章 101: 69-71
Chapter 69. Suddenly, Weapon Refining Mini Game!
When both I and Ren Qingquan saw that scene, we thought of the same thing at once. 'A face slapping scene!'
Without my reminder, Ren Qingquan quickly activated his Turtle Divination Technique and saw the amount of luck that boy had.
The result shocked both of us as the amount of luck that boy has is actually abysmally low!
In his confusion, Ren Qingquan even already switched his technique off and on several times. But the result from Turtle Divination remains the same, that boy's luck is extremely low.
At this time, the young man stood up as he glared at the middle aged man with a cold eyes as he snorted, "Hmph! Mere frog in a well, if it's not because this city is the closest place I can reach, I won't be willing to take a step in your association!"
Hearing the young man's loud voice, there are already several people spectating the confrontation between both of them.
Seemingly gaining courage from the surrounding spectators, the young man continued arrogantly, "I dare you to bet with me on talisman refining. The loser will kneel to the winner and ask for their forgiveness!"
When the young man finished speaking, the middle aged man's face already turned beet red.
I immediately felt this situation can't end nicely.
Just like I expected, the middle aged man roared in anger. "Bastard, who do you think you are! How dare you tarnish the reputation of the Talisman Association like that! I will kill you, you little shit!"
Without any more nonsense, that middle aged man pushed his palm toward the young man's head. With the sound of watermelon bursting, the head of that young man exploded as liquid spread all around the place.
There are even some spectators that got stained by the fluids coming from the young man's head while screaming from the shock. But upon being glared at by that middle aged man, they quickly turn quiet and keep their head low before continuing their usual business.
Ren Qingquan: (☉｡☉)
While Ren Qingquan was stupefied, I activated my [Scan] and scanned the memory of that boy's remnant soul due to curiosity.
What I found out is actually the story of a young man with serious case of delusion.
The young man comes from a village located nearby this city. After falling into a hole while foraging in a forest several months ago, he found the corpse of a cultivator. Inside the pouch of that dead cultivator, there are cultivation techniques and basic talisman techniques.
As one of the literate people in his village, the young man slowly read the book while asking several other literate people for the meaning of words he couldn't understand.
Soon, he already understood every word and diagram of that cultivation manual. Within a short time, he successfully reached the fourth stage of qi refining.
With his increased strength, the young man started practicing talisman refining and easily created a fire summoning talisman.
Amidst happiness, he quickly ran toward the city in hope of joining the Talisman Association. Things happen, and just like what I saw, he was killed by that middle aged man.
When I finished watching his memory, I can't help but think that the young man is also quite pitiful. According to the scene I gained from that memory, he definitely fell into qi deviation due to practicing his technique wrongly. It indeed causes his early cultivation speed to increase, but his potential is already destroyed. Furthermore, the reason he turned into such an arrogant guy is because the qi deviation affected his brain and soul.
With this, I activated [Devour] and turned his soul into points.
What? Do you think I'll leave free points alone?
When I already devoured the soul thoroughly, I feel Ren Qingquan lost the interest to go inside the Talisman Association.
Seeing his disinterested face, the guard recommended another place, "Senior, I apologize about this incident. How about we visit the weapon refining association instead? It is located nearby and the people there are much friendlier."
Ren Qingquan agreed without much thought, "Alright."
Before leaving, I spread my [Scan] toward the interior of the Talisman Association. Although I can't sense everything with great detail due to the long distance, I can still see what the people inside are doing.
Inside that association, there are actually only ten people. Except for the middle aged man that is currently walking inside, the others are currently busy writing on top of special papers containing a small amount of energy.
As what they do is quite boring, I choose to check the Weapon Refining Association. Just like what the guard says, the Weapon Refining Association is indeed located nearby his current location. It is even within the range of my [Scan].
The result of my [Scan] directly made me stunned and I only come to be when both Ren Qingquan and the guard arrived at the association.
Walking closer toward the weapon refining association, Ren Qingquan is immediately greeted by a beautiful female cultivator. "Lu'er welcome the two esteemed guests. How may I help you?"
"I am a bit curious about your association and wish to look around." After replying, he walked inside with the guard and that female cultivator following behind.
Once he entered, I could feel Ren Qingquan's shock. The interior of the Weapon Refining Association is indeed quite weird. If people normally expect a hall with several counters or an exhibition of weapons upon entering, then they must be extremely disappointed.
Because it looks like a frickin boutique! To be exact, it looks like those modern clothing stores selling expensive branded clothes. There are several rows of dresses worn by beautifully sculpted statues that work as mannequins.
From my [Scan] previously, I saw the Pure Wave Sect's symbol weaved at the inner section of those dresses. Which is why I am a bit speechless while Ren Qingquan and the guard are walking toward the association.
Ren Qingquan also stared speechlessly at the unexpected interior. While stupefied, his sight is locked into one of the statues wearing a beautiful white dress.
The saleswoma- *ahem* association member quickly introduced the dress Ren Qingquan stared at, "Senior's eyes indeed can see good things. This Millennium Lily Dress is weaved using the fiber of a thousand year old lily's stem as its main material. The design for this dress is personally made by the peak master of Pure Wave Sect's weapon refining peak, the most famous cloth designer in our continent! This dress is capable of blocking attacks from a Golden Core expert and has automatic cleaning, temperature control, self repair, and many other functions. Whether it is senior's mother, master, sisters, or spouse, this dress will definitely make any woman feel special!"
After the sales woma- I mean, after the female association member spoke, she seemed a bit out of breath as her face slightly blushed.
Wait! So, are those dresses indeed related to the Pure Wave Sect? Does that mean just like what I thought before, the Pure Wave Sect is indeed a powerful sect?
Meanwhile, Ren Qingquan remembered the punishment I updated previously and felt a bit anxious. So he immediately went to the main topic. "Actually, except for looking around, I also wish to browse your library."
Seeing as Ren Qingquan had no desire to buy the dress she introduced, the sales woman looked a bit disappointed for a split second. But she quickly restored her customer service smile immediately as she replied, "My apologies senior, may I see your association badge? To access our association's library requires you to show proof as a member."
While shaking his head, Ren Qingquan answered, "I don't have any badge, do you have another way so I can browse your library?"
The sales woman thought for a moment before asking Ren Qingquan, "Does the senior know weapon refining? Our association has the right to grant a lvl 1 badge for those who pass the basic assessment."
Ren Qingquan is going to shook his head when I quickly reminded him.
[Host please remember, you already learned an Immortal Ascension stage weapon refining technique. It should be enough for you to pass the test.]
'Oh, that's right.' With that thought, Ren Qingquan nodded to the sales woman.
"To join the test senior must pay 10 spirit stones for the cost of materials."
As the amount of spirit stones Ren Qingquan has right now is insufficient, he asked me to create several pieces of spirit stones by spending 1 point of energy for each of them.
After giving those spirit stones to the sales woman, she smiled and pointed him to a room. "Please wait inside, I shall call the examiner for senior's test."
The sales woman then proceeds to leave Ren Qingquan who has entered the room she pointed.
Inside the room, there is a forge and anvil coupled with other items used in weapon forging.
While waiting for the sales woman to return, Ren Qingquan walked around and grabbed tools like a hammer, chisel, brush, tongs, etc. and played around with it.
The wait didn't last long and a burly bald middle aged man entered the room. From [Scan], I detected the man to have Golden Core stage cultivation. Walking next to him, the sales woman introduced the man while holding a tray filled with materials. "This is the branch manager of our Weapon Refining Association. He will be the one in charge of being the examiner for this test. Because except for the branch manager there are no other people capable of being an examiner in this branch."
With a stern face, the middle aged man spoke, "The test is extremely simple, you just need to create a magical weapon within an hour using the materials prepared. Without further ado, let's begin."
Just in case Ren Qingquan failed and wasted those 10 spirit stones, I decided to help him. After all, although the memory of Void Refining Technique, which is the weapon refining technique I taught him before also includes several simulated memories which should help him. But with Ren Qingquan being Ren Qingquan, I am afraid he would still get confused without my aid.
[Assistance Mode Activated]
With that message, I created an illusory bar and circles.
Just like those rhythm games, the circle consists of one small circle located inside a big circle that slowly turns smaller. When the big circle touched the small circle inside it, Ren Qingquan must smash his hammer into that location.
I also added an arrow and number which is the angle and direction Ren Qingquan must follow while hitting the metal.
As for the bar, it shows Ren Qingquan the amount of energy and power he must use to hit the metal.
After teaching Ren Qingquan about the function of those screens, I reminded him.
[Host, don't forget to activate your Void Refining Technique while hitting the metals. Also, do you want System to add some music while at it?]
Ren Qingquan:(¬_¬)
With the help of my assistance function, Ren Qingquan started hitting the piece of metal.
At first he often hit it too hard or too weak due to not getting used to the bar, but soon he started to hit it with the correct amount of force.
Thanks to the Void Refining technique, Ren Qingquan doesn't need to heat the metal using the forge, which simplified the forging process several times.
Soon, he finished crafting the sword embrio and started engraving runes into the sword using a chisel and hammer.
With half an hour remaining, the sword on Ren Qingquan's hand is finally completed.
Ren Qingquan then passed the sword he just forged to the bald branch manager.
Holding the sword gently, I saw the branch manager's eyes widened the more he inspected Ren Qingquan's work. Soon, he started to talk with an increasingly loud voice, "This... This is a perfect work! A top class masterpiece! I've only seen this level of craftsmanship from those top weapon refiners! Which senior refiner's disciple is this esteemed guess."
Equipping his profound look, Ren Qingquan spouted some nonsense, "I'd rather not say, my master prefers to live in seclusion and has stopped refining for a long time. As a disciple, I hope to respect my master's wish."
Seeing the look on Ren Qingquan's face, the branch manager just nodded before groping around his pocket and pulled a badge. "I apologize, even though the skill you show can easily get you a third stage badge or above, but our association only has the right to grant first stage badge."
"Then if there is nothing else, let me take my leave as I am quite busy at this time of the day." With that word, the bald branch manager opened the door and walked away.
Once the branch manager left, the sales woman who had been standing at a corner all this time clapped her hand, "Congratulations for obtaining your badge, senior! Please follow me to visit the Association's library."
Chapter 70. System: Why Do I Hear Boss Music?
Walking through several corridors, Ren Qingquan followed the sales woman and arrived at the library.
"Here is the library. Senior may write a copy for your own usage, but please don't take any book outside of the library." With that word, the sales woman left. "If there is nothing else, Lu 'er will take her leave."
Seeing it, I saw Ren Qingquan pull the remaining spirit stones from [Storage] and give it to the woman, calling it his gift for her help. Bowing to him, the woman left Ren Qingquan alone in the library.
The Weapon Refining Association's library is quite small in size. So I easily scanned all of the books inside within two minutes. Thanks to those books, I finally gained some understanding of the cultivation world. To not raise any suspicions, I told Ren Qingquan to spend some time reading the books there.
The book he pulled is titled 'A Basic Knowledge On The Forces Of Cultivation World'.
In summary the book talked about the level of forces in cultivation worlds, which are separated into four levels, depending on the highest stage expert those forces can consistently nurture.
The highest level being top level force with Immortal Ascension stage expert. In total, there are only seven top level forces in the cultivation world. The Immortal Alliance, or officially known as Loose Immortal Alliance that the guard talked about before belong to this level.
Next, there are first and second rate sects. They can consistently nurture a Tribulation Transcender and Void Unity stage expert respectively.
Last, there are third rate sects which can't consistently or even nurture a Void Unity expert at all.
By the way, the Pure Wave sect belongs to a second rate sect.
How do I know? Because inside the book, there is also a list of sects with the name Pure Wave Sect listed among second rate sects. They were last updated a hundred years ago though. So, I am not sure what grade the Pure Wave Sect is right now.
That also means there is at least a Void Refining level fossil hidden in the Pure Wave Sect!
Once Ren Qingquan finished reading the book, I sent him a notification.
[Congratulations for completing 'Quest: Learn Common Knowledge'. You have been rewarded with 1000 points.]
With his kidney safe, Ren Qingquan sighed in relief and casually spent his time in the library. Soon, the sun inched closer toward the horizon and evening arrived.
I sensed Ren Qingquan feeling bored from reading books. Which made him come to a decision, 'Let's walk around the city!'
Exiting the library, Ren Qingquan followed my map and reached the Weapon Association's lobby which looked like an expensive boutique.
On the sofa made of expensive looking pelt, the guard that leads Ren Qingquan here is chatting with the saleswoman Lu 'er, both of them seem extremely close.
I can hear Ren Qingquan turn sour when seeing that lovey-dovey scene.
When the guard saw Ren Qingquan arriving at the room, he quickly walked toward him with a smile, "Greeting senior, do you need any assistance from me?"
"I am planning to tour the city."
"Then let me guide you around, senior." The guard quickly walked toward the association's entrance following Ren Qingquan.
Before that, he doesn't forget to kiss his palm and blow it toward the far away Lu 'er who quickly blushed. Seeing such a scene I rolled my nonexistent eyes.
Ren Qingquan also seems a bit uncomfortable as he said, "Umm.. you can just stay here, I can walk around by myself. Also, can you prepare a room for me at the association? I already got an association badge with me."
***
As it is currently evening, some of the surrounding stores have started to close. Unlike the modern day where the nightlife is pretty lively due to the existence of lightbulbs. In this world, the means for mortals to have light in the middle of the night is only through candles or oil lamps.
While Ren Qingquan walked through a street that is still lively, I detected a skirmish or to be exact, a bullying happening inside an alley several hundred meters away through [Scan]. Soon after, Ren Qingquan also heard it and followed the sound toward that alley.
Seeing the scene of a boy getting bullied by several other kids inside, Ren Qingquan hid himself as he observed from afar. The boy that is currently getting bullied wore a blue silk cloth that has been dirtied from the beating he received.
While beating that boy, those kids are smiling smugly.
One of the kids seemed to be satisfied as he laughed, "Hahaha! Is this the genius of the Su family?! Aren't you just trash that can't cultivate now? Haven't you always looked down on all of us because your talents were slightly higher?"
The other kid replied, "Don't call him that, big brother. I mean, let's not call him a genius of the Su family. After all, he might be disowned by the Su family soon."
Upon hearing that, the surrounding kids laughed in gusto.
Hearing the words those kids spoke, I was a bit shocked as several thoughts flashed through my mind.
My first thought is, Holy shiet, their provocations are extremely colorful and ruthless.
As for my second thought, the boy getting bullied is most likely a child of luck! I am sure I've seen this protagonist template somewhere before. The sentence one of those boys spoke next directly doubled my certainty.
"Hahaha, indeed. His mother already left him and went to god know where. What is stopping his other family from discarding him."
Yeah, that boy already ticked two tropes here.
Genius turned trash? ✓
Missing parent? ✓
Ren Qingquan also came to the same conclusion as I saw him activate Turtle Divination and stare at the bullied boy.
Ignoring the surrounding kids with cannon fodder luck, he checked on the luck that kid had.
In terms of size, the luck that boy has is approximately equal to 2 Young Master Gu, which is the person with highest luck Ren Qingquan has ever checked. Their luck is still miniscule compared to Ren Qingquan though.
After beating the boy several more times until he fell unconscious, those bullies finally left. When he was sure there was no one looking, Ren Qingquan walked closer toward the boy in blue robes while activating his 'Don't Peek At Me, Pervert!' Technique and turning himself invisible.
Once the boy was within ten meters of Ren Qingquan, my [Scan] detected a special fluctuation coming from that boy. To be exact, it comes from the necklace that boy wore.
The fluctuation feels similar to the mental power coming from those powerful cultivators like the elders and peak master from Pure Wave Sect. There is also an unknown power that makes it slightly weirder and probably the reason I can only detect the fluctuation when located within 10 meters of that boy.
But that fluctuation isn't the one pulling my attention.
Due to the unknown power mentioned before, only at the current distance can I sense the amount of energy that the necklace contains.
To describe it in one word, it is enormous!
If I devoured it using Ren Qingquan [Devour], that thing could easily net me 100.000 points!
A whole 100.000 points! This is the greatest amount of energy I ever saw contained within an item. Even the amount of energy contained within the Pure Wave Sect's sci-fi style library still pale in comparison.
Combining the abnormal amount of points, the special mental power fluctuation that the necklace gives off, and a theory I have about the relationship between soul and mental power. I can confidently conclude there is actually the soul of a grandpa/grandma hidden inside, which makes that boy tick yet another main character cliche.
Expert in a ring (necklace edition) ✓
It seems during the time I got absorbed thinking about the necklace, Ren Qingquan has arrived at a decision. "System, what do you think of that boy? I am thinking of giving him a subsystem."
[System thinks he is a suitable host for the subsystem. His luck is quite strong and his strength is only at the Qi Refining stage.]
'Then quickly place the same subsystems as the one given to Ren Qingchen.'
[Do you wish to spend 1,111 energy and grant Lv 4 subsystems containing 'Scan', 'Devour', 'Create', and 'Transfer'?]
'Yes.' With Ren Qingquan's agreement, I spent 1,111 points and anchored four skills on that boy.
Once the boy has been given a Lv 4 subsystem, my attention returned to the necklace he wore. The more I stare at it, the more I feel my hand itching and my point hoarding illness to flare up.
Well, there is no need for two cheat to exist at once on the same person.
With that thought, I prepared myself to [Devour] the soul inside that ring. Of course I didn't tell Ren Qingquan about it as I want to take it all in my pocket, mwahahahaha.
＼(°o°)／
That extra power I scanned on the necklace's soul makes me a bit wary though. As it is a new thing and I am not too sure whether the Heavenly Will would go bonkers and attack Ren Qingquan if I devoured it, I decided to use a more cautious approach.
After calculating how I can obtain the greatest benefit, I decided to use [Anchor] on the necklace and granted it with [Devour] and four other skills, which is equal to a level 5 subsystem.
With this, although the amount of points I gained is only 40% of the total I should've gained if I used Ren Qingquan's [Devour]. I can still obtain 40.000 points from it (TAX not included). Which is the biggest amount of points I have received from a single item!
The most important thing is Ren Qingquan's life wouldn't be in much danger. Probably
Just when I am going to [Devour] that soul, I paused.
I almost forgot something important.
Focusing my [Scan] on the necklace, I activated the function to collect a remnant soul's memory. After all, the soul in this necklace should've counted as a remnant soul, right?
A whole minute passes but there is still no response from my [Scan]. This makes me a bit confused.
Do I need to upgrade my [Scan] further to sense the soul's memory, or is that soul actually different from a remnant soul, which makes my remnant soul memory reading function to be ineffective?
As there is a lack of data, I can't guess how many points I need to spend on an upgrade and which upgrade direction I should take.
Unwilling to waste points on uncertain bets, I quit thinking of ways to [Scan] that soul and directly devoured it.
When it is going to be devoured, the soul actually subconsciously resisted my suction force. Its resistance even caused [Devour] to enter a tug of war.
Seeing that, I decisively spent 10.000 points and upgraded [Devour] to increase its suction force. With the help of those points, [Devour]'s radius rapidly increased by more than two fold.
As time passes, the soul inside that necklace is slowly swallowed by the [Devour] I attached on that necklace.
A minute passes and a change is happening on that necklace.
After getting a quarter of its soul sucked by my [Devour], the special power released by that soul started to churn as more and more power was released from the ring.
Soon, the shadow of a beautiful female with an ethereal face appeared.
With her appearance, my gut feeling detected an extreme sense of danger which made me immediately warn Ren Qingquan.
[Host, run away from that woman, quick!]
Ren Qingquan's sense of danger has also been tickling as he quickly ran away without much thought.
Chapter 71. System Vs Grandma In Necklace Vs Heavenly Will
When the body of that woman had mostly solidified, she glared at Ren Qingquan's position.
As I expected, she can see through Ren Qingquan's invisibility! Seeing it, I quickly asked Ren Qingquan to activate all of his magical techniques.
Without much nonsense, that woman just punched her hand in a seemingly slow yet fast movement. Although that action made her look a bit silly and even cute, but [Scan] detected an extremely scary scene.
That woman's gentle punch actually affected the spirit within the surrounding areas and made them move violently toward Ren Qingquan.
In a split second, a huge fist shadow made of qi appeared and quickly flew toward Ren Qingquan. Upon touch, that fist directly destroyed every single defense he created. Whether it is Armament Transformation that has been turned into a shield or the Super Duper ... Turtle Shell Technique, all of them collapsed within a touch of that fist shadow.
In panic, Ren Qingquan activated [Storage] and created a deep hole in the ground before jumping into it while madly digging and refilling the hole above him using [Storage].
He also pushed himself deep into the hole using several whips created by Armament Transformation, which increased the speed of his descent up to 50 meters/second.
When he was only several dozen meters deep, I detected the punch that the woman sent hit the ground and caused an earthquake that affected most of the city.
Deep inside the earth, Ren Qingquan also felt the earth tremble which almost squeezed him to death. In panic, he activated his Super Duper ... Turtle Shell Technique.
When he barely took a breather, the earth above him exploded and Ren Qingquan's shield shook crazily. Next, the earth above him instantly split open and he once again saw the evening sky.
Soon, the woman reappeared in front of him. This time, much more translucent than before. When she reappeared, Ren Qingquan tried to calm her down. "Senior, I think there is a misunderstanding between us."
What Ren Qingquan replied is that woman's cold voice, "The status of a Tribulation Transcender must not be defiled! How dare you attack my soul and even try to pry at my memory!"
Once he heard that woman's voice, Ren Qingquan immediately thought of me as he screamed, 'System! What the hell did you do?!'
Whoops, guess it's indeed my fault. But wtf old hag, I merely swallowed a quarter of your soul and maybe tried to pry open your memory. There is no need to overreact like this!
Not waiting for Ren Qingquan's response, she waved her hand while muttering "Dao of Illusion: Reality is the greatest illusion."
I don't understand why she muttered the name of her skill. But following her chant, the surrounding scenery around Ren Qingquan distorted just like a wet painting that got spilled by water.
While Ren Qingquan instinctively sent more energies to his Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique, both of us stared in disbelief at the weird scene currently happening.
Except for that woman, the scenery outside of Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique has been distorted beyond repair. One moment they look like a vortex, another moment they look like flowing water. It looks like the woman is standing amidst an abstract painting.
What scares me the most is [Scan] actually detected those scenes to be real and not an illusion. Which means that woman has directly twisted reality and turned it into this messed up thing.
Soon, the Super Duper... The Turtle Shell Technique that Ren Qingquan used also started to distort.
Without much thought, I activated the [Devour] located on the necklace containing that woman's soul and swallowed random things.
Just like usual, good ol' Heavenly Will summoned a space crack directly above that woman. Thanks to the destruction brought by good ol' Heavenly Will, the rate of distortion around Ren Qingquan decreased.
Waving her hand, I saw the Tribulation Transcender woman once again distorting reality and weaved that crack out of existence.
Feeling itself challenged, the Heavenly Will summoned another crack. This time on a much bigger scale than before.
Realizing something is wrong, the woman doesn't send any attack this time. Instead she observed for a moment before muttering, "Hmm? The power of heaven?"
After a thoughtful look, she waved her hand once again and removed the space crack.
At this time, the distorting space has passed through Ren Qingquan's shield. One of his palms has even turned into a wriggly shape as I heard him scream in pain.
Just when I prepared myself to take some bloody loss and activate [Transfer] to teleport Ren Qingquan far away, Heavenly Will finally sent its third attack.
It summoned a space crack around a quarter of the city in radius, the space crack immediately sucked many things in the city.
From afar, a cacophony of screams can be heard as many people get sucked toward that crack.
Feeling guilty when he saw those people flying toward the sky, Ren Qingquan summoned his Armament Transformation and created several hundred whips using his spirit qi. He then controlled every single whips toward the people sucked by Heavenly Will's space crack and held them tightly.
When more and more people are sucked above, beads of sweat start to appear on Ren Qingquan's forehead as he summons more tentacle- whip to hold them in place.
I am not sure what the woman thought of, but upon seeing the city sized space crack the Heavenly Will created, she allowed herself to be sucked inside.
Before being sucked inside, that woman casted a defensive spell toward the unconscious boy as she spoke, "A life for a life. With this, I cut off our ties."
With her words, the currently unconscious boy's face frowned. Ren Qingquan instinctively activated his Turtle Divination Technique and saw the luck of that boy decreased by a quarter with only 1.5 Young Master Gu's worth of luck left.
Next she glared really hard at Ren Qingquan and finally disappeared into the crack. With her disappearance, the space crack above instantly closed and every floating thing fell back down to the earth.
***
Unlike everything that has been sucked by the Heavenly Will before, both the woman and the necklace she attached into doesn't immediately break upon being swallowed. Instead, it arrived at a familiar location.
From [Scan], I detected several shiny things around her, which is exactly the same one as what I saw through Azure Emperor's [Scan].
At this point, the woman's body has turned extremely transparent. Her previous consecutive attack and reality distorting power has likely consumed most of her energy.
The amount of energy [Scan] detected on her also agreed with this.
In her unconscious state, I saw her control the necklace as it flew amidst the void following a direction.
Humph! Do you think you can escape just like that?
Luckily, unlike the Heavenly Will that can detect which item is the one responsible for using [Devour]. The female Tribulation Transcender's soul is unable to do so.
As she already returned to unconscious state, the [Devour] I left on the necklace easily sucked the remaining power on her soul, which somehow netted me a total of 20.000 points.
Without the help of that woman's soul, the necklace quickly shattered and I lost my connection with it.
With this, I should've thoroughly killed that woman.
Wait! wait! Don't plant a flag, me. Let's stop thinking about such a thing. Remember those villains that survived an explosion because the protagonist stupidly asked 'are they dead?'
So, I tried to focus myself on another thing in case the flag I planted turned into reality.
At this time Ren Qingquan is exiting the city.
After the previous battle which I am actually responsible for, Ren Qingquan is too embarrassed to stay any further or even say his farewell to the guard and that sales woman.
Looking at the scene of destruction caused by that battle, both of us shuddered. The initially small alley has turned into a wide chasm as if a meteor has struck it.
Several hundred meters away, there is still the trace of fist from that woman's punch.
Furthermore, every building and road within a hundred meter radius has been distorted into a swirling shape just like the sky in Van Gogh's The Starry Night painting.
Luckily, the center of that battle is located in an alley filled with empty stores and the residence of a strong family. When they sensed that battle, the people inside that family had already escaped far away.
While flying above the city, Ren Qingquan passes by the Weapon Refining Association while in an invisible state.
He opened a system map to check the condition of the guard, sales woman, and branch manager. Once he saw everyone were alright, Ren Qingquan paused and spent several energies to create and transfer some spirit stones to the guard and sales woman before silently flying away from the city.
Outside of the city, Ren Qingquan stopped at an empty opening nearby the road connected to the city. 'System, don't you have anything you wish to say'
[Sorry.]
There are no excuses here. I am indeed the one responsible for starting the battle with that Tribulation Transcender woman.
'Sigh, I'll be the bigger man here and accept your apologies. But don't you think you need to give me something else?'
[Devour has been upgraded. Current radius: 15 meters]
'The power of my [Devour] is already enough, increasing it further doesn't have much effect for me. System, can't you show some remorse and give me actual useful things?'
[Congratulations for completing a sudden quest: Survive.
You have been rewarded with A special storage space. Please check your personal panel for further information.]
'System, can't you give me some points? I heard that Tribulation Transcender said her soul is attacked. I am sure it is your attempt at trying to [Devour] it.'
Darn, he is sharp. Why did he turn smarter all of a sudden?
Just when I am going to give him some points, the word I wrote at the corner of my vision comes into view.
-If Ren Qingquan turns smarter than me, do self introspection!
As if hit by a bolt in daylight, realization dawned into me.
Wait a minute, is he trying to guilt trip me and suck me dry?!
[That is the most the System can compensate you for. The points gained from swallowing the soul are used to upgrade your 'Devour'.]
Of course that is merely a half truth, I am playing a word game here. After all the points I gained are indeed used to upgrade [Devour], but another half are kept in my pocket.
Humph, you can try to get my energy over my dead body. If I have a body at all in the first place.
That's right, even after that half death encounter, I am still greedy. Haven't you heard the saying, birds die for food, systems die for energy?
If you haven't, that's normal, because I just made it up right now.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sigh, I think my 'talk to nothingness' illness flared up once again due to stress.
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