How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

Chapter 40. Body Tempering Technique Ver 2.0

When Ren Qingquan tried to walk back to the building, I gave him some clues I gained from scanning the pouch he received previously.

[Ding! Host, please look at the fifth and sixth page of the sect’s guide book placed inside the pouch you just received.]

Listening to my words, Ren Qingquan opened the pouch and searched for the sect’s guide book. Flipping the book to the fifth page, he finally saw the map for the outer sect area of Pure Wave Sect.

Upon finding it, Ren Qingquan seemed to doubt his ability to sense direction and decided to ask me to mark it on a system map. ‘System, could you mark the location on the system map?’

Adding a simple house mark made of a triangle on top of a square on the system map, I sent a notification to Ren Qingquan.

[Ding! Location has been marked]

After my notification, Ren Qingquan opened the system map and followed the way pointed by the new mark.

When Ren Qingquan arrived near the residential area, I saw twenty people flocking around the gate, which borders the residential area to other areas.

Looking at Ren Qingquan, who doesn’t wear the uniform for Pure Wave Sect’s disciple. Those groups turn noisy as they talk among themselves.

From my [Scan], I could see the people within those groups separated into two with extremely contradictory expressions. Some of them have an angry look while the others have a cheerful look.

When Ren Qingquan arrived at the gate where those people gathered, I could hear one person screaming in an extremely loud voice. “Those who bet on this month’s newcomer to reach before the sun rises, could you come to me while showing your tickets!”

It just struck me, those people are actually gambling!

Soon, that person who is most likely the bookmaker of this gambling event is surrounded by many people trying to trade their tickets for stones containing energies.

After several minutes passed, the commotion decreased as everyone had already exchanged their tickets for that stone.

Seeing Ren Qingquan standing nearby him, the bookmaker smiled at the confused Ren Qingquan. “Hello there, junior brother. You are pretty smart to actually find the location of the residential area so quickly and pass our Pure Wave Sect’s tradition to not tell newcomers about it.”

Ren Qingquan: (｡’▽’｡)

That bookmaker then continued “I am a bit curious though, how did you find out about the location for this residential area?”

Answering his question, Ren Qingquan proceeds to tell that person how he found the map for Pure Wave Sect’s outer sect in the guide book.

Hearing it, that bookmaker smiled before roaring once again at the top of his lungs. “Those who bet on the first newcomer to find out from the sect’s guide could you come here!”

Once again, several people gathered around him and gave that bookmaker the ticket in exchange for some energy filled stone.

The bookmaker smiled sheepishly as he saw Ren Qingquan staring at him with a weird look.

“Hehehe, sorry about that. Anyway, junior brother, how about joining our game once you receive your monthly salary?”

Hearing their invitation, I am a bit concerned about Ren Qingquan gaining another bad habit like gambling. Luckily he shook his head and proceeded to pass through the gate while wearing a nervous expression.

Once he passed through the gate. I found out the reason Ren Qingquan quickly left that place from the thought he is having. ‘Uwahh, they are pretty scary! I am quite bad at handling delinquents like people. Who would’ve guessed those kinds of people actually exist in the cultivation world?!’

Finally, entering the residential area consisting of rows of buildings with private yards, Ren Qingquan checked the number written on his identity jade and searched for a building with the same number.

After running for fifteen minutes using Agile Step, he found a residence with the same number as the one in his identity jade at last.

Looking at the residence that made him run around like a headless chicken to search it, Ren Qingquan placed his identity jade toward the barrier guarding his house to let him pass through.

Once he entered the house, I could hear him cursing whoever the madman designing this residential area was.

I understand Ren Qingquan’s urge to curse the designer of this residential area. Because, the building numbers in this residential area are placed randomly and often jump to another place while skipping hundreds of digits at once. Together with its massive size, which occupied three entire mountains. It made him spend a lot of time searching for his house.

Feeling extremely tired, coupled with his sore body from being controlled by me previously. Once Ren Qingquan lay on the bed, he fell asleep without knowing it.

While he was asleep, I went to check on those subsystems Ren Qingquan left previously.

Focusing my attention toward the sub system placed on Ren Qingchen. Because I couldn’t just make him share his sense with me like Ren Qingquan as he hasn’t been granted with the [Anchor] skill. I need to use a slightly complicated means to achieve the effect of ‘seeing’.

Activating the [Scan] placed on Ren Qingchen to start receiving information. I digested the information received through [Calculate] before finally, I can see Ren Qingchen’s surroundings.

As it is merely a Lv 1 sub system, I can only see at most 10 meters around him. Which is only 1% of my maximum range with Ren Qingquan. Even then, the surroundings are extremely blurry.

From that [Scan], I saw Ren Qingchen talking with a blurry silhouette I infer as the elder who took Ren Qingchen as his disciple.

Currently, both of them appear to be in the middle of a ceremony. Ren Qingchen can be seen kneeling above a cushion while preparing a tea. Meanwhile, that elder is probably sitting? I couldn’t see it clearly because of the extremely crazy blurring.

Pouring the tea he made into the cup in front of him, Ren Qingchen offered it to that elder. After what I infer as a sipping sound, Ren Qingchen could be seen bowing toward that elder.

Seeing his bow, that elder told him to raise his head. “You may rise. From now on, you are my disciple and a part of Pure Wave Sect’s Protector Hall.”

Hearing that elder’s words, he smiled as he said “Disciple Ren Qingchen greets master.”

“Mmhm, good.” At Ren Qingchen’s greeting, the elder acknowledged it before continuing on to the next topic.

“Our Protector hall is one of the departments in the Pure Wave Sect. Unlike the punishment hall next door which enforces the sect’s regulation, we dealt with outside threats that may endanger the sect. As a department that enters combat the most often, our method to raise a disciple is considered barbaric by others. So, I hope you will persevere until the end. Otherwise, I will kick you out myself.”

Ren Qingchen can be seen nodding his head after hearing his new master’s words. “Disciple understands.”

That elder seems satisfied as the silhouette keeps on shaking before it slowly elongates upward, which probably means he stood up.

“I have high hopes for you. That coward Fengyun said you have incredible potential.” After saying that word, Ren Qingchen’s master left [Scan]’s detection range. Next, Ren Qingchen walked for several minutes before arriving at his residence to sleep.

As there is nothing else to see, I stopped looking at Ren Qingchen and focused my attention on the others from the Martial Arts World. Their situation is approximately the same. They are either in the middle of a disciple acceptance ceremony or on their way to their residence.

Then, I focused my attention on other new disciples and elders Ren Qingquan added. Because nothing important happened, I kept on switching my focus until I reached that Azure Emperor guy Ren Qingquan met before. Right now, he seems to be unconscious while being stuck in the middle of that emptiness with occasional light.

With nothing of note happening, I placed my attention and toward the cultivation method placed inside Ren Qingquan’s pouch.

Just like that, it is already the afternoon of the next day. When the sun shone directly above everyone’s head, Ren Qingquan finally woke up. After stretching his body, he opened the pouch he received yesterday to check the things he got.

Skipping through the sect’s guide book and jade identity, he took the cultivation manual from his pouch. At the book’s cover, the word Pure Wave Method-Qi Refining Section is written.

Opening the book and reading through it for a few minutes, Ren Qingquan finally closed it while mumbling. “Damn it, I didn’t sign up for this shiet.”

The Pure Wave Method-Qi Refining Section is separated into several parts. The early part taught about technique for Body Tempering Stage. Which is equal to Martial Apprentice, Martial Master, and Martial Grand master in the Martial Arts World.

As for the part where he stopped at, it is where the energy circulation diagram is written. Which is indeed quite difficult to learn. Because I already understood Ren Qingquan’s psychology to a certain degree. Upon hearing him mumbling like that, I asked whether or not he want me to help him learn it.

[Ding! Do you wish to spend 1000 points and learn the Pure Wave Method-Qi Refining Section?]

Looking at the words written in the panel I sent him, Ren Qingquan grumbled about a black hearted merchant. But he still purchased it anyway.

As Ren Qingquan hasn’t finished reading the content of that book, I need to send the information written inside that book toward Ren Qingquan’s mind using [Transfer] which cost me close to 0 energy.

Next, I Used [Calculate] to help him comprehend the information written inside that book. Including a simulated feeling of moving his spirit qi through his meridians, the mnemonic chant used to absorb spirit qi, the way to refine spirit qi using his mental power, how to sense ambient spirit qi using his spiritual sense and many other things.

So, don’t think I just ate his points for free this time! The amount of work I need to do is actually quite a lot. By the way, at last I finally know the use of Mental Power. It is actually used by cultivators to refine their spirit qi!

Entering a daze upon receiving a large influx of knowledge, Ren Qingquan soon regained his senses.

After learning the Pure Wave Method - Spirit Qi Section. I feel Ren Qingquan getting impatient and wished to start cultivating immediately. Seeing this, I stopped him.

[Ding! Host, currently you are already cultivating the Body Tempering Technique and obtained its special characteristic. To cultivate other techniques, you must first change the characteristic of the Body Tempering Technique left on your body into Pure Wave Method’s characteristic.]

Upon reading all that, Ren Qingquan stopped and showed a thoughtful look before thinking ‘What a pain’.

‘So, I need to replace the vital energy I have just like when I changed from Dragon Dance Technique to Body Tempering Technique?’

[Yes]

After getting an answer from me, Ren Qingquan continued. ‘System, could you do anything about it? I am too lazy to spent several week changing my vital energy characteristic into one from Pure Wave Method’

[Host may combine Pure Wave Method into Body Tempering Method, with Body Tempering Method as its core. In this way, host could directly begin cultivating without the need of retraining. Do you wish to combine Pure Wave Method into Body Tempering Technique for 1000 points?]

Checking on his remaining points balance where there are still 60.000 points left because he secretly devoured some things when having a vacation- *Ahem* exploring Meteor Island previously, Ren Qingquan said ‘Yes’.

[Please wait a moment. System is calculating]

Once Ren Qingquan answered, I sent a new message and began calculating at full force. After spending a whole ten minutes, I finally successfully combined both techniques while retaining both of their advantageous characteristics.

The Pure Wave Method contained the characteristics of neutrality and purity. That characteristic makes it suitable to be cultivated by cultivators with any kind of spirit root. Well, according to the book that is.

As for Body Tempering Technique, it’s main characteristic is actually energy conversion. Which could be seen from how it allows Ren Qingquan to convert Vital Energies into Spirit Qi.

Successfully combining both techniques, I continued with several checks and simulations. I don’t want him to enter some kind of Qi deviation after all.

And so, after spending 15 minutes, the new cultivation technique has been completed.

Spending almost 1 energy to transfer the information about this new technique to Ren Qingquan, I notified him about the completion of this new cultivation technique.

[Ding! Calculation complete! Please name the new cultivation technique!]

Thinking for a moment, he answered me. ‘Let’s just keep it as a Body Tempering Technique.’