Living in Huayu Entertainment, happily cultivating immortality.

Chapter 1 The Golden Finger, the Hehuan Immortal Inquiry Technique

November 2006, Beijing.

It is located on the 12th floor of Building 3 in the Beijing Film Academy residential area, which is near the Beijing Film Academy.

This is a two-bedroom, one-living-room house, in the master bedroom.

In the early morning, golden sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows, filling the entire room.

A tall young man got up from his meditation meditation with a look of resentment on his face.

Another whole night of cultivation, and still no progress.

He stretched his body slightly, his eyes narrowed, and a panel that only he could see appeared in the void before him.

The panel displays very simple information:

Name: Lin Zixuan

Age: 21 (83)

人气：0

Cultivation level: 0 (Not yet a beginner)

. . . . . .

That's right, Lin Zixuan is a time traveler with a cheat code, having just traveled back from 2026 a week ago.

Lin Zixuan was a student in the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy in 2003. He was the school's most handsome guy, extremely handsome.

He was 185cm tall, handsome, with a face as fair as jade, and as good-looking as Pan An.

It seems that all the beautiful words used to describe a handsome man can be applied to him; calling him a god-like figure wouldn't be an exaggeration.

Logically speaking, with his qualifications, if he entered the entertainment industry, he would certainly be able to become a third-tier star, if not a superstar.

With the rapid development of the domestic film and television industry, various types of capital have flocked in, and the earning power of film and television stars has risen accordingly, even to unbelievable levels.

Even a third-tier celebrity's earning power is beyond the imagination of ordinary people; financial freedom is the bare minimum.

Unfortunately, fate seemed to have played a cruel joke on him.

Perhaps it's because he's too handsome that he naturally attracts attention, especially from overweight older women and even perverted older men.

The teaching at Beijing Film Academy differs from other schools. The first two years are packed with courses, including sound, acting, performance, various film theories, and film analysis of outstanding movies.

However, starting from the third year, the school courses become much less demanding, and students are encouraged to gain practical experience and seek performance opportunities in film crews.

Lin Zixuan was born in a prefecture-level city in Jiangxi Province. He didn't have any connections and wasn't affiliated with any agency, so he naturally became one of the many people who regularly traveled to film sets.

To make it easier for him to run the group, he, like most of his classmates, rented this dormitory off-campus.

Unfortunately, his efforts to get into various productions yielded little success. More than half a year later, he had only played minor roles in two different productions, with just one or two lines. He wasn't even considered a supporting actor.

Of course, given his appearance, he wasn't without offers from production teams.

Two film crews received his resume and informed him that there was an important role that suited him, asking him to prepare for an audition, but he was required to attend a drinking party that evening.

The first party before the audition for the film crew featured a middle-aged woman in her fifties, who looked like a wealthy woman and was probably the producer or investor.

When he came in, the rich woman's eyes lit up, and she warmly invited him to sit next to her.

While drinking, she even reached under the table and groped him, making him feel extremely disgusted.

Before the drinking session was over, he got up to say goodbye and left, and naturally, the subsequent audition was never held up.

The drinking party before the second audition was even more outrageous; the person who was interested in him was actually an older man.

Upon meeting you, they'd say, "Great, great, young man, you're so handsome! You'd be perfect for the second male lead in a TV series."

She then pulled him to sit next to her, and before they even started drinking, she began to touch him inappropriately, making all sorts of suggestive remarks.

If the rich woman's behavior disgusted him, this old man's behavior made him nauseous. He almost vomited on the spot and quickly ran away.

As a result, the audition was cancelled, and the role fell through.

In his previous life, he didn't get any good roles until the second semester of his senior year of college. Later, through his teacher's introduction, he joined Huayi, the largest private film and television company at the time.

I originally thought that once I joined Huayi, resources would be guaranteed and my future would be bright.

But to everyone's surprise, Huayi was outwardly glamorous but inwardly rotten and filthy.

Not long after he joined Huayi, he caught the eye of the company's general manager, Wang Erjun.

They promised him the company would provide him with the best resources and do everything they could to make him famous, but on the condition that...

He was completely stunned. Wasn't Wang Erjun a lecherous devil, surrounded by beautiful women every day? Which of the company's leading ladies hadn't had rumors about him?

Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a pervert who even tried to harm himself.

He was so disgusted that he naturally refused.

The consequences of this refusal were severe; he was immediately blacklisted by the company, losing all performance opportunities.

However, he couldn't afford the termination fee, and his prime years were thus wasted in Huayi's stagnation.

I can only spend my days watching movies, TV, listening to music, and playing games.

It wasn't until 17 years later, when his contract expired, that he was able to escape from the wicked Huayi Company.

Unfortunately, his most golden 10 years were wasted. During those 10 years when he saw no future, he also relaxed his body management, started to gain weight, and turned from a handsome young man into a greasy old man.

After finally leaving Huayi Brothers, his acting career did not go smoothly. He could only play minor roles in various film crews, and his life was extremely frustrating.

Fortunately, with the rise of short videos, the short drama market has experienced explosive growth.

He also got more acting opportunities. Unexpectedly, after several short dramas, he finally began to enjoy the spring of his career and became a short drama star. Later, he even started to direct and organize his own shows.

Until 2026, Li Bancheng was attacked by the entire internet for insisting on selling several overseas ports that were crucial to shipping safety to hostile Western forces, causing his public image to collapse.

He kept up with current events and capitalized on trending topics by directing and starring in a short drama called "Rebirth: I Am Li Bancheng." The drama unearthed various unbelievable stories about Li Bancheng's rise to wealth and revealed his true character to the public.

After the short drama aired, it immediately became a huge hit, almost becoming a phenomenon.

Then at the celebration banquet, he drank too much.

On my way home, I was hit by a speeding taxi at the entrance of my residential compound. I was knocked to the ground and died instantly, without even needing to be taken to the hospital.

Just as his soul was about to sink into hell, a jade pendant he had always worn around his neck, which he had bought at the Panjiayuan Antique Market more than ten years ago, suddenly emitted a stream of light after being soaked in his blood, and carried his soul into the sky.

When he woke up, he was surprised to find that he had returned to 2006, during his junior year of college.

To his even greater surprise, he not only returned to his original world, but also gained a tremendous cheat ability.

It turns out that the jade pendant was a treasure passed down from the ancient Hehuan Sect, containing the sect's inherited cultivation method, the Hehuan Immortal Inquiry Technique.

The ancient Hehuan Sect was a renowned sect of immortal cultivators, having produced many immortals, though its reputation was not exactly stellar.

Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, the Earth's spiritual veins gradually withered, and eventually the spiritual energy completely disappeared, ushering in the darkest age of cultivation - the Dharma-ending Age.

From then on, the major sects of cultivation were banished to the mortal realm, and as time passed, they disappeared one by one, their lineages severed.

In order to preserve the lineage, the senior masters of the Hehuan Sect were forced to seek innovation and change, and finally created a cultivation method that could refine the emotions between oneself and others to improve one's cultivation.

There are two paths to cultivation. One is to enter the mortal world and create karma with all living beings, so that they can have a strong emotional resonance with you (praise, discussion, cursing, resentment, etc. are all acceptable), and use this emotional power (popularity) to cultivate.

Another method is to find or cultivate members of the opposite sex who can easily gain the emotional power (popularity) of others, and use them as a vessel to absorb their popularity for cultivation.

When the two are combined into one, it becomes the complete Hehuan Asking Immortal Technique for the Dharma-ending Age.

The Hehuan Immortal Inquiry Technique also has an additional function: to ensure that the cauldron can gain more popularity and help cultivators continue their cultivation.

During the two-day rest period, cultivators can replenish some Yuanyang essence to the cauldron. Yuanyang essence can greatly improve the other person's body, improve bodily functions, delay aging, and retain youth and beauty.

Unfortunately, although the Hehuan Sect created new cultivation techniques, gaining popularity in that era was extremely difficult and far from enough to support cultivators' continuous advancement. In the end, the Hehuan Sect was submerged in the endless river of time.

Fortunately, the treasure containing the inherited cultivation technique was passed down until it met Lin Zixuan and was activated by his blood.

On his deathbed, this treasure carried his soul back to 2006.