As Su Bai sat cross-legged in his hut, he forcefully circulated the ambient Qi according to the instructions of the Sunflower Manual.

He didn’t have to wait long.

The moment the Extreme Yin energy generated by the technique met the innate Yang energy of his intact male body, the fatal error triggered.

A terrifying, violent surge of conflicting energies clashed inside his meridians. A localized explosion of internal combustion erupted. It attempted to violently melt his pathways into useless slag.

This was the exact reason the manual’s creator demanded castration. The human body simply could not handle this level of volatile friction.

But in a fraction of a millisecond, Su Bai’s Reversal Body caught the lethal line of code.

The fatal combustion was violently inverted. The destructive, melting heat instantly transformed into a massive, surging wave of pure, life-giving Yang vitality. It washed through his meridians like a soothing hot spring, perfectly balancing the freezing, necrotic aura of the Ashen-Frost Blight Flame residing in his Dantian.

’Hardware bypass successful,’ Su Bai cheered internally, feeling a rush of absolute euphoria.

Meanwhile, an even greater anomaly was occurring inside his limitless Dantian.

The Dao-Devouring Blank Stele, which was currently embedded directly into the trunk of his crystalline Sapling Wood Root, was hard at work.

Originally, this cursed stele was designed to violently extract a cultivator’s active Cultivation Method and leave their foundation completely empty.

But now, its logic was entirely flipped. Instead of extracting and emptying, it was absorbing and compiling.

The Stele actively devoured the chaotic, extreme martial arts logic of the Sunflower Manual. It broke down the outdated mortal code, patched the gaping holes, and aggressively rewrote the entire structure using the 10th Stage Qi as its base language.

As Su Bai continued to cycle the "useless" martial art, the blank surface of the Stele began to violently glow with dark light. Entirely new, profoundly complex golden characters began carving themselves across the stone. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Minutes passed in absolute, breathless silence.

And then, it finally occurred.

Ding!

A massive influx of data was forcefully downloaded directly into Su Bai’s brain. He gasped. His eyes flew open as profound, heaven-defying enlightenment washed over his consciousness.

He was in absolute shock.

He had been right. The Stele had completely reformatted the mortal speed technique into a custom, perfectly tailored Operating System designed specifically for him!

Even the name had received a massive software update.

On the Stele embedded within his crystalline sapling, the glowing golden characters proudly displayed the title of his new, proprietary Cultivation Method:

[Void-Sunflower Supreme Method]

Su Bai was speechless for a long, heavy moment.

He had actually succeeded. He had taken a piece of literal garbage debt-collection from a mortal martial artist, fed it into a cursed item, and produced a Supreme Method tailored exactly to his bizarre biology.

As his corporate brain analyzed the sheer magnitude of what had just happened, a terrifying realization hit him.

’Wait... the Stele didn’t just translate the manual. It filled in the missing gaps to elevate it to a Cultivation Method,’ Su Bai realized. His breath was caught in his throat. ’It can auto-complete incomplete code!’

This was a massive, game-changing advantage. In the cultivation world, discovering an ancient, incomplete manual was usually a tragic tease.

If a manual only had the first three volumes, a cultivator’s progress was permanently hard-capped. They would either have to risk exploding by guessing the next volume’s meridian paths, or completely cripple their own cultivation to switch to a weaker, complete manual.

But Su Bai didn’t have to worry about that anymore. He had an almighty, open-source compiler sitting right in his Dantian! If he found a fragmented, broken manual, the Stele could just patch the code and write the rest for him!

Su Bai gulped heavily. ’This is top-tier, NDA-level company secret. I am taking this to the grave.’

Wasting no more time, Su Bai immediately reviewed the Void-Sunflower Supreme Method installed in his mind.

Technically speaking, it was still a manual designed for a eunuch. The text still demanded extreme, volatile Yin circulation that would kill any normal man. But Su Bai didn’t care. To him, those warnings were just ignored pop-up notifications.

He closed his eyes and officially began his first cultivation session using his new Operating System.

The method to condense his endless, gaseous Qi into a liquid Foundation was flawlessly detailed in his mind. As he circulated his Qi, the Stele embedded in his sapling root hummed with dark light, actively managing his internal processes like a master control panel.

Su Bai felt incredible. He silently thanked the terrifying gray stone. It had created something that perfectly integrated his 10th Stage void, his Blight Flame, and his Reversal Body into one cohesive unit.

As he pushed the technique faster, Su Bai felt it again.

A terrifying surge of Extreme Yin clashed violently with his innate Yang.

BOOM!

The internal explosion triggered, and once again, the Reversal Body instantly inverted the lethal damage into a massive wave of pure, body-tempering Yang vitality.

But this time, because the Void-Sunflower Supreme Method was running efficiently, the surges of vitality weren’t just balancing his temperature. They were actively sinking into his flesh, bones, and muscles.

Su Bai’s eyes snapped open in sheer delight.

He had been stressing over how to reinforce his physical body. His Reversal Body was an absolute god-tier defense against internal attacks, poisons, and concept-altering magic (like the Heavenly Dao’s lightning).

But externally? He was still extremely squishy. If a rival cultivator simply walked up and punched him in the jaw with pure kinetic force, his jaw would break. Kinetic force couldn’t be "reversed" because it didn’t alter his internal state.

But this manual completely solved his physical vulnerability!

Because he was running a program designed for a castrated man, his intact body was constantly throwing "fatal Yang-combustion errors." The Reversal Body was forced to continuously invert those errors into surges of life force, actively tempering his physical body into something incredibly durable.

It was an automatic, passive body-refining technique!

’I am literally forging an indestructible physical body just as a side effect of not cutting my own dick off,’ Su Bai thought as a maniacal, overjoyed smile broke across his face.

It was the greatest loophole he had ever discovered.

Taking a deep, steadying breath, Su Bai reigned in his excitement and focused entirely on his boundless Dantian. The endless sea of black frost and Ashen-Mist was churning.

"Software installed. Hardware optimized," Su Bai whispered into the quiet room.

He commanded his Sapling Wood Root to execute the new code.

Inside his inner void, the limitless sea of gaseous Qi began to violently spin, forming a massive, localized hurricane. The profound laws of the Void-Sunflower Supreme Method applied an unbearable, crushing pressure to the spinning gas.

Drip.

At the very center of the hurricane, a single, incredibly heavy drop of liquid spiritual energy condensed and fell into the empty void below.

It was time to officially step into the executive suite. It was time for Foundation Establishment.