The backdrop can also be propped up.

Cheng Menqin had long anticipated that Mo Xing would ask him this question, so she presented a prepared explanation to Mo Xing: "Didn't you go ahead to scout the way once? When I was waiting for you to return, I used my spiritual power to check the surrounding fluctuations and found that there was an unusually large amount of spiritual power under a big rock. So I turned the rock over and found this manual under it."

"I see, Brother Wang. I misunderstood you." Mo Xing trusted Wang Fenglang unconditionally—after all, they had grown up together, and he believed that Wang Fenglang would not betray him.

"Then I'll take this manual and go." Mo Xing waved to "Wang Fenglang". "Once I've figured out this manual, I'll definitely be able to stand on equal footing with you."

"Then I'll wait for Xingdi to bring me good news." Cheng Menqin dutifully played the role of Wang Fenglang.

After Mo Xing had gone far away, Cheng Menqin summoned System 0814: "0814, where exactly is that Lotus Spirit now?"

"The original story didn't mention whether Lotus Spirit would stay in the cave if she didn't see anyone. Maybe she was too bored in the cave, so she dug up the whole pool and ran out of the cave to play." The clear, youthful voice of 0814 echoed in my mind.

"Is this Lotus Spirit really that mischievous?" Cheng Menqin asked, looking at the extracted original plot related to the Lotus Spirit.

"Perhaps that unlucky former male lead didn't notice, after all, it's from his perspective. From his perspective, the Lotus Spirit only appears when he's about to die, to save him or to expel poison, and never appears alone again; she always appears with the other concubines," System 0814 said lazily. "So, host, don't worry about Melissa getting the Lotus Spirit. Even if she does, it will only take up 5% of the mission progress and won't play a significant role. If she doesn't find other opportunities later, then she can only cling to that 5% and watch us surpass her."

"That's what they say, but it would be best to just snatch the Lotus Spirit away," Cheng Menqin said coldly.

"Achoo!" The lotus spirit, who had just crawled into the nest that the colorful flower had made for her, sneezed.

"What's wrong? Has it caught a cold?" Caihua touched the little head of the lotus spirit with concern and curiosity, wondering how such a spirit could catch a cold.

The lotus spirit, now in human form, shook its head and then rubbed against the colorful flower's palm.

Following Lotus Spirit's lead, Caihua patted Lotus Spirit's head for a while, then suddenly remembered that she hadn't named Lotus Spirit yet: "I'll give you a name. You're so fair-skinned, let's call you Little White."

The system WQBYRZM, which was about to help Ayaka find a name, heard that Ayaka had already chosen a name and silently deleted the "poems related to white lotus flowers" that it had typed into the search box.

Lu Renkui smiled, then remembered the important matter: "How exactly does the progress of this extra mission increase? Do we have to find the original male lead's opportunity to change it?"

"That's not true. If Ayaka can cultivate and become stronger on her own, then the task progress bar will increase. If her status and position also rise, then the task progress bar will increase even faster," the system WQBYRZM replied. In fact, if Ayaka could keep improving her cultivation, then after completing the extra task, they would receive an ever-increasing amount of extra points until Ayaka dies.

But given the current situation, it would be good if Ayaka lived to be over a hundred years old.

Moreover, this world also has System 0733 and System 0814, so my new system has no competition at all. Being able to grab this 5% of the task progress first is just good luck.

Lu Renkui understood. She nodded and said, "So we need someone to guide Caihua in her cultivation so that our mission progress bar will increase faster."

"Indeed, wait a minute, let me see if there are any free cultivation manuals available." System WQBYRZM opened the search bar again and typed in "free beginner cultivation manuals." Before it could even press the magnifying glass, it was drawn to Ayaka's exclamation.

"Little White, Little White? Little White! Where did you go, Little White!" Caihua searched every nook and cranny, but couldn't find Lotus Spirit. Just as she was about to cry, a small white snake crawled in through the window, carrying a blade of grass in its mouth. This little snake with the grass in its mouth was Lotus Spirit.

"Where did you go, Xiaobai? I was so scared!" Caihua touched her heart with lingering fear. She finally understood why Granny Li always looked so flustered whenever she worked a little longer than usual.

Xiao Bai rubbed against Caihua's hand, placed the blade of grass from its mouth onto Caihua's hand, and then climbed back onto the window, indicating to Caihua that the blade of grass should be planted in the open space outside the window.

Seeing that she had nothing to do and was just idling around anyway, Ayaka found a piece of wood, poked a hole in the ground, and buried the grass inside.

"Xiaobai, what kind of grass did you pick up from the mountain?" After planting the grass in the soil, Caihua took a closer look at it: the grass looked a bit like motherwort, but it had bluish leaves and a small yellow flower on it.

"It looks pretty good, it shouldn't be poisonous," Caihua muttered to herself, watering the grass that Lotus Spirit Little White had found for her.

"Xiaobai, don't run around like that in the future. If you want to go out to play, just tell me..." Caihua turned around, wanting to talk to Lianhualing, but unexpectedly, Lianhualing disappeared again.

"Xiaobai?!" Caihua hurriedly turned her head, looked around her, and then stood up to check again to make sure that Xiaobai was not under her.

Lotus Spirit heard Caihua calling her and poked her little white head out of her nest.

"You're here! You scared me half to death!" Caihua pinched the face of the lotus spirit, who had already transformed into human form, somewhat angrily. "From now on, if you want to go out to play, tell me first. Leave on time and come home on time. Your sudden disappearances and reappearances like this scare me to death. My mother and the others don't even know you exist. What if they throw you out like some kind of thing?"

Upon hearing the last sentence, Lianhua Ling shrank back slightly, then peeked out again, took Caihua's hand, and wrote the number seven in Caihua's hand.

"Seven...do you want to go out for seven hours or seven times?" Caihua asked Xiaobai.

Little White clumsily wrote "out" seven times in the flower picker's hand.

"Are you going to be gone for so long?" Caihua knew that Lotus Spirit was a spirit and should be fine, so keeping her at home was not a good idea. But she still said to Xiaobai, "Go out when the sun rises and come back when the sun sets."

Lotus Spirit nodded, indicating that she understood.

As evening fell, Granny Li urged Caihua to go to bed, while she dressed outside. Caihua fell asleep and entered her own consciousness space, where she saw Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM. Lu Renkui beckoned to Caihua and said, "Caihua, come here, we'll teach you cultivation."

Upon hearing this, Ayaka didn't dare to slack off at all and quickly ran over. She then ran to Lu Renkui and the system and respectfully bowed.

“No need for formalities anymore. We don’t really care about these rules.” Lu Renkui said as he handed the cultivation book that the system WQBYRZM had found to Caihua. “Try to see if you can absorb spiritual energy. If you can, try to keep the spiritual energy in your body as described in this book. It will be good for your health. If you’re lucky, you might even be able to cultivate immortality.”

"Cultivate, cultivate immortality! Really? Immortal! I can cultivate immortality too!" Caihua excitedly accepted the manual from Lu Renkui. "Immortal, what should Caihua do next? How do I draw spiritual energy into my body?"

"Well, this..." Lu Renkui turned to the system WQBYRZM for help.

"You are currently asleep, but your consciousness is still awake. Try to let your consciousness sense all things in this world. Once you sense them, you can draw spiritual energy into your body." System WQBYRZM summarized this as a rule based on the work experience of several colleagues who had worked in other cultivation worlds.

Upon hearing this, Ayaka immediately imitated the way immortals used to sit cross-legged, and sat down cross-legged as well, trying to feel everything around her.

After a while, Ayaka said dejectedly, "Ayaka didn't feel anything. Immortal, am I not cut out for cultivating immortality?"

"You've only been practicing for a short time, and you're already saying you're not good enough." Lu Renkui walked over and patted Caihua's head. "Everything in this world needs to be learned slowly. This is only your first time, so don't rush it."

"Calm down and don't be so eager to sense the things outside the house. First, sense the things inside the house, and let the familiar things gradually outline a general location in your mind," System WQBYRZM told Ayaka.

Hearing their encouragement and advice, Ayaka took a deep breath and tried to recall everything she knew about the room.

I am currently lying in bed. To the left of the bed is a window, and to the right is a small wooden box that has not been opened for a long time. The small wooden box was only opened today because it was used to make a nest for Xiaobai. The clothes for tomorrow are placed on the small wooden box. Opposite the small wooden box is a table with a shopping basket on it.

Next, outside, Mother sat on a small stool, mending clothes by lamplight, while outside the window was the grass that Little White had brought back that day.