Chương 71: Stop! Stop! You Guys Are Destroying My Expectation For Cultivators!

Stop! You Guys Are Destroying My Expectation For Cultivators!

Back at the ship, Ren Qingquan muttered, "What a pity. I've been showing off my wealth by blatantly storing the corpses I purchased in my pocket space, but I haven't encountered any robbery plot where the protagonist gets mugged by a random thug after showing off something precious." Suppressing his disappointment, Ren Qingquan went to borrow a private alchemy room on the ship. As a ship where many high-ranking cultivators gathered, the ship Ren Qingquan joined has an extremely complete set of functional rooms.

There's an alchemy room, a weapon-refining room, a talisman room, a special cultivation room, and many other places. Although they're quite expensive and have inferior instruments to those in the sect, Ren Qingquan isn't going to use them for alchemy anyway, so it doesn't matter to him. Once inside the alchemy room, he opened a screen to watch the boy with dual pupils while pulling one of the corpses he purchased.

Ren Qingquan stretched his body and began slowly refining the corpse using the corpse-refining technique. After successfully refining a corpse with the standard method, Ren Qingquan looked at the result and nodded in acknowledgment, "It seems my skill hasn't rusted yet."

"After this warm-up, I guess it's time to start my experiment. With my Golden Core realm cultivation, I should be able to succeed." Ren Qingquan muttered to himself as he pulled more corpses from his pocket space. As someone who can hear his thoughts, I know which experiment Ren Qingquan is trying. Since he gained some mastery over the corpse-refining technique, Ren Qingquan has grown increasingly ambitious.

Right now, he plans to experiment with a method to combine several corpses to create a customized refined corpse.

'All this time, I failed because I lacked the energy to connect the qi pathway between two corpses. With my newly advanced cultivation, I should be able to do it now,' Ren Qingquan thought as he began his experiment. He looked at a wolf corpse and a dog corpse, choosing two quite similar corpses as his materials. I helped Ren Qingquan analyze the corpses before he cut off the wolf corpse's left foreleg and attached it between the dog corpse's left foreleg and left rear leg.

The Corpse Refining technique included methods for fixing corpses. While trying to combine the wolf leg's energy pathway with the remaining dog corpses, Ren Qingquan also attached the foot to the dog's body. Even with the help of [Calculate], it took Ren Qingquan a long time before he successfully combined the wolf leg's energy pathway, flesh, and blood with the dog's corpse. After recovering his energy, Ren Qingquan repeated the process and added another leg between the dog's rear leg and foreleg.

Once he's done, Ren Qingquan imbues the corpse with spirit qi and a touch of divine sense to refine it. Hiding his left eye with his left palm, Ren Qingquan raises his right arm in front of him, laughing maniacally, "Mwahaha! Arise! My masterpiece!!!" At his command, the dog's corpse stands. Under Ren Qingquan's control, the corpse moves all six of its legs and sprints around the room. I might not have a body, but I still get secondhand embarrassment from Ren Qingquan's poses to the point that I shudder.

[Host, system has already taken a picture of your pose. {Ren_Qingquan_Chuunibyou_Poses. jpg}. Give me 100 points, or I shall add a profile picture section at the top of your personal panel, with this picture permanently attached as the profile picture. I'll even make it a. gif format for free!]'Nooooooooo!!!!' Ren Qingquan shuddered while he blushed. After the high from successfully completing a difficult job ran out, the embarrassment from that childish pose finally hit him like a truck.

I can feel the gear in Ren Qingquan's mind shifting until he suddenly asked, 'Wait, System, let's put those things aside first.'

'Now that my [Scan] range has greatly increased, my corpse-refining skill has advanced, and I have points in store, do you think it's enough to add the frequency-changing function to [Scan] so it can combine with my divine sense? I recall you said it only took 1000 points. So, my current points should be enough?' Well, I know Ren Qingquan is trying to shift the topic to make me forget about that picture. But I accepted his attempt to change the subject. After all, I am just joking about the blackmail.

That doesn't mean I'll refuse the points if he's stupid enough to give me, though. I tried to add the frequency-changing function that can make my [Scan] match Ren Qingquan's divine sense. The instant I willed it, energy in my surroundings began to move erratically. Judging by the amount of energy, the frequency-changing function still only requires 1. 000 points. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

After adding that function, Ren Qingquan stored his masterpiece and the remaining corpses in his pocket space and left the ship. His experiment with adding legs to the dog had taken a few hours. When he left the ship, the sun appeared on the horizon as dawn broke and another day arrived. Ren Qingquan opened the map and moved a distance away from the ship. Once he arrived at a deserted area, Ren Qingquan took the dog corpse he had stored in his pocket space and controlled it.

'System, check the ship's situation and warn me if many cultivators have begun embarking on the ship.' Because the ships are still within my range, I agreed to Ren Qingquan's request. [Alright.] Ren Qingquan then began his experiment, 'System, match [Scan]'s frequency with my divine sense!'

I activated the function, analyzed Ren Qingquan's divine sense frequency, and matched my [Scan] frequency to Ren Qingquan's divine sense while greatly lowering the information-gathering speed to ensure his brain wouldn't explode from accidentally receiving my [Scan]'s information. I also activated my [Calculate] to further help reduce the burden on Ren Qingquan's brain. With everything ready, Ren Qingquan controlled the dog with his Divine Sense.

For information, in the Golden Core realm, Ren Qingquan's divine sense range only reached a measly radius of 50 meters. Both of us waited as the dog slowly left Ren Qingquan's divine sense range. When it left his divine sense range, it still fell under Ren Qingquan's control. Both of us felt like members of the NASA command center watching a successful rocket launch for the first time. Ren Qingquan played around for two hours before retrieving the refined dog corpse and returning to the ships.

Once he returned, I remembered something and asked Ren Qingquan. [Host, now that your scan has increased greatly and you also have bought the frequency-changing function, should I also add these to Ren Xuan?] All this while, I was excited to finally see the world outside the Pure Wave Sect to the point that I even forgot about Ren Xuan for a moment, and his [Scan]'s range still remained as before. Ren Qingquan fell into thought and asked me, 'Are there any other important upgrades I need?'

[Probably just the [Devour]'s selective devour function, [Calculate]'s calculation power, and [Scan]'s distance.] Ren Qingquan thought it over and decided, 'Just prepare a system update notification. But let's wait for now. I think I have a new idea to gain a lot of points. If this works, I might need to upgrade [Scan]'s range even further. We'll just send a system update notification after I verify my new idea.' I peeked at his plan and breathed a sigh of relief.

It's actually just a plan to massacre mountains of living beings by controlling corpses. It's bad, alright. But I thought he somehow concocted a new plan a sane human would never think of.

By evening, the ship finally soared into the sky once more. During the journey, Ren Qingquan stayed cooped up in the alchemy room to refine more corpses. Time passed, and it had been a month since the ship left the Pure Wave Sect. During this time, the ship had passed by five cities, staying at least one day in each city.

Except for purchasing some corpses and looking for possible children of destiny when the ship took a temporary stop at a small cultivator city like the Six Harmony City, Ren Qingquan was busy refining corpses or cultivating. What a pity. Except for the first city, Ren Qingquan hadn't found any new children of destiny. By now, Ren Qingquan has already amassed an army of five Foundation Building realm corpses, thirty Qi Refining realm corpses, and almost a hundred Body Tempering realm corpses.

In the afternoon, Ren Qingquan stopped refining more corpses after hearing a female voice spread from the announcement, "Greetings, dear passenger, the ship will soon arrive at Vermillion Lotus Sect's market. We'll be staying at the market for one month. Exactly thirty days, before continuing on our journey." After listening to the announcement, Ren Qingquan got surprised, 'One month? Does that mean this Vermillion Lotus Sect's Market is much bigger than the previous cities?'

I checked the general knowledge books I've stored in my library and found an introduction to the city. [Indeed, host, the Vermillion Lotus Sect's Market is a market controlled by the Vermillion Lotus Sect, a sect only slightly weaker than the Pure Wave Sect. The market is also an extension of the Vermillion Lotus Sect and a place where the sect often conducts transactions with other sects.] [Compared to previous cities where a Nascent Soul realm cultivator was the top leader, the Vermillion Lotus Sect's Market has dozens of Nascent Soul realm cultivators and a Soul Formation realm cultivator holding the fort. There might even be a Divine Transformation realm cultivator secretly watching.]'Oh!' Ren Qingquan nodded before asking, 'Then, System. Do you think it's okay for me to start my mountain annihilation plan here?' [Maybe? But we'll need to do it in a deserted area. So, we'd better look for a map of the surrounding area first before acting.]'Then, I'll ask Fatty about this.' Ren Qingquan happily changed out of his casual clothes and into the Pure Wave Sect's uniform before leaving the alchemy room where he'd been staying longer than in his own private room. He went to his room and easily found Fatty Zhang waiting for him. As usual, while Ren Qingquan unloaded the items stored in his portable space, he chatted with Fatty Zhang and casually asked about the map.

"I don't have the map. But I think you can ask Peak Master Feng Yun's squirrel about it. Didn't you become pretty close to it?"

"Huh?" The mention of Peak Master Feng Yun's squirrel stupefied Ren Qingquan.

"Senior Acorn Tree, the squirrel, is actually one of the best financial advisors and merchants in the sect. I heard it's only second to the genius and the higher-ups of the Miscellaneous Hall, or to the legendary Sect Master, who can foresee the chances of loss and profit through divination."

"For real?" Ren Qingquan tried to find any trace of joking in Fatty Zhang's expression, but he didn't see any. Fatty Zhang only nodded seriously while recording his inventory. Once he was done, Ren Qingquan quickly gathered the items Fatty Zhang had chosen and put them back into the portable space. Since he was visiting the market as well, Ren Qingquan decided to help Fatty Zhang carry his items.

In exchange, Fatty Zhang accompanied Ren Qingquan to look for Senior Acorn Tree and even helped Ren Qingquan haggle with Senior Acorn Tree. Thanks to Fatty's help, Ren Qingquan successfully bought the map of the area surrounding Vermillion Lotus Sect's Market for half the initial price. The intense haggling only stopped thanks to the ship's landing. Otherwise, I believe Fatty Zhang can help Ren Qingquan further reduce the price for that map.

Because the ship needs to recharge by absorbing ambient spirit qi, it's parked a distance away from the market to avoid affecting the market's spirit qi. Unlike the other smaller cultivator city, which opened a temporary market when the Pure Wave Sect's ships visited, this time the cultivators from the ship need to visit the market instead. Once they disembarked from the ship, Ren Qingquan and Fatty Zhang flew to the Vermilion Lotus Sect's Market together with other cultivators.

At the market, Fatty Zhang went to obtain permission to open a temporary stall, while Ren Qingquan went around the market to look for children of destiny. When I overheard Ren Qingquan's thought, I immediately told him to open the system map. [Host, rather than moving around randomly, try opening the system map instead. There's something crazy there.]'???' My words pique Ren Qingquan's curiosity, and he opens the system map.