How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

Chapter 7. Martial Arts! Martial Arts!

Finally! When morning came, Ren Qingquan quickly woke up feeling refreshed and excited.

Not long after, Xiao Ling entered with a wash basin for Rent Qingquan to wash his face, immediately followed by a bath and wearing his pain in the ass clothes and accessories.

As there is no fatty Zhang to invite him for breakfast, just like the first day, Xiao Ling brought his breakfast into the dining room next to his bedroom, with the only difference from the first day being the food inside. As his wound has healed and he can practice martial arts once again, the meat used for breakfast today is a ferocious beast from Endless Mountain.

In this world, there exist ferocious beasts capable of rivaling martial artists of different levels. As a creature that rivals martial artists, the meat of the ferocious beast is actually an extremely good tonic for martial artists, but due to their strong bodies, the meat from the ferocious beast requires additional medicinal material before it can be eaten. Not only that, cooking ferocious beast meat requires a chef with special skills. All of that caused the price of cooked ferocious beast meat to be extremely expensive. Ren Qingquan doesn't know exactly how expensive it is, but the fact that important branch members of the Ren family only have one portion quota per month shows how rare it is.

As he ate the meat, Ren Qingquan could feel his blood and flesh energy or usually abbreviated as blood energy increased rapidly. It makes him realize that had he eaten this food while being wounded before, his body might not bear it and cause some veins to explode. After just several minutes, Ren Qingquan finished eating all of the meat.

As Xiao Ling left once again, Ren Qingquan ran into his private training ground. After arriving at the training ground, Ren Qingquan immediately followed the familiar step of the 'Dragon Dance Technique'.His body moved according to the move in the Dragon Dance Technique while also circulating the blood qi around his body, following a certain rhythm.

The Dragon Dance Technique contains six sets of movements that follow the movement of a dragon. Well, at least that's how the creator of this technique probably feels the movement of a dragon should be.

But, feeling the slithering-like movement he makes to practice, Ren Qingquan feels some suspicion. Perhaps the creator of this technique confused a snake for a dragon? Or perhaps they just want to have a domineering name.

As Ren Qingquan practiced all six sets of movements from the technique, the blood energy he stored from eating the ferocious beast meat decreased a little. In exchange, it is transformed into a small amount of vital energy, which strengthens the body.

Martial arts practice in the Martial Apprentice realm is done by accumulating a certain amount of vital energy and transforming it into a strand of vital energy. Upon generating a strand of vital energy, the martial apprentice's body will attain a leap in strength, speed, and reaction. Every leap is called an increase in the small realm.

The explanation might be a bit confusing, so in gaming terms, blood and flesh energy is MP and vital energy is EXP. Ren Qingquan could spend his MP by practicing martial technique to raise his EXP, which, upon reaching a certain amount, will cause him to level up and increase his stats.

Normal martial artists need to wait for their blood and flesh energy to recover naturally, which increases the amount of time they waste. Of course, for people who used the pay-to-win method like Ren Qingqian, they could just eat ferocious beast meat to recover faster, which made their blood energy regenerate faster.

As for how a martial apprentice increases their realm to that of a martial master, first, it requires a technique capable of generating vital energy of sufficient quality. Upon generating ten strands of vital energy, it will break a certain limit and seep into every flesh and bone of the martial artist, which will result in their flesh and blood regenerating faster and grant them another massive leap in strength.

Now that Ren Qingquan is soon going to break through, he is thinking about changing the technique he used into the one system recommended. After all, changing technique in the Martial Master realm is more complicated than in the Martial Apprentice realm. Because different techniques generate vital energy of different qualities and characteristics, changing a technique requires martial artists to also slowly turn their original vital energy into vital energy generated by the new technique. As Martial Master's vital energy has seeped into all of their flesh, it requires them to change the vital energy on those flesh too, which consumes a lot of time.

But before changing it, he must make sure what the system means by the specialness of 'Body Tempering Technique'.

[The Body Tempering Technique's specialness exists at a level above Martial Saint. Compared to other martial arts techniques that generate innate energy upon reaching martial saints and above, the 'Body Tempering Technique' generates something called spiritual qi, which, according to the book's description, is of a higher level compared to innate energies.]

Spiritual Qi? Is it the spiritual qi that always exists in most immortal cultivation novels? Isn't this place a martial arts world?

But, thinking back to the formation book and whatnot placed on the second floor of the library, Ren Qingquan came to a conclusion that perhaps immortal cultivators do exist, he is just unable to have any contact with them currently.

And so Ren Qingquan excitedly pulled the copy of 'Body Tempering Technique' and started reading the book. After trying several times to practice the technique, Ren Qingquan could only scratch his head in frustration.

'How come it is so hard to learn the body-tempering technique? According to my memory, I could learn Dragon Dance easily. At least there is some feeling of progress after half an hour of practice. But there isn't even any feeling of progress from trying to learn the body-tempering technique after more than two hours.'

[Ding! Host, based on data from the library, the Dragon Dance Technique requires lower than average attainment in energy control to learn. Compared to other techniques, the dragon dance technique has a much simpler blood energy circulation. Meanwhile, the 'Body Tempering Technique' has the most difficult requirement in energy control compared to other techniques in the system library.]

Now that he thinks about it, compared to the Dragon Dance Technique's blood energy circulation, which is just cycling from the heart into the head, then into the hand, followed by the foot, before entering the abdomen and reentering the heart, With exactly the same circulation for every move set, which truly doesn't require much control at all. The Body Tempering Technique not only contains a 32-move set, but every move follows a different blood energy circulation path.

Unwilling to give up, Ren Qingquan tried to check the page where notes about practice from elders should have been written.

Notes:

Ren Zhenhui: This book is a scam! Not only is it too difficult to learn, but it's also not worth the time. To generate the Spirit Qi talked about in this book, it requires five hundred strands of vital energy! Not only that, but this spirit Qi is actually consumable! Everyone should just learn other techniques.

Ren Chenli: Don't choose this book! It requires thirty-two moves for a cycle, and you need to do it more than five times for it to generate one strand of vital energy. An ultimate waste of time!

There are several comments talking about how terrible this book is just on this page alone. Looking at the comments, there is even one from his grandfather.

Ren Wangzhen: Utter rubbish! Not recommended. I spent my annual visit on this trash book just because it talked about spiritual qi.

As Ren Qingquan flipped the book, he arrived at the page writing about the source of this book.

Source: Meteorite Island. Salvaged together with other books about immortal cultivation.

The book source greatly increased Ren Qingquan's trust in this technique after all, it came as a set which either means this technique is legit or it comes from some crazy genius's illusion.

Thinking about how the practice notes from those elders don't help with anything, Ren Qingquan finally gave up and asked the system

'System, do you have any means to make me learn body-tempering techniques immediately?'

[Ding! The system could use the 'Calculate' function to help the host learn every skill and technique immediately. After usage, every skill and technique could be used,

just like an instinct.]

'Then, please activate it.'

[As it is the first purchase for learning skills, the price has been discounted to 1. Do you wish to spend 1 point to purchase understanding on 'Body Tempering Technique'?]

'Yes'

Accompanied by a decrease in his point, Ren Qingquan feels an influx of memories about 'Body Tempering Technique' as if he has been training the technique several thousand times. Just when Ren Qingquan wants to start practicing 'Body Tempering Technique', there is a knock from the door.

"Come in."

With an answer from Ren Qingquan, Xiao Ling entered the room. And without nonsense, Xiao Ling immediately gave her report about the metal he wanted to purchase.

"Young master, What kind of metal and how many of them do you want to purchase? Here is the list of their prices."

Looking at the list, Xiao Ling gave Ren Qingquan many different metal names. From something common like steel and bronze to fantasy-sounding metals like meteorite iron and ice-cold steel, there are also some long names which sound like a mix of random words like 'six drenches of white fume and seven turned holy metal'.

"Let's purchase 150 stones of steel and 50 stones of bronze. Wait a moment, I am going to take the money."

With that, Ren Qingquan went into his bedroom and opened the place where he put his money. As he calculated the price, Ren Qingquan felt it was weird, as there seemed to be a slight increase in price compared to the time he purchased metal from that backsmith. But Ren Qingquan just ignored it and took silver notes of approximately the same value. The amount of increase could barely be felt anyway.

Returning to his training room, Ren Qingquan gave the money to Xiao Ling. Upon taking the money, Xiao Ling left the room and Ren Qingquan could finally practice 'Body Tempering Technique'.

Thanks to the system's help, Ren Qingquan could feel his body and blood energy move like instinct. With one move set followed by another move set, Ren Qingquan finally finished one cycle of the 'Body Tempering Technique' in a trance. Looking at the dark sky from his training room, a sudden strike of fatigue arrived, and Ren Qingquan chose to take a rest for today.

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Consciousness Space

Actually, to activate the [Calculate] function doesn't cost me any energy. But, I must teach Ren Qingquan that there is no free meal in this world, right?

I definitely don't add it because I am greedy for his point.