Bab 95: 29-35
Chapter 29. A Familiar Way To Greet Each Other
After stealing the Azure Flute
Running from the Sacrificial Rite Palace, Ren Qingchen still had cold sweat every time he remembered that massive pressure he felt.
'Holy shiet, how come someone at that level exists? Just how much of a monster someone must be to achieve that level in this low leveled world.'
Also, when Ren Qingchen just ran away, he remembered seeing the vague shadow of someone wearing an imperial robe walking calmly from the source of that pressure.
'Is it that incompetent emperor? How could a delay of mere one or two months result in the birth of such a monster.'
After running for a half a day, Ren Qingchen started to remove his stealth skill to conserve some blood energy. Afterall, he still needed to run toward the Martial Spirit Sect for a long time.
When night almost arrived, Ren Qingchen found a village and entered it to rest. Unbeknownst to him, after he stopped activating his stealth skill, the many Martial Grandmaster and Martial Saints under General Shi that has been dispersed in search for the Azure Flute finally detected a vague feeling about its location using the skill left by Azure Emperor and rushed toward Ren Qingchen's current location.
When he woke up the next day, Ren Qingchen felt incredibly uneasy. Trusting his feelings, he quickly collected his items and ran outside.
Two weeks passed and he finally reached the Martial Spirit city. Resting for the night in the city, Ren Qingchen woke up in the middle of the night because of a warning from his instinct.
Circulating his blood energy to activate the skill used to detect presence nearby him. Ren Qingchen frowned as he could sense many Martial Grandmaster and Martial Saints quickly gathering toward the inn he is currently in.
Stopping the activation of his sensing skill, he prepared himself to immediately escape the inn.
'Whether those guys are chasing me or it is merely a coincidence and they just targeted one of the patrons in this inn, leaving immediately is the right option.'
Running into the window, Ren Qingchen activated his stealth and prepared to jump. But before he could open the window and jump out, one of the Martial Saints arrived at his location.
The Martial Saint expert kicked the door to Ren Qingchen's room and without saying any nonsense, he immediately slashed the sword on his hand toward Ren Qingchen while roaring.
"Thief! Return the Azure Flute!"
Hearing that roar, Ren Qingchen could only feel helpless. He previously has sensed that the Azure Flute Probably have a special means imbued into it which make it possible for people to sense his location which is the reason he immediately left Great Azure Empire's territory upon stealing it.
But he never thought the means placed within is incredibly powerful that it could detect the Azure Flute even after such a long distance.
Glancing at the scenery outside the window, He could see more and more people at the Martial Grandmaster stage and above gathering in the street.
Using an explosive he kept, Ren Qingchen ignited five of them at once.
Throwing one of them to the Martial Saint, he continued to throw the other four in the road under him.
*Boom*
With the explosion as his mark, Ren Qingchen immediately jumped through the window to the nearest building's roof where there is no martial artist standing guard.
Activating his stealth skill until it covered the azure flute, Ren Qingchen jumped through many roofs before hiding in one of the alleys.
Stealthily walking toward the direction of Martial Spirit city's Southern Gate, he could see many people wearing the same uniform as the one chasing him standing guard there.
Standing on his hiding spot, Ren Qingchen made his brain move quickly to think of a way to escape.
While looking at a group of Martial Grandmasters guarding that place, he saw one of them going somewhere alone.
'That is it!'
Ren Qingchen ran toward the lone Martial Grandmaster's location and immediately knocked him out. Ren Qingchen took the uniform that Martial Grandmaster wore and started to prepare his hand.
'Alright. It's been so long since I did this. I hope my skills haven't rusted yet.'
Taking the dagger in his pocket, he started to slash the neck of that Grandmaster so he would never wake up anymore and pulled his corpse somewhere hidden.
Using bone changing skills to change his body shape into one similar to the now dead guard. Ren Qingchen pulled a mirror and a set of face powder.
In just 5 minutes, his face has turned into the same face as that of the dead Martial Grandmaster.
Closing his make-up sets, Ren Qinchen twitched his nose.
'hmmm. I smell something weird.'
Looking at the wet underpants of that Martial Grandmaster, he decided to kill someone after they answered the call of nature from now on.
Walking calmly to the gate, Ren Qingquan started to act like the other martial artists here. According to his observations, the martial artists standing guard here don't seem to know each other, which is why he dared to imitate the guard.
From what he heard at those people's conversations, they are from General Shi's army and the person at highest rank in this group, a major general, has talked to the city lord of Martial Spirit City which allowed them to search for him until morning.
Ren Qingchen actually wanted to wait until these martial artists left. But the dead Grandmaster he stole the identity of will definitely be found before this group could leave. Which is why he decided to take the first step and escape immediately.
Slowly creeping toward the outer wall, he immediately ran toward the Endless Mountain. Because the city is located in a plain, even if he walked stealthily, there is nothing that could hide him from others visions and he will get detected at once.
"There is someone running from the city!"
Just when he ran for five minutes, one of the martial artists guarding the southern gate saw him and screamed.
From his current position, Ren Qingchen could sense ten people led by 3 Martial Saints separated from the group and chased after him using a war horse at high speed.
When the distance separating them had decreased by half, Ren Qingchen finally arrived at Endless Mountain.
Just when he ran in the direction of Martial Spirit Sect for safety, A group of ferocious beasts consisting of a dozen Martial Grandmasters and hundreds of lower ranked beasts ran in panic and blocked his path to Martial Spirit Sect.
As his blood energy has reached a critical point due to running while activating stealth to hide the means used to sense Azure Flute, Ren Qingchen decided to take a detour to reach the Martial Spirit Sect.
As he continued to run and evade groups of ferocious beasts he detected using his sensing skill, Ren Qingchen realized something was wrong.
'Is a beast tide currently happening? This has never happened before?! Sigh... Everything has truly changed from my previous life. Damn it, I just need to reach a safe place and breakthrough to Martial Saint and I could finally use this Azure Flute to break the void and enter the Immortal Cultivation World. '
And so, he ran along for half an hour before sensing a lone Grandmaster human chasing after his trail. Thinking this person is one of the Martial Grandmasters chasing after him. In frustration, Ren Qingchen decided to take his anger out on this person and assassinate them.
Activating his stealth skill, he ran toward the place that Martial Grandmaster needed to pass. Hiding behind a group of trees while circulating his blood energy and preparing an ambush, Ren Qingchen immediately slashed his sword toward the target upon hearing a stepping sound and the rustling sound from bushes.
*Ding*
The sound of metal collision could be heard when Ren Qingchen slashed his sword. After finishing this whole motion, Ren Qingchen is filled with a feeling of deja vu.
Looking at his target, she is a girl wearing white full body armor with several blue runes like things engraved on it. She seems to have been running for her life which could be seen from her flushed face and messy pale blue hair.
"Third Princess?"
"Ren Qingchen?!"
That is right, the person he met is exactly the Third Princess. After some shock, both of them asked at the same time.
""What are you doing here?""
After asking that subconsciously, the Third Princess seems to realize something and continues to run.
"Sorry, there is no time. I need to get away from here."
Due to the path they take is currently the same, Ren Qingchen soon followed after her while chatting.
"Are you also being chased by someone?"
"Yeah. When I returned home during vacation, the Imperial Father got another brain cramp and tried to overthrow another tradition. This time he targeted the rule forbidding intermarriage of royal bloodline within 3 generations. He said marrying your sibling might be the secret to create stronger descendants and already imprisoned one of my elder brothers. As all of my sisters either have married or are too young, I, who has reached a suitable age for marriage and haven't chosen any partner, entered the Imperial father's eye to be married with my eldest brother. Luckily, although my mother the empress left to met with her parents, some of her guard stayed in the palace which allowed me to escape."
After releasing the pent up feeling she kept, the Third Princess paused and realized something.
"Wait. Also? Are you chased by someone too right now? "
"Hehehe. Yep, but my story is not as colorful as yours. I just stole something quite important and right now several people are chasing after me to retrieve it. "
After hearing that word, both of them fell silent and continued to run for several minutes until the Third Princess broke the silence.
"Ren Qingchen, do you have any destination in mind?"
"Actually, I am going to enter the Martial Spirit Sect so I can safely break through before leaving once again."
Hearing his answer, the Third Princess told her destination in exchange.
"When I was young, I loved to read my family's records. From one of them I found a secret location at Meteor Island suspected to contain means to reach a higher world. Right now, I have that place as my destination."
Listening to the Third Princess's words, Ren Qingchen is confused.
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Since long ago, I have thought about leaving home and running far away from my crazy father. Although my mother, the empress, is quite nice, she is busy managing the harem most of the time and rarely cares about me. So, when I found a record of another world, I have always kept it in mind. I said all this to you, because my intuition told me you will be of extreme importance if I want to leave."
Third Princess's words made Ren Qingchen fall into a dilemma. At first he only thought of looking for a safe place and breaking through to Martial Lord realm before entering Endless Mountain's core and detonating the spirit weapon Azure Flute and breaking the void to reach the bridge to Immortal Cultivation World.
But hearing about the means to reach higher world Third Princess mentioned, he is almost certain she is talking about a teleportation formation. Afterall, Meteor Island once piqued his interests and he has done some investigation through the records stored in the Martial Spirit Sect.
From those records, he is almost 100% sure Meteor Island comes from the Immortal Cultivation World and was once a part of a certain strong sect's main territory.
Right now, should he bet about the condition of that teleportation formation which he could possibly repair as long as it hasn't been destroyed too badly. Or follow the path in his previous life and enter Endless Mountain's core area.
If he chooses the teleportation formation, that means he wouldn't need to sacrifice Azure Flute. Having a spirit weapon upon arriving at the Immortal Cultivation World will be an extremely good start.
Just when Ren Qingchen is in a daze from thinking, a group of wolves led by an early Martial Lord wolf blocked their path.
'Oh shiet!'
Looking at that wolf, Ren Qingchen quickly pulled the Azure Flute.
Due to activating his stealth skill for an extremely long time. Currently, Ren Qingchen couldn't do a protracted battle against it. Glancing at Third Princess's current realm, he could only sigh and brace himself.
'I don't want to do this, but in my current condition I can't fight against a Martial Lord.'
Eating another blood energy pill, he blows into the flute while sending almost all of his remaining blood energy. With the melodious sound of his flute, a massive blue colored tornado is created and quickly swallows the group of wolves before arriving at the Martial Lord wolf and tearing it into meat paste.
While the Third Princess looked at his feat in shock, a loud howling voice could be heard from the South. With it, a giant silver wolf at Martial Emperor realm led a huge group of wolves.
Looking at the Martial Lord wolf that has just turned into meat paste. That giant wolf stared at Ren Qingchen with red eyes.
Chapter 30. Everything Finally Clicked.
*Awooooo*
The Martial Emperor giant wolf started a long howl as its silver fur shone under the moonlight. With the loud howl of that wolf as the start, more and more wolves got summoned from the southern direction of Endless Mountain.
Ren Qingchen looked at the increasingly higher number of wolves around them and got speechless.
'Damn. Now this group of wolves blocked the road to Martial Spirit Sect, I could only bet it all and enter Meteor Island.'
Muttering some curse for this bad luck of his that has 'helped' him to take his choice, Ren Qingchen looked at Third Princess while whispering.
"When I count to three, immediately run toward Meteor Island."
Third Princess nodded hearing that suggestion and started to circulate her blood energy.
"One."
"Two"
"Three!"
When he counted to three, Third Princess trusted Ren Qingchen's suggestion and immediately ran at high speed toward the direction of Meteor Island.
Meanwhile, Ren Qingchen has ignited all of the remaining explosives on him and thrown it at the direction of that group of wolf.
Stoping his circulation of stealth skill to preserve more of his energy, he followed Third Princess and ran toward the same direction.
After getting flustered by his explosion, the group of wolves slowly regained their composure and followed the trails those two left with the Martial Emperor wolf in the lead.
Escaping through many complicated forest terains, Ren Qingchen used all of the anti reconnaissance skill he could use.
But, even after using all of his means like perfumes to remove body scent, removing trace of footsteps, forcing himself to activate stealth and hid both himself and Third Princess. Ren Qingchen could still feel those group of wolves high on their footsteps.
'Just what mean does those wolves use to follow after us.'
While running in a daze, Ren Qingchen used all his brain power to think about the means to escape those wolf's tracking.
After thinking hard for a long time he finally decided to give up.
Raising his head toward Third Princess, Ren Qingchen could see her face wearing a thoughtful expression shine under the gentle moonlight making her already beautiful face have an additional ethereal feeling.
'Hmm. It seems she is also thinking about something. Wait a minute, something is wrong!'
Looking at Third Princess's thoughtful look that shone under the moonlight, Ren Qingchen's expression changed.
Raising his head to look at the cloudy night sky above, he could see the crescent moon hanging while shining sparse light through the cloud's narrow gap toward the ground.
Once again staring at Third Princess's shining face and remembering how the Martial Emperor wolf's fur shone brightly under the faint moonlight
'I will be damned. That wolf has ability related to moon light?!'
That is right, Ren Qingchen suspected the way that wolf use to follow after them is through shining this unnatural moonlight towards them.
But now although he already know about it, there is nothing he could do except for praying once the sun rise the wolf's ability will be suppressed enough to give them chance at escape.
Running throughout the night, Ren Qingchen could soon see the sun raise in the horizon.
When the sun has risen to its peak and morning arrive, Ren Qingchen used the perfume to remove their scent and activated his stealth skill once more covering both Third Princess and him.
This time, he could sense the wolf group stoping on their track.
Telling the new to Third Princess, both of them decided to walk a bit further before resting and regaining their energy preparing for another chase tonight.
Soon, the sun sets and night arrived. Both of them waited a moment to check whether or not those wolves are still chasing after both of them.
Waiting in bated breath, they could feel their surrounding getting a lot brighter merely 15 minutes after the sun set.
Hearing the wolf's howl that slowly get nearer to their position, both of them continued their escapades.
Just like that, several days passes and they finally arrived at the sea while being chased by a group of angry wolves. From their current location, they could already see a small island standing in the middle of the sea.
"Do you have any way to pass the sea and arrive at Meteor Island?"
Glancing at each other's eye, Ren Qingchen asked Third Princess. Afterall, she is the one who brought the idea of entering Meteor Island.
Hearing Ren Qingchen's question, Third princess smiled in embarrassment.
Ren Qingchen: (◔_◔)
Rolling his eyes, he suggested for both of them to cut some trees and create a raft.
While they are busy chopping the surrounding trees, soon Ren Qingchen could see the sun sets and moon raise.
"It is night already and those wolf will soon chase after us."
Hearing his warning, Third Princess panicked.
"What should we do? We haven't found anything to tie the log together yet."
"Is that cold sword skill of yours cold enough to freeze water? Also, how many more time you could activate it?"
Hearing his question about her skill, Third Princess is confused but still answered nevertheless.
"It could freeze the water in a small area and i could still do it around 5 more times."
"Then, lets push this log to watet and connect them with ice from your skill."
Hearing his word Third Princess nodded and start pushing the logs toward the water. Ren Qingchen also followed suit and pushed the log he cut toward the water.
After gathering those logs together, Third Princess activated her sword skill several time and froze the water to firmly connect the log.
Taking a long branch to row the raft, both started to move it toward Meteor Island.
In half a hour, the wolf arrived at the place they have previous been and seems to be discusing something. Soon after, the huge wolf went forward alone and followed behind their raft.
The three of them staged a race in the sea for several hours before Ren Qingchen's small raft arrived at Meteor Island first without getting caught by that Martial Emperor wolf.
Although that wolf seems to move increadibly fast on water during their early chase, its stamina seems to be pretty bad as it keep on slowing down after midway toward the island.
Descending from their raft, Third Princess and Ren Qingchen could see a column of smoke nearby them.
As the Martial Emperor wolf's currently quite far away from them, both of them went to the source of that smoke in curiosity.
From far away, they could see a group of people surrounding a bonfire while barbecuing some meat. Hearing the occasional laughter and singing voice from that place which doesn't sound like someone doing exploration at all, Ren Qingchen is confused.
'Just which group of crazies actually selected Meteor Island as their destination for vacation.'
As both of them get nearer and nearer to that group, Ren Qingchen's eyes widened in shock upon seeing one of the boy surrounding that bonfire.
"Ren Qingquan? You are still alive?! How?!"
***
Moving backward several days when Ren Qingchen and Third Princess has yet to met.
Mid way through his flight, Azure Emperor feel his injuries worsened and choose to look for a hiding place to hid for several days and repair the injuries he received after being attacked by Martial Spirit Sect's trump card.
Now, after several days of resting, he decided to move once again. Getting up from a cave he dug randomly, Azure Emperor cleansed his imperial robe from dirt and soil.
Moving the surrounding energies once more, he started to float in the sky toward Endless Mountain's core area.
While flying, he could see a lot of beasts running around randomly while being chased by several peoples. From the clothes worn by those group, they are most likely from Martial Spirit Sect and is here to kill some beasts.
Satisfied at his own conjecture, Azure Emperor just continued to be on his way while galncing around at those creature busying themselves bellow him.
As he is in a good mood while looking down on all of those creature bellow him, Azure Emperor could see more and more disciples from Martial Spirit Sect gathered.
'???'
As he is a bit curious and the destination those people have seems to be located nearby the core area, Azure Emperor decided to fly a bit slower and followed them.
After a day of walking, the group bellow him has entered the inner area of Endless Mountain. At this time, Azure Emperor has stopped following those group and moved forward quickly as he found another more interesting thing which is most likely what caused those group to travel all the way here.
Flying higher and higher, Azure Emperor could see a massive fire with smoke raising toward the sky akin to a black pillar at the core area of Endless Mountain.
Surrounding those burning area are a bald spot without any sort of greenery that has been created by many martial artists working together.
How could he know it is made by martial artists? Well as he have an eye, of course he could see the group of ant like creature busy moving everywhere while cutting trees.
After observing for some time, Azure Emperor is bored and decided to continue his journey.
Creating a barrier like thing from surrounding natural energies to purify the smoke and blocking the heat from destroying his favourite imperial robe. He floated amidst the sea of fire bellow and the pillar of black mist that filled his view.
Following the guide he got from some relic, Azure Emperor used something called divine sense which he obtained after advancing to the realm above Martial Emperor to sense the weak point in space.
After walking for a long time without any gain in the middle of this smoke, he got a bit impatient and slapped some palm strike toward the burning trees bellow him as his attempt to disperse some smoke blocking his view.
After flattening a huge patch of trees below him, he finally feel less impatient.
'Haha. Guess the impatient persona I acted during my tenure as an Emperor is not entirely fake.'
Ridiculing himself, Azure Emperor continued his attempt at sensing the location said in the relic he found.
After several hours, his mouth rose into a smile as he finally detected the location with weak space recorded in that relic.
Gathering a large amount of nature energy from his surrounding, Azure Emperor turned into a massive vortex before taking the treasured sword he gained from a Martial Emperor in Martial Spirit Sect.
Sending all of his energies toward the sword as he slashed it toward an empty space. He could see the space around him cracked like a mirror before shattering altogether.
"Farewell world."
Entering the crack in space, Azure Emperor said his goodbye to this world as he prepared himself to walk through the bridge connected to a higher world.
Just several second after entering, he could feel himself being thrown around just like a boat in the middle of the storm.
'I will be damned, where is the frickin bridge?!'
***
Consciousness Space
Although I don't know why Ren Qingchen asked Ren Qingquan why he is still alive. It still doesn't stop me from nodding in approval.
With how Ren Qingquan love to seek death, I will also be confused why he is still alive and kicking until now.
Anyway, that is not important.
Right now, my focus is still on the view I see through one of the [Scan] i anchored several days ago. To be specific, it is the [Scan] I recently anchored to the guy Ren Qingquan met while leaving Formation Peak to take a leave of absence.
From that guys's conversation with the Martial Emperors from Martial Spirit Sect. He seems to be called Azure Emperor, which to be honest is an extremely weird name.
But, that too is not important.
The most important things is that guy actually frickin shattered space! Several days ago i saw him slashing his sword and causing some of the space in Endless Mountain to shatter like a glass.
Although after shattering the space, Azure Emperor seem to be stuck somewhere as all i could see from the [Scan] placed on him is merely complete darkness with occasional light. If not for that occasional light, I would've thought he entered the consciousness space I am in right now.
Chapter 31. A Pitiful Island That Has Been Ravaged Several Times
A long time before Ren Qingchen arrived.
While gossiping about his uncle and fatty's aunt. Ren Qingquan, fatty Zhang, Peak Master Fen, and that senior brother who he was somehow too lazy to ask the name of, finally arrived at the ruins located in the middle of Meteor Island.
Looking at the massive and complicated structure made of unknown stone-like materials built on top of a tall mountain, the group stood in awe as they looked at it from the foot of that mountain.
Walking through the mountain step that somehow stayed in pristine condition even though no one has cleaned or repaired it. The four of them visited the building one by one while inspecting every nook and cranny of this suspected sect from another world.
According to the legends spread in this world, several hundred years ago, a huge flaming meteor fell from the sky toward the southern area of this continent. The meteor, with its massive size, collided with a small part of the continent and caused it to explode before turning into an archipelago.
That explosion also caused a huge earthquake never before seen in the history of this world. It directly piqued the interest of many experts at that time who saw the location where the meteor fell and thought there would be treasure brought along with it.
Upon arriving at the location where the meteor fell, those experts who have walked through the scene of carnage caused by the meteor were incredibly shocked.
Compared to the surrounding scene of destruction, the place where that meteor fell has turned into a beautiful island with a huge mountain at its center which is surrounded by many precious plants.
Arriving at the mountain in that island's center, those people could see an extremely wondrous building complex which seems to be a part of a certain sect.
Just like that, not only more and more martial artists gathered toward that island. Even some poets and painters went there to appreciate the beauty of an island said to have even more grandeur than any empire's palace.
After several hundred years, the island has been visited by God knows how many people that continued to take some 'souvenirs' from the island.
At the beginning, they just took the books stored in the sect ruins and precious plants on that island. As all the books had been taken and all precious plants disappeared, those visitors even went as far as taking some stone and soils from the island under the mentality of unwilling to return empty handed.
If not for the mysterious sect building's stone blocks that couldn't be pulled even by a Martial Emperor, There wouldn't even be anything left above this island.
And so after another hundred years, that island decreased in size by a third before those people were satisfied. Nowadays, some people still visit the island to try their luck and search for something the previous group might have overlooked.
That is basically the story about this pitiful island called Meteor Island that has been ravaged several times over.
The four of them soon arrived at the peak of this mountain where a stone building decorated with many ornate engraving is located.
After searching around the building, the four of them still found no gains. Looking at Ren Qingquan and thinking he might be disappointed after not getting the technique he searched for, Peak Master Fen started to appease him.
"It seems we couldn't find the continuation of your technique right now. Let's continue tomorrow, the sky has already darkened."
Hearing Peak Master Fen's suggestion, Ren Qingquan nodded.
"Well, whatever. At most I will look for a new martial arts technique once we return to Martial Spirit Sect to advance toward Martial Saint realm."
As Peak Master Fen looked at Ren Qingquan's face that didn't seem to be upset or disappointed, he nodded.
Returning to their camp, the four of them could hear the pair of love birds busying themself with talking sweet nothing after being left alone at the camp.
Taking the animals they hunted on the journey back, the whole group started a barbecue.
As he is now bored and out of an interesting novel to read, Ren Qingquan just asked the group to play some truth or dare game.
Playing the game Ren Qingquan just made, the group passes the night while eating, playing, and laughing.
Several nights soon passed without them realizing it.
One night, just when Peak Master Fen started to sing as a punishment for losing their game, a surprised sound came from nearby the sea.
"Ren Qingquan? You are still alive?! How?! "
Hearing someone calling his name, Ren Qingquan subconsciously glanced toward the source of that sound where he saw Ren Qingchen standing with one of his stains in life, Third Princess.
'How rude! Does the first thing you say when meeting someone is asking why they haven't died yet? Should I say as expected of a main character like a person, even their greeting is different than usual.'
***
While Ren Qingquan is thinking about some silly things. A storm is currently happening in Ren Qingchen's brain.
'No wonder. It is no wonder Ren Shiluo didn't chase after me. Is it possible that the massive change I initially thought happened due to the butterfly effect of my existence actually happened due to leaving Ren Qingquan alive? Should I just kill him now and stop that guy from causing further change in the future? Afterall with the least amount of change, my advantage of returning in time will also be greater.'
As he thought until this point Ren Qingchen somehow got an unwilling feeling.
'Should I stay and follow the path in my past life? Then, what is the difference between this life and the previous one? No matter what, I was once the top expert surpassing billions of others. A mere little change wouldn't shake my heart. Even if the future events change, those fortuitous encounters I remembered should be enough to make me return to peak and even surpass it.'
The more he thought, the more he realized finding out Ren Qingquan is actually alive might not be a bad thing at all. At least that guy's crazy parents wouldn't chase after him.
Continuing his internal mental gymnastics, from the outside Ren Qingchen wore a stupid face as he fell into a daze.
***
Ren Qingquan waved his hand in front of the dazed Ren Qingchen while calling his name.
"Hello? Hello? Anybody home?"
Finally deciding his thoughts, Ren Qingchen woke up and greeted Ren Qingquan.
"Hello there cousin Qingquan."
As Ren Qingquan saw the person in front of him finally respond, he sighed in relief.
'Phew. I thought he suddenly went stupid there.'
The surrounding people gathered toward both of them. Third uncle looked curiously at Ren Qingchen before glancing at Ren Qingquan.
"Do you know him?"
"Me! Me! I know him!"
Fatty screamed as he raised his hand.
"That guy is called Ren Qingchen, someone from the branch of Ren family. Last year he beat the shiet out of brother Ren at his family's annual tournament!"
Ren Qingquan glanced at fatty Zhang weirdly.
'Why do you have that excited face when talking about someone beating me!?'
When the two groups talked, a massive wave came from the shore of Meteor Island. A long howling sound accompanied by a massive tsunami like water mark the arrival of a huge wolf that appeared in front of all of them.
Hearing that sound, the Third Princess that has been silent all this while panicked and immediately left.
"That wolf is here! Let's run! "
Ren Qingquan could also see Ren Qingchen's face change into one of shock as he ran following the Third Princess. He also doesn't forget to bid farewell and warn Ren Qingquan's group
"We have been chased by a Martial Emperor wolf until here, so we are taking our leave first. All of you should try to escape and hide while it is not here yet as that wolf should only chase after both the Third Princess and me."
Ren Qingquan's group also prepared to run in another direction. The wolf suddenly opened its mouth while glaring at them.
"HUMAN!! I REMEMBER YOU! "
Hearing that giant wolf's speech, everyone at the scene, whether it is Ren Qingchen and Third Princess or Ren Qingquan's group, all glared in shock.
""Holy shiet. It talked! ""
As it glared at both Ren Qingchen and then Ren Qingquan, it's already red eyes started to turn even more bloodshot.
Just when everyone thought it was going to chase after the Third Princess and Ren Qingchen who escaped together, that wolf actually went and targeted Ren Qingquan's group instead.
*Surprused pikachu face.jpg*
Receiving the sudden attack from a Martial Emperor, third uncle, elder Zhang, and Peak Master Fen used all their power to parry it.
After being knocked back by a wave of that wolf's paw, Ren Qingquan could see that wolf quickly running toward his direction.
Luckily, just when that wolf was merely several meters from him, Peak Master Fen arrived with an extremely angry face.
"You Fukin mutt! I will frickin slash you into several fine pieces! I don't care whether you could talk, sing, dance, or something else. I will place your meat in a hot pot and eat it!!"
Peak Master Fen:ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
"ALSO, CATCH AFTER THOSE TWO LITTLE SHIETs! How dare they leave us to fight against this wolf! They definitely placed some trick on us when we talked so this wolf will target us!! Just you wait when I get my hand on your little shiets, I will definitely make you regret being born!"
Looking at the usually amiable Peak Master Fen finally showing his true face, Ren Qingquan quickly activated his [Scan] and quickly pointed toward the direction Ren Qingchen and Third Princess left.
From how that wolf glared at him before screaming. He just hoped Peak Master Fen wouldn't realize the reason this wolf is fighting against their group is most likely related to him. Although Ren Qingquan doesn't know what Peak Master is going to do toward the so-called little shiet Ren Qingchen and Third Princess, he definitely doesn't want to join them and try it.
As they walked toward the direction of Ren Qingchen and Third Princess that had been pointed in the system map, he ran at the front of the team chasing after both of them.
Behind their group, that wolf is still chasing after them while screaming incomprehensible things and looking like a rabid dog. His uncle, fatty's aunt, and Peak Master Fen ran at the end of their group while taking turns to delay the wolf.
Soon after, their group arrived near the ruins of that mysterious sect on the mountain at the center of Meteor Island.
When Ren Qingquan reached the foot of that mountain, he could see Ren Qingchen and the Third Princess busy digging one of the easily overlooked parts of that mountain. From his observation using a system map, they have been doing that since several minutes ago.
Seeing their group, he could see Ren Qingchen called into them.
"Come here and help us to dig this. There should be a path to leave behind this."
Hearing Ren Qingchen's word, Ren Qingquan, fatty, and that senior brother went there and joined hand to dig in the direction Third Princess pointed.
While digging, Ren Qingquan is actually extremely shocked as he suddenly saw a small tunnel hidden inside this mountain through a system map that only appears when he is within 100 meters of said tunnel.
The current system's map is capable of seeing the terrain of up to 1 kilometers radius around him, making the system map's range to be shaped like a ball. Although it is getting blurry the further it is, that is still a whole 1 kilometer nevertheless.
But, there has never been a precedent of something suddenly appearing at the system map like this before!
Chapter 32. Arc 1 Epilogue Farewell Martial Arts World
As usual, when there is something Ren Qingquan doesn't understand. He will just ask the person most likely to understand about it so they could explain those things to him. Within his mind, Ren Qingquan started a calling system.
'System. What is going on with your map? Did it just glitched? There is actually a tunnel suddenly appearing there.'
[Ding! Explaining to the host. There is a force capable of interfering with the system's Scan within that tunnel. Please upgrade the system's Scan function to increase its penetration and stability so as to not be affected by that interference force.]
Hearing the system's explanation, Ren Qingquan could only continue to dig the soil while in a daze before asking the system a suspicion he had since a long time ago.
'System, is it possible you got sent as my cheat after only half formed? Why have I never read about the system in those novels requiring upgrades in almost every single chapter.'
[-.-*]
While he is arguing with the system, Ren Qingquan hears a scream from his uncle behind him.
"Could you kids dig faster? We old guys can't hold it any longer here!"
'Whoops'
Looking back at the three Martial Lords consisting of his uncle, elder Zhang, and Peak Master Fen. Ren Qingquan could see their condition getting worse.
Right now his uncle's blue robe has turned red due to the blood flowing from his wound. Elder Zhang could be seen swallowing medicinal pills like there is no tomorrow. Lastly, although Peak Master Fen looks mostly intact, there is a huge patch of baldness in the middle of his head due to the attack from that wolf.
Opening the system's map, he saw there were still dozens of meters before their group could dig through and enter the tunnel. Sighing, Ren Qingquan decided to use [Devour].
'Sigh, whatever. This ability of mine has been known anyway.'
"All of you make way."
Ren Qingquan immediately went to the front of their team and activated [Devour] to swallow the layer of soils within a mere minute.
Behind that layer of soils, there is the small tunnel he previously talked about. The tunnel is made of stone-like material similar to the one used by the sect on top of this mountain. The only exception being the color that is slightly darker and the slight glow this stone has.
Looking at the small path that appeared in front of them, they immediately ran into it. While running, Ren Qingquan doesn't forget to pull some of them toward his system's [Storage]. Although the system seems unreliable and often requires upgrades, he must acknowledge its capability. Which makes him come to the conclusion that those stones that could affect the system's scan are definitely precious.
The wolf, unwilling to let them go, followed their group through that tunnel. As the tunnel is not quite big, the Martial Emperor wolf needs to crawl through the tunnel which gives their group some time to run away from that wolf.
After running for a whole half an hour, their group saw a huge empty space where a big circular platform with many complicated circles drawn on top was placed right in the middle of that empty space. At the center of that big circular platform, a small crystal-like thing is imbued into the platform.
Looking around the big empty space, the group could only see one path connected to their current location which is the tunnel they came from.
Seeing their current situation, everyone in the group except for Ren Qingchen who inspected the crystal and runes like drawing on top of this platform turned pale. Peak Master Fen even said some scary things.
"Ayooo... Who would've thought this old me would die at a cave in the middle of nowhere instead of dying in sleep just like I planned."
Looking at Ren Qingchen inspecting the crystal located in the middle of that circular platform, the Third Princess arrived and asked in concern after realizing Ren Qingchen seems to know about the most likely formation under them.
"How is it? Could this thing be used?"
"There should be some damage here and there, but someone might have arrived here before us and repaired it as I could see recent traces of repair. The only problem here is the energy source. That crystal in the middle has been slightly damaged and can't release spirit qi properly, if only there is a spirit stone or even one trace of spirit qi, I could use it to siphon the remaining qi stored within that broken spirit crystal to activate this formation."
Looking at the Third Princess's sad face, Ren Qingquan continued.
"Guess now I need to use my second plan and fight that wolf."
Pointing at Peak Master Fen, Ren Qingchen threw a flute toward him.
"Old man, you are the strongest here. Use this flute by gathering your blood energy toward it. After that, control your energy and lock that wolf as your target. The attack from the flute should be enough to seriously wound that Martial Emperor."
Just when Ren Qingchen told his battle plan to the three Martial Lords around him, Ren Qingquan who had been hearing his whole conversation with the Third Princess suddenly talked.
"Eh, is this the spirit you are talking about?"
Looking back, Ren Qingchen could see Ren Qingquan raising the tip of his finger. Above it, there is a faint mist-like thing which is one of the forms a spirit could exist in.
"That is right! How could you generate a spirit qi in the lower world though?!"
With a face that everyone here wishes to punch, Ren Qingquan answered.
"It comes from the martial arts technique I practiced. It is said to be found on this island and is an incredibly hard technique to practice. But I successfully learned it in a mere day, don't you think I am amazing?"
Hearing his answer Ren Qingchen discarded the unimportant second part and merely focused on the first one.
'Is it the inheritance of that pitiful top sect? Is the ruin on top of Meteor Island related to that sect? If so, then my start at the cultivation world in this life will be several times better than in my previous life.'
After waking up from his thinking, Ren Qingchen called into Ren Qingquan.
"Come here and follow my word to guide the spirit qi stored in this crystal into the formation."
While following his instruction, Ren Qingquan seems to finally realize something as he asks a question.
"Just what kind of formation is it anyway?"
Listening to Ren Qingquan's question, Ren Qingchen is speechless. Just how stupid must someone be to follow another word without even knowing about their motives first. Anyway, he still answered Ren Qingquan's question.
"Teleportation formation."
"Where does it lead to?"
"It seems to lead toward the Immortal Cultivation World."
Hearing his word, except for the Third Princess that has guessed it. The others standing on top of the platform are shocked. The old man Ren Qingchen threw the Azure Flute in shock.
"What? What do you mean by teleportation formation and immortal cultivation world? Ain't that thing just a legend?!"
"Of course not. Otherwise where do you think this Meteor Island and those seemingly nonsense knowledge about immortal arts come from?"
While bantering with Peak Master Fen, Ren Qingchen continued to guide Ren Qingquan about how to use his spirit qi and siphon the spirit qi in that crystal.
Just when a trembling noise could be heard from that tunnel. The strand of spirit qi Ren Qingquan used finally successfully siphoned the spirit qi stored in that spirit crystal.
With that, the platform started to glow with a blinding white light that engulfed everyone standing on top of it.
Behind the blinding light, all of them could see the wolf finally arriving at the empty space and howled.
*Awooooo*
"Human! DIE!!!"
With a sound similar to those old TVs being turned off, all eight human +1 wolves disappeared from the empty space.
***
*Bzzzzzttt*
'Ouch! Ouch! It's frickin 'hurts!'
Opening his eyes, Ren Qingquan could see the notification from the system while he was taking his sweet time waking up.
[HOST! HOST! WAKE UP!!! Initiating another emergency waking up procedure in three seconds! 3! 2! 1!]
*Bzzzzztt*
"Owwww it hurts!"
Returning to his senses after being zapped by the system twice, Ren Qingquan realized he is currently sleeping on top of an island with 7 other people laying around like corpses.
Looking as if those people could still sleep oh so sweetly, Ren Qingquan felt unbalanced mentally and asked whether or not the system could sell him that electricity it used to zap himself awake.
[Ding! Host, please open the system shop]
Opening the system store, Ren Qingchen looked at the items sold there and found the one he was looking for.
[lightning, 1 point. Description: A lightning.]
Purchasing 1 point of that lightning, Ren Qingquan asked the system whether or not this was enough to kill the people around him.
[No, 1 point of lightning is exactly the amount the system used to shock the host previously.]
Getting the system's confirmation, Ren Qingquan spent 6 more points to purchase more lightning and start to shoot the lightning in system storage toward those people laying around him.
*Bzzzzttt* x7
"Ouch. Ayooo, my body is numb"
With a cacophony of grunting noise, the surrounding people woke up. After some time getting used to their surroundings, some of them started asking questions toward him as he is the first person to wake up.
Feeling their questioning look, Ren Qingquan just shrugged.
"Don't ask me. I also just recently woke up. I think Ren Qingchen has a higher understanding about our current situation compared to me. Afterall he is the one that taught me how to activate that formation. "
With that, everyone changed the target for their questioning toward Ren Qingchen which soon answered their question.
"We should have arrived at the immortal cultivation world. I can sense the natural spirit which didn't exist in our previous world."
Next, the senior brother standing next to him asked another question toward Ren Qingchen.
"Then, what should we do now? Also, where is the wolf that has chased after us previously?"
"It seems that the wolf either hasn't been teleported or got teleported to another place instead of together with us because it joined when the formation got activated. I think we should look for a way to leave this small island."
Just when they are deciding which direction they should swim to and whether or not elder Zhang needs to use another of her pills to summon some fish as their ride. A whizzing noise sounded from the air above them.
"Halt! You have trespassed into the territory of Pure Wave Sect!"
In the sky above them, a group of people wearing the same uniform as each other while riding a flying sword could be seen.
Raising his head to look at that group, although Ren Qingquan has prepared himself mentally since Ren Qingchen said they have arrived at an immortal cultivation world, he still couldn't help screaming internally because seeing the real deal is a whole different thing.
'IMMORTAL CULTIVATOR!'
Chapter 33. Interlude-Luck In Practice:MAX, Luck In Love:0
My name is Gentle Moon. It is a name I gave to myself some time ago.
I could still remember several months ago as if it was merely yesterday. At that time, I was merely a blessed creature happily living in ignorance among my family at the mountain.
My family consists of myself, my husband, and several children both of us have. Although life at the mountain is difficult, everyday is fulfilling.
Because most of our children will soon reach adulthood, we decided to bring them with us from our dwelling and taught them how to hunt the creatures in this mountain.
It is a decision I will come to regret for the rest of my life.
With both of us walking together at the front, passing through the familiar path we have passed almost half of our life. We soon found a target suitable as both of our children's prey.
Looking at the unaware boar in front, we pointed at it as our children fought together to hunt their prey. As they fought, we guarded them from behind in case something wrong happened.
Soon, that boar is killed and both of us just watched our children eating their prey while merely watching.
After walking around for some time looking for another suitable prey for our children to hunt, we decided to rest as we couldn't find any at all.
Both I and my husband decided to stand at the different end of our hunting group to protect our children in the middle.
As I sat while looking at the surroundings to check on any dangerous predators, I heard a booming sound I will always remember in my nightmares.
*BOOM*
Hearing that explosive noise, I turned my head toward its source. There, I could see my husband being smashed by a heavy block of spiky things.
Looking at the minced meat that was once my husband, I cried aloud in grief. My children, hearing the noise I made, stopped resting as they glared at my husband's killer.
There, an erect ape is standing while touching the weapon that killed my husband. As its hand touched that heavy spiky thing, it suddenly disappeared.
My children, thinking it is a suitable time to avenge their father, immediately rushed toward that erect ape. That is when my true nightmare came.
Upon seeing my children rushing at it. The erect ape continuously summoned that spiky thing as it squashed and killed my children one by one.
Looking at that bloody view, I instinctively ran away to escape.
Remembering the children I brought with me today, I screamed at the remaining one to disperse and run away.
But, instead of running away, I could see them trying their best to block that ape while giving me time to escape.
When I turn my head, I could see the bloody view of them trying their best to buy me enough time. That is also the time when I came to hate my weakness.
Just like that, I traveled alone on these cold unfeeling mountains. Sensing the hunger on my stomach, I searched for food until an extremely tempting aroma came into my nose.
Following that aroma, I could see a familiar fruit hanging from a tree hanging in the middle of ruined forests seemingly caused by the fight between powerful beasts.
Looking at that tree, I woke up as I remembered something and prepared to run away in fear.
This tree is a place both I and my husband once stumbled into while hunting. At that time, we could see a gigantic snake coiling around that tree as it guarded the fruit hanging there with all its might. Both of us saw that snake killed anything daring enough to come near its treasured fruit. At that time, the aroma coming from that fruit is not as tempting as it currently is.
Sensing as the snake is currently missing from the tree, combined with my empty stomach and the tempting aroma. Instinct took over me as I climbed the tree and ate the fruit hanging on it.
Once I finished eating it, I immediately felt extremely full and ran away in case that snake decided to return and saw the missing fruit. After several days passes, I feel a bit weird as something awakened inside me after eating that fruit.
Whether it is a curse or a blessing is unknown. But, at that time I gained something called sapience.
I gained increased intelligence.
I realized the concept of myself.
I finally truly realized the concept of grieving and losing my loved ones.
With that additional emotional burden, I traveled for an unknown amount of time. Without any direction nor any will to live.
Until one day, I found myself attacked by a bear at the same level as me. But in my current weakened state, I have no chance of fighting against it.
'Is this how it ends?'
Thinking like that, I closed my eyes as its massive paw struck toward me.
Not feeling any pain even after a while and hearing the sound of fighting nearby, I opened my eyes. There, the bear is fighting against a handsome male which soon defeats it easily.
As I looked at the lone male slowly approaching me, I could sense the same aura as me coming from him.
'We have both experienced similar things.'
It Is the first thought I could feel when looking at him. And so, I decided to follow him around after asking for his consent.
At first, he seems to be uncomfortable having me around. But slowly we are getting closer emotionally
One day, when I thought I had forgotten that terror filled day where I lost my family and finally found a new love.
He died.
With a blinding light, he who once stood next to me had a bloody hole on his head.
Looking at his sudden and mysterious death, I ran away once more like a coward.
Doing the escaping I am already getting familiar with, I am filled with sadness. This time I ran so much in a panic, I didn't even realize where I was going.
When I was running, I stumbled onto a branch and accidentally entered some hole. The wall on this hole is built using strong and smooth stone without my gap between them. Even after trying to climb with all my might, I couldn't reach halfway through the opening.
Leaving my life to fate, I just sat there in a daze while looking around. A day passed and I could no longer hold my hunger.
Glancing around the depth of this hole, I could only see a plant glowing with a vague silvery light. Without caring whether it is poisonous or not, I ate it before slowly falling asleep.
When I woke up, I didn't know how long it had been. But, I could feel the power flowing throughout me.
Looking at the opening far above me, I tried to jump with my full power and actually successfully escaped that hole.
When I escaped from the hole, I could see a massive forest fire happening around me. After shaking my head to wake me up from my daze, I ran away toward a random direction.
*BOOM*
Not long after I left that place, a massive explosive noise which evoked the nightmare I tried to forget sounded.
The flame and smoke surrounding me dispersed as I could see the figure of an ape floating above in the sky.
Fearing it might've detected me, I ran away even faster. Soon, I ran out of the range of that burning forest.
Hiding myself in a forest area with thick enough plants to hide me, I started looking around.
Nearby my location, there are many erect apes busying themself with cutting the trees around the burning area.
Powered with my increased intelligence due to that fruit and my increase in strength, I secretly started to learn how those monkeys spoke by hearing their conversation from far away.
Merely several days later, I could already speak just like them.
Continuing my journey without any destination, I met with another male. This one is weaker than me by a notch.
He asked me whether or not I wanted to join his group that wished to travel from this burning area and escape to a better place.
As I have no target in mind, I decided to accept his proposal and joined his group.
Walking with his group, we slowly walked further and further from the burning area.
While on our journey, he kept on talking with me and tried to take my attention. I must say his attempt is quite successful as slowly, we developed feelings toward each other.
One day, several children in his group went missing. Feeling his worries, I offered myself to look for them.
Tracing back the path our group took, I could soon see those little guys playing nearby a river without a care in the world.
Giving them a barrage of scolding, I followed the trace of our group with those little guys.
When I returned to his location with the children in his group, I could see him shredded into pieces as a blue tornado slashed at him.
Once again looking at the minced meat that is once my husband. Tears wells up in my eyes.
This time, I will not run away like a coward.
Chasing after the killer, I activated the power I gained from eating the unknown plant in that hole to help me keep an eye toward those two erect apes called humans.
The chase continued for several days until all of use reached an area nearby the sea. Looking as they entered the sea, I asked the others in my group to stay here as I will continue the chase alone.
Following them to enter the sea, I paddled at the top of my power to chase them. Midway, I could feel my speed getting slower and slower due to exhaustion.
That is when suddenly, a mysterious knowledge came into my mind. With that knowledge, I gained the ability to control the tide which seems to come from my activated bloodline after eating the mysterious plant and used it to quickly arrived at the island those two escaped into.
Arriving at the island, I could see the killer of my third husband talking with the killer of my first husband!
He is the one that killed my whole family and also the beggining of my nightmare!
Looking at both of them, I could feel myself losing control and just screamed
"HUMAN!! I REMEMBER YOU! "
With that, I chase after them in madness. Following them through many terrains, I arrived at a tunnel.
In my angry state, I continued my chase and forcefully entered that small tunnel they ran into until I arrived at a hollow opening at the end of that tunnel
Leaping toward those humans hiding behind a curtain of light, I feel myself turning dizzy soon after, before finally arriving at a forest.
Chapter 34. Welcome To Cultivation World
Consciousness Space
Once Ren Qingquan arrived nearby that teleportation formation, I knew this world both of us transmigrated into might not be as simple as I initially thought.
How do I know it is a teleportation formation you ask?
Well, unlike stupid Ren Qingquan with low literacy and only loved to read novels. I am a learned and refined system with expertise on many things.
As I am stuck in this super dark consciousness space without any single thing around me, I have been reading and learning from any materials I could get a hand of.
Whether it is the books Ren Qingquan previously scanned but is currently left alone to gather dust in the system library, or the composition of things I have scanned. I have already read through them all at least once.
Should I count this increase in calculation ability as a blessing or perhaps a curse? Right now, I am incredibly bored as there is nothing else I could do.
Uwahhhh I guess not talking with anyone except Ren Qingquan for a long time has made me go bonkers. To think I actually went to do something like asking questions to the nothingness around me, I even do some weird narration like this to no one.
You can say I am the living breathing example of the fact that humans are social creatures and they couldn't live without the company of other creatures. Although right now I might not even be alive, don't breathe, and neither do I exist as a human or even have any human soul at all. But I should still work as an example right?
Focusing my sense back to Ren Qingquan. Right now, I saw him and seven other people laying under the sun like a real salted fish on a certain random island after the blinding light that probably teleported themselves here dimmed.
As I am incredibly bored, I spent one point of energy to create a lightning before throwing it toward Ren Qingquan.
After feeling his grumbling sound as the electric current went inside his body and electrocuted him, I continued with sending a screen in front of his eyes.
[HOST! HOST! WAKE UP!!! Initiating another emergency waking up procedure in three seconds! 3! 2! 1!]
I immediately sent another wave of electric currents, before Ren Qingquan finally woke up.
"aww it hurts!"
After waking up, the first thing Ren Qingquan thought of was sending the lightning I used on him to those people laying around him.
His thought process seriously makes me speechless.
Don't ask how I know what he thinks, I already got the ability to read his mind since the first day he transmigrated-
Having decided his choice, Ren Qingquan finally asked to purchase the lightning I used.
Adding that lightning to the shop, I asked him to open the system shop. By the way, I am too lazy to think of the description for that thing. So, I just slapped 'A lightning bolt' as its description.
[Ding! Host, please open the system shop]
After I sent those words through the screen, Ren Qingquan opened the store in his panel. Purchasing one point's worth of lightning, he asked whether or not this thing could kill those people.
[No, 1 point of lightning is exactly the amount the system used to shock the host previously.]
Hearing my answer, he purchased another six point's worth of lightning.
Throwing those seven point's worth of lightning equally between everyone laying there, the whole group soon woke up.
After that group of people woke up, they started talking about unimportant things which I skipped by entering a daze until Ren Qingchen spoke something about how they are currently in the immortal cultivation world.
Hearing his words, I nodded my head or at least I did something of its equivalent, afterall I don't even know where my head is.
Ren Qingchen's word is in line with my hypothesis.
Since Ren Qingquan arrived on this line island, I could sense a massive difference compared to the world we previously had been in.
Using [Scan], I could detect the energy contained within every single material around me has massively increased.
The sand is still the same sand, the water there is still the same water which consists of 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen. But, their energies somehow increased by 10 times compared to the previous world. There seems to be an extra energy structure there which went beyond my current knowledge
That whole thing seriously makes me want to scratch my nonexistent head.
I also tried to secretly craft a grain of sand that I have scanned from the beach. The energy required to do this is still extremely small as it hasn't even reached 1 point. But, compared to the sand in the previous world, it requires 12 times more energy. The extra 2 comes due to my lack of understanding about the energy structure thing.
I digress. Anyway, what truly gives everything away and makes me solidify my hypothesis of this world being the immortal cultivation world is the extra ambient energies I sensed. that energy is of similar nature to the spirit qi Ren Qingquan generated from practicing.
Just when I am lost in thought, those silly people have almost finished their discussion about leaving this island and currently deciding which direction they will move into.
It is at this time I sensed something approaching toward the island at extremely high speed.
Once they arrived within 500 meters radius from Ren Qingquan, their vague shape finally turned less blurry.
From my [Scan], I see a group of people consisting of 4 male and 2 female with energies equal to that of the Martial Emperor Rabbit stepping on sword as they fly toward our direction at high speed.
Upon arriving, those people spoke with booming voices while standing on their floating sword above their group.
"Halt! You have trespassed into the territory of Pure Wave Sect!"
When Ren Qingquan see those people, I can hear him scream 'IMMORTAL CULTIVATOR!' aloud internally.
I think Ren Qingquan has a wrong focus here. Personally, the fact that cultivators riding swords actually spoke the same word as Ren Qingquan's group from the Martial Arts World is more of a concern.
Just how could they speak the same damned language if you are from an entirely different world already?! On earth, just people from different cities could have a different dialect.
Hearing the warning those people gave, Ren Qingchen came forward and spoke toward them as he cupped his hand.
"Greetings seniors, we have no intention to trespass into your sect's territory. We are Martial artists from Martial Spirit Sect that accidentally stumbled into a teleportation formation and got brought here."
Hearing Ren Qingchen's explanation, those people nodded.
"Hmm? I never heard of that sect before. Anyway, the elders at the sect's guardian hall indeed said there is a spatial fluctuation here."
After saying that much, those groups of cultivators started some weird fluctuations among themselves. Seeing as their expressions occasionally change, I concluded they are most likely talking among themselves.
Glancing at Ren Qingquan's group, they are currently just waiting with bated breath.
As I am a bit curious about what is happening, I activated [Scan] and [Calculate] at full force to try my hardest to decipher those fluctuations.
Using my knowledge at reading expressions and after spending a lot of effort, I finally found a way to approximately translate their conversation.
Don't underestimate the difficulties of doing this. It is on the same level of difficulty as a human trying to decipher a dolphin's language.
Wait a minute, why the hell I tried to do that complicated thing just now. I could just upgrade [Scan] to be capable of sensing the information inside those fluctuations. Did I somehow get infected by Ren Qingquan's stupidity?
And so, spending a whole 10.000 energies which is just a daylight robbery, I gained the abilities to scan the information inside their fluctuations.
Just when I tried to focus on those people flying above, I heard Ren Qingquan suddenly calling me.
'System, what are they doing right now?'
[Ding! They seem to be talking among themselves right now.]
'But, I don't hear anything at all?'
[They are currently speaking through a fluctuation the system has just detected. Please wait a moment, the system will help translate their conversation.]
'For free?'
When we talked until this point, Ren Qingquan asked in suspicion.
[Yes.]
Ren Qingquan stood agape on his spot upon hearing my words. I could hear him mumbling about how the system has changed and it has stopped being so black hearted.
(¬_¬)
If you want me to charge you with that, then I will gladly do so.
[Ding! Host, please remember that the system could hear your thoughts. Your words seriously hurts the system and so, the system will charge you with 10.000 points for this function. Do you wish to purchase it?]
Reading those words, Ren Qingquan wished to slap his head. Which he indeed did as he walked toward a boulder in the island.
The surrounding people looked weird as Ren Qingquan slammed his head several times toward a boulder.
Even those members of Pure Wave Sects stopped their fluctuation upon seeing Ren Qingquan's sudden crazy action.
After smashing his head until that boulder cracked, Ren Qingquan finally purchased the function with gritted teeth.
And so, I focused [Scan] toward the fluctuation released by those people to hear their conversations while writing the words I hear toward a screen in front of him.
Right now in front of Ren Qingquan's eyes, there is an additional word written just like watching a Yo*Tube video with a subtitle.
"So, should we bring them to the sect or not?"
These words were spoken by the person who asked Ren Qingquan's group to halt. He seems to be the leader among them as he has the highest energies compared to the others.
"I agree with the decision to bring them back."
"I agree. Let's push all this trouble back to the elders. "
"Alright then."
Well, that is how their secret conversation went.
As those people stopped speaking. I could see Ren Qingquan's complexion darkening. Personally, I will also be angry if what I gained from spending 10.000 energies are merely useless words. Luckily I have healed from my brain cramp which made me create that translation function and transferred the loss to Ren Qingquan.
After those groups came to a conclusion, they started speaking normally once again to Ren Qingquan's group.
"Then, please come with us to our sect."
Saying that word, the leading male cultivator led the others to descend toward the island.
Third Princess and Elder Zhang rode together with the two female cultivators. Meanwhile, the others are separated into 4 groups. Ren Qingquan went with Ren Qingchen, Third uncle with that senior brother, fatty and Peak Master Fen rode together with one cultivator each.
Once everyone rode on the flying sword, all of them started flying toward the Pure Wave Sect those cultivators have talked about.
Just by looking at Ren Qingquan getting squished in the middle of those two people, I already feel extremely uncomfortable.
The sword they are riding at is only slightly more than 1 meter in length. Excluding the handle which couldn't be stepped on, the blade of this sword is only around 80cm. With three people standing on top of it, they must stick their body together while flying.
Not only that, as the cultivator controlling that sword has incredibly long hair, which coupled with the incredible wind speed makes the hair fly wildly. It caused Ren Qingquan's eyes to get poked twice already within a mere minute.
As Ren Qingquan is currently at an extremely close distance to that male cultivator. I already activated [Scan] and scanned the cultivator carrying Ren Qingquan several times over.
From his clothes to his internal energy, I thoroughly scanned every single part. I even learned the flying sword skill that cultivators used.
After half an hour of uncomfortable journey, everyone could see a mountain range with several extremely tall mountains located nearby the sea.
Those mountains are incredibly tall, their peak has even pierced through the clouds and hidden above it.
Soon, the leading cultivator that brought them started to pull some square made of jade and flash it toward the direction of that mountain range while slowing down and descending toward one of the mountain peaks.
After passing through some opaque barrier like thingy which is most likely a formation, Everyone finally arrived at the interior of Pure Wave Sect.
By the way while they passed through those formation barriers, I spammed my [Scan] toward it madly. With that, I obtained the data for this high level formation although only a small part of it.
This formation being a high leveled one is just my hypothesis though. Because in xianxia novels, the formation they placed on their sect is definitely the strongest one right?
Chapter 35. A Restless Feeling
When Ren Qingquan entered the sect, my [Scan] could detect several hundred creatures with energies at the level of Martial Lord and above.
There is even one person at the level far above Martial Emperor. The energy that guy released is several levels above Azure Emperor which I previously scanned.
Not only that. From my [Scan], I could sense a slight distortion caused by fluctuation of similar nature to the stone Ren Qingchen picked up in the tunnel on Meteor Island. But the fluctuation this person gives off is slightly lower in level.
Following the six cultivators, Ren Qingquan and his group arrived at a pavilion where that person with high-level energy is currently staying.
Staring at the six cultivators, a disciple guarding the door of that pavilion opened the doors while bowing toward them with a cupped hand.
Upon entering the pavilion. I could see a simple, vast room decorated with some paintings and sculptures. The entire room gives the feeling of being elegant and classy.
Inside of said pavilion, a young man who looks to be in his twenties sat behind a table while writing something on a piece of parchment made of unknown material.
Aside from the parchment, there is also an ink stick, an inkstone, an incense burner, an eight-sided trigram, and an ornately decorated jade seal.
Borrowing Ren Qingquan's shared sense from [Anchor], I could smell an invigorating aroma similar to rosemary coming from an incense burner on top of that man's table.
As usual, I scanned everything in the surroundings. This time, scanning actually required some time because of the small interference coming from that man. Especially when scanning the items he wore.
Meanwhile, upon seeing that man, the six cultivators greeted him with a cupped fist. Next to Ren Qingquan, Ren Qingchen also followed the way those people greeted that man and soon the others from Ren Qingquan's group followed suit.
"Reporting to elder Fengyun, disciple Jin Fushen, has completed the mission."
The leading cultivator said to the man currently busy writing on top of the parchment, which soon stopped and looked at them.
"Mmhm, Good. Who are the guests behind you?"
Answering elder Fengyun's question, Jin Fushen replied.
"These are the people we found at the source of that spatial fluctuation. They say they are martial artists from Martial Spirit Sect."
"Martial Spirit Sect? Never heard of it."
After saying that much, elder Fengyun chanted something as his eyes glowed. He then starts to stare at Ren Qingchen's group for a long time while rubbing his chin before speaking.
"They are most likely people from the lower world. Except for one of them with a trace of spirit qi from less than one year ago, all of them have only come in contact with spirit qi today. Those are the most common marks of people from the lower world."
After a pause, elder Fengyun continued while having an interested expression.
"Now then, could you tell me how all of you arrived at the territory of our Pure Wave Sect from the lower world."
Hearing that question, I could see Ren Qingquan's group looked at Ren Qingchen. Realizing their glare, Ren Qingchen went forward and explained their journey from Third Princess finding the path to cultivation world from record, how they ran to Meteor Island with the ruins of some sect while being chased by a wolf, until they finally entered the teleportation formation.
Hearing their story, elder Fengyun nodded and looked at Ren Qingchen.
"Well, that is pretty interesting. The one you guys called Meteor Island might be one of the mountain Pure Wave Sect lost during the war several thousand years ago. It's probably fate that all of you entered that formation."
After saying that, elder Fengyun toyed with the trigram on his table before asking whether they wished to join Pure Wave Sect.
"What do you all think about joining Pure Wave Sect? It is such a coincidence that in three days, the sect recruitment will begin. Although some of you seem quite old. Recently, the sect slightly changed its rule and stopped just selecting children."
Everyone in Ren Qingquan's group glanced at each before agreeing.
Elder Fengyun then called Jin Fushen and his group.
"Please take these guests to the guest house nearby."
Before leaving, through Ren Qingquan's sense, I could hear Elder Fengyun talking directly to Ren Qingquan through means similar to the fluctuation Jin Fushen and his group of cultivators used to converse privately.
"Did you get a technique called Body Tempering Technique?"
I could see Ren Qingquan's face turn into one of shock, which made me speechless. I should tell him in the future to learn how to always keep a calm expression.
Sensing the change in Ren Qingquan's face, elder Fengyun continued.
"It seems you have it."
He then proceeded to tell the source of that technique.
"The Body Tempering Technique is a cultivation method created by a great elder from our Pure Wave Sect a long time ago. It is the acknowledged strongest cultivation method of body tempering stage because of its ability to generate spirit qi from blood energies. But that is all.
There is no continuation for that technique, which makes it much less precious. After that war several thousand years ago, the sect lost that method together with your so-called meteor island."
After saying all that, elder Fengyun ended his sentence with a warning.
"Whether you choose to keep it or trade it, it is up to you. I have also hid its fluctuation which will last for a month at most, so other people wouldn't know you have it and tried to steal it from you. I recommend changing your cultivation method ASAP. Count this warning as a way for you to owe me a favor."
Once Ren Qinggquan left the room and the door behind them closed. Through [Scan], I could hear elder Fengyun mutter how fate works in mysterious ways while sighing.
Ren Qingquan's group then followed Jin Fushen to a building complex with several small buildings located inside.
"All of you may choose a building to stay in. There are daily necessities people need to prepare inside. I will return in three days to take all of you to the examination place later."
Jin Fushen left together with the five other cultivators upon leaving those sentences.
Ren Qingquan's group first selected the guest house they will stay in. Before gathering at Ren Qingchen's building.
Once everyone gathered, they could finally process what happened during the whole day.
Peak Master Fen is the first one to speak humorously and tried to make everyone less tense.
"Well, the amount of surprises I have on this day already equaled the amount of surprises I got in the past 50 years. My old heart could barely take it. I hope I won't have a heart problem, which requires me to eat a heart calming pill at my old age."
With Peak Master Fen's word, Third Princess soon followed.
"Even though I am the one who suggested the idea. I still couldn't believe we actually successfully arrived at the cultivation world. Especially with that wolf chasing after us."
Hearing her words, Ren Qingchen smiled at Third Princess and then looked at Peak Master Fen.
"Indeed, the journey here is quite arduous. Also, old man, please return me my azure flute I lent previously."
Hearing Ren Qingchen's request, Peak master Fen remembered something and looked at Third Princess and Ren Qingchen with a sharp eye.
"Here is your flute. Now that you are talking about that wolf, I remembered something. After I finished resting, I will beat the shiet out of you both due to making me fight against that wolf on Meteor Island."
Meanwhile, fatty Zhang is currently standing nearby the lovey-dovey third uncle and elder Zhang while eating some snacks placed on a table.
From his blissful face, that food probably tasted really good.
I could see Ren Qingquan walk toward fatty Zhang and started their snacking session while chatting.
Soon, Ren Qingchen started to gather everyone's attention and talked about their future plans.
"Most of you entered this place because of me. So, I feel a bit obliged to share some information. As all of us went to the cultivation world using teleportation formation instead of the normal path which is to pass through the world bridge. We wouldn't be able to visit the martial arts world in a short time. So, I hope everyone to have a good luck and enters the Pure Wave Sect. The test three days later will most likely involve ... "
Then, he continued about how the Pure Wave Sect might do their tests and what to do if some of them failed the test.
"So, if any of you were to fail the test, you could stay in the city under the Pure Wave Sect. Once I reach a sufficient level, I will bring you back to our previous world."
Hearing Ren Qingchen talking about his understanding of the world, Peak Master Fen is a bit suspicious.
"How do you know this much about the cultivation world?"
Ren Qingchen brushed it off by saying he found it all on records.
While those groups were chatting, Ren Qingquan went into a daze while snacking as he talked with me.
'System, since entering the cultivation world, I have had these restless and uncomfortable feelings. Could you find out where it came from?'
Hearing his question, I fell into thought.
Since Ren Qingquan got teleported to this world, I indeed also get some uncomfortable feelings. It is similar to the feeling of forgetting something quite important, but you couldn't quite put your hand in it.
That feeling is also what makes me couldn't think rationally, especially when I turn a bit dumb when trying to overhear Jin Fushen's group conversations.
Even after activating [Calculate], I couldn't pinpoint the source. And so, I just throw my guess at Ren Qingquan.
[Host, it might be caused by the change in environment that makes you uncomfortable.]
Personally, even I don't quite believe that explanation. I have scanned the others in Ren Qingquan's group and they don't exhibit any trace of being uncomfortable.
Hearing my opinion, Ren Qingquan went into thinking. Through [Anchor], I could overhear some of his thought. At this time, Ren Qingquan actually used his brain and found out several possible causes.
After eliminating Ren Qingquan's nonsensical guess, I agreed with 2 of the most plausible reasons.
First, the feeling might be because of Ren Qingquan's body being a bit special.
That sounds extremely narcissistic, but actually highly probable. After all, Ren Qingquan has spirit qi while in the martial art world. That spirit qi might achieve some transformation I couldn't sense upon arriving at the cultivation world.
Second, the source might be related to me. After all, the feelings affected both of us. If it merely came from Ren Qingquan, I shouldn't have felt anything just like when Ren Qingquan got that instinctive guilty feeling hearing about possible beast tide which is actually caused by him.
Wait a moment! Upon arriving at the second possibility, I realized something. When I first arrived in this world, I have scanned the surrounding materials and concluded that the amount of energy contained within them has increased by ten times compared to the Martial Arts World. Then, here comes the problem.
Why haven't I tried to [Devour] it? When I found out about such glaring differences, I should've tried to [Devour] it just to make sure the result from [Scan] is actually right.
When I thought until that point, I could feel some sort of subconsciousness warn me. And so, I conclude I might have stopped using [Devour] subconsciously because something related to it went wrong.
Quickly rechecking the stones I anchored in Martial Arts World that has continuously absorbed the sea water in that world. I could still feel the increase in energy that hasn't changed at all, which makes me relieved. At least the problem doesn't come directly from the skill.
As the feeling began once I arrived in this world. Then, the problem should come by activating [Devour] in this world.
When I am going to try and activate [Devour], [Calculate] starts to warn me like crazy, which makes me immediately stop.
So, that subconscious warning like feelings come from [Calculate] huh? It actually has this kind of function?
Having found out the source of my uneasiness, I could focus on my [Calculate] to review the cause. Separating my thought to start multi-tasking which is a skill I gained upon upgrading [Calculate] to a certain level, I left a small part of my focus to watch over Ren Qingquan while most of my focus is spent on looking at the pass event recorded in [Storage].
Discarding unimportant events, I slowly narrow things down to the time I arrived at the cultivation world.
Reviewing the thing that happened at that time, I activated [Calculate] at full force. From the things Ren Qingquan sensed to everything [Scan] scanned, every source of information has been reviewed multiple times. That is when I found it, the source of this weirdness I feel.
It is a feeling of being observed by an extremely high leveled and huge existence. An existence akin to the world itself.
That feeling comes the instant that white light finishes transporting Ren Qingquan to this world and leaves as quickly. Umm, leaving is not quite the right word. It is more like the observer merged with nature and became unobservable?
Anyway, once I activate [Devour] in this world, it will answer all problems.
To make sure whatever the problem is wouldn't affect Ren Qingquan, which is my only host with all skills attached. I decided to [Anchor] another thing with [Devour] skill.
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