[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio":3,"chapter-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-41":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, the System Protagonist, Joined a Cross-Dimensional Chat Group",{"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},2292701,4485,"Chapter 41","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-41",41,"\u003Cp>“Look into my eyes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei’s deep voice rang out, tone brooking no defiance, like a sleeping lion just awakened, lecturing his subjects within his domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Puh—!” Su Lin glanced over and couldn’t hold it in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sorry, hahaha!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before him was a spherical creature, its swollen face squashing a pair of golden eyes—unless you looked closely, you’d struggle to find them at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t you feel even a shred of shame?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That ball before him—no, the pressure radiating from Lu Mingfei’s Golden Eyes was enough to make half-breeds tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you even still human?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But it’s not entirely my fault,” Su Lin chuckled, his shoulders shaking uncontrollably: “I helped you find your Qi sensation, and after you got it through two stages, you just stopped.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who in their right mind would sit and absorb Qi without even learning the basic cultivation method?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhong Li shook his head beside him—he’d walked in and immediately seen a round, bloated meatball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Lu Mingfei himself still hadn’t realized it, and kept absorbing Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin pulled out his phone and took a photo, ignoring Lu Mingfei’s resentful, puppy-eyed stare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I messaged you—said you could come to Rongcheng and hang out with us—but you just sat here practicing all day.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I didn’t know cultivation could be this addictive.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t really Lu Mingfei’s fault—when a living being draws Spiritual Qi into the body, it’s like someone who hasn’t eaten or drunk in ages, endlessly craving to satisfy their instinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like a parched land finally receiving life-giving rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Su Lin first sensed the Qi of heaven and earth, he’d been just like Lu Mingfei—but back then, he had the method to refine it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can I go back to how I looked before?” Lu Mingfei muttered gloomily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course. Just refine away all that Qi.” Zhong Li pulled a bamboo scroll from a wooden rack: “I’ll leave Lu Mingfei to you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No problem.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhong Li nodded and walked into the room. After several bookshelves shifted and rearranged, his figure vanished entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How long will it take to return to normal?” Lu Mingfei asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to go back to his world looking like this—he’d have to find another world to stay in for a few more months. He couldn’t exactly say he’d swollen up just from going to the bathroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A few days at most, maybe just one night,” Su Lin patted Lu Mingfei’s belly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s good, that’s good…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei exhaled deeply and finally relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When Zhong Li held up the mirror earlier, I thought I was about to explode.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin wrapped Lu Mingfei in a sphere of Spiritual Qi, flicked his finger—and Lu Mingfei floated into the air, a thread of golden light coiling around him like a tether to a balloon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It won’t explode that easily. You’re a half-breed, and you’ve already eaten so many Spiritual fruits.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you don’t refine it, this Qi will leak out on its own within two weeks.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack crack\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve had it with you!” Lu Mingfei roared from behind: “Can you stop taking selfies with your camera pointed at me?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving Wangshu Pavilion, Su Lin glanced at the mountain forest—several spots pulsed with cultivation fluctuations, gulping down the surrounding Spiritual Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned around and found a quiet spot, casually setting up a small array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Here’s fine,” Su Lin patted Lu Mingfei and set him down:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You kid, practice well here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Practicing indoors wouldn’t hurt, but since this was his first time, being close to nature would let him feel the changes in surrounding Qi more directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did I forget anything this time?” Lu Mingfei asked anxiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin waved goodbye and walked off without looking back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it was nearly the next day, Lu Mingfei felt no fatigue—he only wanted to cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the mental cultivation route, the accumulated Qi within him began peeling away from his flesh and blood like silk unwound from a cocoon, becoming finer, integrating deeper into his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around him, trees, grass, even the sky—dots of light appeared…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gradually, Lu Mingfei lost himself once more in this cultivation, this evolution of life’s very level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivation makes me happy…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ancients didn’t lie!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second day, afternoon\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kleen sipped a milk tea, carrying a few skewers of fried snacks as he returned to Rongcheng, finding Su Lin lounging listlessly in a master’s chair, scrolling through videos on his phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, you’re back,” Su Lin greeted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn’t you go cultivate?\" Kleen asked, noticing no activity in the chat group—he’d assumed everyone had gone off to practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d slept until naturally awake, wandered the city, eaten lunch, bought some snacks, and planned to stroll up Water Mirror Peak to digest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t properly looked at the scenery of this floating island since arriving yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was time to shift away from the industrial aesthetic of Beckland and its European-classical style.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Early or late, cultivation is still cultivation. Early or late, refining is still refining,\" Su Lin said without ceremony, pulling a fried starch sausage from Kleen’s plastic bag, the red oil and spices evenly coating its surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re not used to living here?” Su Lin asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the authorized manager of Water Mirror Peak, he could track who entered or exited through the teleportation gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, I still prefer living in the city,\" Kleen said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin thought for a moment, then pulled a rectangular jade pillar from his system inventory, carved with unfamiliar beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kleen took the jade carving and asked: \"What is this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It offers some resistance to spiritual corruption.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sect left few resources—this was one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you want?\" Kleen nodded—he truly needed this item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Witch…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Witch’s potion.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which sequence?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The one that turns men into witches.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kleen felt his Faceless Man nearly crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I just want to collect something interesting,” Su Lin explained. “Your world’s sealed items all have side effects—why not give me a vial of Sequence 7 Witch’s Potion? I’ll keep it as a collectible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s not enough,\" Kleen said, looking at the jade carving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This item’s value far exceeded a Sequence 7 potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No problem,\" Su Lin took the plastic bag from Kleen’s hand, picked out a string of pork belly, and said: \"I don’t even know how effective this thing really is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strange rules and conceptual abilities in the Lord of Mysteries world—how much this would help remained unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its rank was fine—it was a fairly excellent defensive artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then thank you.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1084,"2026-06-20T04:17:29.700Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","50e2735940cfa7bd786d76e21fec004333d17ea611c2fe34059a64fc7eeeef74","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-42","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-40",720,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-cover.jpg"]