After obtaining one strand of spirit qi, I sensed a slight change in Ren Qingquan’s constitution. He indeed get slightly stronger and his mental power increases by an extremely small amount. But, sensing that extremely tiny increase, no wonder I couldn’t detect any increase when he only refined a trace of spirit qi previously.
Focusing my attention on the strand of refined spirit qi created from combining 1000 traces of spirit qi, I sensed no qualitative increase after they gathered into a strand. It seems I don’t need to study how to create a strand of refined spirit qi and can just sell a bundle containing 1000 traces of refined spirit qi and name it a strand of refined spirit qi.
Anyway, soon after he purchased all that thing, Ren Qingquan realized the lacking amount of absorbed spirit qi he received. And so, he asked me about it. ‘System, I purchased a strand of absorbed spirit qi. So, why does my absorbed spirit qi only increase by 0.001 strand?’
[Answering to host, the amount of spirit qi a qi refining stage cultivator can hold is only 1 strand. Forcefully containing more than 1 strand of refined spirit qi inside your dantian while at qi refining stage may cause it to be injured.]
After hearing my explanation, Ren Qingquan panicked. ‘Then, where is the excess absorbed spirit qi I purchased? Don’t tell me you discarded it!?’
[No worries, host. The excess spirit qi is stored by system. Host may open your personal panel to check the specific amount of extra spirit stored by the system.]
Following my word, Ren Qingquan opened his personal panel.
[Name: Ren Qingquan
Realm: Qi Refining 1/5 (Require 4 more strands of refined spirit qi to reach completion.)
Absorbed Spirit Qi: 1 +0.999 (Excess spirit qi can be used to fill spirit qi stored in dantian once there is any extra room for it.)
Points: 50.000
Profession: Formation master (Extremely Weak.)
Cultivation Method: Immortal Body Tempering (Immortal Ascension)
Magical Technique: Armaments Transformation (Perfection), Agile Step (Perfection), Body Hardening (Perfection), Super Duper ... Turtle Shell Technique (First Section), Turtle Divination Art (First Section)
System function: Devour, Shop, Scan, Library, Map (1000 meters radius), Calculate, System Storage (100 cubic meters).
Note: added the amount of refined spirit qi and the required amount of spirit qi to reach completion of current stage. ]
Once Ren Qingquan saw the +0.999 at the end of Absorbed Spirit qi part, I can sense him relaxed and thinking. ‘At least my 999 points worth of spirit qi didn’t disappear.’
He then proceeds to check the result of that 1 strand of refined spirit I created on his body. Sensing the tiny amount of increase he can barely feel, I sensed his dissatisfaction. Which is why Ren Qingquan opened the system shop once again and purchased 4.000 strands of refined spirit qi for 8.000 points.
After feeling the increased strength brought by another 4 strands of refined spirit qi, Ren Qingquan nodded in satisfaction with a smile on his face. That is until he felt the so-called bottleneck Jin Fushen mentioned before.
‘System, can you do something to this bottleneck?’ Just like usual, when he cannot understand something. Ren Qingquan calmly raised his hand and asked me this question.
What a pity though. I can’t do anything about that bottleneck for now. But at least I have thought of some ideas about how to handle this bottleneck problem. Writing my idea on a screen, I send it to Ren Qingquan.
[System currently cannot make the host breakthrough that bottleneck. But, the system suggested the host use ‘Scan’ on people trying to break through to collect more data about bottlenecks and find a way to pass it.]
Hearing my suggestion, Ren Qingquan nodded. Probably feeling there is nothing else he can do at his house, he decided to go outside the sect and start experimenting with [Devour]. Before leaving his residence after more than a week of staying inside. He first purchased something to eat and took a bath.
After the relaxing bath and changing into another pair of clothes, Ren Qingquan took the pouch containing his items and stored it in [Storage]. Asking the location where Pure Wave Sect’s mission hall was located, he followed the mark I placed on the system map.
Unlike Martial Spirit Sect in the Martial Arts World, Pure Wave Sect allows sect members to go out without taking missions. But Ren Qingquan will still take a mission with him regardless, so he can obtain sect contribution while going outside to do some test on [Devour]. Which is killing two birds with one stone.
When Ren Qingquan placed things inside [Storage], I realized something and focused most of my attention on the sky above to check for any sign of a gathering cloud. If the reason for those lightning to attacks is that something is taken from the world. That means placing things inside [Storage] will also trigger the lightning strike.
After more than half an hour, there is still no sign of lightning clouds gathering. The sky is still clear and the bright sun still illuminates the world with its warm light.
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Seeing that result, I concluded several possibilities, with two most plausible reasons. First, the lightning will only react when material is turned into energy, which is why it only struck when [Devour] is used and not when [Storage] is used.
Second, the space in [Storage] is actually also counted as a part of this world. So, sending things inside [Storage] only counted as moving things from one part of the world to another part. This reason is also in line with my guess that lightning will only strike something trying to take things from the world.
But, if the second theory is right. That means the storage space created by [Storage] skill is actually connected to the world where the thing granted with the [Storage] skill is located.
Which also means there aren’t any bugs in this area which I can use to activate [Devour] without being struck by lightning. Because after some experiment and a little guesswork, I know the place where my energies and information are stored is located in the consciousness space. Which, if not for my relation with Ren Qingquan. Will not have any sort of connection to the cultivation world.
While I am thinking about the result of this sudden experiment, Ren Qingquan has arrived at a building complex. Although I call it a building complex, the distance separating them is far enough that normal people need to run for dozens of minutes to arrive from one building to another.
This group of buildings is located nearby the Miscellaneous Hall’s Disciple Registration Office, where he registered himself as a disciple of Pure Wave Sect. And just like the Miscellaneous Hall’s Disciple Registration Office, the surrounding building also has the word Miscellaneous Hall written in front.
Entering a building with the word Miscellaneous Hall’s Mission Distribution Office written on its sign, I detected around 500 people inside the building through [Scan].
Once Ren Qingquan opened the door that led inside, he saw a wide open hall with a lot of people. Some of them gather together while sitting or standing to discuss something, while most of them are gathering around an extremely wide board or standing in line at several counters.
Seeing so many people inside the place, Ren Qingquan decided to activate his Turtle Divination Art. The first section of Turtle Divination Art grants the user the ability to predict other’s luck and also the ability to divine present information. Of course, there are limitations to what kind of information can be divined.
What Ren Qingquan is going to use now is the ability to predict other’s luck. Sitting on a seat located in the corner of the hall, he closed his eyes and followed the way to activate Turtle Divination Art’s luck detecting ability.
Opening his eyes, Ren Qingquan’s eyes now see things differently. Besides the previous view of many people busying around, he can see faint auras around those people. Looking at those people with different aura sizes, Ren Qingquan guessed what they actually were. Based on his years of reading novels, those different auras are definitely the luck those people have!
‘As expected of this genius me!’ Praising himself, Ren Qingquan went to stare at more people to see the average size of luck those people have. All the while without realizing the amount of absorbed spirit qi he spent while doing so.
While Ren Qingquan is praising himself for his genius deduction. I am currently incredibly shocked upon seeing the view and thought shared by Ren Qingquan through [Anchor]. The first thought that comes into my mind is ‘what the hell! It is different from how I thought things should be!’
Although I already read Turtle Divination Art and know it can predict other’s luck. But I misunderstood how it works. Because the description of Turtle Divination Arts’s ability written in the information Ren Qingquan’s mother sent went like this.
‘Turtle Divination Art, prying the heavenly secret. Calculating the present, calculating the past, calculating the future. Predicting the ever-changing luck, nothing is predetermined.’
Why is it even talked about in such a cryptic sentence! The word predicting after talking about calculating things thrice makes me misunderstand its actual ability. I thought the ‘predicting ever-changing luck’ part will be more scientifically based, like calculating possible fortuitous encounter someone might find.
Luckily, it doesn’t have any effect on the magical art’s activation. Otherwise, my reputation will go down the drain.
Calming myself down after cursing whoever wrote that stupid description. First, I tried to observe the aura Ren Qingquan suspected as luck to make sure of it.
I guess his random sharp moments arrived once again.
Because after some observation, by comparing the cultivating stages, ages, and aura size those people have. I found out those with bigger aura have slightly higher cultivation stages while at the same age group. Which is why I agreed with Ren Qingquan’s guess that the auras are indeed luck, or at least something similar.
After making sure that thing is lucky, I also tried to add the function of detecting it on [Scan]. But, it actually costs at least 1.000.000 energies to do that!
The price directly makes me perish my thought of adding that function to [Scan] within the near future. Ren Qingquan can already detect luck through his magical technique, anyway. So, adding luck detection in [Scan] is quite low in priority.
As a good cheat, I must seriously think about my resource management.
While I was busy testing my luck, Ren Qingquan stood up and walked near the board where many people gathered.
Looking at the many papers stuck on it, Ren Qingquan read some of them.
Resting his eyes on a paper, the following word are written.
‘Mission: Help pill refining peak to water medicinal garden for a day. Reward: depending on the size of the medicinal garden watered. Requirement: Capable of using Spirit Rain Magical Art.’
Reading the mission written in that paper, Ren Qingquan skipped through it. What he needed was a mission that required leaving the sect for a deserted place. Then, he continued searching for a suitable mission placed on the board.
After skipping through several dozen papers, Ren Qingquan stared at a certain paper. On it, the mission to investigate a weird happening in a forest nearby is written.
When I saw Ren Qingquan going to take that paper, I directly stopped him by sending a massive warning screen.
[Host, stop! Don’t take that mission!]
Ren Qingquan’s hand stopped in its tracks upon seeing my warning before asking me a question. ‘Why?’
[While the host is cultivating, the system saw the wolf that chased your group previously from a person attached to the sub-system. The location where I saw it is inside a forest. Furthermore, it is still extremely angry and killed the host of that subsystem.]
After reading my explanation, I can feel Ren Qingquan’s shocked feeling before he asked me a question. ‘What? Do you mean that wolf is also in this cultivation world and is inside a forest nearby the sect?’
[That is right.]
After hearing my answer, Ren Qingquan looked a bit thoughtful before changing the topic and asking an unrelated question. ‘Wait a moment, system. Did you just say you saw it from a person I attached to the sub system? Does that mean you can check the sub system I granted to others?’
[Of course, the system can use the sub system function. After all, it is still a part of the system. Anyway, that is not important! What the host must do now is to stay as far away from forests!]
Damn it, why is Ren Qingquan so sharp when I commit a blunder while talking with him?