NOVEL WEB Chapter 27. Emergency Meeting! ඞ
Hearing the call, Ren Qingquan quickly went to the meeting room. There, Peak Master Fen is already waiting with an anxious face.
As that senior brother has returned from overseeing the sect store's construction, the amount of people in this room totaled to 7 people.
"The sect has finally found the cause of the ferocious beast's restlessness. A massive wildfire happened in the core section of Endless Mountain, causing the surrounding ferocious beasts to run in panic. The elders previously sent had already worked together with several Martial Emperors to cut a section of greenery to stop the fire from spreading further. But even if the fire is stopped, a massive beast tide is already inevitable."
Listening to Peak Master Fen's words, Ren Qingquan finally found the source of that guilty feeling he felt when hearing the beasts are getting restless.
'OOPS. I probably caused that fire.'
During the fight against that gigantic Martial Emperor rabbit, Ren Qingquan could indeed see a mountain on the attack path of his 2000 point worth laser beam behind the rabbit. But, he was too lazy to check that place and thought it wouldn't cause any fire. Afterall, he doesn't see any smoke while looking there for a long time.
'No matter what, I must keep this secret to the grave.'
Fixing his facial expression, Ren Qingquan continued to hear Peak Master Fen's announcement.
"The sect requested every peak except for Medicine peak to send at least one third of their members to gather five days later to stop the beast tide."
Peak Master Fan stopped and started to stare at him and two other people.
"The two of you will go together with Ren Qingquan. As he skipped his queue for the mission to oversee sect store's main branch previously, he will also join in this mission. If not for the previous investigation mission requiring a Martial Saint. I would've sent him for that mission. "
'Shiettttt.'
Although he wants to decline. But, thinking about the consequences he might receive from declining this petty old guy, Ren Qingquan just nodded. On the side, he could see the senior brother that introduced him to the peak and took his job to oversee the sect store look at him with a face full of gloating.
Soon, all of them left the meeting room.
When he just left and was going to return to his room, third uncle caught his hand and stopped him.
"Come with me."
Ren Qingquan followed his uncle until they entered the residence of the female elder which actually had a Martial Lord realm.
"Greetings, elder Rui. I have something to talk about with you."
"Please enter."
After elder Rui allowed both of them to enter, elder Rui immediately asked them about their goal to visit her.
"Hmm. What a rare guest. What do you want by visiting this old lady at this time?"
Unwilling to say nonsense, Third uncle immediately asked him to show his 'talent' to see other's cultivation level.
"Qingquan, please use your detection talent to check on elder Rui's current level."
Listening to uncle's request he finally remembered the time when uncle showed his dark side during their chat.
'Is it time to use that information to blackmail?'
"She is currently at Fourth stage Martial Lord realm." Ren Qingquan answered following his uncle's question.
Hearing her specific realm, elder Rui's eyes narrowed and asked about his skill. Afterall, Ren Qingquan dared to enter with his uncle to blackmail her. That mean they are already absolutely sure about her realm.
"Is it a realm probing skill? What a high leveled one."
"So, elder Rui. If you want this secret to be kept from Peak Master Fen, please take Ren Qingquan's place in this mission. Both of us will also owe you a favor."
Sighing, elder Rui nodded.
"Alright. But, I hope you follow the unwritten rule of the peak. Otherwise it is not my fault if I fall out with both of you."
"Thank you. Of course we will follow the rule."
The unwritten rule that both his uncle and elder Rui talk about is about how information could only be used to blackmail someone once in the Formation Peak. They are also forbidden to share that information to others once the deal is sealed.
That stupid rule also includes several others like how everyone must repay the favor in Formation Peak, about the queue in taking sect missions, etc.
It is what makes the Formation Peak have their current weird situation and tradition.
Otherwise without that rule, there might often be a fight between the salted fish in Formation Peak to push the sect mission toward each other, which is a pain in the ass for all parties involved.
After five days, Elder Rui gathered with the other two elders to go toward the assembly point for every peak.
Now, only Ren Qingquan, third uncle, Peak Master Fen, and that senior brother are left in the Formation Peak.
After bidding the three elders that were going to leave a farewell, Ren Qingquan left the site together with his uncle under the weird eye of Peak Master Fen and senior brother.
Afterall, capable of making that old hag Elder Rui willingly take their place is an extraordinary feat.
Peak Master Fen look at both of them for some time before he went to the sect higher-ups meeting. He seems to be extremely busy.
Soon, ten days pass with Peak Master returning to start another emergency meeting.
This time, there are only four people in the room.
Upon entering, Ren Qingquan could see Peak Master Fen's anxious and angry look.
"The beast tide this time seems quite intense. From the clue I gathered, all of us in Formation Peak might be forcefully recruited to join this battle. To be honest this battle is quite easy and the sect is guaranteed to win as most of the ferocious beast in the beast tide is at Martial Grandmaster realm and below. But, those beasts are dispersed all over the place and run randomly. If we are forced to join the battle, we would be required to run around like headless chickens for several months which is a pain in the ass."
After telling some important information while ranting, Peak Master Fen finally arrived at his main point.
"So, I have gathered all of you to brainstorm an excuse for us to leave the sect for a moment and evade this mission."
Hearing the peak master's words, everyone nodded.
Ren Qingquan followed along and nodded while regaining a new understanding about how lazy the people in Formation Peak are.
Well, he is not any better than them though.
After Peak Master Fen's announcement, that senior brother asked a question.
"Couldn't we just ask for a leave of absence?"
"Of course not! If we do it like that, it is no different than blatantly escaping! If we do so once the beast tide recedes, all of us will be punished. We must use an excuse that will make us sound as if we are thinking about how to contribute more in the battle!"
Hearing Peak Master Fen's explanation, Ren Qingquan thought of something.
"What if I used to go to Meteor Island to look for the continuation of my Martial Technique which is found at Meteor Island as an excuse to leave. Afterall, a Martial Saint could contribute more than a Martial Grandmaster."
Peak Master Fen and senior brother glared at him after he finished saying that. Mainly because he used the excuse of trying to break through to push the overseeing mission to senior brother once before even though his technique has no Martial Saint section.
But after thinking for a moment, an idea seems to have struck Peak Master Fen.
"That is it! Then, after you took your leave. All of us will also take a leave using the excuse of secretly guarding our youngest disciple's first exploration! DAMN I AM SO SMART!"
Hearing Peak Master Fen's idea, the senior brother and third uncle nodded in acceptance.
"I agree, this is also a great time to take some vacation to the beach."
Already preparing their way to leave from the sect to escape the pain in the ass beast tide mission, everyone in the Formation Sect started to take action.
Amidst their busyness, the door to Formation Peak's meeting room suddenly got slapped hard.
*BOOM*
behind the pitiful door, there is a pair of people. One of them a fat boy and another one a middle aged woman. Upon entering, the middle aged woman immediately talked first.
"Did you guys say vacation to the beach? Let me join in. Otherwise, I will snitch on all of your plans to the sect."
"Elder Zhang, what are you doing here at Formation Peak? And what nonsense are you talking about."
Third uncle immediately denied the claim.
"Don't try to deny it. If I, Zhang Lihua the junior sister of Medicine Peak Master with an extremely good reputation went to file a complaint about how Formation Peak, which has always been known to be filled with lazy bum actually attempted to escape the sect's mission. Even if you guys denied it, with the opinion those old fogeys at central peak have about your peak they will definitely believe my complaint."
That is right, the person that just entered Formation Peak's meeting room is Fatty Zhang and his aunt.
After saying her threat, elder Zhang continued.
"Actually I just came here to give you some of my recently completed precious medicine. Who knows I got a better deal instead."
Hearing her words, Ren Qingquan could see Third uncle grit his teeth.
"Alright. If you want to join, then join. But, have you finished your medicine peak's medicine quota yet?"
"Of course, afterall i am a genius. I have finished all of the medicine I need to refine several days ago."
Peak Master Fen cut into their conversation and finally agreed to let aunt Zhang join. All this while, fatty Zhang just shows an apologizing smile toward everyone from behind his aunt.
"Then, Ren Qingquan. Go and take your leave of absence in the outer sect and immediately return. We will further discuss the plan's details here."
Hearing Peak Master Fen's words, Ren Qingquan immediately left the room filled with the mixed scent of love and gunpowder.
But, just as Ren Qingquan is going to the Martial Spirit Sect's outer sect area to take his leave. He could see the shadow of a person quickly flying above his head southward to the sect's Central Peak.
Looking at that person, Ren Qingquan's trouble sense is tickling. He decided to run away quickly to north toward the outer sect, which is the exact opposite of that person's destination. Halfway through the road to the outer sect's area, he heard a faint explosion that probably came from Central Peak and ran even faster.
Upon entering the outer sect, he searched for the person in charge of handing the disciple's leave of absence. After telling the person in charge there about his reason to leave the sect for two months. That person went to check on some paper, then accepted his reason for leaving and wrote some words on another paper.
"As you have greatly contributed to the sect during your discipleship by exchanging a lot of ferocious beast hearts. Your leave of absence has been accepted. Please return to the sect within 2 months, otherwise you will get some sanctions and warning from the sect."
"Thank you."
Giving his thanks to the person in charge there, he quickly returned to Formation Peak and told the people there the plan succeeded before preparing his luggage for an 'exploration' to Meteor Island.
***
Consciousness Space
Looking at the person flying above Ren Qingquan previously which contain the biggest energy I have ever seen, I immediately activated [Anchor] and spent 11.111 energy which is the biggest amount I could spend to anchor five of my skills toward him. One of them being [Scan], so I can observe him occasionally.
That person's energy is far bigger even compared to the energy contained in Martial Emperor rabbit Ren Qingquan met previously.
It means that person has already achieved the realm above the Martial Emperor and will be the key to break the balance if Ren Qingquan got stuck at the Martial Emperor realm in the future.
Also, as a person at a higher level than a Martial Emperor, he is definitely filled with treasure. That is why I spent that much energy and anchored him with 5 skills at once, so [Scan] could work better.
By the way, after Ren Qingquan's previous crazy usage of [Devour]. My amount of energy has greatly increased thanks to my foresight to place a 50% tax on everything Ren Qingquan devoured. It even reached 100.000 energy at one point.
What a pity, when I was tinkering with [Storage] I accidentally found something I call 'Space storage gacha'.
It works by spending random amount of energy and getting random space in exchange.
That thing made my gambling addiction relapse and I spent 30.000 points on it.
Right now, except for the storage space used by Ren Qingquan which have time frozen inside while only capable of storing inanimate objects. I also have three other kinds of storage space. One of them being a storage space capable of storing living objects but the time inside moves two times faster than outside. As for the other two kinds, they somehow got destroyed which is probably a flop.
With that, my current status are:
[Name: System
Skills:
[Storage]
Inanimate and frozen time: 1000 cubic meters.
Space with x2 speed: 1 cubic meter.
[Transfer]
[Calculate]
Upgraded using: 10.000 points.
[Devour]
Radius: 6 Meters
[Scan]
Max Range: 10.000
[Create]
[Anchor]
Ren Qingquan: 7 skills
Unknown guy: 5 skills
Miscellaneous items: 40
Energy: 76.000
Daily income: 80 Energy]
Because there are more and more complicated upgrades, I chose to change the appearance of my panel.