How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

Chapter 22. Ren Qingchen: Something Is Very Wrong!

Upon joining medicine peak, Ren Qingchen just spent his time doing the tasks from Medicine Peak like other disciples. As there is a quota for the amount of medicine every disciple needs to give, most of the disciples in Medicine Peak spent their time in the medicine refining pagoda.

Of course, while doing his task, Ren Qingchen always brought with him the ingredients necessary to craft a watered down version of Clear Heart Pill which is a medicine recipe from a higher world. He chose that pill to show off his talent and pull the peak master's attention as it could make people comprehend things like technique and skill faster. Of course as it is a watered down version, the amount of help it could grant is limited. But, it is still an unprecedented medicine as there is no medicine capable of increasing comprehension in this world.

Just like that, a week has passed with Ren Qingchen spending time doing repeated tasks. In the blink of an eye, three weeks passed and there is still no sign of Medicine Peak Master showing in the refining pagoda at all. Finally, one month passes with Ren Qingchen waiting amidst uneasy feelings.

When he woke up and went to train before entering the medicine refining pagoda, a loud hearty voice resounded throughout the Medicine Peak.

"Hahaha! I have successfully refined this life extending medicine!"

Hearing the loud voice coming from the pavilion located at the peak of the mountain, his uneasy feeling turned worse. Immediately running toward that place, he could also see several other disciples on his way toward the mountain top. When he is half way through the mountain, using his sharp eyes Ren Qingchen could see a middle aged man coming out from that pavilion.

Soon, more and more people gather towards the top of Medicine Peak. When he nearly arrived, Ren Qingchen could already see several people having conversation with that middle aged man. From the clothes they wore, all of them seemed to be elderly.

"Senior brother, congratulations. You actually successfully crafted it."

"Congratulations to the Peak Master. Your name will definitely be recorded in history."

All of them gathered to give their congratulations toward the now middle aged Peak Master. After those elders finished congratulating the Peak Master, the surrounding disciple followed.

"Congratulations to Peak Master for having a longer lifespan."

When he saw the surrounding disciples congratulate the now much younger Medicine Peak Master, Ren Qingchen followed suit while in a daze.

'Something is incredibly wrong!'

Now that he thinks more about it, things being so calm after three whole months is incredibly weird. In his previous life, the rebellion should have started around one month ago. Even if the Martial Spirit Sect is located in the Endless Mountains and makes information spreading less convenient, such news should also spread here in one week at most.

'What is even more concerning is the lack of noises caused by Ren Shiluo. Even if I have destroyed a whole mine, that should only delay him one or two months at most. Or perhaps Ren Shiluo doesn't put the blame for his son's death on me?'

Thinking up to that point, Ren Qingchen decides to take some leave from the Martial Spirit Sect and see the current condition of that rebellion and the current condition of Ren Shiluo while he is at it.

But before that, he must investigate the Peak Master's source of life extending pills and understand its cause.

After listening to the chatter between those elders and the peak master, he finally detected some clues. Ren Qingchen heard the peak master thank one of the female elders for the moonlight glow flower she had given him which made him successfully refine the pill.

Soon, the surrounding disciples dispersed. With that, Ren Qingchen started his investigation by asking and hearing the surrounding disciple's chat. For the whole day, that event has been the main topic of medicine peak and most disciples talked about it which makes his investigation show a result quite fast.

Soon, Ren Qingchen heard about the person suspected of giving the moonlight glow flower to that elder. One month ago, a disciple said he saw a fat guy running toward the medicine chamber of that elder anxiously. It seems even if that fat guy didn't give the medicine, he must have contributed greatly toward this event. But that is when the clue ends, as no one know who that fatty is.

As the clue has currently ended at that fatty, Ren Qingchen decided to leave it at that and make sure the more important rebellion event to happen without any hiccups.

Entering the mission hall, Ren Qingchen went to the information area. Scanning the person in charge, he locked his gaze on a 30 something year old female disciple. Preparing his expression, Ren Qingchen visited the stall of that senior sister wearing a sad expression.

"Hello, how may I help you?"

The senior sister there asked with a smile.

*Sob* After hearing her greeting, Ren Qingchen started sobbing.

"W-What is wrong?"

"I.. I need to take a leave for several months. *Sob* I got a letter from my hometown that my father has just left my mother and now she has gone ill from shock. *Sob* So, I need one or two months to accompany and take care of her."

"This... the maximum amount of leave at once is only one month."

"But, I need to accompany my mother for some time. Otherwise i am afraid she will feel too lonely and *Sob* *Sob*."

Ren Qingchen used an expression as if he was holding his tears.

"Sigh, alright. Then, I will write it as you went to hunt ferocious beasts for two months and returned to take a leave for one month soon after."

"Thank you senior sister *Sob*"

"No problem. Also, don't forget to return in time. Otherwise you might get a warning or even kicked from the sect."

'hehehehe, as expected. Having a childish face has its own merit. At least I could make some people pity me easily.'

Compared to his peers, Ren Qingchen has a slightly slower growth. Even when he is currently 16 years old, he still merely looks around 14 years old.

During his path to greatness in his previous life, it was filled with many obstacles and difficulties. So, Ren Qingchen has learned to use many tricks from those experiences. Something like using the advantage of his face to make others take pity on him is a breeze.

After getting permission to leave the sect, Ren Qingchen immediately packed his belongings and quickly left the sect. His target is one of the cities where its overlord will join the rebellion.

***

Meanwhile, Ren Qingquan is currently happily devouring mountains in the inner area of Endless Mountains. When devouring the mountains, he always opens the system map to immediately identify threats and escape if something went wrong. As the inner section of Endless Mountains contain ferocious beasts at Martial Saint level and above, it is necessary for him to take caution and not be targeted by several above Martial Saint level ferocious beasts at once. Afterall, his now 40 tons of metal could only beat one or two Martial Saint at once. With the speed of Martial Saint ferocious beasts, once he is occupied with beating one of them, the others could start a counterattack.

After a whole day, Ren Qingquan finally finished devouring the mountain he selected. With this, he finally collected enough to reach Martial Saint level.

'System, exchange 124 points for vital energy.'

[Ding! Host has spent 124 points to purchase 62 vital energies.]

With that purchase, Ren Qingquan's points soon decreased to slightly less than 1000

[Name: Ren Qingquan

Realm: Ninth Stage Martial Grandmaster

Point: 987

Technique: Body Tempering (Martial Saint)

Skills: Tiger Subduing Palm(Middle),

Agile Step (Middle), Iron Cloth (Low).

System function: Devour, Shop, Scan, Library, Map, Calculate, System Storage (10 cubic meters).]

Accompanied by the familiar warm and relaxing feelings, Ren Qingquan has finally collected A lot more vital energies than required to reach Martial Saint realm. With this, Ren Qingquan immediately broke through to the Martial Saint realm. Actually not, he is still in the Martial Grandmaster realm.

'System? What is happening here?'

[Ding! Due to the host using Body Tempering Technique, you require 1500 strands of blood energy to reach Martial Saint realm. As the spirit generated by Body Tempering Technique is consumable and requires 500 blood energy to condense, Body Tempering Technique forces its practitioner to collect additional 500 blood energy. Otherwise, condensing spirit qi with only 1000 blood energy will damage the body as it will forcefully absorb the Martial Arts Realm. Those things are written in the technique book. So, please read about it more and stop reading those novels.]

Reading the system's notification, Ren Qingquan nodded as he finally found the reason. But when he saw the last few sentences Ren Qingquan just rolled his eyes and ignored it.

'So, system does that mean I still need to collect 500 more blood energy?'

[Yes.]

'Alright then! Help me select a suitable mountain for me to devour.'

[Please walk further South. System has marked a suitable mountain on the map.]

Arriving at that mountain, Ren Qingquan first traveled around it to detect the existence of high level ferocious beasts. Half way through his inspection, he detected a massive dot in the system which is eye catching. He could also see the dot moving toward him at high speed and will soon arrive at his location.

'Damn. I was found out! It seems I can't delay upgrading [Scan] anymore.'

Operating Agile step with full power, Ren Qingquan quickly evaded from the path of that dot. Soon, with the rustling of bushes a huge black leopard leaped at his previous location. Already prepared his weapon, Ren Qingquan immediately released his 40 tons metal plate.

*Boom*

A loud explosive sound quickly sounded and with it, many dust and soil also floated around the metal plate. Hidden in the dust and soils, Ren Qingquan could see a fleeting black shadow moving quickly.

'Holy shiet. My special move actually failed!'

Shocked when his special move actually got evaded, Ren Qingquan lost his composure and almost got attacked by that leopard. Luckily he still had time to activate Agile Step and evaded that attack by a breath.

'System, increase agile step to perfection.'

[Host spent 100 points. Agile Step has been upgraded to perfection]

With that upgrade, Ren Qingquan picked up the metal plate while evading the attack of that leopard and started to think about a way to break this deadlock.

'Right! System, purchase that poison, also make me several daggers using princess's metal and coat the blades with poison.'

[Host spent 25 points. 10 Poison daggers have been purchased.]

Ren Qingquan immediately threw one of the daggers toward that leopard. Seeing the dagger, that leopard quickly evaded.

'It seems I need to lock the path of that leopard.'

Thinking that, Ren Qingquan tried to imitate those martial art films as he immediately pulled several daggers and threw them in succession. But that leopard actually evaded it again. As expected, the following martial arts movie is not reliable. After that stupid move, now he only has 3 daggers left.

'Damn it! I will stake it all with a melee.'

Ren Qingquan immediately ran toward the leopard with two daggers in hand. As he waved it toward the leopard while trying to slashing it, the leopard actually used its claw to knock both daggers from his hand.

'What the hell! Has my combat ability always been this low? Mhmm now that I think about it, I have never had a real fight since transmigrating. I either smash things toward my enemies or get beaten the shit out of me just like against the Third Princess.'

While Ren Qingquan is lost in thought, that leopard actually successfully dealt damage toward him. As Ren Qingquan saw the flesh on his thigh getting torn by that beast, he immediately screamed while retreating quickly.

"Ajs Gbwjsbsbsh! That freaking hurts!"

[Ding! emergency healing function activated! You spent 30 point to regenerate to healthy condition. Note: the more important and complicated the body part attacked is, the more points required to heal.]

***

Consciousness Space

As I looked at Ren Qingquan being beaten like a sandbag I sighed and helped him heal his wound using [Create] by creating the torn part and connecting it immediately with the other parts of his body. As my only [Anchored] things, every nook and cranny of Ren Qingquan's body has been thoroughly and constantly scanned which greatly decreases the cost of creating his body part.

That bean sprout actually focused so much on his martial arts realm that his current combat power is abysmal. With the addition of cheating using [Storage] in every battle, it makes his already weak combat power to be supported by almost non existent combat experience.

Sigh. When push comes to shove I will activate [Transfer] and send him somewhere safe. Of course, Ren Qingquan must pay the cost himself.