Special Refund Condition

Liu Feng closed the Disciple Interface tab and opened System Shop.

There was a myriad of cultivation manuals, pills, weapons, talismans, arrays, and whatnot all in the shop.

Liu Feng scrolled to the edge of the shop, where everything cost tens and hundreds of millions.

"This! Aren't these, Peak Celestial grade stuff?"

Of course, the prices made him retreat even without looking at his own DP.

At the very end of the shop was an item marked "active".

"Oh? I have a secret newbie buff I didn't see."

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Great Mountain Protection Array

Array Type: Barrier Lv. 150 (Nobody below Myriad Spirit Realm can enter without permission from the sect master.)

Activated by: Jian Qiang

Territory: Jushi Mountain Range

Time left: 104 days left

Extend: 1000 DP per day

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"Jian Qiang? Sect Master Jian?"

Liu Feng widened his eyes. It wasn't a buff given by the system! The sect master was the one who activated it, most likely right before he perished.

"No wonder the Great Order Sect was ambushed and ganged up on. Sect Master Jian is definitely one of the strongest cultivators in the land if he could make an array this strong cover the entire Sect, even while in battle. In total, it lasts for half a year, accounting for the time I spent cleaning up the sect and burying everyone."

He took notice of one particular part of the description.

"Only the sect master can bestow permission to enter, huh. The system seized control of the barrier for me, so that's a free advantage!"

After that, his eyes glanced down towards the option to extend the barrier's time for 1000 DP per day.

In contrast, the 100 DP currently in his possession made Liu Feng wince.

"What is DP? How do I get it?"

[Disciple Points: Used in the System Shop. Each disciple contributes a certain amount of DP based on their cultivation realm. Tasks and achievements can also yield DP.]

"How much will Little Rong give me now?"

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Time left before DP turnover: 7 days

Amount of DP to be collected: 1 DP

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Liu Feng shrunk before the number shown to him.

1 DP every 7 days!

But it made sense. After all, Shu Fanrong didn't even start cultivating yet.

"Speaking of, how am I supposed to teach Little Rong anything? I don't have any manuals... Maybe this Manual Creation function can help me."

[Manual Creation: Part of the Creation category. Create a cultivation manual based on your own understanding.]

Liu Feng's eyes lit up.

This is it!

He opened it immediately and a somewhat complicated interface showed up, but he mostly understood what it could do.

In short, he could make a cultivation manual by himself! The only catch was that he had to use DP to buy methods, diagrams, insights, and whatnot from the System, but it was cheaper to buy the parts than to buy a whole manual from the shop directly.

There was also the option of him 'uploading' his own methods, but as a man ignorant of everything cultivation, he closed this path off for now.

"Wait, what's this? Special refund condition?"

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For all Creation category sections of the system, there is a special refund condition.

If a Creation is determined to be a failure, the System will return 150% of the used DP.

The Creation will be deemed a failure if it induces or causes an adverse effect onto the user.

WARNING. Special refund condition does not apply:

1. If the host uses the Creation himself;

2. If the host deliberately leads the user of the Creation to failure, and;

3. After the Special Refund Condition has been applied once to the Creation already.

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"What?!"

Liu Feng was stunned. He read the notice again, from top to bottom to top.

Now, he was completely sure.

Wasn't the system telling him to go fail?

Everyone knew that failure is way easier than success.

Moreover, with this system, failure is the way to success!

If he failed to create a manual, rather, if he created a manual that had adverse effects, he could not only get all of the DP he used back, he'd earn 50% more!

On the other hand, if he wanted to go the conventional route, he would have to rely on luck to make a great cultivation manual. If he did succeed in making one, but it was of barely passable quality, then what was the point?

What's more, he needed to wait 7 days per DP turnover.

He couldn't wait for that!

Besides, the system calling it the Creation category meant that he would eventually be able to create more than just manuals. Maybe Weapon Refinement or Pill Refinement would come next.

Liu Feng was excited for his future prospects. This System of his wasn't so bad after all!

"First of all, I need to make a bad manual. Second, I need to minimize the adverse effects it can cause. After all, I only have Little Rong as a test subject, ahem, as a disciple. No one else would be willing to use my cultivation manual."

"I feel a bit bad for planning to give her a scuffed manual, but don't worry! Master will give you a good manual with the profits I get from the bad one."

Liu Feng closed the system with glee in his heart.

He approached Shu Fanrong, who was still playing around with everything he salvaged from the battlefield, whether it be half-broken weapons, artifacts...

Wait, weapons and artifacts?!

Liu Feng hurriedly grabbed Shu Fanrong and put her aside before cleaning up the wooden table filled with various, potentially lethal artifacts that even he had no idea how to use.

"Master, what are you doing?"

"It's time for dinner! I'm really hungry right now."

"But my friends told me fairies don't eat?"

"Ah, of course, but I just like to indulge myself from time to time you know, hehe, especially since I got my first disciple today!"

Shu Fanrong thought it made sense and sat down on her chair.

"Alas... I forgot that there is no food anymore! Let's go, Little Rong. I'll teach you how to hunt."

Liu Feng grabbed a wooden bow and a quiver full of arrows from the pile of weapons and held Shu Fanrong's little hand as they went into the forest.

When he brought her into the sect, Liu Feng went across the path that had the least chance of encountering a spirit beast. Now, he was bringing her into a dangerous part of the forest, so he was more vigilant than ever.

"Master, where are we going?"

"We're looking for wild boars."

Boars in this world, Liu Feng quickly learned, were different from that of Earth's, in that they had spirit sense. In fact, as long as the territory was full of spiritual energy, normal beasts turned into spirit beasts in no time.

"Master, right there! I saw a brown, furry pig!"

Liu Feng quickly turned to look. There it was, a distance away from them. It was lucky that Shu Fanrong spotted it before it spotted them.

Liu Feng took a few steps back as he took an arrow from his quiver. He charged the arrow and aimed the bow precisely.

The arrow soundlessly shot through the forest, avoiding the trees and passing by the bushes.

As the boar sensed something was amiss, it turned to look at the direction Liu Feng was in.

Pierce!

The boar died with a thump.

"Let's go."

"Wow, wow! Mast--"

"Shh. Be quiet, Little Rong. You don't wanna disturb every creature living in the forest."

Shu Fanrong widened her eyes before nodding fiercely and zipping her own mouth.

The two headed towards the dead boar. Liu Feng took the arrow out of its head and wiped the blood off and put it back into his quiver.

He dragged the carcass with one hand and held Shu Fanrong with the other. They headed back to the hut.

Once Shu Fanrong made sure they were out of the forest, she unzipped her mouth while Liu Feng started cooking the boar.

"Wow, wow! Master, that was so cool!"

Liu Feng was surprised. He thought she'd be scared or repulsed by the idea of killing.

"My daddy always hunted boars with his bows, but he needed to use like 5 arrows!"

"Oh, so that's why... Wait, daddy?"

"Yes, my daddy sometimes took me to hunt with him before he left."

Looking at Shu Fanrong's downtrodden expression, Liu Feng bit his lip. He shouldn't have mentioned her father. She had memories with them, sure, but she was an orphan now. Liu Feng had to take good care of her in place of her parents.

.....

Meanwhile, in Kaojin Village.

Wen Yingyu wiped her husband's back carefully, so as to not touch the bruises.

"What kind of beast attacked you? They didn't show any mercy!"

Meanwhile, her husband dared not tell her that he had only found and touched a defensive array and was pushed back slightly. Unfortunately, he was in a very precarious position and fell down a sharp decline.

"It was a mighty beast, as sturdy as a tree. No matter how much I attacked it, it never faltered."

As Wen Yingyu continued to listen to her husband's tale, she thought of her daughter and how scared and hungry she must be feeling right now.

.....

Shu Fanrong: "Master, this tastes so good!"

Liu Feng flashed a prideful smile. He had seasoned it, after all.

In this world, cooking was not as important and therefore not as advanced as Earth's cooking. Whatever seasoning Liu Feng sprinkled would make a dish more flavorful.

Not to mention, Shu Fanrong was an orphan. Who knew what kind of meals she was eating before he met her?