[You spent 0.01 spirit qi]

After that continuous notification which blocked his field of vision, Ren Qingquan seemed to be annoyed as he asked me to stop. 'Actually, system. Stop sending me the notification and just refill my stored spirit qi to keep it always full.'

Then, Ren Qingquan added 'Also, if I am out of extra spirit qi while in combat. Can you automatically purchase spirit qi for me to use?'

Well, his new request is also easy for me. So, I immediately agreed.

[Ding! Activating automatic spirit qi refill while in combat.]

Upon seeing the message I sent, Ren Qingquan nodded.

Next, he looked at Lackey A who finally paused his attack and took several deep breaths.

*Huff* *Puff*

While taking a deep breath, Lackey A pulled a vase-like jar containing several things with quite a lot of energy. Opening the lid, he swallowed what looked like a pill stored inside. Immediately, his initially short breath stabilized.

Next, he continued to pull several items. This time, what he pulled were several stones containing quite a lot of energy and placed them in his hand. Those stones are exactly the ones the gambling group Ren Qingquan met while entering the gate for his residential area used to gamble.

After Lackey A grabbed those stones, he used his mental power and pulled the energies inside them toward himself.

From how he used it, I think it is a spirit stone or its equivalent in this world.

While Lackey A regained his stamina, Ren Qingquan is preparing his counterattack

Because the spirit qi shield generated from Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique will not follow its user around after being deployed, coupled with Ren Qingquan's lack of a long-distance attack method. He needed to think of a new way to attack, which delayed his counter attack.

Touching the sand with both of his hands, Ren Qingquan asked me to activate [Storage]. When I saw his new idea about how to use [Storage], I was a bit dumbfounded. Nevertheless, I still stored the sand following his lead.

And so, while Lackey A is preparing for another attack. A huge chunk of the sand below him suddenly disappeared which made him lose his footing and fall into a deep hole.

What a pity, Lackey A used his unscientific jump once again and successfully escaped from the hole. Just in time to escape Ren Qingquan's next attack which is to fill the hole with the sands he stores

*Boom*

Due to the massive amount of sand suddenly being released at once., dust rose and blocked the view of both combatants.

Opening the map, Ren Qingquan checked Lackey A's current location. Next, he activated Armament Transformation and Body Hardening.

Controlling Armament Transformation, he turned the spirit qi aura generated by that technique into the shape of a whip on both of his hands.

Because Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique and Armament Transformation used the same source of spirit qi which has been marked by Ren Qingquan. Under his control, that whip easily passed through the shield generated by Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique and slithered toward the location where Lackey A is.

Ren Qingquan's whip attack comes at an extremely fast speed. Coupled with the sand that blocks his view, it causes Lackey A to be unprepared for any attack.

With a loud snapping sound, both whips attacked him at the same time.

"Argh!" Lackey A screamed in agony upon being struck by both whips.

Realizing Ren Qingquan probably has the means to see within the sand storm, Lackey A pulled a talisman-looking paper.

Sending some of his spirit qi toward that talisman, he followed the location Ren Qingquan's whip came from while shouting. "Earth Protection Talisman!"

Together with Lackey A's shout, that talisman burned in midair and turned into a huge wind vortex that directly absorbed the surrounding sand!

Looking at that while inside Consciousness Space, I am utterly speechless. People in the cultivation world are actually quite scheming! This Lackey A shouted Earth Protection Talisman while in reality, what he threw is a wind element talisman.

Meanwhile, after the wind vortex caused by Lackey A's Talisman sucked quite a lot of sand. He finally located Ren Qingquan's position due to the lack of dust.

As he waved his hand downward, the initially rotating wind took a sharp turn and moved downward toward Ren Qingquan's location. That wind pushed along the sands it previously sucked, which directly caused a massive rain of sands to fall toward Ren Qingquan

Just the initial impact caused Ren Qingquan's shield to crack in many places.

'This is quite bad.' As he thought so, Ren Qingquan took some leftover metal from when he created that bowl-shaped boat of his.

Breaking them into several palm-sized pieces, he granted them with Lv 1 [Devour].

Holding those metals as if a Frisbee, he opened one of the hexagons that made up Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique before throwing them outside. Next, he used the whip generated from Armament Transformation as a tentacle to grab those metal pieces.

'System, activate the [Devour] on those metals. But, exclude Armament Transformation's whip from being devoured.' Following Ren Qingquan's thought, I activated the [Devour] from those metals.

Thanks to those metal's effort on devouring the wind and sand targeting Ren Qingquan, the burden on Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique lessened greatly. The initially cracked shield already slowly healed.

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Seeing his attack had been neutralized by Ren Qingquan, Lackey A frowned and said. "You forced my hand!"

Then, he pulled an octagonal plate filled with runic engraving which gave a feeling akin to a miniature formation. Placing several spirit stones at a grove located in the center, he spewed some blood which contained some of his refined energy.

Seeing as Lackey A has even spit some of his blood and looks like he is preparing some kind of ultimate move. I quickly warned Ren Qingquan.

[Host! That guy is going to use his ultimate move!]

It seems Ren Qingquan also saw that scene as his face turned serious. With a cold sweat, he controlled Armament Transformation and increased the amount of whips it generated.

From the initial pair of whips, it turned into ten whips with five in both of his hands. Then, except for the two used to hold metal pieces containing Lv1 [Devour], he sent all eight of those whips toward Lackey A.

What a pity, Ren Qingquan's movement is a bit late as Lackey A has successfully activated his ultimate move.

"Obliterate!" with his scream, a huge light beam is generated from that formation plate toward the place it pointed, which is Ren Qingquan's location.

The light generated from that plate directly shattered all eight of the whips Ren Qingquan sent toward him. Next, it moved toward where the pair of whips holding metal pieces were located.

Maybe due to [Devour]'s low strength, or due to the fact those light beams contained Lackey A's refined spirit which made them fall under his control, or even both reasons. But, those metals failed to [Devour] the light beam Lackey A sent.

After obliterating those metal pieces, it directly went toward Ren Qingquan's shield. Still with its domineering might, that light beam pierced through one of the hexagonal shields generated by Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique.

Seeing that laser-like attack was already nearby, Ren Qingquan screamed in a panic toward me. 'System, quickly change the shape of my boat back into a metal plate!'

Looking at Ren Qingquan's boat inside [Storage], I start busying myself with [Transfer] to change the shape of Ren Qingquan's boat by cutting and tying its structure. That is right, although it is rarely mentioned, but [Transfer] always gives its silent contribution on many things.

While doing it, I split some of my attention toward the battle.

Luckily, Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique is worthy of its name. It delayed and greatly weakened the power of Lackey A's light beam. Barely giving me enough time for me to finish Ren Qingquan's request to return the shape of his ship to a metal plate.

Looking as that light already arrived near him, Ren Qingquan quickly pulled that thick metal plate from [Storage] and placed it between him and the light beam.

*BOOM*

With an explosion sound, that metal plate dented.

Lackey A who saw Ren Qingquan using many of his trump cards at once is currently smiling bitterly. Due to spitting that blood, his condition is quite bad as his face is now a pale white color. Furthermore, Ren Qingquan's previous sneak attack has caused him a couple of bloody wounds.

After guarding against that light beam attack, Ren Qingquan stored his metal plate back into [Storage].

Looking at the pale Lackey A. Ren Qingquan purchased several points of lightning and sent it toward Lackey A, which made him fall unconscious.

As Lackey A has been incapacitated, I finally have time to review the previous battle. Except for the last part where Ren Qingquan can just use [Storage] to store that attack. I will give him a flying color for the result of this battle.

To be honest, I am a bit confused about a question. How come Ren Qingquan's combat sense suddenly increased so greatly? I still remember that time he got beaten up by that leopard in the Martial Arts World. Activating [Scan] on Ren Qingquan, I checked for any trace of possession just in case.

After scanning every part of him, including the soul. With the limited knowledge of soul I have, I detected nothing weird about him. So, I tried to recall the previous battle once again and compare it with Ren Qingquan's fight against that leopard. Then I found out the main difference, the current him has several powerful magical techniques at his disposal.

Is Ren Qingquan really a genius in magical technique like I previously randomly guessed?

Upon relieving my concerns, I focused most of my attention back to Ren Qingquan which soon almost caused my head to explode from anger.

After making Lackey A turn unconscious, Ren Qingquan actually thought of leaving from this island without killing that guy!

I immediately confronted Ren Qingquan about it.

[Host, why won't you kill that guy?]

What answered me is Ren Qingquan's philanthropic answer. 'I can kill beasts easily. But, killing humans is a different matter altogether. Furthermore, I don't think killing someone from a single disagreement is good.'

(¬_¬)

You literally just tried to bury that guy alive several minutes ago.

Then, Ren Qingquan continued. 'Furthermore, I am still a bit traumatized by the corpse I saw at the inn in Martial Arts World. And while on earth, I never killed someone. After the adrenaline rush died off, I was a bit afraid of killing someone.'

Hearing what Ren Qingquan's real reason is most likely, I decided this can't go on. I need to make him capable of killing others when needed.

I understand Ren Qingquan's unwillingness to kill other humans. After all, both of us come from earth where killing sounds quite far away from our daily life. But, this whole matter with Lackey A is a different matter.

Sigh, guess I need to pull that thing out. Although I have already prepared it for a long time. Due to my preference of giving others a free will, I haven't enforced it.

Writing something on the screen, I sent a notification to Ren Qingquan.

[Ding! System has added a 'Quest' function! Host may open the quest panel through your personal panel or by thinking about 'Quest'. ]

'Huh?' Seeing that notification, Ren Qingquan looks a bit confused. 'System, why the sudden update?'

After I sent that notification, I ignored Ren Qingquan's question for a moment and opened my panel to look at the amount of energy I have left.

[Name: System

Skills:

[Storage]

Inanimate and frozen time: 1000 cubic meters.

Space with x2 speed: 1 cubic meter.

[Transfer]

[Calculate]

Upgraded using: 20.000 points.

[Devour]

Radius: 6 Meters

[Scan]

Max Range: 10.000

[Create]

[Anchor]

Lv 7 : Ren Qingquan

Lv 5 : 1 (Azure Emperor)

Lv 2 : ±10

Lv 1 : ±1.000

Energy: 100.000

Daily income: 80 Energy]

As I spent some of the energies I gained from Ren Qingquan's purchase of skill creation and learning to [Calculate] due to its usefulness. The amount of energy I gained hasn't increased by a lot.

Anyway, that is not important.

Looking at the amount of energy I have left, I finally decided the amount of reward I will give for Ren Qingquan's first quest.