Uh, it's that system notification again. Again? Alright, it's time to deal with this.又是那个系统通知.一遍吗?好了,是时候解决这个问题了.
"Cloudshoes." "Cloudshoes."
Seriously? 严重吗?
Another pair? 另一双吗?
I, Lin Xiuyuan, should be practicing, but this universe seems determined to give me some useless trinkets.我,林秀媛,应该在修行,但这个宇宙似乎决定给我一些无用的小饰品.
This pair of boots, shiny yet utterly useless.这双靴子,锃亮却毫无用处.
Fine, I'll just throw them under the bed. Useless stuff.好吧,我把它们扔到床底下.无用的东西.
The timing... quite interesting.时间...相当有趣.
The moment that annoying voice disappeared, I felt... something.那讨厌的声音一消失,我就觉得...某物.
Like a ripple. 像涟漪一样.
Suddenly, the data screen lit up.突然,数据屏幕亮了起来.
Another sleepless night, I immersed myself in studying the energy readings of the tower.又是一个不眠之夜,我沉浸在研究塔的能量读数中.
The figures showed a significant increase, a full seventeen percent.数据显示了显著的增长,整整增长了17%.
This can't be. 这不可能.
"The Pillow of Rest," last night, after being prompted by the system to receive this pillow, the tower's efficiency suddenly increased by 17%."休息枕头",昨晚,在系统提示接收这个枕头后,塔楼的效率突然提高了17%.
Could it really be its effect?这真的是它的影响吗?
I had an idea. 我有个主意.
Is it him? 是他吗?
Is he... changing this tower?他是...换塔?
The withered vines sprouting new leaves... it's a metaphor.枯萎的藤蔓长出新叶...这是一个比喻.
On the training ground, shouts and magical explosions interwove into a cacophony.
That newcomer, always full of enthusiasm, but always messing up.
A burst of out-of-control flame magic flashed, burning someone.
That damned Greytooth, always scowling and glaring.
I could feel that my own magic was unusually smooth, as if there was a connection.
Greytooth was bellowing commands, but I noticed something else - healing magic.
This feeling... much easier, like a gentle breeze.
Like... the "Resonance Conduction" mentioned in ancient scrolls, a kind of passive experience overflow.
He doesn't practice, but we all practice for him?
It's absurd.
Later, I tried to read a book, even flipping open a cultivation manual.
The sun was warm, and the little fox Xiao Li was contentedly purring on my lap.
Warning: 50% risk of sign-in failure.
I closed the book.
Then, the little fox stared at the pillow I was using.
Something was rippling in the air, with a faint silver glow.
This little guy could see something I couldn't, it's really amazing.
At dusk, the air was filled with the familiar aroma of new tea.
A shadow appeared, an intruder.
He moved silently like a ghost, adding something to my water.
"Chenmosan," a name that sends chills down your spine.
I closed my eyes, enjoying the last rays of sunlight... then a burst of light, colorful.
My "Peaceful Censer," what a great thing.
The poison didn't even touch me.
The room was filled with colorful lights, with seven-colored smoke.
The little fox loved it.
Greytooth watched everything from the shadows, with an expression of disbelief.
He quickly and silently collected a sample.
Strange, unexpected.
At night, I returned to the data.
Row after row of data, each line representing the energy of the residents.
I drew them into a chart, trying to find a pattern.
I discovered a pattern, the numbers... synchronizing, no, converging, centered on a point.
Not just around the tower, but around him - Lin Xiuyuan.
This force, this attraction, its source... is Lin Xiuyuan.
My own magic... has almost reached the level of a grand mage.
This isn't just my efficiency improving, but everyone's.
If I hadn't experienced it myself, I wouldn't have believed it.
We weren't getting stronger on our own, but being dragged forward by him.
Then, an angry roar came.
I felt the atmosphere in the air change.
He failed, and so did I.
This fool disappoints me.
I must become stronger.
All efforts were in vain!
He must pay the price!
If the poison doesn't work, if those hidden means fail, then he has only one path to death.
Let the tower collapse on him while he's sleeping.
If I can't poison him, then bury him.
Those rocks will be his end.
Ha ha, tomorrow morning, this mountain will be his tomb.
The earth elemental mages have already started acting.
[Ding! Continuous sign-in for 8 days, reward: a pair of Cloudshoes.]
[Cloudshoes: Made from cloud spider silk and weightless crystal stones, light as nothing, silent in movement, and can automatically adjust temperature and moisture according to the environment.]
Lin Xiuyuan didn't even lift his eyelids, just impatiently turned over, kicked the pair of softly glowing boots that suddenly appeared, and sent them flying into the pile of clutter under the bed.
"Again? This broken system really treats me like a retirement project." He muttered, pulling the quilt over his head and continuing to sleep.
The效果 of the Pillow of Rest was incredibly powerful. Even if the system notification woke him up, sleepiness would come back within three seconds.
He didn't know that at the moment he kicked away the reward, far at the top of the tower in a quiet room, Su Wanqing was staring intently at the floating magic data spectrum in front of her, her breath almost stopped.
In the center of the spectrum, a curve representing the magic circulation efficiency of the entire Hero's Tower, which had been stable or even slightly declining for years, started to soar abruptly seven days ago, steadily climbing.
And last night, this number finally settled at - 17%.
A full seventeen percent increase!
What does this mean?
It means that the defensive magic array of the tower has skyrocketed, the growth speed of all magical plants inside the tower has accelerated, and every person cultivating here can enjoy a richer and purer magic environment!
Su Wanqing's fingers gently touched the starting point of that curve, with a barely noticeable tremor at the tips.
That time point was the second morning after Lin Xiuyuan received the "Pillow of Rest."
She recalled that during her inspection yesterday, she inadvertently found those blood vines on the cliff outside the tower, which had been withered for nearly ten years, had sprouted tender red new buds.
At that time, she thought it was just an anomaly due to seasonal changes. Now thinking about it, it wasn't at all!
"This isn't laziness..." she looked at that lowest point on the spectrum, representing Lin Xiuyuan's personal magic output, like a stagnant pool, muttering to herself, "This is fundamentally reconstructing the underlying logic of the entire cultivation system!"
In the morning training ground, the morning mist had not yet dissipated, and the clashes of metal and rock had already risen in waves.
Greytooth, the battle instructor known for his strictness and iron-bloodedness, was standing behind with his hands behind his back, touring the team like an iron tower.
"Focus! Your magic isn't saliva sprayed on the street!" He roared, making the air hum.
Before he finished speaking, a young boy at the end of the line, due to forcing his DouQi, caused the magic in his arm meridians to out of control and rampage, screamed in pain, and his entire right arm was instantly burned black, falling to the ground.
"Waste!" Greytooth frowned, but still ordered in a deep voice, "Take him away, send him to the witch doctor's room!"
A moment later, Su Wanqing, who had heard the news, appeared in the witch doctor's room.
She saw the boy's painful expression, said nothing, just stretched out her delicate fingers, the tips glowing with a soft blue aura, preparing to perform the healing spell.
However, in the instant she formed the symbol, she paused her movements, a look of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes.
Something was off!
Her magic seemed particularly... obedient today?
The complex healing symbol that usually took three seconds to complete was now done as smoothly as a flowing cloud, the speed at which magic gathered at her fingertips was at least thirty percent faster than usual!
The blue light of healing poured down, and the boy's arm recovered to its original state at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But Su Wanqing's heart was stirred up like a stormy sea.
She suddenly remembered the extremely weak, almost imperceptible low-frequency energy波动 that came from the direction of Lin Xiuyuan's room last night.
That feeling was so similar to the "Resonance Conduction" theory she saw in a forbidden ancient book!
She hastily gave a few words and immediately returned to her quiet room, flipping out an ancient parchment.
On the parchment, written in Elvish was an obscure note, and she heavily underlined the four words "passive experience overflow" with her magic pen.
A crazy notion that made her feel shuddering with fear sprouted wildly.
"He never practices, but he's like a huge energy black hole, all the people close to him, their cultivation results will be unconsciously 'resonated' and 'enhanced' by him, and then fed back to the entire environment... so it's not him getting stronger, but we... all practicing for him?"
At the same time, at the center of the incident, Lin Xiuyuan was leisurely lying on a wicker chair in the courtyard, basking in the sun.
The three-tailed little fox he picked up was curled up in his arms, making contented purring sounds.
He was really bored, so he picked up a book from the table next to him, "Introduction to Basic Qi Circulation," not knowing who had left it there.
"Well, since I'm bored anyway, reading a book doesn't count as involution, right?" he muttered to himself, flipping to the first page.
The small figure spectrum on the book page had just come into view, before he could see the meridian direction, a cold,ruthless mechanical prompt sounded in his mind.
[Warning!
Detected host with intention to practice actively!
Today's sign-in task failure risk increased by 50%!
Please stop any form of involution behavior immediately!]
Lin Xiuyuan was so scared that his hands trembled, and with a slap, he closed the book, as if it was a hot potato.
"Damn! Not even reading a book is allowed? This system is stricter than the performance review of the Demon King Army!" He patted his chest in relief and threw the book far away.
As soon as he finished speaking, the little fox in his arms suddenly perked up its ears.
Its black eyes did not look at the book that was thrown away, but curiously looked at the back of the chair Lin Xiuyuan was leaning on, more accurately, at the pillow on the back of the chair that emitted a faint herbal fragrance.
In the little fox's unique vision, invisible silver ripples were emanating out from the "Pillow of Rest," like ripples on the water, silently blending into the air, seeping into every inch of the tower's bricks and soil.
The little fox tilted its head and gently shook its tail toward the direction of the silver ripples.
At dusk, a sneaky black shadow used the last light of the sunset as cover, silently sneaking into the courtyard of the Hero's Residence.
He was Zhao Wuque's confidant, and received only one order - to disable that so-called "Heavenly Chosen Hero."
The shadow took out a small porcelain bottle from his chest, inside was "Chenmosan," a colorless and odorless, but slowly eroding the foundation of magic power, a chronic deadly poison.
As long as Lin Xiuyuan drank the water mixed with the drug, in less than half a month, he would turn from a genius into a complete waste who couldn't even sense magic power.
He unscrewed the water pot Lin Xiuyuan had placed on the table and was about to pour the powder in.
However, just as the gray powder was about to reach the mouth of the pot, a sudden change occurred!
A "Peaceful Censer" (sign-in reward on the third day) hanging on the armrest of Lin Xiuyuan's wicker chair suddenly emitted a milky soft glow.
The glow coiled like a living thing, the deadly powder didn't even have time to sink, and was completely decomposed and purified in mid-air!
In the next second, an even stranger scene occurred.
The purified poison did not disappear, but turned into a wisp of colorful smoke, rising in the air like a small rainbow, and emitting a strange sweet fragrance.
"Miao!"
The little fox, who had been dozing off, was instantly attracted by this strange scene, jumped up from Lin Xiuyuan's arms, and excitedly chased after the rainbow mist, continuously pawing at it.
The rainbow mist was split apart by it, eventually turning into sparkling points floating in the air, slowly dissipating.
The whole process was as fast as a flash of lightning, yet quiet like a dream.
Not far away, Greytooth, who was responsible for the night patrol, just walked to the corner of the courtyard and saw this scene in its entirety.
The first crack appeared on his ice-cold face that had remained unchanged for years, and his pupils shrank to the size of needles.
Poisoning... automatically neutralized? And it became a pet toy?
This was beyond his entire understanding of magic and alchemy.
This was not a technique, but... a miracle!
"Is this guy really just living by luck?" Greytooth's heart was churned up, but he did not speak out, only after the shadow fled in panic did he silently approach, carefully collected a little of the residual drug residue that had lost its toxicity with special tools, and disappeared into the night.
He decided to keep this matter secret from everyone for the time being.
Deep into the night, at the top of the tower.
In Su Wanqing's quiet room, an even larger and more complex energy spectrum was slowly forming.
This time, she did not just look at macro data, but included the magic frequency fluctuations of the twelve core members permanently stationed in the tower, including herself, Greytooth, and even the mute servant who worked in the kitchen, in the statistical model.
When the last data was input, the twelve curves representing different individuals were completed on the spectrum, Su Wanqing suddenly covered her mouth, almost screaming out loud.
What did she see?
She saw that the twelve originally chaotic, independent curves, now all revolved around a virtually stationary focal point - Lin Xiuyuan, showing a weak but incredibly stable "centripetal synchronization" trend!
Like planets circling a star!
All their magic operations were unconsciously in sync with Lin Xiuyuan's "resting" state!
What shocked her most was that the spectrum clearly showed that her magic recovery speed and purity, after "passive synchronization" these few days, had approached the legendary grand mage level!
She held the pen, her hands trembling, and with all her strength, she wrote a trembling line at the end of the parchment:
"Perhaps... it's not him getting stronger. It's us, all of us, being dragged forward crazily by him alone."
Outside the window, the moonlight was like water.
A satisfied murmur came from Lin Xiuyuan's room: "Tomorrow... don't forget to sign in..."
At the same time, at the other end of the tower, in a dark secret room.
Zhao Wuque listened to his confidant's report, his face ashen.
"What did you say? The poison turned into a rainbow mist? And was scattered by a cat?" Zhao Wuque crushed the expensive magic crystal cup in his hand, fragments piercing his palm without his noticing.
Shame! This is a huge shame!
His carefully prepared poison ended up in such a ridiculous way!
"Sir, that... that must be some kind of purification field we can't understand! That Lin Xiuyuan is probably always surrounded by a powerful defensive spell!" The confidant said shakily.
"Defensive spell?" A sinister madness flashed in Zhao Wuque's eyes, "Even the strongest spell has its limit! Even the most exquisite defense can't resist absolute power!"
He stood up abruptly, walked to a huge tower structure diagram on the wall, and heavily pointed at the area where Lin Xiuyuan was located.
"Since we can't kill him by playing dirty, let's play clean!" His voice was hoarse, filled with endless resentment, "He likes sleeping, doesn't he? Pass my order, gather the earth magic squad, early tomorrow, destroy that area along with the rocks! I'll see if he can still dream as a hero in ten thousand tons of earth and stones!"