Chapter 51. System’s Carrot And Stick Approach

Chapter 51. System’s Carrot And Stick Approach

[You spent 0.01 spirit qi]

After that continuous notification which blocked his field of vision, Ren Qingquan seemed to be annoyed as he asked me to stop. 'Actually, system. Stop sending me the notification and just refill my stored spirit qi to keep it always full.'

Then, Ren Qingquan added 'Also, if I am out of extra spirit qi while in combat. Can you automatically purchase spirit qi for me to use?'

Well, his new request is also easy for me. So, I immediately agreed.

[Ding! Activating automatic spirit qi refill while in combat.]

Upon seeing the message I sent, Ren Qingquan nodded.

Next, he looked at Lackey A who finally paused his attack and took several deep breaths.

*Huff* *Puff*

While taking a deep breath, Lackey A pulled a vase-like jar containing several things with quite a lot of energy. Opening the lid, he swallowed what looked like a pill stored inside. Immediately, his initially short breath stabilized.

Next, he continued to pull several items. This time, what he pulled were several stones containing quite a lot of energy and placed them in his hand. Those stones are exactly the ones the gambling group Ren Qingquan met while entering the gate for his residential area used to gamble.

After Lackey A grabbed those stones, he used his mental power and pulled the energies inside them toward himself.

From how he used it, I think it is a spirit stone or its equivalent in this world.

While Lackey A regained his stamina, Ren Qingquan is preparing his counterattack

Because the spirit qi shield generated from Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique will not follow its user around after being deployed, coupled with Ren Qingquan's lack of a long-distance attack method. He needed to think of a new way to attack, which delayed his counter attack.

Touching the sand with both of his hands, Ren Qingquan asked me to activate [Storage]. When I saw his new idea about how to use [Storage], I was a bit dumbfounded. Nevertheless, I still stored the sand following his lead.

And so, while Lackey A is preparing for another attack. A huge chunk of the sand below him suddenly disappeared which made him lose his footing and fall into a deep hole.

What a pity, Lackey A used his unscientific jump once again and successfully escaped from the hole. Just in time to escape Ren Qingquan's next attack which is to fill the hole with the sands he stores

*Boom*

Due to the massive amount of sand suddenly being released at once., dust rose and blocked the view of both combatants.

Opening the map, Ren Qingquan checked Lackey A's current location. Next, he activated Armament Transformation and Body Hardening.

Controlling Armament Transformation, he turned the spirit qi aura generated by that technique into the shape of a whip on both of his hands.

Because Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique and Armament Transformation used the same source of spirit qi which has been marked by Ren Qingquan. Under his control, that whip easily passed through the shield generated by Super Duper... Turtle Shell Technique and slithered toward the location where Lackey A is.

Ren Qingquan's whip attack comes at an extremely fast speed. Coupled with the sand that blocks his view, it causes Lackey A to be unprepared for any attack.

With a loud snapping sound, both whips attacked him at the same time.

"Argh!" Lackey A screamed in agony upon being struck by both whips.

Realizing Ren Qingquan probably has the means to see within the sand storm, Lackey A pulled a talisman-looking paper. Discover new chapters at novelhall.com

Sending some of his spirit qi toward that talisman, he followed the location Ren Qingquan's whip came from while shouting. "Earth Protection Talisman!"

Together with Lackey A's shout, that talisman burned in midair and turned into a huge wind vortex that directly absorbed the surrounding sand!

Looking at that while inside Consciousness Space, I am utterly speechless. People in the cultivation world are actually quite scheming! This Lackey A shouted Earth Protection Talisman while in reality, what he threw is a wind element talisman.

Meanwhile, after the wind vortex caused by Lackey A's Talisman sucked quite a lot of sand. He finally located Ren Qingquan's position due to the lack of dust.

As he waved his hand downward, the initially rotating wind took a sharp turn and moved downward toward Ren Qingquan's location. That wind pushed along the sands it previously sucked, which directly caused a massive rain of sands to fall toward Ren Qingquan

Just the initial impact caused Ren Qingquan's shield to crack in many places.

'This is quite bad.' As he thought so, Ren Qingquan took some leftover metal from when he created that bowl-shaped boat of his.

(¬_¬)

You literally just tried to bury that guy alive several minutes ago.

Then, Ren Qingquan continued. 'Furthermore, I am still a bit traumatized by the corpse I saw at the inn in Martial Arts World. And while on earth, I never killed someone. After the adrenaline rush died off, I was a bit afraid of killing someone.'

Hearing what Ren Qingquan's real reason is most likely, I decided this can't go on. I need to make him capable of killing others when needed.

I understand Ren Qingquan's unwillingness to kill other humans. After all, both of us come from earth where killing sounds quite far away from our daily life. But, this whole matter with Lackey A is a different matter.

Sigh, guess I need to pull that thing out. Although I have already prepared it for a long time. Due to my preference of giving others a free will, I haven't enforced it.

Writing something on the screen, I sent a notification to Ren Qingquan.

[Ding! System has added a 'Quest' function! Host may open the quest panel through your personal panel or by thinking about 'Quest'. ]

'Huh?' Seeing that notification, Ren Qingquan looks a bit confused. 'System, why the sudden update?'

After I sent that notification, I ignored Ren Qingquan's question for a moment and opened my panel to look at the amount of energy I have left.

[Name: System

Skills:

[Storage]

Inanimate and frozen time: 1000 cubic meters.

Space with x2 speed: 1 cubic meter.

[Transfer]

[Calculate]

Upgraded using: 20.000 points.

[Devour]

Radius: 6 Meters

[Scan]

Max Range: 10.000

[Create]

[Anchor]

Lv 7 : Ren Qingquan

Lv 5 : 1 (Azure Emperor)

Lv 2 : ±10

Lv 1 : ±1.000

Energy: 100.000

Daily income: 80 Energy]

As I spent some of the energies I gained from Ren Qingquan's purchase of skill creation and learning to [Calculate] due to its usefulness. The amount of energy I gained hasn't increased by a lot.

Anyway, that is not important.

Looking at the amount of energy I have left, I finally decided the amount of reward I will give for Ren Qingquan's first quest.