Chapter 63. What Come After A? B, C, D!
Ren Qingchen who finally chose to trust the items I sold in the shop finally started to work. Once he starts to hunt at full force, His efficiency is incredibly scary.
Thanks to the help from my map, within an hour he has killed dozens of Body Tempering and Qi Gathering stage beasts. Except for those dozens of beasts, there are also three Foundation Building stage beasts. In total, the amount of points he obtained within an hour reached a staggering 100 points. Tax already included.
That means by hunting for 40 hours, Ren Qingchen can reach the Foundation Building stage! It is necessary to remember his devour is only 20% of Ren Qingquan's. Coupled with the tax, the amount of points he gained per killing is only 1/10 of Ren Qingquan!
Of course, his current hunting ground also greatly contributed to that insane point gain speed. The island where Ren Qingquan went before barely has any ambient spirit which makes the creatures inside have low cultivation. Meanwhile, the spirit qi inside this forest Ren Qingchen entered has reached a density equal to the Pure Wave Sect's outer sect. Furthermore, the deeper he walks, the ambient spirit qi turns even denser.
After traveling for 4 hours, he stopped on his track. From [Scan], I detected the energy coming from an extremely powerful beast at the Golden Core stage. The beast is shaped like a leopard, and there is also an energy fluctuation coming from it which slightly affected my [Scan]. Luckily my current [Scan] has been upgraded so although the resolution feels a bit blurry like moving from 4K HD to 1080pp, I can still sense it.
Ren Qingchen who always had the map open since obtaining it also prepared his defense upon seeing the beast approaching from the system map.
Hmm? There is something a bit wrong here. The angle of Ren Qingchen's view is slightly tilted to the wrong side. Furthermore, his pupil is moving around instead of focusing on his enemy. He also often glanced at the system map.
If it is Ren Qingquan, I will brush it off as him being distracted. But, this is Ren Qingchen I am talking about. Focusing my [Scan] on that leopard, I found out the energy from the leopard that affected my [Scan] is actually that leopard's ability. Furthermore, it is most likely a stealth-type ability capable of turning its user invisible and noiseless.
No wonder Ren Qingchen activated a magical technique to enhance his hearing previously but immediately turned it off before switching to one that probably increased his sense of smell.
Reaching his hand into his disciple uniforms, I saw him take several storage bottles of different colors. Mixing the ingredients inside a bottle to another one, he immediately throws it toward that leopard.
*Boom*
Once the storage bottle hit that leopard, it shattered and caused a massive blue flame to explode!
What he throws is a xianxia style Molotov!
The blue flame burns the surrounding plants upon contact, but unlike a normal flame, they don't spread to other places. In exchange those flames have the ability to stick on its target and burn their mental power? I am not too sure about this.
Anyway, once that flame got stuck on its body, I saw the leopard crying in pain as its stealth ability turned off. Even when that Leopard rolled its body around the soil, that flame still persistently stuck on its body.
With the leopard finally showing itself, Ren Qingchen speedily moved forward while preparing to slash his sword. When the leopard saw its prey coming toward it, it held the pain caused by that blue flame and readied itself to receive Ren Qingchen's attack.
When the sword and claw clash. Accompanied by a metallic sound, several sparks are created. With his sudden attack parried, Ren Qingchen retreated to a safe distance. Opening the shop panel, he purchased ten traces of absorbed spirit qi.
[You have purchased 10 traces of absorbed spirit qi for 10 points.]
[Name: Unknown
Realm: Foundation Building
Cultivation Method: ?
Magical Technique: ?
Note: Young Master Gu Cheng's minion] x3
Ren Qingchen muttered in a small bottle voice."Oh. They are indeed just cultivators at the Foundation Building stage."
Next, I saw him hold his breath before silently opening a storage bottle containing a mist with many poisonous attributes in it. Within a minute, the poisonous mist has spread into the surrounding ten meter radius and still keeps on spreading further. Even when there is no wind, the mist is still capable of spreading at such a high speed.
While those mists spread, Lackey B still talked nonsense. "Trash, take a good look at me, I will be the one to kill you! My name is-"
Midway through his sentence, Lackey B's words got cut off by Lackey C. "Hahaha! Senior brother, why bother introducing yourself to a corpse!"
Seeing as Lackey B, C, and D were still spewing rubbish from their mouths, Ren Qingchen silently destroyed a small bottle tied inside his sleeve. Next, he spoke loudly toward those three. "Hmph, why do I smell something disgusting here? Oh, there are three pairs of shits talking! No wonder I felt my nose itch some time ago."
After saying that, Ren Qingchen moved his sleeve which had been soaked with the liquid from that small bottle, and covered his nose.
What smooth movements! He first provoked them with his words. Placing his sleeve to cover his nose might seem like his attempt to further anger them. But it is actually to hide his usage of what seems like the antidote to his poisons.
When Lackey BCD heard Ren Qingchen's provocation, their faces quickly turned red in anger. Seriously, I can't watch this battle any further. I can already conclude the ending of this fight between a sly old fox fighting against three brain-dead guys.
Just like what I expected. That poison soon spread toward the position Lackey BCD stood. They who have been blinded in anger don't sense the poisons existing within the air.
"You have eyes yet fail to recognize Mount Ta-" Midway through his arrogant words, Lackey B suddenly went limp with some foam spewing out of his mouth.
Wait, Lackey B getting poisoned isn't important. Did I just hear him trying to say Mount Tai? Mount Tai also exists in this world?!
"Hmph! Crooked cultivator that doesn't know the immensity of heaven and ea-" Just like Lackey B, midway through his arrogant sentence, Lackey C foamed and fell to the ground.
Lackey D who saw his brothers fall one after another upon talking, sensed something amiss as he quickly covered his mouth and noses. But it is already too late, the poison has spread through his body and soon he follows in the step of his fellow Lackeys.
With a steady step, Ren Qingchen walked toward the three of them. Pulling his sword from its sheath, he chopped the heads of those three.
With blood spewing from their neck, Lackey B, C, and D lost all of their vital signs.
[Ding! Successfully devoured 30 points!]
After seeing the notification, he spoke while gently rubbing the flute hidden in his sleeve. "It seems my skill hasn't rusted yet. I don't even need to use the Azure Flute to kill a Golden Core beast and three Foundation Building cultivators."
At this time, Ren Qingquan finally woke up. This lazy little shiet actually slept for 18 frickin hours! When he previously went to sleep, the sun had yet to descend. and When he woke up, it was already midday the next day!