Upon landing, Xin Ci finally found the chopping knife.
He quickly took the chopping knife in his hand and looked up.
He discovered that the bottom of the pit was quite spacious, with a cave ahead, and a faint light emanating from the cave entrance.
"Heh heh, this is it. Male lead, oh male lead, hurry inside. Your destiny awaits within."
Mu Qingqing encouraged him with a smile in the consciousness space.
However, the scene that followed made Mu Qingqing's jaw drop.
As soon as the male lead, Xin Ci, picked up the chopping knife from the deep pit, he turned around and, without looking back, attempted to climb out.
"Huh? Why aren't you following the original plot?"
Mu Qingqing was astonished and thought to herself.
"Uh, this shouldn't be happening, right? In the original novel, Xin Ci walked directly into this cave."
Mu Qingqing even doubted if she had misremembered the plot and asked the system.
"System, are you there? What's going on? Shouldn't Xin Ci have entered the cave according to the plot?"
"The original novel's plot was indeed like this, but things are different now. The current male lead has you, his second personality. The overall story progression will change."
"This requires you, the second personality, to guide the male lead, and also because you do not belong to this world."
"Meaning, this world does not recognize your existence, which is why you can only be the male lead's second personality."
"Due to your appearance, the male lead's original growth path will be inadvertently suppressed, and many things that originally did not exist are likely to happen. The probability of him perishing halfway is very high."
What!
Upon hearing the system's reminder, Mu Qingqing had a realization. This meant she might also never be able to go back.
No, I have to do something.
Got it. Mu Qingqing looked at Xin Ci, who was climbing, and an idea formed in her mind.
Just as Xin Ci lost his footing and fell, Mu Qingqing quickly forced a switch to Xin Ci's second personality, temporarily gaining control of his body for 10 seconds.
With the "Xin Ci" persona switched to Mu Qingqing, his strength instantly reached the ninth level of Body Refining. He fell from a height of over ten meters without sustaining any injuries.
Mu Qingqing also took the opportunity to throw the chopping knife she was holding into the pit.
Ten seconds later, Xin Ci's main personality switched back.
Xin Ci, who had regained consciousness, was on the ground, clutching his head, feeling somewhat dazed. He found that he was completely unharmed.
He couldn't cultivate, yet he had fallen from over ten meters without any injury. This left him quite confused.
Empty-handed, he realized his axe was nowhere to be seen.
Without his axe, he couldn't complete today's woodcutting task.
Could it be that the axe fell into that cave when he fell just now?
In order to retrieve his axe, Xin Ci walked in.
"Male lead, you've finally gone in. The story can now proceed as normal," Mu Qingqing sighed with relief in the consciousness space.
The cave was somewhat dim. Xin Ci couldn't find his axe immediately and could only try to walk further in.
Soon after, a faint blue light suddenly flickered ahead.
Upon approaching, he discovered that there was a pool inside the cave, filled with a milky white, strange liquid.
At the same time, the blue light he had seen earlier was coming from the middle of this pool, as if something was beneath it.
Looking around, he found his axe in the pool filled with milky white liquid.
He squatted beside it and reached out to grab it, but his foot slipped, and he fell headfirst into the pool.
His entire body was immersed in this milky white liquid. Xin Ci felt as if he had fallen into a lava pool.
His body grew hotter and hotter, as if it were about to melt. His bones and meridians felt as if they were being crushed and torn apart.
Blood continuously seeped from his skin, dyeing the pool.
Pain!
Intense pain!
This was unbearable, soul-tearing agony!
Xin Ci couldn't even reach the first level of Body Refining, so he naturally couldn't withstand such suffering. He was directly tortured into unconsciousness.
In the consciousness space, Mu Qingqing watched Xin Ci suffer with a pang of heartache.
But there was no helping it. This was a necessary process for body modification and evolution. He had gone through the same thing in the original novel.
After Xin Ci lost consciousness, the milky white liquid in the pool continuously reformed his body, repairing the vitality of his bones and expelling a large amount of foul-smelling, black impurities.
After an unknown period, Xin Ci woke up. The pool that had been filled with milky white liquid had turned into clear water.
He inexplicably had a layer of foul-smelling black mud on his body, which was quite disgusting.
Xin Ci cleaned himself in the pool and, at the same time, his foot seemed to have stepped on something.
He reached into the water and fished out a rhombic crystal emitting a faint blue glow.
"What is this?"
Before he could react, he was sucked into the crystal.
It turned out that this crystal held a world within it, with mountains and rivers, and abundant spiritual energy. It was an inestimable treasure.
Just as Xin Ci marveled at the exquisiteness of the crystal space, he noticed what appeared to be a glowing jade tablet on a platform in the center.
He instinctively reached out and touched it. The moment he touched it, the jade tablet shattered, and an astonishing amount of information surged into his mind.
"The Eternal Dao Scripture. Cultivate to its ultimate state, and one can achieve eternity."
This was actually a scripture jade tablet!
Xin Ci was overjoyed, but soon his joy turned to sorrow.
This was because his physique was extremely poor, practically a废体 (waste body). If he could cultivate, he wouldn't be unable to even reach the first level of Body Refining.
"Alas! When did I break through to the third level of Body Refining!"
Xin Ci, sighing and looking down, suddenly realized that he could cultivate, and he had reached the third level of Body Refining!
This truly made him feel incredulous. Recalling the pool just now, could it be that the milky white liquid had the effect of improving one's physical aptitude?
This was truly a treasure he had stumbled upon.
Xin Ci had always yearned to cultivate. Now that he finally had the opportunity, he began to cultivate according to the Eternal Dao Scripture.
After circulating it through several cycles, two bone creaks sounded from his body.
Fifth level of Body Refining!
This Eternal Dao Scripture was truly extraordinary. In less than an hour, he had broken through two minor realms consecutively.
In the consciousness space, Mu Qingqing also benefited greatly. As the male lead Xin Ci's second personality, Xin Ci's breakthroughs were also beneficial to her.
She, who had been stuck at the first star soul realm for a long time, finally broke through to the second star soul realm, equivalent to the Xuan realm.
Now, when the male lead switched to her second personality, she could exert even more powerful abilities.
Ding~
"Host's Myriad Phenomena Star Wheel Scripture has successfully broken through the second layer. Second personality permissions have increased. The host can leave the consciousness space in a system-defined conscious form."
"However, you cannot stray more than three meters from the main personality's body."
Hearing the system's prompt, Mu Qingqing's heart was filled with excitement.
This meant that even when the main personality, Xin Ci, occupied the body, she could still come out of the consciousness space.
In this way, others couldn't see her, but she could clearly see them. This was simply too cool!