Chương 76: Ren Qingquan Who Lost His Child Support

For the next few days, Ren Qingquan obediently controlled his fish corpses to earn more points while using the Soul Swallowing Technique. Soon, almost one month had passed since Ren Qingquan disembarked from the ship. Now, his cultivation level rose by a small stage, reaching the second stage of the Golden Core realm. His corpse army had also grown much stronger, with an additional 12 meters long giant goldfish corpse in the Nascent Soul realm. Aside from Ren Qingquan's advancement, a lot happened this month.

First, Su Ping, the child of destiny Ren Qingquan met at the Vermillion Lotus Market's Alchemy Association, has finally started his face-slapping journey. As both Ren Qingquan and I expected, there's actually an expert's soul residing inside that kid's necklace. Which is honestly pretty cliché. After devouring Su Ping's cultivation for long enough, the old expert finally woke up. Knowing Su Ping had lost his cultivation while unknowingly helping her wake up, the woman apologized and took Su Ping as her disciple.

She gave him some alchemy techniques and a few other techniques for attacking, defending, and fleeing, before giving him a pretty amazing cultivation method. The cultivation method isn't as amazing as Ren Qingquan's Divine Turtle Method. But it still surpassed other cultivation methods I stored in my library. As usual, I listened to it and placed it in my library to further enrich it.

A few days after regaining his ability to cultivate and quickly recultivate to his previous realm, Su Ping took his revenge and face-slapped a few enemies before he planned to leave the Vermilion Lotus Sect's market to visit a cultivator city where the grandma in his necklace said she had left some useful emergency resources.

Other than Su Ping, the spectator guy Ren Qingquan met in the Vermilion Lotus Sect's market, and the first Child of Destiny with dual pupils from Six Harmony City have also left their respective cities a few weeks ago to travel. Somehow, the directions they chose are unnervingly similar, which makes me suspect there might be a fortuitous encounter in that direction.

Except for those three, I also kept an eye on Ren Xuan, who had arrived in a city filled with cultivators called East Fortune City and decided to stay and wait for some sort of event. I am actually pretty familiar with the East Fortune City because that's one of the cities under the Gui Family where Ren Qingquan's uncle has given a shop at a strategic location with 0 tax as his investment to the Pure Wave Sect.

A few months ago, the Pure Wave Sect sent the Miscellaneous Hall Master and a few elders to prepare the shop and handle the documents. Thanks to it, I knew how the bureaucracy of a cultivation city actually worked. It's not exactly useful knowledge, but it's not that useless either. So, after some hesitation, I summarized it and stored it in the general section of my mental library. After that good news and neutral news, I also found some bad news while observing Ren Qingquan's uncle, Gui Ruwen.

About two weeks ago, while observing Gui Ruwen managing his company's ledger, I saw him pull out a jade used for ultra-long-distance communication and chat with the other party. It took me a brief moment to realize he's talking to Ren Qingquan's mother, and their conversation pretty much centered on Ren Qingquan. The core of their conversation is basically about how Gui Ruwen fucked up Ren Qingquan's mother's plan by giving Ren Qingquan too many initial resources.

She has actually prepared some hardships and fortuitous encounters so Ren Qingquan can start activating his luck and solidify his status as a child of destiny, but all of her plan for Ren Qingquan's early journey in the Cultivation World was scrapped because of Gui Ruwen's twisted sense of money. From what I get, Ren Qingquan's mother previously messaged Gui Ruwen to send Ren Qingquan a small amount of initial resources.

But who would've guessed that the small amount Ren Qingquan's mom thinks is different from the small amount Gui Ruwen thinks? On the bright side, it led Ren Qingquan to get an insane amount of initial resources. On the downside, now that Ren Qingquan's mother knows, she has forbidden Gui Ruwen from sending any further resources to Ren Qingquan, even if he asks for them. This made it necessary for Ren Qingquan to get more active and start looking for resources. When Ren Qingquan heard about it, he almost cried.

After all, his smooth sailing life will now get a bit bumpy. As for why Ren Qingquan's mother only called Gui Ruwen now, from their conversation, it seems she's pretty busy and only had time to do a divination recently. Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. From the divination, she sensed that the fortuitous encounter she had prepared for Ren Qingquan hadn't been touched. Honestly, I am amazed and curious about the divination technique she used.

Is it related to the Turtle Divination Technique? And how does that divination technique work? After sorting the information I gained this past month, I notified Ren Qingquan. [Host, it's about time you return to the flying ship. Tomorrow the ship will take off.] Ren Qingquan replied, 'Wait a moment, let me play around for another hour.' While controlling his fishes, Ren Qingquan opened his personal panel to check on his gains. [Name: Ren Qingquan Point: 40. 100 Cultivation realm: Second 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), Super Duper Ultra Mega Hyper Miraculous Transcendental Divine Turtle Shield Technique (Golden Core/Immortal Ascension), Turtle Divination Technique (Golden Core/Immortal Ascension), Nine Element Escape (Golden Core/Golden Core) Ch 76. Profession: Corpse Refiner. System function: Devour, Scan, Calculate, Transfer, Map, Mission, Skill Learning, Selective Devour, One Hit Kill, Subsystem, Subsystem Observation, Map Observation.] Thanks to his hard work, Ren Qingquan has collected many fish corpses and netted almost 10. 000 points. Honestly, it's kinda a relief for me because he's so close to completing the mission to collect 10. 000 points in a day. Although if things go on, I'll inevitably still need to give up my points as a reward. But the later, the better.

As for why his points became 40. 100 instead. It's because he spent another 10. 000 points to upgrade [Calculate] once again, making [Calculate] reach 20. 000 points, which let him control the Nascent Soul realm corpse. Controlling the corpse required a massive number of corpse-controlling slots, which was the main reason Ren Qingquan upgraded [Calculate] in the first place. Because it seems the more [Calculate] points invested in corpse controlling, the worse the multiplier.

Using 1 Qi Refining corpse as 1 unit, Ren Qingquan's own basic corpse control and 19. 000 points of [Calculate] amount to only 109 units. Meanwhile, the Nascent Soul giant fish took 100 units to control, but it's all worth it. Not only does that Nascent Soul realm giant fish have contributed a whole 500 points (Tax included). But using the Nascent Soul realm fish pretty much feels like playing an endgame feeding-frenzy game.

Ren Qingquan can basically kill any fish that comes within his sight, as long as he doesn't enter the lake's center. The lake's center is extremely dangerous. There are many Nascent Soul realm fishes staying there, including the giant carp which Ren Qingquan met a few weeks ago. Furthermore, the center of the lake is much deeper, with a tunnel deep below leading to an unknown place. Inside the tunnel, I even detected an energy that's much stronger than Nascent Soul.

Which means there's probably a Soul Formation level aquatic creature inside. Why did I call it an aquatic creature? Because that thing has an insanely weird shape. It looks like a tuna with an octopus leg, crab claws, and a long, stretched body, making it look like a super-giant snake at first glance. Just like the carp Ren Qingquan first met or the goldfish Ren Qingquan killed, it is also unnecessarily massive.

The only reason Ren Qingquan can kill and gang up on the goldfish is that it's stupid enough to wander too far away from other Nascent Soul realm fishes, making it a pretty big target. Five days ago, Ren Qingquan felt his army was strong enough to gang up on the lone goldfish. Even so, it still cost him more than 90% of his corpse army before he could take down the goldfish.

Yet, after refining and controlling the goldfish, his point-gathering speed increased greatly, This also became one of the main reasons he consistently averaged more than 300 points per day. Unlike in the Pure Wave Sect, where the demon beasts to be killed are raised by the sect and can only be slaughtered after some time has passed, the demon beasts in the lake have accumulated over the years.

After a month of Ren Qingquan's slaughter, with the help of his refined corpses army, later led by the giant goldfish, the peripheral area of the lake has almost no fish above the Qi Refining realm. After an hour, Ren Qingquan stopped playing around and stored all of his corpses back into his portable space. Thankfully, the giant fish Ren Qingquan controlled is already amongst the smallest in the lake.

It's around 12 meters long and can barely fit in his 20x10x3-meter portable storage by lying on its side and squishing the building inside. After he squished every corpse he controlled into his pocket dimension, Ren Qingquan flew back to the Pure Wave Sect's ship. He flew over the night to ensure he wouldn't be late for some silly reason, like oversleeping. Once Ren Qingquan reached the Vermilion Lotus Sect's market, there were still a few hours before the ship set sail on its next journey.

Seeing there was still time, I told Ren Qingquan. [Host, while Su Ping is still in the Vermilion Lotus Market, System thinks it's a good idea to also give a subsystem to the soul of the grandma in his ring, so you can keep an eye on her just in case she is separated from Su Ping in the future.] From what I learned, Su Ping planned to leave the city tomorrow. Which is just coincidentally in time for Ren Qingquan to act now.

'Can you mark his location on the map?' Ren Qingquan asked. I silently marked Su Ping's location, which is pretty close to the public stall where Fatty Zhang opened his shop. Seeing the location, Ren Qingquan agreed, 'Alright, I'll also help Fatty Zhang clean up while I'm at it.' Thanks to the upgraded [Scan], Ren Qingquan only needed to make a small turn to reach Su Ping and gave the grandma in the necklace a level 1 subsystem with [Scan]. Honestly, I am unsure if I can even anchor a creature with just a soul.

That's also part of why I didn't think to ask Ren Qingquan to add a subsystem to the soul in Su Ping's necklace at first. Especially since she hasn't even woken up, which made it kinda slip out of my mind. Now that I am certain the necklace contains a soul, I also made amends by asking Ren Qingquan to try and give her a subsystem. Thankfully, it seems my [Anchor] didn't fail simply because the other party is only left with a soul. [Ding! You've spent 1 point to grant a level 1 subsystem with [Scan] function to the target.] After hearing my notification and seeing I've successfully attached a [Scan] to the grandma in Su Ping's necklace, Ren Qingquan casually went to Fatty Zhang's stall. When he arrived, Fatty Zhang was almost finished cleaning up. Ren Qingquan helped Fatty Zhang to store the remaining items in his portable space. Thanks to it, the already cramped portable space now has almost no breathing room left.

Except for a small single room, every other area is either filled with resources or corpses.