Chương 67: Cultivation Took A Long Time. So, Here’s A Timeskip

So, Here's A Timeskip In the blink of an eye, it's been just over ten months since the artificial cheat system host project started. During this time, I've been busy refining the automated programs for the subsystems in case Ren Qingquan kicks off his artificial cheat system host plan in the future. Fortunately, I made a breakthrough by studying the Super Something Something Turtle Shield Technique.

During Ren Qingquan's experiment, I discovered that the Super Something Something Turtle Shield Technique can be controlled through the user's will because it has been infused with the user's divine sense. Building on that, I found a way to use the [Calculate] function to split my will. The will I split will take up my computational power, as the program functions do, and the more computational power it consumes, the higher that will's intelligence becomes.

Although I call it splitting my will, it doesn't mean I have awakened a new personality or anything like that. That will is still a part of me, like my subconscious or something similar. It doesn't have a personality and only has pure logical thinking ability. It's pretty much similar to how I like the automatic [Devour] program to be like muscle memory. This splitting function is just a higher-level application of those programs.

Anyway, after I learned how to split my will, I don't think there's any need to add those programs and whatnot. I can simply let my split use some of the calculation power, and then it'll handle the whole subsystem thing. I've already told Ren Qingquan about my breakthrough, prompting him to move forward with the plan to launch the cheat-system pyramid scheme project.

Coincidentally, a few months ago, Fatty Zhang told Ren Qingquan about the Pure Wave Sect's merchant group that travels around the cultivation world using a massive floating ship. No matter how Ren Qingquan and I see it, joining the merchant group to travel through the cultivation world is the best way to find suitable targets for the pyramid scheme project. If we play our cards right, it'll be nearly impossible to trace the subsystems' sources back to Ren Qingquan.

This time, we won't send a spirit stone to create a reasonable cause and effect for the subsystem's appearance. Ren Xuan's case is enough to traumatize both of us. Ren Qingquan and I have already decided to simply show the subsystem to the host we selected later. While I am reminiscing about past events, Ren Qingquan stopped cultivating and prepared to leave his house to work at the Demon Slaughtering Area.

Over the past few months, Ren Qingquan's daily life consisted of traveling between his new house and the Demon Slaughtering Area to collect souls and points, cultivating while constantly taking pills, visiting Fatty Zhang, reading novels at his house, went to the library to exchange his surplus contribution points for books and novels, studying corpse refining techniques using the extra bones he obtained from the Demon Slaughtering Area, or observingothers through my observation function.

Apart from the daily routine, three significant events also took place. First, he finally finished the mission to gather 1. 000 points in a month, and I have sent him a new mission to gather 10. 000 points in a month. Second, Ren Qingquan advanced from the Qi Refining realm to the Foundation Building realm a few months ago. Currently, he's already very close to reaching the peak of the Foundation Building Realm and is on the brink of moving up to the Golden Core realm.

Last, thanks to the income from the Demon Slaughtering Area, Ren Qingquan has already accumulated more than 50. 000 points! One of the major profits came from the sect's annual higher-ups meeting, where they sent a horned snake demon beast at the Soul Formation level to be slain as the main ingredient for the after-party. That beast alone earned each of us 2. 000 points!

After Ren Qingquan bathed and changed into new clothes, he left his house and headed to the Demon Slaughtering Area. Once he arrived at the Spirit Beast Peak's main Demon Slaughtering Area, Ren Qingquan wandered around the place collecting souls all day long. When night fell, Ren Qingquan visited his two assistant managers, Manager Dong and the former manager of the main Demon Slaughtering Area. Seeing both of them, Ren Qingquan told them, "I'll be taking leave for a few days.

I think my cultivation will break through soon."

"So quickly? Didn't you just break through to the Foundation Building Stage a few months ago?" the former manager asked in surprise before shrugging, "Never mind, you don't need to answer me. You're the boss here. Just take a leave anytime you want." It seems that Peak Master Feng Yun isn't the only laid-back person on Spirit Beast Peak. This former manager is also equally laid-back. Thankfully, he's extremely competent at his job. This novel is published on a different platform.

Support the original author by finding the official source. On the other hand, Manager Dong froze from sheer shock. Even after Ren Qingquan left, he hadn't moved at all. While returning home, Ren Qingquan walked happily, 'Nepotism is nice, especially when I am one of the greatest beneficiaries ~.' Once he reached his house at the Spirit Beast Peak's main peak, Ren Qingquan opened his personal panel. [Name: Ren Qingquan Point: 52. 745 Cultivation realm: Peak Foundation Building. Cultivation method: Divine Turtle Method (Golden Core/ Immortal Ascension) Cultivation Technique: Soul Swallowing Technique, Blood Nurturing Technique, Four Direction Sword (Qi Refining/ Nascent Soul), Yang Armor (Qi Refining/ Nascent Soul), Feather Step (Qi Refining/ Nascent Soul), Super Duper Ultra Mega Hyper Miraculous Transcendental Divine Turtle Shield Technique (Golden Core/Immortal Ascension), Turtle Divination Technique (Golden Core/Immortal Ascension) Profession: Corpse Refiner. System function: Devour, Scan, Calculate, Transfer, Map, Mission, Skill Learning, Selective Devour, One Hit Kill.] Actually, Ren Qingquan's points should be much higher than these. But he has consumed some Points earned for breaking through from the Qi Refining realm to the Foundation Building realm, plus another 210 points to purchase the Foundation Building and Golden Core sections of the Divine Turtle Cultivation Method, Turtle Divination Technique, and the Super Something Something Turtle Shield Technique.

There's also a significant point sinkhole caused by using the [Transfer] function to help him expel pill poisons, which allows him to continuously take pills daily without spending extra time manually expelling the poisons. A Tier 1 Qi Gathering pill takes one hour to absorb, and depending on its grade, it contains different amounts of pill poisons. A low-grade Qi Gathering pill requires ten days of effort before its pill poison can be expelled.

It gradually decreases the higher the grade, but even a perfect grade Qi Gathering pill, which is the highest pill grade, still requires one day of effort to expel the pill poisons inside. For the Tier 2 Qi Gathering pill, which Ren Qingquan used after advancing to the Foundation Building stage, the poison in it takes twice as long to absorb and expel.

Because it consumes approximately 1 point to expel one day's worth of pill poisons, and Ren Qingquan usually cultivated while consuming pills for nine hours a day, these past few months of cultivation have used up about 3. 000 points just for expelling pill poison. That's also because all of the Qi Gathering pills Ren Qingquan used are of the perfect grade, thanks to the resources his uncle provided him. Honestly, it's amazing how Ren Qingquan can sit and cultivate for nine whole hours whenever he wants.

I used to think he would only do it for four hours a day at most. But it seems the appeal of transcendent power is just too tempting.

After appreciating his personal panel, Ren Qingquan meditated and prepared to advance. First, he'll need to gradually push his cultivation to its peak, which will take quite some time. So, I decided to only keep a small part of my attention to alert me when Ren Qingquan is in danger or close to advancing to the Golden Core Realm. The waiting is extremely boring.

Thankfully, Ren Qingquan occasionally visits the Pure Wave Sect's library to buy and collect some interesting books, so I have something to do while he's busy cultivating. But this time, I wasn't in the mood to study. So, I shifted my attention to my other sources of entertainment—stalki- Ahem —observing others through [Scan]. Unlike Ren Qingquan's boring daily routine, the daily lives of the others I've observed are much more chaotic. Especially the regressor, Ren Xuan's, daily life.

Since experiencing the incredible effect of my pill poison removal function, Ren Xuan has worked hard to earn more points. Although he still maintains some skepticism, Ren Xuan didn't hesitate to kill to activate the pill poison removal function. Ren Xuan's reckless killing of demon beasts, combined with his natural talent for causing trouble as a child of destiny, ensures I always find entertainment every time I watch him.

Watching his life is basically like watching a live-action adaptation of a cultivation novel, complete with graphic details that can't pass most censorship. Since I started observing him, I found out that Ren Xuan actually went on a journey with a specific goal in mind. Based on my understanding of the regressor protagonists in novels, coupled with bits and pieces from his muttering, Ren Xuan is actually on a journey to reach some sort of super high-level cultivator's inheritance secret realm.

On his way, he often entered some forests where demon beasts roamed and killed them. Except for killing demon beasts, every time he entered a city, village, or any relatively large human settlement, Ren Xuan would usually trigger some sort of protagonist plot.

He'll either save a beautiful woman and get entangled in schemes and conspiracies, slap arrogant young masters' faces, get robbed, find a treasure or inheritance, concoct pills while selling them anonymously, cultivate while chugging high-quality pills, join a competition, participate in an auction, show off during stone gambling, or be discovered with an important treasure and become targeted by the local overlord.

After being targeted by many people, Ren Xuan has continuously triggered face-slapping plots and even completed a leapfrog challenge by defeating a Foundation Building realm cultivator in public with only a Qi Refining cultivation. Furthermore, killing a Foundation Building realm cultivator isn't even Ren Xuan's limit. He has fought a secret battle against a Golden Core realm expert and killed him using talismans and pills he made.

The sheer amount of adventures he had during this time is enough to fill at least a hundred chapters of a novel. Thanks to these numerous encounters, Ren Xuan actually reached the peak of the Qi Refining realm. His progress is incredibly fast, considering he most likely used a high-grade cultivation method that requires several times the amount of refined spirit qi compared to more common methods. I suppose my pill poison removal function has contributed greatly to his advancement.

Still, the speed pales in comparison to Ren Qingquan, who's been spamming Soul Swallowing Technique while chugging on pills every day thanks to my pill poison removal function. Because, unlike Ren Qingquan, who earns hundreds of points daily, Ren Xuan only earned around 4 points a day. That's even after he massacres demon beasts whenever he gets the chance. Still, after such a long time, Ren Xuan has accumulated more than 1.

000 points, mostly used to upgrade his subsystem, with the rest going to the pill poison removal function. That's why, unlike Ren Qingquan, who has collected over 50. 000 points, Ren Xuan is still a pauper. As I thought of Ren Xuan, I also opened his status panel. [Name: Ren Xuan Realm: Peak Qi Refining Realm Points: 0 Calculation power: 0 points (Calculation power allows the user to comprehend things faster.) System Level: 2 (current update unavailable.) Function: Scan, Calculate, Map, Automatic point collection, Teleportation, Pill poison removal, skill learning function. (Click for further detail)] Seeing his 0 points, Ren Xuan muttered, "This system thing is suspicious, but it's undeniably useful."

"Considering that the inheritance site is almost open, I'd better start collecting more points until I can at least use the teleportation function. Before I reach a high enough cultivation realm to constantly meet enemies capable of shattering and sealing space, the ability to escape through teleportation is basically a second chance at life." I'm already accustomed to Ren Xuan's muttering, so I just note them down and quietly observe his daily routine.