Tenfold Return System! Activated! But No Beginner's Gift!?

In the quiet forest, silence reigned.

Only the tall, slender trees rustled their leaves in the wind.

Chu Feng, who had been hesitating for a long time, heard the sound and turned back. His face froze for a moment before a hint of joy appeared.

He saw a young man kneeling before him, wearing a gold thread crown, a dark green wide-sleeved robe, and black cloud pattern shoes.

The young man had delicate features and a sickly appearance, suggesting he was born weak. However, his attire indicated he was likely from a wealthy or noble family.

Looking at the young man, Chu Feng's tense expression finally relaxed completely.

His eyes overflowed with joy, so much so that they trembled with excitement!

This was a person!

This was a living person!

Chu Feng felt like crying.

He had transmigrated here a month ago, and he had been separated from the human world for a month.

This young man was the only living person he had encountered in the month since his transmigration!

It was like finding an oasis after seven days of thirst in the desert.

How could he not be happy!

However, a strange look appeared on Chu Feng's face.

Why was this kid kneeling to beg for apprenticeship at the drop of a hat?

Did he look like some reclusive master?

Chu Feng glanced at himself, his confusion deepening.

Was this a joke?

He was just an ordinary person destined to die alone in the deep mountains and old forests, knowing nothing and possessing nothing.

He had transmigrated to this mystical world wanting to learn martial arts himself!

As countless thoughts raced through Chu Feng's mind, a sudden, cold electronic voice shattered his thoughts.

[Ding, detected someone seeking apprenticeship, congratulations to the host for activating the System.]

[Ding, the Tenfold Return System is at your service.]

Chu Feng stared around.

The electronic voice seemed to echo in his ears, while the young man on the ground remained still, showing no reaction.

He immediately realized the voice was coming from within his mind!

His heart surged with ecstasy, and Chu Feng couldn't help but grin, thinking to himself:

"Heaven above, after waiting so long, my System has finally arrived!"

A whole month! A full month!

He hadn't heard a peep for a month, and he thought he didn't have a System.

Just as he thought this, a bright blue light screen suddenly appeared before Chu Feng's eyes.

At the top of the light screen, words slowly became clear.

[Tenfold Return System: When the host imparts cultivation methods to others, the System will automatically track and record. Upon their successful cultivation, the host will receive tenfold the results of the cultivator.]

[Note: If the person who received the cultivation method makes further progress later, the host will also receive tenfold progress, but this requires the disciple to possess great fortune.]

Chu Feng's eyes lit up as he scanned the words on the light screen.

Wow.

Tenfold return, so if he could teach many disciples, wouldn't he be invincible?

And he would also receive tenfold progress from his disciples' future advancements, meaning he could become a martial arts expert just by lying down?

Xiao Huohuo knelt before him, unmoving.

Chu Feng ignored him, suppressing his excitement and calming his mind. He looked back at the blue light screen, thinking to himself:

"It should be time now, shouldn't it?"

It's time for the beginner's gift package that all Systems give!

If the System just casually gave him a top-tier cultivation method or something, and he taught it to his disciples.

As long as his disciples learned it, wouldn't he be soaring to the heavens?

Then he could become the world's top expert, marry a peerless female emperor, and reach the pinnacle of life!

However, as time passed, the joy on Chu Feng's face slowly froze and then disappeared.

Half an incense stick's worth of time passed, and the blue light screen remained unchanged.

He stared expectantly for half an incense stick, and then he was dumbfounded.

Wait, where's the beginner's gift package?

Why doesn't this damn system have a beginner's gift pack?

Without a beginner's gift pack, he knows nothing right now. What can he teach others with?

You have to know, cultivation methods are quite rare in this world.

According to records, every family, every clan, every Gate and Sect regards cultivation methods as their lifeblood and never passes them on!

They aren't easily obtained.

And those circulating on the market are mostly common, run-of-the-mill cultivation methods.

Apart from some disciples who can't afford to practice martial arts at all, no one would even look at them!

Such things naturally wouldn't have any appeal, let alone be used to teach disciples.

Who would be willing to learn?

He's just an ordinary person, where would he find cultivation methods? What would he use to exchange for them?

Chu Feng's joy and disappointment swung wildly, and he finally stood there dumbfounded.

He didn't notice the young man in front of him secretly glance at him.

Half an incense stick's time passed.

Xiao Huohuo stole a glance at Chu Feng, then immediately withdrew his gaze, frowning and pondering to himself:

"Is the expert displeased with me?"

After bowing for so long, this reclusive expert remained in his original state, as calm as a wooden sculpture.

He neither accepted nor refused, just stood there quietly.

This made Xiao Huohuo even more uneasy.

His head, bowed to the ground, trembled erratically as he thought:

"He didn't refuse me, but he also didn't tell me to leave."

Suddenly, his eyes widened:

"Did I do something wrong and offend the expert?"

"Or does the expert think my aptitude is too poor and is hesitating whether to accept me as a disciple?"

"Or perhaps, as the storybooks say, the expert is testing my resolve?"

The mention of storybooks sent a tremor through Xiao Huohuo's body, cutting off all his thoughts.

He suddenly remembered what the storybook he had just discarded had said.

He couldn't help but slap his forehead heavily, lowering his head in self-reproach:

"Xiao Huohuo, Xiao Huohuo, how could you be so stupid!"

"Don't the books all say that when seeking a master, you must show your sincerity and present a ceremony of apprenticeship gift?"

"The storybooks also say that the more profound the expert's strength, the more they value such etiquette."

"The expert must be waiting for my ceremony of apprenticeship gift!"

"It was my oversight."

"Such an important matter as seeking a master and learning a trade, how could it be without such etiquette?"

"If I don't take the initiative, does the expert have to speak up himself?"

After figuring this out, Xiao Huohuo quickly half-leaned his body and started patting himself.

Sleeves, collar, waist – he frantically searched all over himself.

He took out everything he could find on him.

Placing these items in his palm, Xiao Huohuo gritted his teeth and, with trepidation, presented them to Chu Feng as he bowed:

"Master, please accept me as your disciple."

"This disciple knows these worldly items cannot enter Master's dharma eye."

"But these are also this disciple's sincerity. I hope Master will accept them."

Seeing the boy's sudden actions, Chu Feng looked at what was in his palms.

He saw that in his hands, he held a seven-inch long blood ginseng and a pill, both gleaming slightly under the dappled light filtering through the leaves.