How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

Chapter 75. *Sarcastically* Oh my, what a surprise.

After Su Ping touched his head and felt the wound disappear, he looked at his surroundings.

His current position is right in the middle of the cliff. Above him, there is the part where he comes from. While below, there is another cliff that goes on until it reaches the edge of my [Scan].

When he tried to climb the path to return above, he found it too dangerous due to the cliff's steep degree and finally decided to give up.

Without much choice, I saw him open the system store, perhaps trying to look for a way out. When he scrolled until the part I just added, I can see his face turn a bit surprised.

Soon, he arrived at the section selling a floating talisman and bought it.

[Floating Talisman: 10 points each.

Description: allow the user to float. Please tear it or imbue the user's mental power to use. Lasts for 10 minutes.]

Although I've already done several simulations, this is still my first attempt at crafting a talisman. So, I tried to make sure I followed the instructions to a tee.

Focusing myself on this task, I created the talisman right above Su Ping's palm.

When Ren Qingquan saw Su Ping suddenly obtaining a talisman, he quickly asked me. 'System, did he just purchase that talisman from you? How come I never knew you sold talismans?'

[Yeah, System has updated the store just now.]

'Why don't you send a notification or something? Who knows, there might be something I need that you sold in your new shop.'

Whoops, guess I forgot about that.

Now that Ren Qingquan reminded me, I sent the update notification to him, Su Ping, and Ren Qingchen.

[Ding! System shop has been updated.]

When Su Ping felt the sensation of a paper in his hand, I saw him move his other hand and prepared to tear it open.

That's when I stopped him.

[Host, please check the system map!]

Following my notification, Su Ping paused his hand and opened the system map. From it, He found out there is actually a road hidden behind the vegetation next to the protruding rock he stood on.

Furthermore, approximately fifty meters away from him, there are several huge dots of light.

After he waited for another few minutes and saw those dots didn't move at all, he finally started moving toward the plants blocking the road.

When I saw him spending some time observing those dots, I nodded my nonexistent head.

It seems Su Ping is quite smart. Even at that distance his [Scan] can only detect the amount of energy something has and can't detect whether it is a beast, plant, or a treasure.

But by waiting and observing whether the dots moved or not, it is possible to slightly guess what kind of thing the dot is.

After all, unless a beast is crippled, trapped, sleeping, or hibernating, it will most likely move occasionally.

At this time, Su Ping pulled the dagger he purchased before and slashed at the vine and branches blocking his path.

Five minutes later, he finally created an opening through those plants and entered a path leading inside.

The path doesn't last long. After forty meters or so, Su Ping arrived at the end of the road after turning a corner.

What greeted his eyes was a four meters tall and two meters wide double door made of solid iron. Due to age, the doors are already rusty at several places. Which resulted in every pattern of the door to turn blurry except for the word 'Residence of Loose Cultivator Yuan Chen' engraved in the middle of the door.

When both I and Ren Qingquan who observed Su Ping through a screen saw this, we seems to be staring at each other speechlessly

System: →⁠_⁠→

Ren Qingquan: ←⁠_⁠←

Although I previously said it is normal for Su Ping to find an expert's inheritance after falling down a cliff. But seeing how it truly happened still makes me a bit speechless.

***

At Su Ping's current distance, the [Scan] I attached to him finally detected what those things he previously detected were.

Behind the door, I sensed the skeleton of a human in a meditative position. That skeleton is most likely Yuan Chen, the one who owns this residence.

On Yuan Chen's dead body, there are a weapon and two spirit crystals just like the one placed on the teleportation platform Ren Qingquan used to arrive at the cultivation world.

Different from the spirit crystal at the teleportation platform which only contains three hundred point's worth of energy. Each of the crystals on that corpse contained exactly 1000 points.

Several meters above the skeleton, there is also a bead attached to the ceiling. From it, [Scan] detected air and light being released constantly.

No wonder even after being hidden for so long, the corridor leading toward cultivator Yuan Chen's residence still has fresh air.

Just like the spirit crystal, that bead also contained quite a lot of energy, although much lesser than the spirit crystal.

It probably amounted to 200 or so energy

Oh, there is also a small bookshelf with ten books on one side of the room. My attention is too focused on those beads to the point I forgot about the bookshelf.

When Su Ping saw the door to Yuan Chen's residence, he immediately pushed it open. Once the door is opened, his eyes are drawn toward the shiny bead hanging in the ceiling before he switches his sight into the corpse of cultivator Yuan Chen.

To test for any possible trap on Yuan Chen's body, Su Ping pulled his dagger and threw it toward cultivator Yuan Chen's corpse while hiding far away.

When he saw the corpse only moved and didn't release anything, Su Ping picked his dagger and cut a part of his cloth to be used as a napkin so he wouldn't directly touch Yuan Chen's body.

When I saw Su Ping being so cautious, I was a bit speechless. Did he get poisoned often or something? Also, why can't Ren Qingquan be as cautious as him?

At this time, Ren Qingquan who is bored can't watch Su Ping's antics any further and decided to write something.

[Warm reminder, you may use the system's map and select an item to test for any poisons and traps. Host may click or stare at the '+' button to zoom in the system map if you're unable to see the outline of the items you wish to scan.]

Su Ping saw the reminder and opened his system map before zooming in toward the location near him. After zooming until the map only shows the location within his ten meter radius, the outline of a corpse can finally be seen.

He then pressed on the screen and information about the corpse was written.

[Item: Skeleton

Detail: The skeleton of a male human. Equipped with two spirit crystals and a dagger.]

When he saw the notification, Su Ping asked. "Senior system, does that mean there is no poison on this skeleton?"

Before I could respond, Ren Qingquan had already typed on his screen.

[Yes!]

With reassurance given by Ren Qingquan, Su Ping finally went toward Yuan Chen's corpse and collected the dagger and spirit crystal while repeatedly muttering 'Please forgive me, senior'.

Once he was done with collecting those three things, Su Ping's eyes moved toward the bead attached to the ceiling.

With his martial arts skill, he jumped into the ceiling and used the dagger he purchased from the blacksmith to pry it out. Then, he hid the bead inside his clothes after wrapping it in the cloth he had torn previously.

It indeed makes the amount of light and wind the bead release to decrease, but there is still some wind occasionally released through the gap in that piece of cloth.

After taking those four items, Su Ping looked around the room and his eyes were locked to the bookshelf I previously saw.

Except for the book titled '100 collection of flowers from the world' which is full of inappropriate pictures and a novel that Ren Qingquan met in Ren Family's library before, titled ' Complication of My Domineering Master's Tender Love Vol.1-10'. The other books are either about Cultivation Manual, Magical Technique, or introduction to the basics of formations.

Unlike in novels, cultivator Yuan Chen doesn't leave any illusions or diary to tell his backstory so the author can pad their word counts. What's inside his bookshelf is only useful books, except for the novel and that collection of inappropriate illustrations.

Then, Su Ping skimmed through the books and finally decided to only take the eight useful books and leave the other two behind. Although only leaving both books may make the next person to enter this place think cultivator Yuan Chen is a perverted novel addict. But it is understandable, as Su Ping's pocket is limited and he must use it to gather only useful things.

With everything important already picked up, Su Ping left Yuan Chen's residence after bowing to the corpse three times.

Closing the door to cultivator Yuan Chen's residence, he followed the path and returned to the stone platform where he fell previously.

Above the stone that protruded from the mountain, Su Ping tore the floating talisman I made. I can finally see how effective the talisman I made while following a book's guide is!

To be honest, except for the cost to make it, I am quite satisfied with the result. If I can find a way to cut costs, spamming talisman attacks might be a good way to increase Ren Qingquan's survival rate.

Once the talisman is torn, Su Ping finds himself engulfed by the energy generated by that talisman and starts floating.

At first his movement was a bit awkward and he almost fell to his death several times. But after a few attempts, he can finally control his flight path and started to float towards the road where he fell from.