so he would just draft a common, all-purpose position for now.

Thus, Lin Xiao typed in the words "Sect Elder".

As for the current specific functions of a Sect Elder, there were none.

Those were things that would only be needed later. He would deal with future matters in the future.