Chương 75: Oh, Carp!

Upon hearing my advice, Ren Qingquan opened his personal panel to take a look. [Name: Ren Qingquan Point: 40. 464 Cultivation realm: First Stage Golden Core Realm. 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), Wind Escape (Golden Core/Soul Formation), Nine Element Escape (Qi Refining/Qi Refining) Profession: Corpse Refiner. System function: Devour, Scan, Calculate, Transfer, Map, Mission, Skill Learning, Selective Devour, One Hit Kill, Subsystem, Subsystem Observation, Map Observation.] During the day, Ren Qingquan also earned a considerable number of points. Although a single fish at the Qi Refining realm yields only about 2 to 10 points (tax included), and a fish at the foundation-building stage yields about 4 to 20 points (tax included), Ren Qingquan still earned 150 points on his first day!

Seeing that he still had sufficient points, Ren Qingquan asked me, "After adding the points to his [Scan], Ren Qingquan asked me, 'How many points are invested in my [Calculate] now?'" [110 points.] Then, spend 9. 890 points on [Calculate] to increase it to 10. 000. [Ding! You have used 9. 890 points to upgrade [Calculate].] I warned Ren Qingquan before he tried to borrow all of my [Calculate].

[Reminder: Borrowing too much [Calculate] can slow down system functions like skill learning, book scanning, skill fusion, and basic system thinking speed. Please use the [Calculate] function wisely.] Ren Qingquan nodded, 'Alright, then I'll just use 9. 000 points. You can keep the remaining 1. 000 points to keep creating my Nine Element Escape Technique.' [Alright.] Although I calmly replied, I've been laughing in glee. Ren Qingquan, you finally fell for my trap!

I have actually been waiting a long time to increase my [Calculate]. Who knows, I finally got the chance now. Not only that, but it immediately rose to 10. 000. With the help of [Calculate], Ren Qingquan started controlling more corpses. With more corpses, it became easier for him to kill the fishes, which quickly caused the corpses under his control to snowball. As he flew deeper into the center of the lake, the fishes Ren Qingquan encountered also became much more powerful.

Just in the afternoon, Ren Qingquan encountered another Golden Core realm fish. Seeing it, Ren Qingquan controlled his Golden Core realm fish corpses to duel the Golden Core realm fish. Soon, the fish he controlled is actually losing. The combination of Ren Qingquan's poor control and the fact that the fish corpse he controlled is weaker than the enemy made winning the duel almost impossible. Honestly, I wanted to take over Ren Qingquan's control.

His control simply sucks ass, making me want to pull my hair out in stress. What a pity, I can't do that. My [Scan] simply works like a cable that extends Ren Qingquan's Divine Sense's reach. Meanwhile, my [Calculate] function works like a CPU in a computer. It can only execute commands sent by Ren Qingquan.

The most I can do is guide its focus, such as directing most of its calculation power to help the host achieve multi-threaded thinking, or focusing on understanding the skills section by section to learn them quickly. Now that I think about it, I seriously need to find a method to affect the world. Thankfully, after reading about the corpse refining, I have a hypothesis in mind.

One way to control corpses is to consume part of the user's Divine Sense, send it to the corpse, and then add a 'program' that controls the corpse's behavior. I feel my [Transfer] ability has some room to act here. Although I've only been using my [Transfer] to teleport items lately, it has always been able to transfer information as well.

I can perhaps use the fact that I can utilize every point in [Calculate] much better than Ren Qingquan to optimize the behavior of that fish before giving the optimized data to Ren Qingquan. In fact, I might be able to send it straight to the Divine Sense stored in the corpse. This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

While I am studying how to affect the world more, Ren Qingquan has dropped his martial ethic and controlled the surrounding fishes to gang up on the Golden Core realm fish. Although many of the fishes he controlled die in the process, Ren Qingquan successfully obtains the Golden Core realm fish's corpse. With the battle's massive casualties, Ren Qingquan decided to stop and start refining more corpses to control. He flew back to the side of the lake and hid the pearl-shaped portable space before entering it.

Once inside, Ren Qingquan immediately got to work. He busied himself refining the corpses he had just obtained. Midway through, I sent him a notification. [Ding! The Nine Element Escape Technique's Foundation Building Section has been successfully created.] With my help, Ren Qingquan quickly learned the Foundation Building Section of the Nine Element Escape Technique and nodded in satisfaction.

'System, continue to create the Golden Core section.' [Do you wish to spend 750 points to combine the techniques' Golden Core section?]'Yes.' [Please wait patiently.] After I sent that message, I ruminated for a long time about whether to tell Ren Qingquan about my idea to personally add a program to the corpse. After all, I'll need him to add his Divine Sense to the fish before I can try to add a program to it. Ren Qingquan took a few hours to fix all the corpses and fill his control capacity.

By the time he finished, the sky had darkened again. From the initial 25 units, he could now control 90 units of corpses with the help of 9. 000 points of [Calculate]. This amounted to either 18 Golden Core corpses, 45 Foundation Building corpses, 90 Qi Refining realm corpses, or 900 Early Body Tempering realm corpses. Ren Qingquan needed to fill his capacity with whatever corpses he had available before reaching the maximum limit he could control. Honestly, the multiplier is a bit lower than I expected.

But when I think about it, it's actually pretty logical. My [Calculate] works by increasing Ren Qingquan's Divine Sense management efficiency while controlling corpses. So, the higher the multiplier, the more calculations will be needed to further optimize it.

Looking at his new army, Ren Qingquan is eager to start farming again. But I stopped him. [Host, System has an idea that might further increase the number of corpses you can control.] Hearing me mention increasing the number of corpses he can control, Ren Qingquan immediately paid attention. [System thinks you can try another corpse-refining method.] [Right now, you're controlling the corpse directly, but you can also control it by imbuing it with divine sense and programming its behavior.] [By imbuing it with divine sense and programming its behavior, you can break through the limit on the number of corpses you can directly control.] Ren Qingquan fell into thought and went to experiment. He took a Body Tempering realm corpse, refined it, and then imbued it with divine sense. The instant he separated his divine sense and imbued it in the corpses, both of us sensed something. Imbuing his divine sense into the corpse means consuming it.

Because his divine sense has been consumed, the number of corpses Ren Qingquan can directly control has decreased. Although Ren Qingquan can regenerate his divine sense over time, I found that it's actually extremely cost-inefficient. I told Ren Qingquan to imbue his divine sense to control a corpse in the Qi Refining realm and concluded that the amount of divine sense consumed is equal to the amount required to directly control a corpse of equivalent realm.

Basically, the amount of divine sense that needs to be imbued into a Golden Core realm corpse will temporarily allow Ren Qingquan to directly control one fewer Golden Core realm corpse. Furthermore, the decrease is based on the amount without multiplication from my [Calculate]. Thanks to the 9. 000 points [Calculate] Ren Qingquan borrowed, the number of corpses he controlled has received an approximately 3. 6x multiplier.

So with every Golden Core realm corpse that's imbued with his divine sense and some programmed behavior, the amount of Golden Core realm corpses Ren Qingquan can directly control will decrease by 3. 6! Meanwhile, recovering the divine senses will take hours. Well, it's understandable. After all, the core benefit of the corpse-refining technique, which allows the user to imbue a corpse with divine sense, is its range.

The corpse imbued with divine sense can act according to its programmed behavior even outside the user's divine sense range. But with Ren Qingquan's current range, which has been insanely boosted by my [Scan], that advantage is pretty much useless. What a pity, though. That means I need to set aside my experiment on directly affecting a corpse.

After the failed attempt to increase the number of corpses Ren Qingquan controlled, he went to cultivate while I continued merging several techniques to create the Nine Element Escape Technique. Thanks to the recent upgrade, I feel my nonexistent brain has become much clearer. Two days later, I've finally finished fusing the Golden Core Section of the Five Elements Escape Technique. The Golden Core realm Nine Element Escape Technique I created is no joke. Thanks to the 10.

000 points [Calculate], I successfully merged the fifteen cultivation techniques almost seamlessly. The Earth, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Wind, Cloud, Rain, Lightning escape, along with six other supportive escape techniques, including Feather Step, Mountain Tunneling Technique, Mud Traversal Technique, Shrink The Earth Into An Inch, etc., have been combined into a monstrous patchwork technique that basically allows the user to escape from almost every situation.

It lets the user tunnel through the earth, move quickly through areas with metals, swim quickly, move quickly through flames, move between trees or hide inside trees, fly in the air, temporarily turn into clouds, temporarily turn into water, and transform into lightning for short, instantaneous movement. Not only that. Because I merged them instead of simply adding them together, the resulting technique lets the user combine several techniques at once to escape at insanely high speed.

I've also adjusted some of the qi circulation paths while retaining the effects as much as possible, ensuring the techniques don't entangle with each other's qi circulation paths. Although using the escape method at full power for a long time might cause the user to spit blood due to a side effect I haven't fixed, the sheer speed and versatility when activating the technique's full power make the blood spat out worth it.

At its full power, it should allow Ren Qingquan to bypass anything, as long as it isn't a special material, a pocket space like his portable space, or a place protected by a super-strong formation. After I taught Ren Qingquan the Golden Core Section of the Nine Element Escape technique, he stored his corpses and happily tried the new technique.

Sometimes he swam in the water, then flew while standing straight like the character in min*craft's creative mode, before diving to the ground and immediately tunneling inside. After trying to transform into lightning to teleport a short distance, into a cloud that moved slowly, or into water that mixed with the black-colored lake water, Ren Qingquan finally felt satisfied. While Ren Qingquan smiled foolishly after testing the technique, he somehow played around until he had drifted toward the center of the lake.

From my [Scan], I saw a strong creature and quickly messaged him. [Host, run quickly!! There's a Nascent Soul Level fish demon swimming to your location!] Ren Qingquan quickly flew higher, but the Nascent Soul fish was already too close. Before he could fly too high, a thirty-meter-long carp jumped from the lake and shot toward Ren Qingquan's direction. The carp's sheer size made it seem like a passenger airplane shooting toward him.

To survive, Ren Qingquan quickly transformed into lightning several times and barely evaded the carp's attack. After surviving that near-death encounter, Ren Qingquan quickly flew to the lake's shore.