How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

Chapter 13. Finally Entering A New Map

Except for the fact that the guy screaming for the third princess to beat him is actually a participant and he got beaten pretty badly by his opponent. The early part until the quarter finals of the competition have nothing to note as its mostly one side beating the other senseless due to difference in level. Even if there is a battle of equal strength, they are just at Martial Apprentice realm and beating each other randomly

Quickly, the competition entered the semi finals. And just like what Ren Qingquan expected, Third Princess also entered the semi finals. Afterall, no one could beat her with that full body armor.

Ren Qingquan even doubted whether a Martial Grandmaster could destroy that full body armor of hers. During one of the fight Ren Qingquan could see her armor sparked after being hit by a massive double sided axe. That's right, it just sparked, leaving a little scratch.

Together with the Third Princess is Ren Qingchen and another male and female participant.

'Ayooo. How come I see him so often?"

While Ren Qingquan is lost in his own thoughts, the battle between Ren Qingchen and the male participant has been completed, with Ren Qingchen suppressing the other side with his much higher martial arts realm. The last time he checked, Ren Qingchen was already at fifth stage Martial Master. With his speed of realm increase, Ren Qingchen might have reached the seventh or eighth stage already. Due to the distance, Ren Qingquan is unable to use [Scan] on him.

The same also applies with the Third Princess's fight. The only difference being Third Princess suppressed her opponent using her high spec equipment. Together with her opponent's main weapon which is a whip, Ren Qingquan doubts that the thing could even leave a scratch at her armor.

Soon, only Ren Qingchen and the Third Princess are left in the arena.

As soon as the battle commenced, Ren Qingquan could see Ren Qingchen quickly pulled his sword. After circulating his skill, a red color like burning steel could be seen at the sword. As Ren Qingchen waved his sword several time after dashing toward Third Princess, a crisscrossing crimson light is created from the afterimage.

Meanwhile, the Third Princess used her sword to defend against Ren Qingchen's attack. Their sword's collision somehow generated a cloud of mist like water vapor.

Just during the first collision, due to their massive difference in martial arts level, Third Princess tumbled and lost her footing. Quickly taking that opportunity Ren Qingchen slashed his sword at Third Princess's armor. That slash actually successfully caused her armor to be split without causing much damage on Third Princess herself.

Looking at her armor's abdomen section that had been slashed, the Third Princess's face slowly paled and then turned red.

"I surrender"

With her declaration, the final has been completed.

Looking at their battle, his thought accidentally come out of his mind

"Mhm. I ship them"

"what?" Xiao Ling who heard it asked in confusion

"Nothing. I just think with how that Third Princess blushed after losing against Ren Qingchen, she probably either fell in love with him or utterly hated him."

After the final, it is soon time for those under 25 to fight. The participant for that age group is half the amount compared to the one under 16. But their battle is extremely intense with all of them having strength above the fifth stage of Martial Master Realm. The winner of that competition is a woman that could do weird contortionist things. During one of her fights, Ren Qingquan sees her fold her body backward to evade a sword attack before counter attacking by kicking her enemy.

As for the battle for those under 40, they are skipped as those people are already at Peak Martial Grandmaster realm. One of the uncles that joined the test together with him at Wind Bambo city is even a Martial Saint. If they fought in that arena it might get shattered.

As his uncle is not an examiner for the next test, when it was already close to evening, Ren Qingquan bid farewell to Xiao Ling and went with his uncle to ride a giant bird to the Martial Spirit Sect. Together with them is Fatty Zhang and his aunt.

Finally, a ride worthy of the world with extraordinary power. This giant bird is at Martial Grandmaster Realm and is used by the Martial Spirit Sect's higher ups to travel between the sect and Martial Spirit City. It is somehow only capable of moving between the sect and city though. Which is why Third uncle went to and from Wind Bamboo City using a carriage.

Riding this bird is an extra benefit for those joining using a backdoor as they don't need to join the last test which is to enter the Martial Spirit Sect itself. This test is used to help some elders or peak masters to choose suitable potential disciples.

It's unknown what the founder of the Martial Spirit Sect is thinking to choose a group of mountains located between the Endless Mountain's outer and inner area as its location.

The Endless mountain is separated into three areas with increased difficulty just like in a game. The outer area almost spans throughout the whole continent, which almost separated the continent into several parts with some openings here and there that are used as a road connecting the empires to each other. The Endless Mountain also separated the empire with the archipelago on the southern side of the continent. As for the inner and core area, it is much smaller in size and bordered the Martial Spirit Sect and the archipelago.

The outer area of the Endless Mountain contains ferocious beast from Martial Apprentice stage to Martial Grandmaster stage which make trading between empires dangerous as some ferocious beast might come out of the Mountain randomly.

The inner area of the Endless Mountain contains ferocious beasts from Martial Apprentice until Martial Lord Realm. Meanwhile its core is where the Martial Emperor level ferocious beast resides.

While in the bird, Ren Qingquan opened the system shop that has been refreshed and found something called unknown metal.

[Daily shop (refreshed at 20:47:26)

Water, 1 point. Description: normal drinkable water.

Unknown metal, 2 points. Description: Metal used in Third Princess's armor. (1 kg)

Blood and flesh energy, 1 point. Description: contain a lot of blood and flesh energy, excess energy will be lost.

Sunlight, 1 point. description: blinding light, contains some heat.

Permanent shop:

Vital Energy, 2 points.

Poison, 20 points.]

Ren Qingquan immediately purchased it to add it to the permanent shop. While at it, Ren Qingquan also purchased Blood and flesh energy to recover during battle.

Opening his system panel, Ren Qingquan could see the point that has recently increased and decreased once again.

[Name: Ren Qingquan

Realm: First Stage Martial Master

Point: 67

Technique: Body Tempering (Martial Saint)

Skills: Tiger subduing palm(Middle),

Feather step (Low), Iron cloth (Low).

System function: Devour, Shop, Scan, Library, Map, Calculate, System Storage (10 cubic meters).]

After the sky darkened, Ren Qingquan could see the Martial Spirit Sect that consisted of several groups of buildings standing on top of mountains. As the bird slowly descended, it soon arrived at a designated empty area in one of the mountains in the Martial Spirit Sect.

"Just follow the elder Zhang now."

With that word, the Third uncle went and disappeared quickly.

"Wait! Uncle, I thought you were going to introduce me around the place?"

"Hahaha. That old virgin actually ran away from me so quickly, leaving you alone. Sigh, as time passes, I still remember you being so small the last time I visited you. Alright, I will introduce you all together with my family's fatty."

Ren Qingquan quickly thanked her.

"Thank you, Elder Zhang."

"Mmhm, no problem. Also, you might need to change how you call me into aunt soon~"

Elder Zhang led them to several places like the disciple registration hall to get his disciple's badge and the key and location of his room. There are also two other people wearing an older uniform with a youngster next to them. After exchanging glances they keep silent. Afterall opening a backdoor is not a glorious thing even though it is already a common secret tradition here.

He also visited places like the exchange hall to sell items for sect coins or trading coins for items. There is also an open stall for students to trade with each other, a mission hall to accept missions, a sect library that requires sect coins to enter, and several other buildings. Due to martial artists having some degree of night vision, even after it's dark like now. There is still a lot of activity inside the sect.

Finally arriving at the disciple's quarter, Elder Zhang left him and fatty Zhang here. As they entered at around the same time, Ren Qingquan's room and Fatty Zhang's are located next to each other. Entering his room, Ren Qingquan finally slept

***

Consciousness space

Looking at the giant bird Ren Qingquan rode to arrive at the sect, I madly activated [Scan] on it using my full power which is when the items are located within one meter of Ren Qingquan.

I separated [Scan]'s power into three based on its range. Within 100 meters range is the maximum distance where I could only sense some energy, within half of maximum distance which is 50 meters where I could differentiate the item scanned or sense some of their attribute and lastly at 1% the maximum which is 1 meter allow me to use X-Ray like vision to scan books or creature's interior including their energy circulation. It is also the distance required to [Scan] the memory of the remnant soul.

I scanned that bird using my 1 meter range which allowed me to see its whole biological data and stored it in [Storage]. With this, I should be able to create a living bird by spending energy. After I finished scanning the bird, I opened my own panel.

[Name: System

Skill:[Storage],[Transfer],[Calculate],[Absorb], [Scan], [Create],[Anchor]

Energy:17660

Daily income: 10 Energy]

One week ago, after thinking about it. I used [Anchor] on yet another set of stones at a river Ren Qingquan pass by. It increased my daily income to 10 energy. In addition to the point Ren Qingquan gained from devouring things, My total amount of energy increased by more than 200 in two weeks.

On a side note, the result of my experiment with that fish was out several days ago. When the fish died, I lost my ability to activate [Scan] using it. It seems [Anchor] is connected to the concept of a living 'fish' rather than its material body.