After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

Senior Brother Yu is undoubtedly a wonderful person! Long Yucheng was once again certain in his heart.

During the day at the Offering Hall, apart from the pelts of the few blue wolves that were burned to death being rejected by the deacon of the Offering Hall because they were too damaged, all the other items that Long Yucheng carried were exchanged for spirit stones, totaling as many as eleven low-grade spirit stones!

He originally thought Huo Yu would give him some change as payment for his hard work skinning and bone-removing those wolves, but Huo Yu gave him the whole thing without even lifting an eyelid.

Long Yucheng sighed inwardly once again, thinking, "Senior Brother Yu is truly a wonderful person!"

Then, without hesitation, he exchanged all eleven low-level spirit stones for points in the system.

Long Yucheng stroked the thick wolf-skin rug beneath him, which he had sewn from wolf skins rejected by the Offering Hall, and which had now become his treasure for keeping warm.

What a kind person! Long Yucheng praised him again in his heart. Senior Brother Yu not only allowed him to enter the secret realm, but also gave him cultivation techniques and spirit stones. He was simply his lucky star!

He originally planned to use his points to exchange for a Qi cultivation technique that suited his spiritual root attribute, but unexpectedly, Huo Yu directly gave him a copy of "Fire Control Technique".

Although it wasn't the "Gui Shui Jue" that he originally desired, it was still a ten-point introductory cultivation method. And since he was missing the earth attribute among the five elements, it didn't matter which one he cultivated.

Therefore, Long Yucheng decisively used these ten points to exchange for the "Record of Spiritual Objects of Qiongshan" that he had always coveted.

The "Records of Spiritual Treasures of Qiongshan" contains detailed records of all the unclaimed natural treasures and secret realms on Qiongshan Mountain. For Long Yucheng, who is about to open the secret realm and is eager to improve his strength, this book is undoubtedly a godsend.

However, compared to those books like "The Record of Spiritual Objects of Zhao State" and "The Record of Spiritual Objects of Yanjing," which often start at several thousand points, the price of "The Record of Spiritual Objects of Qiongshan" seems like it's given away for free.

After using it, only a single point of light appeared in Long Yucheng's mind, which shows how scarce resources Qiongshan is.

To prevent this unique and precious spot from being claimed by others, Long Yucheng disregarded his newly acquired "Fire Control Technique" and quietly slipped out the door as soon as it got dark.

Under the cover of night, Long Yucheng ran wildly from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, not far from the outer gate.

Guided by the light, we turned left and right, circling around for most of the way, and finally stopped in front of a boulder that looked no different from an ordinary stone.

Huo Yu, who was following invisibly, then witnessed Long Yucheng's battle of wits and courage with the large rock.

Long Yucheng pushed, pulled, rammed, and dragged until he was exhausted, but the boulder remained unmoved.

If this continues, it will be dawn soon.

Huo Yu sighed and secretly used his spiritual power to reduce the weight of the boulder.

After catching his breath, Long Yucheng took a few steps back, mustered his strength, and charged toward the boulder. With Huo Yu's help, he finally smashed through the boulder, revealing the rock wall made of bluestone behind it.

After closing his eyes tightly, Long Yucheng rushed towards the rock wall without hesitation and disappeared into it in an instant.

While Long Yucheng was still struggling with the boulder, Huo Yu had already seen that there was actually a cave hidden behind the boulder, and the rock wall was just a low-level illusion.

Huo Yu had never noticed such a place right under his nose before, but he was more curious about how Long Yucheng knew about it.

As soon as Long Yucheng stepped into the cave, he took out a tinderbox.

In the flickering firelight, he first rushed to the corner of the cave with great joy, picked up a futon, and his expression instantly turned to surprise. After searching around without finding anything, he examined the futon over and over again, and finally his expression turned to disbelief.

He then dropped the prayer mat and rushed straight to the stone wall on the east side of the cave.

The stone wall looked as if it had been scraped clean, its surface uneven, and whatever it originally contained was now nowhere to be found.

The scratch marks are very fresh, indicating that someone destroyed this stone wall not long ago.

Regardless of how Long Yucheng knew what was originally hidden here, it now seems that someone else has already gotten there first.

Long Yucheng's face looked as if he had been struck on the head with a thunderbolt, and he stood there stunned.

Huo Yu then thoroughly examined the entire area.

The cave dwelling was small, containing only a futon. Where the futon had originally been placed, there was a palm-sized indentation, and a trace of spiritual energy remained on the futon, indicating that a treasure brimming with spiritual energy had recently been placed in that indentation.

As for the destroyed stone wall, even Huo Yu could not reverse time to restore it, so naturally he could not see what was originally recorded on it.

However, the messy chisel marks were obviously made by someone using metal objects, without any trace of spiritual power. The person who destroyed the wall had a low level of cultivation, and might even be just a mortal.

Long Yucheng was completely dumbfounded. Having gone through so much trouble to enter this cave, he was still immersed in disbelief and remained motionless.

In fact, Long Yucheng was currently asking the Heavenly Dao Assistant:

Can I return this lousy book?

When he discovered that the spiritual vein embryo described in the "Records of Spiritual Objects of Qiongshan" was not under the futon, he had an ominous premonition.

When he saw that the stone wall that should have been engraved with the life story of the previous owner of the cave had been destroyed, how could he not understand that someone had beaten him to it?

Now he has gained nothing and can only hope that the system will refund his points so that he can exchange them for some pills to improve his cultivation.

"Items sold in the mall are non-refundable and non-exchangeable."

The emotionless voice of the Heavenly Assistant shattered Long Yucheng's last shred of hope.

Long Yucheng was stunned, cursing the system and the person who stole his opportunity in his heart, which further solidified his belief that the Heavenly Dao System was completely unreliable.

Now that the spirit stones are gone and the spirit items haven't been obtained either, Long Yucheng is practically on the verge of tears.

However, staying there wouldn't help. After much agonizing thought, Long Yucheng decided to return to his cave and focus on cultivation. He needed to at least have the ability to protect himself in the secret realm, and he absolutely couldn't let Senior Brother Yu down.

Senior Brother Yu was the second good person he met in the Qiongshan Sect. He not only saved his life, but also promised to take him into the secret realm and give him cultivation techniques and spirit stones. This was much more reliable than that trashy Heavenly Dao System!

For the next twenty days or so, Long Yucheng diligently cultivated the "Fire Control Technique" in his cave, which saved Huo Yu a lot of trouble.

However, his spiritual root aptitude was too poor, and his cultivation progress was extremely slow.

Huo Yu originally thought that Long Yucheng, as the darling of Heaven, might also be exceptionally gifted in cultivation.

However, it turned out that even with a more suitable cultivation method, Long Yucheng's speed of absorbing spiritual energy was only slightly faster.

At his current pace, he may not be able to successfully establish his foundation even when he reaches his sixties.

As for why he was able to cultivate from a mortal to the first level of Qi Refining in just two days, it's because the first level of Qi Refining tests a cultivator's "fate to immortality" even more.

Although it sounds mysterious, it is indeed true.

Once you reach the first level of Qi Refining, all you need to do is sense the presence of spiritual energy and draw it into your body.

It sounds simple, but in reality, there is a world of difference between people just in the step of sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Some people can understand it with a little guidance, while others may struggle to understand it even after a year of hard work.

Reaching the first level of Qi Refining signifies officially embarking on the path of cultivation, followed by a long and tedious process of accumulating spiritual power and breaking through bottlenecks.

Long Yucheng, however, was clearly still unable to shake off the influence of his spiritual root aptitude, and had no advantage in accumulating spiritual power.

However, unlike his innate deficiencies in cultivation, Long Yucheng was quite talented in using spiritual power.

In just a few days, Long Yucheng mastered the fire control techniques included in the "Fire Control Technique". He can now skillfully transform spiritual energy into flames, and has even independently developed several fire control techniques that Huo Yu considers flashy but impractical.

Although the flames Long Yucheng condensed were as weak as sparks due to insufficient spiritual power, it at least proved that in addition to the favor of Heaven, he also possessed certain talents.

As Long Yucheng continued his monotonous cultivation day after day, the day when the Nine Star Secret Realm would open arrived in the blink of an eye.