Starting as a supporting character in Doupo

"It seems that the Outer Academy has really made it through this year's Fire Energy Hunting Competition!"

Luo Hou was defeated, and the remaining four team members were unable to resist. Xiao Fan and his group quickly defeated Luo Hou's team.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Fan put away the fire crystal card belonging to Luo Hou's team. After all, he couldn't show favoritism... cough cough...

Elder Su and Elder Qing, who had been waiting on the side, looked at Xiao Fan and the others with complicated expressions. Only after they learned that Xiao Fan had absorbed the fire energy of the others did they step forward.

"Alright, I hereby declare the Fire Energy Hunting Competition officially over." He then turned his gaze to the numerous students of the outer academy. "Congratulations, you have officially entered the inner academy."

"I told you there would be rewards. All the new students present will receive 20 points of fire energy." He then looked at Xiao Fan and the others. "Each of you will receive 40 points of fire energy, and in addition..." At this point, Elder Su took out five cyan fire crystal cards. "These are for you."

"What is this?" Xiao Fan asked curiously, noticing the stunned looks on the faces of the senior students around him.

"Fire Crystal Cards are divided into four levels from bottom to top: red, blue, cyan, and purple. Red Fire Crystal Cards can only enter the first and second floors of the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, blue ones can enter the third and fourth floors, and so on."

"To obtain a higher-level Fire Energy Card, you need to exchange it using Fire Energy. Upgrading from red to blue requires 100 Fire Energy, and upgrading from blue to cyan requires 200 Fire Energy. Therefore, this card means 300 Fire Energy!"

Hearing Elder Su's explanation, everyone finally understood why the inner court students had such envious expressions when they saw the cards in everyone's hands.

"Alright, let's go into the inner courtyard now!"

Following behind Elder Su, Xiao Fan didn't forget his mission. He told Xun'er and Xiao Yan that he wanted to enter the inner courtyard as a new student with the most fire energy, and transferred all the fire energy from their cards to his own fire crystal card.

Of the ten teams in the inner courtyard, seven teams' fire energy was concentrated in their team. With the final reward of 40, the three of them combined had a fire energy exceeding one thousand.

"Let's go! Let's go into the inner courtyard!"

Chapter 127 Fighting Spirits

In a sunny little courtyard, the gate was pushed open.

"Alright, this will be your dormitory from now on."

Elder Su pointed to the pavilion in front of him and said to Xiao Fan and the others behind him.

"Um...we're living together?" Xiao Yan glanced at Xun'er, then looked curiously at Elder Su.

"Hehe." Elder Su glanced at Xiao Yan, then said with a half-smile, "There are so many rooms in this pavilion, and I didn't ask you to sleep in the same room. What, do you have such thoughts?"

Upon hearing Elder Su's words, Xun'er's cheeks visibly flushed red. She then reached out and pinched Xiao Yan's waist hard, but then, worried that she had pinched too hard, she gently rubbed it for him.

"Thank you very much, Elder Su!" Xiao Fan bowed to Elder Su and said respectfully. After all, as an inner court elder, he could have just sent a student to bring them here, but instead, Elder Su personally led them here. He was truly grateful.

"Hehe, alright then, I won't bother you any longer. If you need anything in the inner courtyard, come find me then." Elder Su waved his hand and then left the courtyard.

"Let's find a room and settle in ourselves first!" Xiao Fan said, turning to the others. No one objected.

The attic has three floors. Wu Hao didn't go through too much trouble and simply found a room on the first floor as his own space. Xiao Xun'er and Hu Jia found two empty rooms at the end of the second floor as their rest room. Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan, in order to give the girls some privacy, casually chose two empty rooms on the third floor to tidy up.

After tidying up the room, Xiao Fan went out and told Xiao Yan that he would stay in the room to cultivate and would not go out. He gave Xun'er and Xiao Yan's fire energy to him and asked him to pass it on to Xun'er. Then he hid back in his own room.

Task 1: Be the first to reach the inner courtyard. Reward: +100 Battle Qi Points, +1000 Source Coins. (Completed)

Task Two: Acquire as much fire energy as possible. The more fire energy you acquire by the end of the fire energy hunting competition, the greater the reward. (Completed)

After receiving the reward for his first mission, Xiao Fan's Dou Qi value soared from 873 to 973. He only needed 27 Dou Qi points to advance to the Dou Ling realm.

Xiao Fan then checked the rewards for the second task. After all, the task only said that the more fire energy you have, the richer the reward will be, but there was no specific reward details.

Upon entering the inner courtyard, Xiao Fan collected all three people's fire energy, amounting to an astonishing 1032.

After all, they not only had the fire energy of seven inner court squads, but also their own negligible 5 fire energy, plus the final reward of 40 fire energy each. In total, each of the three of them had more than 300 fire energy.

"Ding! When Mission Two ended, the host obtained a total of 1032 Fire Energy. The reward has been issued."

"Ding! Congratulations, host, you have obtained 10320 Source Coins."

"Ding! Congratulations, host, you have gained 103 Battle Qi points."

As the system's mechanical voice faded, Xiao Fan's previously dormant strength began to rise again, and his battle qi value quickly reached the threshold of the battle spirit.

Xiao Fan closed his eyes and absorbed the immense battle qi that appeared within his body, slowly digesting it. As Xiao Fan circulated the battle qi, it gradually gathered around the battle crystal, rotating slowly with the crystal.

Like a vortex, the dazzling battle crystal landed at its very center. As it was enveloped by battle energy, the originally rhomboid-shaped battle crystal slowly changed shape, as if melting, gradually transitioning into a sphere.

When others cultivate and advance, they need to pay attention to the energy they absorb. If the energy is insufficient, it will lead to a lack of fighting spirit in their body during the advancement process, resulting in failure. However, Xiao Fan does not need to worry about this at all.

After all, he has the system. As long as his battle qi value reaches the conditions for advancement, a huge amount of battle qi value will automatically appear in his body. He only needs to guide the absorption to advance smoothly. This is an opportunity that others do not have.

After the Dou Crystal inside his body melted under the influence of Dou Qi, it revealed more obvious edges and corners. Then, seemingly due to the rotation, it stretched out several "branches" that looked like the sea urchins that Xiao Fan knew. There were exactly nine branches, no more and no less.

As Xiao Fan absorbed the Dou Qi within his body, his aura gradually stabilized. At this moment, Xiao Fan's Dou Qi reserves were many times greater than when he was a Great Dou Master. In short, if he were to encounter his former self again, Xiao Fan could fight at least five of them.

Just as he had stabilized his Dou Ling realm, the familiar feeling of soul tempering returned. The immense spiritual power washed over Xiao Fan's mind. Although he was mentally prepared after the previous tempering, the pain at the soul level still caused him to spasm all over.

He went from sitting cross-legged on the bed to rolling around on it, large beads of sweat seeping from his pores. The sheets were quickly soaked, and Xiao Fan unknowingly lost consciousness.

By the time Xiao Fan fully regained consciousness, it was already the morning of the next day.

Waking up in bed and seeing the mess, Xiao Fan sighed and had no choice but to tidy up the bed, change the bedding, and then open his control panel to check:

[The Strongest Supporting Character System] (Pidan)

Host: Xiao Fan

Level: 6 (312000)

Strength: One-star Dou Ling (1761000) Fifth-grade Alchemist (5001000)

Source Coins: 27820

Technique: Radiant Sun Technique

Combat Techniques: Low-level Profound Rank Absorbing Palm (Mastered), High-level Profound Rank Eight Extremes Collapse (Mastered), Low-level Profound Rank Dragon Step (Mastered), Low-level Earth Rank Cloud Crane Shadow (Mastered), Shadow Prison (Beginner), Void Blade (Mastered)...

The cultivation of combat skills is divided into four stages: beginner, master, advanced, and proficient.

Items: Shadowless Mask, Thousand Flame Spear, Sky-Piercing Blade, Pure Soul Experience (to be absorbed)...

main mission:

"Ding! New quest triggered. Moon's Lament. Quest rewards: High-grade Earth-rank Battle Skill, Moon Shadow; 500 Battle Qi Points, 7000 Source Coins."

My current source coins, after being stored up before, except for a portion that I used to speed up the cultivation of Shadow Prison, have all been stored away, and now I actually have more than 20,000.

The summoning module, specifically the Earth-rank summoning, is still not available. Earth-rank summoning corresponds to Dou Huang and Dou Zong, and Xiao Fan believes that he should wait until he reaches the strength of Dou Wang before he can use it.

As Xiao Fan's strength has increased, he no longer needs to use the Xuan-level summoning ability, so he has no intention of summoning it.

On the other hand, Xiao Fan still remembered Little Fairy Doctor's Calamity Poison Body. To evolve it into the Heavenly Spirit Poison Body, he needed to exchange it through the system. Even though he now had more than 20,000 source coins, exchanging it was still an astronomical figure.

Xiao Fan didn't know how to describe the system. It was like a super cheat code for his cultivation, but the occasional anomalies of the system gave Xiao Fan a creepy feeling.

For example, the system didn't mention the experience points in the last two missions, as if the system itself had forgotten about it. Moreover, the inexplicable change in his memory last time made Xiao Fan a little uneasy.

"Enough. Only by increasing our strength can we cope with any crisis."

Chapter 128 Clone - Mo Shang

Just when Xiao Fan thought that advancing to the Dou Ling level was over, he realized that he hadn't claimed two things.

"Ding! It has been detected that the host has advanced to the Dou Ling level. The reward is the follow-up cultivation method of the Radiant Sun Technique, the high-level Earth-rank cultivation method - Nine Star Radiant Sun Technique."

"Ding! Host's advancement to the Dou Ling level has been detected. Spirit Puppet reward."

Upon hearing about the system's reward, Xiao Fan raised an eyebrow. It was a promotion gift pack! Every time he broke through a major realm, he would receive one.

The first one, the Nine Stars Radiant Sun Technique, is the cultivation method Xiao Fan is currently practicing. The follow-up techniques of the Radiant Sun Technique have now become advanced Earth-rank techniques, which is already the highest grade below Heaven-rank. Xiao Fan was naturally overjoyed.

He quickly began circulating his battle qi according to the Nine Stars Shining Sun Technique.

As Xiao Fan circulated his internal energy, he discovered that if the flow of his internal energy was originally likened to a stream, now it was like a great river, surging through his limbs and bones, its speed increasing by countless levels.

Just like how it used to take two to three breaths to unleash a fighting technique, now it's estimated that one can release one's fighting energy in the blink of an eye with just a thought.

Moreover, the advanced Earth-rank cultivation technique will provide even more abundant battle qi in the future. Xiao Fan will no longer have to worry about not having enough battle qi during battle. Whether in cultivation or in battle, his absorption and storage of battle qi have improved significantly.

Licking his lips, Xiao Fan suppressed his excitement and then looked at another reward: a spirit puppet!

After receiving the reward, a body appeared before Xiao Fan, radiating a cold aura. Thinking of Yao Lao's situation, Xiao Fan wanted to see if Yao Lao could use this body as the vessel for his rebirth.

After all, the things the system provides are definitely extraordinary. As for whether he's willing to part with them, Xiao Fan truly regards Yao Lao as his teacher, so naturally he has no reason to be reluctant.

Just as Xiao Fan had this thought, the system's voice rang in his mind again. After carefully understanding the situation, Xiao Fan had no choice but to abandon the idea.

In the system's words, this spirit puppet is "exclusively assigned" to the host, and only the host's soul aura can use it.

In other words, no one but Xiao Fan can use it, so even if Xiao Fan gives it to Yao Lao, Yao Lao still cannot use it.

Suddenly, Xiao Fan had a flash of inspiration and understood why the system had rewarded him with a spirit puppet at this time.

Wouldn't that be a perfect way to separate Xiao Fan and Mo Shang's identities?

Thinking of this, Xiao Fan slowly poured his soul power into the spirit puppet opposite him. However, as the soul power was poured in, it seemed to sink into the sea without making any movement. After Xiao Fan poured in for a long time, he finally felt the spirit puppet opposite him become "full".

As the spirit puppet slowly opened its eyes, Xiao Fan saw another version of himself. At this moment, Xiao Fan seemed to have two perspectives. In the spirit puppet's eyes, a pale-faced "Xiao Fan" was looking at him curiously, while in Xiao Fan's eyes was a curious spirit puppet, as if looking in a mirror.

Looking at the familiar face opposite him, an unnatural expression flashed across his face. Then, the appearance of the spirit puppet transformed into Mo Shang, Xiao Fan, no, Mo Shang began to examine his own body again.

The spirit puppet's body is less like a puppet and more like a real person, except that it had been dormant until now and has only "awakened".

After careful examination, Xiao Fan determined that the strength within the spirit puppet was around that of a five-star Great Dou Master.

Xiao Fan placed some pills, cultivation techniques, weapons, and other daily necessities from his own storage ring into another storage ring and handed it to Mo Shang. Mo Shang then accepted the storage ring, and Xiao Fan's chaotic fire appeared from the void, enveloping a strange symbol, and slowly merged into Mo Shang's body.

This was the imprint that the Eagle Protector had left in Xiao Fan's mind. Now, using the power of the Chaos Fire, he directly transferred it into Mo Shang's body.

Chaos Fire is an inherent part of Xiao Fan's physique, but it is controlled by his soul power. "Mo Shang" is actually no different from Xiao Fan except for his strength, so he can also easily use Chaos Fire.