How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

Chapter 42. What Do Cultivators Do? That Is Right! Cultivating.

At this point in time, Ren Qingchen is currently sitting in the meditative position while ambient spirit qi of fire and thunder elements are slowly gathered toward him.

'So beautiful' Looking at those floating spirit qi, Ren Qingquan has a curious and amazed expression. At least it sounds like that from his thoughts. But, after several minutes of watching Ren Qingchen sitting and cultivating. He became bored and tried to change his focus to others from the Martial Arts world. After thinking for a moment, he decided to take a look at his uncle's current condition.

Once Ren Qingquan chose to observe his uncle, I changed my focus from Ren Qingchen to His uncle. Then, I immediately sent the information gained through [Transfer]

So, after a moment of darkness. Ren Qingquan could see his surroundings change from Ren Qingchen to his third uncle. What a pity that at this moment, his uncle is also sitting in a meditative position like Ren Qingchen. The only difference is the lack of ambient spirit qi's movements around him. Which means Red Qingquan's third uncle is still at the spirit sensing stage trying to sense the ambient spirit qi in the world.

Next, Ren Qingquan changed his view to several others like fatty Zhang, fatty's aunt, Peak Master Fen, Third Princess, and that senior brother who are all currently trying to sense the ambient spirit qi while in a meditative position.

I can see him turning speechless upon realizing everyone he is familiar with is busy cultivating. He then decided to focus his attention to those elders he met during the disciple recruitment tests instead.

Selecting elder Guan in charge of the disciple recruitment tests previously as his first target, Ren Qingquan surrounding turned black once again. Different from his previous experience, the first thing Ren Qingquan thought upon observing elder Guan is 'system, what the hell is that thing!'

Due to the interference caused by the mental powers those elders released, it seriously affected the effect of my scan. Right now, what stands in front of Ren Qingquan is some kind of confusing mosaic instead of elder Guan like he expected. So, the shock he has is understandable.

[That mosaic is the elder you have chosen. Due to the mental power that the elder released, it affected the system's 'Scan' function and made it unable to detect things within a short distance of his surroundings. System recommended for the host to upgrade the stability and penetrative ability of 'Scan' function to stop seeing those elder as mosaic. ]

After reading the message I sent explaining what happened, Ren Qingquan calmed down and focused into what he currently observed.

Just like his companions from Martial Arts World, elder Guan is currently also busy cultivating. Except for the fact the spirit qi around him are gathering at extremely fast rate and he is currently cultivating at a special place which looks like a volcano. There is no difference at all compared to the others. He also tried to change the target to other elders, but they are also cultivating right now.

Seeing as everyone is actually busy cultivating, Ren Qingquan decided to send his attention toward other people he just attached to the sub system today.

Filming those who are also sitting in the same building with him, Ren Qingquan changed his observation target one by one. After selecting the four hundredth target, he finally met someone that is neither cultivating nor doing some daily chore.

The person Ren Qingquan observing right now currently wore the basic uniform for Pure Wave Sect. Around him, there are also 3 other people. Every single one of them wore a huge bag at their back and were currently moving at high speed toward a certain direction.

From their conversation, they all are going to visit a wilderness located nearby Pure Wave Sect to hunt for some spirit beasts and collect resources to help them advance their cultivation realm. But, even after a quarter of an hour, those people have only spent all their time running around like headless chickens. At 10 meters radius of their surroundings, except for soil and rock, there are only common plants.

That is when the attention I left on Jin Fushen detected how his speech was finally nearing its end. And so, I send a notification to Ren Qingquan who is currently busy observing those people.

[Host! Jin Fushen is going to talk about general knowledge soon!]

Reading those words, Ren Qingquan quickly turned off the observation function. Finally opening his eyes, the person sitting at the cushion next to him glared at Ren Qingquan with a weird look. Afterall, from the outside Ren Qingquan looks like he has been sleeping or closing his eyes for close to half an hour.

Sensing the weird look the person next to him gave himself, Ren Qingquan glanced to his side and smiled. Soon after both of their attention are focused toward Jin Fushen sitting in front.

"... Next, we will begin talking about cultivation stages. The cultivation stages in this world are separated into 10 stages. First is the body tempering realm where one nurtures the body to reach the limit of mortals. Followed by qi refining, foundation building, and golden core which are used to nurture the body in preparation for solidifying your soul. Next there is the Nascent Soul, Soul Formation, and Divine Transformation stage which are used to nurture your soul. And last are the realm where you started to condense your dao. It is separated into Void unity, Tribulation Transcending, and Immortal Ascension stages. Anyway, the people in this realm are already a powerhouse in the cultivation world."

While Jin Fushen was explaining about the cultivation realms, I saw Ren Qingquan listening with a serious look. Similar to him, the surrounding new disciples listen without blinking while wearing an excited expression.

After talking about those cultivation areas, Jin Fushen looked at everyone and calmly continued.

"To increase from one stage to another, one must first refine enough spirit qi. This is where the amount of spirit root you have will affect you. For those with pure spirit root, they only need to refine one strand of spirit qi to complete their qi refining stage. Meanwhile, those with more spirit roots need to multiply it by the amount of spirit roots they have. That is to say, those with 2 spirit roots require 2 strands, and those with 5 require 5 strands. Not only that, those with less spirit roots could break into the next realm faster compared to those with more."

Upon hearing Jin Fushen's words, I could see Ren Qingquan thinking 'Oh shiet!'.

Well, Ren Qingquan has a five spirit root which is the absolute worst cultivation talent. Which means he would need to refine 5 strands of spirit qi to complete the qi refining stage.

Let's do a basic calculation. Ren Qingquan requires around 10 years of cultivating for 12 hours per day to refine a strand of spirit qi. Multiply it by 5 and that means Ren Qingquan needs to cultivate for 50 years for half a day each day. Please note those at Ren Qingquan's stage still require eating, sleeping and answering the call of nature. So, he could at most condense the time required to reach completion of qi refining to 40 years. So by the time he reaches completion of qi refining, Ren Qingquan would be around 60 years old already.

That too only if he purchased an already absorbed spirit qi worth 1000 energies each strand. Otherwise, Ren Qingquan would need to spend more time gathering the spirit qi required to cultivate from the ambient energies around him.

Including the ominous bottleneck mentioned by Jin Fushen, I finally understood why the Pure Wave Sect decided not to accept people with five spirit roots. But, it also makes me confused as to why they accepted Ren Qingquan who has five spirit roots and even cheated during the test to grow instead. Could the people here really see something like luck?

While I spent several seconds thinking all that, I could see Ren Qingquan's face pale. It seems he also realized the situation he is in.

Through [Anchor], I could sense Ren Qingquan's tumultuous thoughts. That is when he seemed to reach a conclusion and asked me a question. 'System, do you sell refined spirit qi?'

Hearing his question I could only shake my non-existent head. While Ren Qingquan was previously cultivating at his house, I indeed have scanned that trace of spirit qi. But compared to the refined spirit qi mentioned by Jin Fushen it is still far off.

Writing something into the screen, I sent it toward Ren Qingquan.

[Ding! System currently doesn't sell refined spirit qi. System will notify the host once it is sold in the system shop.]

Hearing my words, Ren Qingquan fell silent and asked. 'Does that mean you will sell refined spirit qi in the future? Also, could you give me a specific time?'

[Yes, the system will sell it in the future. As for the specific time, it will be either when the host successfully refined that trace of spirit qi you previously refined or when the host has refined a strand of spirit qi.]

Hearing a positive answer from me, Ren Qingquan finally calmed down before panicking once again. 'Wait! With how the system works. Even if it sold refined spirit qi, I would still need to purchase it.'

'But currently there is a problem with the [Devour] function. Without it, I wouldn't be able to gain points to purchase refined spirit qi.' With that thought, Ren Qingquan's urge to experiment with [Devour] has been strengthened once more.

While Ren Qingquan is focused on thinking about his future, Jin Fushen finally concludes his class. "That is all I have to say for today. After this, I hope everyone will try to sense the ambient spirit qi. Tomorrow I will answer some question you may have and then continue to talk about how to refine spirit qi using our sect's Pure Wave Method."

Then, Jin Fushen stood from his cushion and walked toward the door. Under everyone's envious and admiring glance, Jin Fushen stepped on his sword before flying away with a whoosh.

After seeing Jin Fushen leaving. Everyone in the building is either greeting and trying to be acquainted with each other, or collecting their notes and preparing to go out of the building. With Ren Qingquan being one of them as he is already impatient to return to his residence.

Because he is trying to save as many points as possible in case the price system given for those refined spirits is actually extremely high. This time, he stopped granting everyone he met with a sub system.

Upon arriving at his house, Ren Qingquan immediately sat in meditative position and continued to cultivate and refine that trace of spirit he previously half refined. Just like that, 2 days passed with him being extremely focused at cultivating.

Several hours before I reseted the daily system shop, Ren Qingquan finally successfully refined that trace of spirit qi which is equal to the size of 1/1000th strand of spirit qi.

Sensing how that trace of spirit qi finally met the criteria of a refined spirit qi said in the cultivation technique book. I activated [Scan] and focused my attention toward it in an attempt to study it in depth and create a copy of that trace of refined spirit qi.

Just when Ren Qingquan finally decided to reward himself with some break and wait until I refreshed the system shop, I could hear a static sound from the sense shared by Ren Qingquan.

*Bzzzt* *Bzzzt* "He-" *Bzzzt*

After several minutes of buzzing sound, a barely familiar woman's sound could be heard.

"Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?"

"Yes?" Maybe I must teach him not to answer the suspicious voice he heard. Because after hearing that question coming from an unknown place, Ren Qingquan actually answered it.

(¬_¬)

Hearing Ren Qingquan's words, I could hear a man's voice coming from the same source. The sound that man has is extremely familiar.

"Ren Qingquan! Are you safe? Where are you at right now? What kind of messy thing were you doing until you actually entered the cultivation world? Don't you know how concerned I am. When I sensed you went... "

That is right, the familiar male voice with nagging feeling that seeps into every sentence is Ren Qingquan's dad, Ren Shiluo's sound!

Hearing Ren Shiluo's voice which comes from an unknown place, I am extremely confused. Just what is going on here?