NOVEL WEB Chapter 14. Second Princess Named Third Princess
Not long after Ren Qingquan left with the bird.
In Martial Spirit City.
An elder in charge of the last test loudly announced the rule of this test.
"Every participant could get one map from the examiner. Also, try to kill some ferocious beast and collect their hearts on your journey to the sect as the sect coins gained from this test is doubled and counted as a newbie benefit. The test will last for three days, if you haven't arrived at the sect within three days, you could still join. But, you will lose the right to double your coins."
Immediately, Ren Qingchen took the map given by one of the examiners, then he proceeded to purchase a tent and several dried foods in the city. That is when he heard a female sound from behind him.
"Hello there, do you mind if we travel together?"
Behind him, the Third Princess called into him.
"mhm."
Ren Qingchen nodded, afterall Third Princess is the strongest in his age group. Having her tag along will make them have an easier fight against a ferocious beast.
After preparing everything, Ren Qingchen and the Third Princess proceed to enter Endless Mountain. As they are currently only at the periphery of Endless Mountain without much danger, the Third Princess started to talk with him.
"By the way, I still don't know your name."
"Don't you think it's rude to ask someone his name without introducing your name first?"
"Ah? I apologize. I thought you already knew my name, after all those people keep on screaming my name already. My surname is Jing and my name is Third Princess, you may call me Third Princess Jing. I am the second princess of Eternal Snow Empire"
"Huh?"
"Sigh. Most people are confused when they first hear it. I am named Third Princess due to my imperial father's hobby to overturn tradition. When I was born, my Imperial father got enlightened and wished to name me using some weird name. But my mother the Empress successfully stopped Him, after she threw some tantrum both sides compromised and named me according to my position as third princess. Changing the naming tradition in process."
"But don't you introduce yourself as the second princess of the Eternal Snow Empire? Why are you named Third Princess?"
Ren Qingchen somehow got absorbed into the Third Princess's story and asked a question.
"Oh, it's because one year after I was born, they found out the eldest princess is actually the imperial consort's child with someone else that secretly entered the imperial harem. Eldest princess then lost her life title, and got removed from imperial genealogy. So, every princess is raised by one rank. It also saved my other younger sisters from being named like me."
Soon, they already ran for three hours. Ren Qingchen could hear a rustling sound coming from one of the bushes. Rising their guard, the Third Princess slashed her sword at the bush.
*Hiss*
A long waist sized snake suddenly jumped at them. Third Princess quickly ducked immediately followed by a slash from Ren Qingchen that separated the snake into two vertically. After helping the Third Princess to stand up, Ren Qingchen collected the snake heart into the special airtight bag he had purchased to block the bloody smell from making other creatures surround them.
The both of them continued their journey while beating several ferocious beasts at Martial Master realm or below while escaping from ferocious beast at Martial Grandmaster realm.
On the second night, Ren Qingchen could already see the mountain where the Martial Spirit Sect is located. Both him and Third Princess have gained a total of 14 ferocious beast hearts from two days of travel. It just shows how many beasts exist in Endless Mountain.
As he entered the Martial Spirit Sect, Ren Qingchen let out a relieved breath.
'Right now, Ren Shiluo should be busy repairing and investigating the mine I collapsed. This should give me enough time to look for a suitable backer in the Martial Spirit Sect. With the Martial Spirit Sect's status as guardian of mankind from ferocious beasts and a strong backer, Ren Shiluo shouldn't dare to target me until his wife comes out.'
That is right, the main reason Ren Shiluo sent Ren Qingquan to the Martial Spirit Sect could be placed in Ren Qingchen. It is because he caused the mine Ren Shiluo was in charge of to collapse. In addition to the rebellion that has been advanced by Ren Qingchen.
Ren Qingchen and the Third Princess went to the disciple registration hall to get their disciple badge. Then they went to the sect exchange hall to trade ferocious beast hearts they collected to sect coins. After sharing half of the six hundred coins gained equally, Ren Qingchen and Third Princess separated.
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Martial Spirit Sect's disciple quarter
One day before Ren Qingchen arrived.
Ren Qingquan quickly woke up and immediately went to the exchange office. As a member of the Martial Spirit Sect, they have a chance to trade silver for sect coins within a limited quantity every month. After trading one thousand silver for one thousand sect coins, Ren Qingquan ran to the sect library.
Right now, Ren Qingquan is not someone that is blind about money anymore. One hundreed silver could be used by a commoner to live luxuriously for a whole month. One hundred silver could also be used to purchase 10 stone worth of metal. Although it is a huge amount for a normal person, the one thousand silver traded for sect coins is just small change for him with that almost endless money of his.
The Martial Spirit Sect's Library is also a five-storied pagoda like the one at Ren family's house. The only difference being the Martial Spirit Sect's pagoda is bigger and has the same details from top to bottom unlike Ren family's with different details for the fifth floor.
Arriving at the first floor of the sect library which is the free section, Ren Qingquan immediately used [Scan] on all the books. The books stored on the first floor contain basic information about this world. For example the map of the continent, detailed map of the empires, and several other maps. There are also books describing things like medicine, ferocious beasts, ores, and other precious natural resources. There is absolutely no novels unlike a certain library
(¬_¬)
After scanning the whole floor, Ren Qingquan entered the second floor and third floor which stored skills with many wonderful uses. For example, X-Ray like skills probably exist on this floor.
This time, he is stopped at the stair by a guarding disciple. That disciple told Ren Qingquan that he must spend 100 sect coins every hour inside. If he wants to ask the elder in charge to copy it, he must pay an additional 100 sect coins. So, for those searching for a book, they must leave at least 100 coins otherwise the time spent searching will come to waste.
Nodding and giving his thank to that disciple, Ren Qingquan stepped into the second floor. Giving 900 sect coin he have to the elder sitting, Ren Qingquan started his journey to [Scan] all the book there. As Ren Qingquan walked quickly and just occasionally took a book and read its synopsis, When Ren Qingquan finished scanning everything on the second and third floor, he still had slightly less than half an hour left.
As there was nothing else to do, Ren Qingquan left the library and entered the stall where disciples usually trade. As this is the outer sect area, most disciples here are at the Martial Master realm with some Martial Grandmaster realm. Because to enter as an outer disciple requires someone to achieve Martial Master realm. Except for those entering through the backdoor like fatty Zhang.
Purchasing a bed and several dried foods, Ren Qingquan spent most of his coins, leaving only dozens of them. Afterall, the living cost in Martial Sect is incredibly expensive to push their disciple to kill more ferocious beasts and destroy any potential of beast tide happening.
With that, night already arrived and Ren Qingquan went to his residence. Upon arriving at his residence, Ren Qingquan opened his system panel.
[Name: Ren Qingquan
Realm: First Stage Martial Master
Point: 65
Technique: Body Tempering (Martial Saint)
Skills: Tiger subduing palm(Middle),
Feather step (Low), Iron cloth (Low).
System function: Devour, Shop, Scan, Library, Map, Calculate, System Storage (10 cubic meters).]
Ren Qingquan spent two points to turn his collected metal into a weapon to be used to smash others. After crafting most of the metal into a shape that screams danger, Ren Qingquan proceeds to ask the system about the system map.
'System, could I upgrade the distance for the system map?'
[Ding! Host may increase the system map distance by upgrading 'Scan'. Increasing the map's maximum range requires 1 point every meter until 1000 meter radius. Map's adventure mode and Scan's distance will also increase accordingly.]
'Ohhh, Nice then. Although the price is pretty crazy, at least it is upgradeable.'
While at it, Ren Qingquan asked the system whether he could increase the force of [Devour]
[Ding! It is indeed possible to increase the power of 'Devour' by spending points. There is no limit to the increase in strength, with more points spent, the stronger 'Devour' will be. But the system recommends the host to not repeat the previous act of devouring water as it might cause imbalance in this world's ecosystem in the long term.]
Seeing the system's reply, Ren Qingquan feels relieved before feeling a bit weird.
'System, did you forget your own name? You are called the World Devouring System. Why do you suddenly care about the ecosystem?
[...]
'Don't ellipses me. I have my suspicion since you used sarcasm not long after I transmigrated here. Are you perhaps sentient?'
[Do you wish to activate full calculation mode to answer that question? Note: during calculation mode, system function might get shut down.]
Ren Qingquan panicked a little.
'Cancel it, cancel it. Then system, what are you and where did you come from?'
[The system is a system. It comes from earth together with the host.]
'the one with M*Don**d's? A*p*e? Wi*do*s?'
[Indeed, the one with those brands. Also, if this will make the host more relieved. According to the system's calculation, upon the host's death the system might disappear. So, I hope the host will try to survive as long as possible]
Hearing that, Ren Qingquan chose to believe it. Afterall, being on guard against your own cheat is tiring and Ren Qingquan is the type of person that will choose to surrender to fate once something incredibly bad occurs. A true to the bone salted fish.
***
Consciousness space
Holy shieeeeeeet I misspoke and got caught red handed. Why does his mind get so sharp so suddenly?
Σ(っ°Д °; )っ
Even someone like Ren Qingquan could detect my sentience. Guess if there is a next host, I must decrease the amount of unnecessary words I spoke. But it's too hard, afterall the only person I could speak with is the people i anchored into. Without those little notes, I am afraid I might go insane.