Ren Qingchen who finally chose to trust the items I sold in the shop finally started to work. Once he starts to hunt at full force, His efficiency is incredibly scary.
Thanks to the help from my map, within an hour he has killed dozens of Body Tempering and Qi Gathering stage beasts. Except for those dozens of beasts, there are also three Foundation Building stage beasts. In total, the amount of points he obtained within an hour reached a staggering 100 points. Tax already included.
That means by hunting for 40 hours, Ren Qingchen can reach the Foundation Building stage! It is necessary to remember his devour is only 20% of Ren Qingquan's. Coupled with the tax, the amount of points he gained per killing is only 1/10 of Ren Qingquan!
Of course, his current hunting ground also greatly contributed to that insane point gain speed. The island where Ren Qingquan went before barely has any ambient spirit which makes the creatures inside have low cultivation. Meanwhile, the spirit qi inside this forest Ren Qingchen entered has reached a density equal to the Pure Wave Sect's outer sect. Furthermore, the deeper he walks, the ambient spirit qi turns even denser.
After traveling for 4 hours, he stopped on his track. From [Scan], I detected the energy coming from an extremely powerful beast at the Golden Core stage. The beast is shaped like a leopard, and there is also an energy fluctuation coming from it which slightly affected my [Scan]. Luckily my current [Scan] has been upgraded so although the resolution feels a bit blurry like moving from 4K HD to 1080pp, I can still sense it.
Ren Qingchen who always had the map open since obtaining it also prepared his defense upon seeing the beast approaching from the system map.
Hmm? There is something a bit wrong here. The angle of Ren Qingchen's view is slightly tilted to the wrong side. Furthermore, his pupil is moving around instead of focusing on his enemy. He also often glanced at the system map.
If it is Ren Qingquan, I will brush it off as him being distracted. But, this is Ren Qingchen I am talking about. Focusing my [Scan] on that leopard, I found out the energy from the leopard that affected my [Scan] is actually that leopard's ability. Furthermore, it is most likely a stealth-type ability capable of turning its user invisible and noiseless.
No wonder Ren Qingchen activated a magical technique to enhance his hearing previously but immediately turned it off before switching to one that probably increased his sense of smell.
Reaching his hand into his disciple uniforms, I saw him take several storage bottles of different colors. Mixing the ingredients inside a bottle to another one, he immediately throws it toward that leopard.
*Boom*
Once the storage bottle hit that leopard, it shattered and caused a massive blue flame to explode!
What he throws is a xianxia style Molotov!
The blue flame burns the surrounding plants upon contact, but unlike a normal flame, they don't spread to other places. In exchange those flames have the ability to stick on its target and burn their mental power? I am not too sure about this.
Anyway, once that flame got stuck on its body, I saw the leopard crying in pain as its stealth ability turned off. Even when that Leopard rolled its body around the soil, that flame still persistently stuck on its body.
With the leopard finally showing itself, Ren Qingchen speedily moved forward while preparing to slash his sword. When the leopard saw its prey coming toward it, it held the pain caused by that blue flame and readied itself to receive Ren Qingchen's attack.
When the sword and claw clash. Accompanied by a metallic sound, several sparks are created. With his sudden attack parried, Ren Qingchen retreated to a safe distance. Opening the shop panel, he purchased ten traces of absorbed spirit qi.
[You have purchased 10 traces of absorbed spirit qi for 10 points.]
With his spirit qi refilled, Ren Qingquan activated one of his magical techniques.
"Thousand Leaf Separation!" Shouting the name of the magical technique, I saw Ren Qingchen's energy circulate as he pulled some spirit qi from his dantian and moved it toward the sword in his hand. With his magical technique ready, he dashed toward that leopard once again.
The sword which has been buffed with that spirit qi, quickly increased in strength and speed. Within the time it took for a leaf to descend, his sword was slashed dozens of times. A bit underwhelming for a technique called Thousand Leaf Separation. But, I understand the desire to call your technique with a domineering name.
The leopard whose movement has been slowed down due to being in pain can't block all of the attack directed at itself, which causes several bloody wounds to appear on its body which increases the pain it feels. Especially because Ren Qingchen targeted the part already burned by his blue flames.
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
While that leopard was growling in pain, I saw him pull several throwing knives coated in poisons from his sleeve and throw them toward an open wound near the heart of that leopard. Seeing the sharp blade shooting toward it, the leopard barely dodged by switching its center of gravity.
Most of the knives hit the leopard's skin and got repelled. But luckily, two knives successfully embedded themselves into its wound.
Seeing his knife successfully entering the body of that leopard, Ren Qingchen smiled and retreated a fair distance. Soon, that leopard began to enter a rampage before finally twitching while lying on the floor.
I think this is quite important to say. The clothes Ren Qingchen wore were actually modified and contained many pockets to store things. For example, on one of his sleeves, there are several places to store his small throwing daggers and a flute. Meanwhile, his other sleeves are filled with several small bottles containing unknown liquids with varying compositions. His inner robes have also been modified to be capable of holding several dozen storage bottles he used to do that xianxia style chemistry.
No matter how you see it, Ren Qingchen doesn't feel like an upright cultivator, but instead has the aura of a sly cultivator specializing in poison and hidden weapons.
[Ding! Successfully devoured 25 points!]
With my notification, Ren Qingchen went to the leopard that had already lost all of its vital signs. Just when he is going to retrieve the corpse of that leopard. From the map, three blue dots that had been staying one hundred meters away quickly ran toward the corpse of that Golden Core Stage leopard.
After those dots arrived within 20 meters of Ren Qingchen, It turned out all of them were actually living creatures. To be exact, all three of them are male cultivators.
The cultivator standing at the lead screamed when he saw Ren Qingchen walking toward that leopard. "Stop! How dare you steal the beast we have killed!"
The slightly stout man behind him continued. "Don't you know who we are?! We are Young Master Gu's subordinates! Young Master Gu is the most beloved son of Elder Gu Xian, a Soul Formation stage expert!"
Then a tall yet thin male with a scar on his eyebrows nodded. "Now, kneel down and beg for mercy! Maybe we will be kind enough to leave your corpse intact."
When I first heard how they talked, I found it funny while also getting a bit excited. What Ren Qingchen met just now is one of the famous tropes used in xianxia where the MC will get robbed by unknown guys.
But when they call themselves Young Master Gu's subordinates, I am utterly speechless yet amazed. This Young Master Gu truly has a lot of cannon fodder below him. There is the previous Lackey A and now, there are these three new Lackeys. Let's just call them Lackey B, C, and D for convenience.
Upon seeing those three silly guys coming out of nowhere and trying to steal his kill, I saw Ren Qingchen's eye twitch. Keeping his calm, Ren Qingchen muttered. "Let's check their cultivation stage."
Activating his magical technique, I saw his eyes slightly dilated as a faint glow appeared for several seconds. After turning off that magical technique, I saw him open my map to do another check. Upon focusing his sight on the dot representing Lackeys BCD, a screen opened in front of him.
[Name: Unknown
Realm: Foundation Building
Cultivation Method: ?
Magical Technique: ?
Note: Young Master Gu Cheng's minion] x3
Ren Qingchen muttered in a small bottle voice."Oh. They are indeed just cultivators at the Foundation Building stage."
Next, I saw him hold his breath before silently opening a storage bottle containing a mist with many poisonous attributes in it. Within a minute, the poisonous mist has spread into the surrounding ten meter radius and still keeps on spreading further. Even when there is no wind, the mist is still capable of spreading at such a high speed.
While those mists spread, Lackey B still talked nonsense. "Trash, take a good look at me, I will be the one to kill you! My name is-"
Midway through his sentence, Lackey B's words got cut off by Lackey C. "Hahaha! Senior brother, why bother introducing yourself to a corpse!"
Seeing as Lackey B, C, and D were still spewing rubbish from their mouths, Ren Qingchen silently destroyed a small bottle tied inside his sleeve. Next, he spoke loudly toward those three. "Hmph, why do I smell something disgusting here? Oh, there are three pairs of shits talking! No wonder I felt my nose itch some time ago."
After saying that, Ren Qingchen moved his sleeve which had been soaked with the liquid from that small bottle, and covered his nose.
What smooth movements! He first provoked them with his words. Placing his sleeve to cover his nose might seem like his attempt to further anger them. But it is actually to hide his usage of what seems like the antidote to his poisons.
When Lackey BCD heard Ren Qingchen's provocation, their faces quickly turned red in anger. Seriously, I can't watch this battle any further. I can already conclude the ending of this fight between a sly old fox fighting against three brain-dead guys.
Just like what I expected. That poison soon spread toward the position Lackey BCD stood. They who have been blinded in anger don't sense the poisons existing within the air.
"You have eyes yet fail to recognize Mount Ta-" Midway through his arrogant words, Lackey B suddenly went limp with some foam spewing out of his mouth.
Wait, Lackey B getting poisoned isn't important. Did I just hear him trying to say Mount Tai? Mount Tai also exists in this world?!
"Hmph! Crooked cultivator that doesn't know the immensity of heaven and ea-" Just like Lackey B, midway through his arrogant sentence, Lackey C foamed and fell to the ground.
Lackey D who saw his brothers fall one after another upon talking, sensed something amiss as he quickly covered his mouth and noses. But it is already too late, the poison has spread through his body and soon he follows in the step of his fellow Lackeys.
With a steady step, Ren Qingchen walked toward the three of them. Pulling his sword from its sheath, he chopped the heads of those three.
With blood spewing from their neck, Lackey B, C, and D lost all of their vital signs.
[Ding! Successfully devoured 30 points!]
After seeing the notification, he spoke while gently rubbing the flute hidden in his sleeve. "It seems my skill hasn't rusted yet. I don't even need to use the Azure Flute to kill a Golden Core beast and three Foundation Building cultivators."
At this time, Ren Qingquan finally woke up. This lazy little shiet actually slept for 18 frickin hours! When he previously went to sleep, the sun had yet to descend. and When he woke up, it was already midday the next day!