How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

After a whole hour of looking around for a suitable target, Ren Qingquan finally locked his eyes into a big dot in the system map. From its size, the creature is most likely at Martial Saint level. Choosing a suitable place according to his knowledge, Ren Qingquan asked the system to also help him calculate the formula and what not. Planting several grass purchased from the system according to a certain shape, Ren Qingquan then purchased a carving knife made out of Third Princess's metal and proceeded to engrave the stone with rune like things while occasionally sending a little bit of his spirit inside. As there are many runes required, when he is finished, the sun is already above his head. Checking his dantian, he could feel the amount of spirit qi decreased by a tenth.

'System, is this formation correct?'

[Yes.]

With the system's affirmation, Ren Qingquan Went and provoked the Martial Saint realm ferocious beasts nearby. Luckily it hasn't moved from the time he first engraved the formation until he finally finished it.

Looking at the huge bull at that location, Ren Qingquan threw his engraving knife toward that bull. Once the knife struck, that bull was immediately provoked and ran toward him. Activating Agile Step with all his might, he ran toward the range of that formation.

Once the bull arrived within range and he was already outside the range, Ren Qingquan sent another wisp of spirit qi toward the formation. With that, the formation is activated and turns every soil within 10 meters radius around it into a 2 meter deep mud swamp.

When the formation activated, Ren Qingquan could see the bull seemed to be trapped and couldn't move even after shaking its body really hard. Releasing his Metal plate from system storage, Ren Qingquan easily pierced that bull using his metal plate with a spike.

Devouring the bull's corpse increased his points by 400. Upon devouring the mud and formation core that already got swallowed inside the mud, Ren Qingquan received another increase of almost 100 points.

'Although the effect is pretty underwhelming and only turns soil into mud. But at least it could be devoured back and make this formation means to have almost 0 cost.'

Upon finishing his experiment, Ren Qingquan went to check the system shop. Just like what he expected, he could see the spirit he had just created being sold in a system shop.

[Daily Shop (Refresh in 23:27:41)

....

Spirit qi, 1000 points. Description: Spirit qi generated from Ren Qingquan's Body Tempering Technique.

...]

Looking at that price, Ren Qingquan immediately continued his job of devouring mountains to buy it. When evening arrived, with the leftover points he had and the point he gained from devouring half a mountain, Ren Qingquan could finally purchase the spirit qi before it got refreshed.

Just like that, more than three weeks soon passed with Ren Qingquan devouring mountains, smashing ferocious beasts, and burning ferocious beasts that couldn't be smashed. Without knowing it, Ren Qingquan has even arrived at the border between Inner and core area of the Endless Mountains. Luckily or unluckily, he actually never met with any Martial Lord ferocious beast during his time in the inner section.

With 30 000 points in his pocket, Ren Qingquan makes his way toward the Martial Spirit Sect in satisfaction to join Formation Peak's monthly meetings in time.

Rushing using his Agile Step throughout the night, Ren Qingquan soon arrived at the sect. When he is entering the exchange hall to trade his ferocious beast hearts, a notification from the system suddenly appears.

[Host! Try to look at the map. There is an acquaintance there.]

Opening the already upgraded system map with 1000 meters maximum range, Ren Qingquan could see a dot marked as a human that is circled by the system around 200 meters from him.

Activating [Scan] on it, Ren Qingquan saw a familiar name.

[Human: Ren Qingchen, unable to devour

Age: 16

Realm: Fourth Stage Martial Grandmaster

Technique: ???]

Looking at Ren Qingchen's realm, Ren Qingquan is incredibly shocked.

'Whoa, he actually reached Martial Grandmaster so quickly!'

To be honest, Ren Qingquan is slightly curious about Ren Qingchen's experience and wished to meet him. But, the Formation Peak's meeting will soon start and if hasn't arrived by then, he might have some annoying task to do.

While selling his ferocious beast's heart at the exchange hall, Ren Qingquan heard about how the sect actually tried to start a store business that sold mixed things from ferocious beast materials, some pills, weapons, etc. Selecting and overseeing the first store's location as it is built will most likely be the mission for Formation Peak.

Entering the Formation Peak's meeting hall, as Ren Qingquan expected, the first topic is regarding that store.

"I have been invited to the sect's meeting yesterday and they said the sect might need us to calculate and oversee the construction of the sect store's main branch."

After all members entered the hall, Peak Master Fen immediately started the topic.

"According to our Formation Peak's custom, as Ren Qingquan is a new member of this peak, he will be the one to be sent to handle this mission. Does anyone else have any dissatisfaction with this decision?"

Hearing Peak Master's word, everyone else nodded their head while thinking as long as they aren't the one chosen. Even his uncle followed along and nodded.

'Damn it, uncle. I thought you would at least help me. I don't want to do this stupid task at all! It seems I need to use my trump card.'

Before they could finalize that decision, Ren Qingquan quickly spoke.

"Peak master, could you let me skip this task? Currently I have reached Peak Martial Grandmaster and am preparing to advance my realm to Martial Saint."

Hearing his words, Peak Master Fen's pupils slightly glowed as he activated the skill to see other's realms while staring at him. Soon, a shocked expression could be seen in his old face followed by a thoughtful look. Looking at Peak Master Fan's thoughtful face, Ren Qingquan is almost certain he will be able to push this stupid task to others. He guessed that Peak Master Fan's calculation probably went like this:

Young Martial Saint-> Will quickly reach Martial Lord -> Became the Peak Master-> Peak Master Fan is retired and freed from joining the sect higher up's meetings every month.

"Well then, how about we skip Ren Qingquan and advance the queue to the next person."

Just like what Ren Qingquan guessed, Peak Master Fen indeed let him skip this mission and send it to that senior brother as the person to handle missions after him, which is the senior brother. Seeing the person chosen, Ren Qingquan realized that senior brother might be happily introducing him around Formation Peak when he first entered because that senior brother could delay a mission and let the new disciple do it.

Although that senior brother grumbled and looked dissatisfied, he didn't dare to blame the Peak Master and only glared at Ren Qingquan.

Don't look at Peak Master Fen's amiable face. He has overheard from the previous meeting that other peaks don't have something like Formation Peak's monthly meeting. Just because Peak Master Fen needed to join the Sect higher up's meeting every month, he created this whole monthly meeting out of spite so the other members of Formation Peak couldn't rest while he worked. So, if you somehow get on his nerves, you must be prepared for some bad luck.

Next, Peak Master Fen started the resource sharing. Receiving his resource, which is a box of pills, Ren Qingquan looked at the pill inside and scanned it.

[Blood energy pill, devour for 0 energy. Description: used to generate flesh and blood energy. Made using ferocious beast's heart as its main ingredients and using several plants as sub ingredients.

Plants used in the pill are: ....

Step to create the pill:...]

Looking at the description of that pill, Ren Qingquan finally found out where the ferocious beasts hearts the Martial Spirit Sect always purchases end up.

Soon, the meeting entered the most noisy section where Peak Master Fen tried to make anyone else as the new Peak Master. This time, Ren Qingquan is also occasionally targeted.

When noon arrives, all of them immediately leave the meeting room. Entering his already dusty room, Ren Qingquan used [Devour] to clean the dust on it and decided to rest today.

The next morning, Ren Qingquan decided to continue his journey to devour mountains in Endless Mountain. Before that, Ren Qingquan remembered his experience of being turned into a punching bag by the leopard and chose to craft several new skills using the system.

First, Ren Qingquan asked the system to create a new defensive skill by combining all defensive type skills he has while focusing on defense and flexibility. After spending 100 points to create it, he named it Body Hardening. A simple to the point kind of name. Spending another 125 points, Ren Qingquan learned the skill to perfection.

Next, he created an attack skill. Learning from his experience of barehanded combat (beating) from Third Princess, Ren Qingquan created a skill that if used in tandem with Body Hardening will allow him to use his body parts as a weapon to deal damage. This time he spent a whole 200 points instead of 100 to create it. As the skill could be used to make his body imitate a weapon, Ren Qingquan named the skill Armaments Transformation. Spending 250 points which is twice as much as Body Hardening skill, Ren Qingquan increased Armaments Transformation to perfection.

Ren Qingquan's personal panel have now transformed into this:

[Name: Ren Qingquan

Realm: Pseudo Martial Saint

Point: 29000

Profession: Formation master (Extremely Weak.) Note: Please don't call yourself a formation master in front of others with your current skill.

Technique: Body Tempering (Martial Saint)

Skills: Armaments Transformation (Perfection), Agile Step (Perfection), Body Hardening (Perfection)

System function: Devour, Shop, Scan, Library, Map (1000 meters radius), Calculate, System Storage (100 cubic meters).]

Except for his skills, there is also an additional profession section.

After finishing his upgrades, he went to the mission hall and took missions to kill ferocious beasts as usual, after which Ren Qingquan immediately left the Martial Spirit Sect. This time he is looking for a Martial Saint ferocious beast to test his new skills and train his combat power. As someone with a cheat, being incapable of leap frog fighting makes him an embarrassment for every fellow cheater.

Upon leaving the sect and running toward Endless Mountain's inner section, Ren Qingquan started to look around for a Martial Saint beast while opening a system map. Seeing the group of dots marked as ferocious beasts with a big dot at its center, Ren Qingquan immediately ran toward it.

This time, he met a group of 10 gorillas consisting of 6 gorillas below Martial Grandmaster, 3 gorillas above Martial Grandmaster, and 1 Martial Saint gorilla.

Running toward one of the Martial Grandmaster gorillas using Agile Step, Ren Qingquan activated Body Hardening and Armaments Transformation. With that, his arm soon is enveloped by energy made of spirit qi which is a new way to use spirit qi that the system has calculated which is imitated from how a Martial Saint stage martial artist could release their blood energy.

Before the group of gorillas could react to his arrival, his arms already slashed the neck of a Martial Grandmaster Gorillas. Looking at their dead friend, the group of gorillas used their trademarked knocking at the chest move while roaring.

Ignoring those gorillas's roar, Ren Qingquan continued to kill that group of gorillas in a 1 vs 8 battle. Soon, only a red eyed Martial Saint gorilla is left. After a lengthy battle, Ren Qingquan finally defeated the gorillas and achieved a leapfrog battle.

*Happy Ren Qingquan noise*

♪ ♬ ヾ(´︶`♡)ﾉ ♬ ♪

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Consciousness Space

Looking at Ren Qingquan finally defeating that group of gorillas, I felt proud just like when a father sees his son finally ride a bicycle without falling.