Long Aotian's inheritance? It's mine!

After the Spirit Testing Assembly, those with spiritual roots who qualified for the Azure Origin Sect would leave the mortal realm and head to the cultivation world.

At that time, Bai Lan would also leave the Minister's Estate and embark on the path of cultivation.

"System, give me the Qi Induction incantation," Bai Lan said, looking at the system, which appeared utterly dejected.

The grey-robed youth was still in his emo phase and mumbled, "There isn't one."

"Are you misbehaving, little system? Slacking off?" Bai Lan narrowed her eyes.

The grey-robed youth shrunk his neck. "You're the one being passive! I've never seen a host who actively avoids the mission plot. How can you do this!"

Seeing Bai Lan remain silent, the grey-robed youth added, "Besides, system reward applications are based on the host's mission progress. If you don't do missions, let alone cultivation techniques, I can't even apply for a bottle of purified water."

"Then forget it."

Bai Lan was not discouraged; instead, she opened the plot text from the system interface and began to read.

Seeing Bai Lan turn to the plot text, the system's mood brightened. "Host, are you perhaps thinking of doing missions now?"

"You're thinking too much. I just want to see if the destined male and female leads haven't gotten their Golden Fingers yet, so I can get there first."

System: "..."

He would rather believe pigs could fly than think the host would go and do missions.

The plot text did describe the reasons why the two destined children of destiny eventually destroyed the world.

Long Aotian's reason for destroying the world in the end was that after ascending to immortality, he couldn't bring his harem with him, so he turned evil.

Bai Ling's reason for destroying the world was that her beloved master died saving her, causing her great pain, which ultimately led her to turn evil.

The mission objective was for her to gain the love of Long Aotian and the love of Bai Ling.

What was she supposed to do, be a split personality? And be attracted to both men and women.

Bai Lan's assessment: Ridiculous, and a world where everyone gets hurt has been achieved.

She decisively dragged these two pieces of information to the very bottom and began to focus on the early plot information.

The plot text in her hand was actually very general and official, focusing only on the experiences of the two destined protagonists, to help the mission-taker better understand the mission targets.

For example:

In Year XX, Long Aotian obtained what treasure where.

When the destined female lead encountered her male lead.

When Long Aotian met his first harem member, and so on.

These were all recorded in great detail, which also conveniently helped Bai Lan.

After marking information about Golden Fingers, heavenly treasures, and the like in red and prioritizing them as the highest priority matters, she stared at the very top piece of information and chuckled.

"Ancient Cultivator's Cave Mansion... As expected, protagonists who jump off cliffs never die, and if they don't die, they always get treasures."

Bai Lan murmured a couple of times and then suddenly stood up. "Let's go, we're going to jump off a cliff."

The system was startled. "Host, don't do anything rash!!! You don't have a trace of spiritual energy on you. Going to a secret realm inhabited by cultivators is likely suicide!"

"Likely means there's a very small chance of survival, right?" Bai Lan smiled, her lips curling. "As long as there's a glimmer of hope, I can save and reload hundreds of times, avoid all dangers, and eventually come out alive."

If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger cubs? High risk also means high reward.

What's more, she could save and reload. In other words, it represented immortality.

Give her a chance to save, and as long as the boss has a health bar, she was sure to win.

"But! Isn't there a possibility that the save and reload ability is meant for you to conquer the destined children of destiny, you idiot!" The system was stunned.

However, Bai Lan had already strode towards the city gates.

System: "..."

Long Aotian's family fell into decline three years ago. He committed a serious crime and was exiled three thousand miles by the emperor. It was also at that time that Bai Lan, as the eldest daughter of the Minister's Estate, broke off their engagement.

One was the son of a banished criminal, and the other was the eldest daughter of the Minister's Estate.

The Bai family breaking off the engagement was a natural course of action. They couldn't possibly let their own beautiful and lovely eldest daughter go dig for wild vegetables with a son of a criminal!

Regardless of whether she suffered or not, any normal minister with keen political instincts would tell him not to get involved with the criminal's family anymore.

But Long Aotian completely resented Bai Lan because of the broken engagement.

Perhaps in his eyes, as long as there was an engagement, the other party had already become his wife and should share hardships with him.

Bai Lan breaking off the engagement because the Long family lost power was disloyal and unjust.

Therefore, after Long Aotian obtained his Grandpa's Golden Finger, the first oath he made was to avenge the broken engagement.

First, he would annihilate the Bai family, and then make Bai Lan pay the price.

Therefore, Bai Lan decided!

Before he could destroy the Bai family, she would first dig up his first pot of gold.

"In front of an old, crooked neck tree, that's right, it's here." Bai Lan stared at the ten-thousand-zhang deep cliff before her and took a deep breath.

Saving first.

"H-host, it's, it's too high..." the grey-robed youth stammered from behind Bai Lan.

Bai Lan remained silent. "Aren't you just a soul? What are you afraid of?"

"I, I'm afraid of heights." The system covered its eyes.

"Fine, then you can keep watch up here. I'll jump myself." Bai Lan turned and leaped, plunging into the bottomless abyss.

The biting cold wind rushed up from below, passing through Bai Lan's body and stinging her face.

Anyone who frequently jumped off cliffs knew this.

After free-falling off a cliff, one couldn't control their body's trajectory. As she fell, she was occasionally scraped and bumped by the withered grass, vines, and protruding rocks on the cliff walls.

Bai Lan gritted her teeth, enduring the dull ache in her arms, focusing her consciousness solely on the save interface.

If anything went wrong, she would immediately reload...

On her first jump, she reloaded just before her head hit a large rock.

On her second jump, she reloaded before she was entangled and swallowed by an unknown giant snake.

By the third jump, Bai Lan was already quite familiar with the basic mechanics of cliff diving.

Take a big step, sprint forward, then relax her body and leave the rest to fate.

As she rapidly free-fell to the bottom of the cliff, Bai Lan vaguely saw a misty barrier.

"Bang!"

The expected pain never came.

Her body landed in water, the splashing wake jolting Bai Lan to full consciousness.

Success!

Bai Lan looked up in surprise, quickly steadying herself in the water.

She was in a quiet courtyard, with cultivated fields, a bamboo house, and a training ground marked out nearby.

However, the overgrown fields and cobweb-covered buildings indicated that no one had lived here for a long time.

And at the very top of this space, a crescent-shaped formation covered in golden runes was slowly rotating.

It was exactly as described in the plot text. This was the Ancient Cultivator's Cave Mansion.

The original plot progression outlined in the text was: Long Aotian, cornered by his enemies, was instructed by his grandpa to jump off a cliff.

This cliff, seemingly bottomless, was actually an illusion array set up by the ancient cultivator, with the cultivator's dwelling beneath.

Long Aotian turned misfortune into fortune, obtaining the ancient cultivator's hidden treasures and many cultivation legacies.

But now...

Bai Lan smiled as she looked at the Ancient Cultivator's Cave Mansion before her.

Sorry, but these legacies were hers now.

She slowly stepped into the bamboo house.

If she remembered correctly, the owner of the house was still here, but as a wisp of his soul after death.

"Who are you? State your name." A faint, ethereal voice echoed.

An expected voice.

Bai Lan smiled slightly.

"Senior, I am merely a mortal who stumbled in here, unintentionally disturbing you." Bai Lan cupped her hands in a respectful bow, her tone sincere. "If you entrust your legacy here to me, I will do my best to fulfill your unfulfilled dying wish."

The ethereal voice paused. "..."

That was his line!

He had only said one sentence! How did this little mortal know he had a dying wish?

And she kept claiming she stumbled in here. Would a mortal who stumbled in know about legacies here?

It didn't seem like she stumbled in; it was more like she jumped straight into his cave mansion.

"Clever little imp, are you perhaps a mortal whose body has been taken over by some ancient fiend?"