Not long after leaving the city, the caravan finally walked away from the main road. Treading on the now uneven dirt path, they steadily marched forward while cutting any overgrown plant blocking the road.

Thanks to the fact everyone on the caravan is either at the peak of Qi Refining or early foundation building stage. Even when there are occasional fallen trees blocking the road, they can easily push it away.

Furthermore, the horses they used are actually spirit beasts with cultivation of at least Qi Refining stage.

The group's strength helped them on their journey, as the beasts in the surrounding area quickly walked away upon sensing the group's strength.

But, just like how there are blind young masters and arrogant sect elders that can't see the severity of heaven and anger protagonist like child of luck. Some spirit beasts are also blind and actually try to hunt targets that's much stronger than them.

While resting in an opening nearby their path, Su Ping's group heard many rustling sounds from quite far away. From the [Scan] I left on him, I detected the existence of many monkeys.

When the captain heard it, he quickly rose up and ordered, "Old Hu, check the situation. Kuan Gong and Xiao Wen guard the carriage while preparing your attack."

Old Hu quickly left the team and entered the forest. Then, I saw him climbing a tree before quickly returning to the team. "There is a group of Silver Tail Monkeys coming our way. Five at Body Tempering stage, Three at Qi Refining stage and One at Foundation Building stage."

The captain frowned, "Is there still time to leave?"

Old Hu shook his head, " I don't think it is possible."

"Then prepare for combat!" At the same time as the Captain's voice, the sound of monkey's scream can be heard from the surroundings as they surround the caravan team.

With the Foundation Building stage monkey's scream as their mark, the surrounding monkeys immediately attack.

The captain, already prepared for their march, pulled the sword from his sheath.

"Giant Sword Aura!" Shouting the name of his technique, the Captain's initially short sword is surrounded by a qi aura that turns it into the size of a claymore.

Using his sword to block the path of three Qi Refining monkeys, the attack prepared by Kuan Gong finally arrived.

"Fiery Dragon Dance!" From nearby the carriage, Kuan Gong sent the Magical Technique he had prepared toward the monkeys blocked by the captain.

*Boom*

An explosion quickly swallowed the monkeys in front of him. The captain who had prepared for such an impact, already hid himself behind his claymore sized sword.

The long preparation of that magical technique doesn't come to waste as it directly killed three monkeys.

Meanwhile Xiao Wen who has pulled her bow is rapidly shooting at the monkeys coming from different directions.

When the Foundation Building monkey saw many of its minions getting killed, it finally started to take action.

Rapidly moving through trees, it jumped down like a meteor toward the caravan captain that had killed three of its strongest underlings.

"Earth Wall!" Already prepared himself for the attack, the captain shouted the name of a magical technique as a wall made of earth rose from the ground on the path of that monkey's descent.

Hitting his body on the wall without any preparation, the monkey successfully shattered it in exchange of turning a bit dizzy.

Old Hu who had been waiting for the right moment, arrived behind the stunned Foundation Building stage monkey and stabbed his dagger in it.

The dagger which contained some poison weakened the monkey even further. But even in its weakened state, the monkey still had time to smash its hand toward Old Hu who barely managed to evade.

Although he successfully evaded the monkey's claw attack, the air from its attack still managed to leave some wounds on his body.

While Old Hu is holding his wounded abdomen, a magical technique coming from Li Mei helped him to recover. The initially deep wound quickly recovered until it only left some scars.

At this time, Xiao Wen has finished preparing her magical technique.

"Eternal ice Arrow!" With her shout, a cold aura appeared on Xiao Wen's arrows as she shot three arrows consecutively toward the monkey.

Although it successfully evaded two of them thanks to its agility, one of the arrows still successfully landed on its abdomen and slowed down its movement.

Using his claymore, the captain gave that monkey the finishing blow and finally beheaded it.

This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.

While those people are fighting for their lives, Su Ping is sitting in the carriage's seat and staring at the notification that has been appearing non-stop.

[Ding! Successfully devoured 5 points!]x3

[Ding! Successfully devoured 0.5 points!] x10

[Ding! Successfully devoured 10 points!]

After the battle, Su Ping actually gained a total of 50 points without doing anything!

***

Looking at the caravan's battle, I actually feel a weird feeling. The way they fight somehow reminds me of those adventurers in fantasy anime instead of cultivators.

What is with the caravan's super balanced team composition that is made of 1 healer, 1 tank, 1 scout, and 2 damage dealers. Coupled with their good team work, it seriously creeped me out.

Shouldn't all cultivators have balanced stat?

'System, help me mark Su Ping's location. I wanna follow them just in case.' Suddenly Ren Qingquan was ready to move his ass and requested me to mark the map.

Because I've been observing Su Ping's path since he left the city, I easily marked the caravan's current location on Ren Qingquan's map.

Ren Qingquan used the map and flew toward the location those caravans were moving. While flying, I heard Ren Qingquan asking me a question.

'System, do you think I can also follow that pay to win path?' I can feel Ren Qingquan actually got tempted by how Su Ping gained points easily by asking others to kill monsters for him.

[System thinks it is possible. How about host pay some nascent soul cultivators and above to help you? System thinks the host can use some of the energy gained from their help to pay those people, which results in zero cost investment!]

'Actually, I am just asking, it doesn't mean I wanna do it.' Ren Qingquan just shrugged. 'What you said seems like a pain in the ass.'

Why are you asking about it in the first place then?! ಠ⁠益⁠ಠ

Perhaps Ren Qingquan felt my anger as he continued, 'Actually, rather than looking for spirit beasts to hunt, I prefer for those spirit beasts to bring their head to me on their own initiative.'

[Please explain, System don't quite get what hosts mean.]

I actually already read his thoughts. But unlike usual, this idea of his is a bit scattered which requires me to spend some time to piece it slowly. Rather than spending my already limited calculation power on such a thing, I'd rather ask him directly.

When Ren Qingquan heard my question, he looked a bit thoughtful before piecing his scattered idea and explained it to me.

'I mean, when I saw the description of that storage space with twice the time flow you gave me last night, I thought of a new idea.' Equipping his enlightened expression, Ren Qingquan continued in a tone that's asking for a beating.

'Initially I planned to turn it into a spiritual plant farm and get some money, but the scene before has awakened me and opened my horizon.'

'Rather than using it as a field, why don't I rear spirit beasts with it. I just need to store some spirit qi and food inside. Once the spirit beasts inside have reached old age or certain cultivation stage, I will kill them and devour their souls. Meanwhile, I can also collect their corpses and sell them to other cultivators and purchase more food to feed them.'

When I heard Ren Qingquan's idea, I feel it was quite cruel. But I am sure such a thing happens everyday at farms, right? I hope the animal association won't target us for animal abuse~

Wait a moment, Ren Qingquan's brain actually went online once again! I need to check whether or not I am affected by his intelligence suppressing luck.

I quickly activated calculation and looked for any possible sign of my intelligence being decreased in this conversation. After making sure I don't seem to be affected at all, I sighed in relief and replied.

[So, do you need the system's help on something?]

'Yeah, can you help me to look for beasts with good reproduction ability and high cultivation speed?' Ren Qingquan nodded as he continued, 'Oh, also don't select beasts that are too cute. Turning them into farm animals makes me uncomfortable. I am afraid it will turn into my heart demon, if heart demon even exists in this world.'

I hesitated for a bit upon hearing his request. Such a thing will took quite a lot of my attention. Right now, my attention has been spread between seven people, which are: Ren Qingquan, Su Ping, Ren Qingchen, Sect Master of Pure Wave Sect, Elder Fengyun, one of the duo chasing after Ren Qingquan, and a random person attached with subsystems.

Of course that hesitation doesn't last long, to be exact it only lasted for a mere five seconds before I happily agreed.

Now then, if I need to check the data for every beasts we meet, it will either require me to overload my calculation power, increase my [Calculate], or give up observing some of the people I currently observe.

After some thought, I decided to spend the 30,000 points I gained from the last few days. Money exists to be spent after all.

This hurt me physically, but the prospect of an automatic EXP farm is just that tempting for me!

I actually wanna make Ren Qingquan bear the cost. But looking at the pitiful 2,000 points remaining in his pocket, even I can't bear to take his points.

I am not that heartless... yet.

***

When the plan are brought to reality, it turns out to be quite harder than I initially expected.

While Ren Qingquan is stalking Su Ping from far away by flying in midair, I am busy scanning the beasts he passes through.

I actually found quite a lot of beasts meeting the first requirement.

For one, most insects I scanned meet this criteria. But their cultivation speed is abysmally low with barely a dozen of Body Tempering Stage beasts among a group consisting of hundred thousands or even millions of insects.

Furthermore the amount of energy that can be gained from the soul of an insect is also much lower than the soul of beasts or humans.

There are also some mammals that meet both first and second requirements. But, they failed in Ren Qingquan's third criteria.

That's right, they are too cute!

For example, there is this group of bunnies that is good at multiplying. But their brown fur and huge eyes are just too cute.

There is also a colony of rats consisting of many Body Tempering stages and even qi refining rats. But different from the rats found in modern day's city, this group of critters looks more like hamsters.

Who would've guessed, Ren Qingquan's nonsensical last request is actually the hardest part!

Also, curse this stupid cultivation world! Why are there so many cute small creatures in it!