[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cultivating-in-reverse-my-sign-in-system-wants-m":3,"chapter-cultivating-in-reverse-my-sign-in-system-wants-m-cultivating-in-reverse-my-sign-in-system-wants-m-chapter-27":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cultivating in Reverse: My Sign-In System Wants Me Dead",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1373029,1814,"Chapter 27 - The Deep Fryer Disaster and the Consultation Fee","cultivating-in-reverse-my-sign-in-system-wants-m-chapter-27",27,"\u003Cp>Over the next hour, Su Bai successfully manufactured three more of the Transcendent Grade Pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lined them up on his workstation. To Su Bai, these weren’t just pills. They were high-yield corporate assets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing that the effects of a zero-impurity pill were exponentially higher than the market standard, he knew exactly how these items would disrupt the sect’s economy. A pill that guaranteed zero pill-poison buildup in a cultivator’s meridians was priceless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of this staggering Return on Investment (ROI), Su Bai’s professional guilt completely vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he produced just one of these flawless assets a week, the sheer market value would completely cover the \"acceptable loss margins\" of him purposefully blowing up cauldrons for the rest of the month. He was officially a highly profitable employee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Meng and Ji Ruyue, who were watching him from the side, fully understood the terrifying value of his work as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior Brother,\" Liu Meng whispered. \"I need to show this to Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai nodded in agreement. \"Take one as a prototype sample, Junior Sister. But please, ensure this remains highly classified. Show it only to upper management.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He intended to establish a private contract with Verdant Peak too, just like his secret consulting gig with the Heavenly Forge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leave the negotiations to me!\" Liu Meng beamed. She took one freezing pill and skipped out of the training hall to find Elder Qin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it was just Su Bai and Ji Ruyue left in the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai was just beginning to calculate his projected quarterly earnings when a deafening sound shattered his concentration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A violent explosion of super-heated steam and jagged ice blasted out from workstation number two. The heavy bronze lid of the cauldron shot into the air like a cannonball, embedding itself into the stone ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing directly in front of the blasted cauldron was Ji Ruyue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was completely covered from head to toe in black, toxic soot. However, her face remained perfectly, terrifyingly expressionless. Without blinking, she simply waved her hand. A pulse of icy Qi washed over her body. It instantly cleansed the soot and returned her icy-blue robes to their pristine state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had failed again. For the nth time since she arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai immediately grabbed his designated wooden lockbox and scurried over to her workstation like a highly motivated janitor. He peered into the shattered cauldron and began diligently scraping out the toxic black sludge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was absolutely thrilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To any normal alchemist, pill dregs were just hazardous waste. But Su Bai had already graded the different types of refuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When a normal Fire Root alchemist failed, they simply overheated the herbs, turning them into crumbly, burnt charcoal. It was low-quality EXP.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the dregs Ji Ruyue created? Su Bai considered them \"Premium Grade.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced up at the stoic Senior Sister. She possessed a mutated water root. Ice Spirit Root.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the life of him, Su Bai couldn’t understand why an Ice cultivator was so stubbornly determined to learn an art that fundamentally required Fire. It was a massive hardware incompatibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Meng had told him earlier that Ji Ruyue had never successfully manufactured a single pill in her life. Peak Master Shen Youran of the Law Enforcement Hall simply paid Verdant Peak a massive monthly stipend to cover all the expensive herbs her disciple blew up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai, with his analytical mind, already knew exactly why she was failing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standard alchemy required three distinct Standard Operating Procedures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. Extraction: Melting the herbs into a liquid essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. Refinement: Burning away the impurities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Condensation: The alchemist injects their personal Qi into the cauldron to physically bind the boiling liquid into a solid pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Ruyue executed the first two steps flawlessly. Her disaster always occurred during Condensation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cauldron was filled with boiling, hyper-pressurized liquid medicine heated by the Earth Fire arrays. To condense the pill, Ji Ruyue had to dump a massive wave of her personal Ice Qi directly into the chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the exact alchemical equivalent of dropping a frozen turkey into a deep fryer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The extreme Yang of the boiling Earth Fire and the extreme Yin of her Ice Qi violently repelled each other. The boiling liquid instantly turned into super-heated, freezing steam. The pressure expanded a thousand times faster than the cauldron’s release vents could handle, resulting in a localized bomb going off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It coated the walls in a thick layer of black, toxic frost... which Su Bai happily scraped into his lunchbox.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Ruyue wasn’t dumb. She understood the thermal dynamics causing the explosions perfectly well. She meticulously recorded her failures in a jade slip, constantly trying to adjust the micro-variables to force a success.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And seeing Su Bai execute the \"Cold-Forging\" method earlier had awakened something in her stoic heart. If he could forge a pill using extreme cold, perhaps she could bypass her limitations too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned to him with her perfectly flat face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Junior Brother, could you teach me your method?\" she asked smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To any other cultivator, blatantly asking for a peer’s secret, heaven-defying legacy technique was incredibly shameless. It was a massive taboo. But Ji Ruyue didn’t care about social norms, she just wanted the source code.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai scratched his cheek awkwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the fifth time she had asked him in the last hour. And it was the fifth time she had blown up a cauldron right after.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It isn’t that I am unwilling to share the method, Senior Sister,\" Su Bai explained politely. \"It is simply a matter of conflicting foundations. Your spiritual root cannot support this specific method.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Ruyue tilted her head a fraction of an inch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The problem is your Ice Spirit Root,\" Su Bai continued. \"Ice is a mutation of Water. It relies on moisture and physical freezing. My technique utilizes a Yin Fire. It is not water-based, it is still a flame. It does not freeze through moisture; it simply consumes the ambient heat until absolute zero is reached. Because it is fundamentally a ’fire,’ it still possesses the alchemical property of refinement. Your Ice Qi does not.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gave her a sympathetic corporate smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Ruyue stared at him in silence for three long seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, she already knew that. But she thought that by understanding the core principles of his method, she might gain the enlightenment needed to create a technique of her own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, she turned around, grabbed a fresh batch of herbs, and activated the Earth Fire array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another violent explosion of super-heated steam rattled the hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Ruyue stood in front of the ruined workstation, completely covered in black soot. She waved her hand, cleansed her robes, then turned her perfectly expressionless face back to Su Bai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Junior Brother, could you teach me your method?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai let out a long, defeated sigh as he walked over with his lockbox to harvest the fresh batch of Premium Dregs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her flat, unyielding insistence was wearing down his corporate boundaries. Furthermore, looking at the massive pile of high-grade toxic waste she had generated for him over the last hour, he felt a twinge of professional obligation. She had essentially paid him a massive, upfront consultation fee in the form of pure EXP.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be terrible customer service not to render some kind of service in return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Very well, Senior Sister,\" Su Bai relented. \"I know for a fact that your body cannot physically execute the technique. However... I am willing to teach you the theoretical framework of Cold-Forging. Perhaps you can extrapolate the data for your own projects.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A microscopic glimmer of light flashed in Ji Ruyue’s emotionless eyes. She immediately stood at attention. She pulled out a blank jade slip to record his lecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the next half hour, Su Bai leaned against the workstation. He translated the ancient method into terms she could understand. He broke down the precise timing required to snap-freeze cellular decay, and the exact pressure vectors needed to condense a pill without heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Ruyue listened with terrifying intensity. She absorbed every single word like a supercomputer downloading a new operating system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Su Bai finished his explanation on molecular stasis, the heavy stone doors of the training hall were violently thrown open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"MARTIAL NEPHEW SU!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A booming, frantic voice echoed through the chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Qin practically sprinted into the room. His hair was completely disheveled and his chest heaved as if he had just run a marathon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was clutching the Transcendent Grade Frost-Vein Pill in his trembling hands, then stared at Su Bai with eyes so wide they looked like they were about to fall out of his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right behind him, Liu Meng trotted into the room. She shot Su Bai a triumphant, \"I secured the funding\" smile.\u003C\u002Fp>",1467,"2026-06-05T21:50:39.844Z",1,"novelbin.me","d291f451582d596fd4c92e92787ebc57dc0efcb003073d521be713c35d5154c0","cultivating-in-reverse-my-sign-in-system-wants-m-chapter-28","cultivating-in-reverse-my-sign-in-system-wants-m-chapter-26",87,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcultivating-in-reverse-my-sign-in-system-wants-m-cover.jpg"]