How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

Chapter 94. A Simple Food Chain

Once Ren Qingquan arrived nearby a mountain, Third Uncle pointed at it. "Stop over there. That is the Alchemy Peak."

Both of them descendents toward the mountain. From [Scan] I can sense an endless expanse of spiritual field containing spirit plants, there are some cultivators casting magical techniques to water those plants. I also saw a few locusts and frogs that Ren Qingquan's Third Uncle mentioned.

At the top of the peak, there is a building complex where many activities are held. It looks extremely prosperous.

After landing on the plaza amidst the busy building complex, Third Uncle spoke. "We'll first visit your Aunt Zhang first. Then, the three of us will go and find some Pure Water Frogs."

Ren Qingquan nodded and agreed.

He then followed Third Uncle and walked into a three storied palace like building. It is a bit taller compared to the surrounding buildings that consisted of two stories at most.

The building's first floor consisted of several counters where many people stood in line to purchase some pills. Their target isn't the first floor, as Third Uncle immediately walked up the stairs until reaching the third floor.

The amount of people on this floor is extremely small. Except for those behind the counters, there are only three other people. Fatty's Aunt can be seen sitting behind an empty counter.

As soon as she saw Third Uncle, Fatty's aunt went and brought him to a room behind the counter.

When Third Uncle saw Ren Qingquan follow after him and Fatty Zhang's aunt, he rolled his eyes while waving his hand in shooing motion. "Shoo... We adults are going to talk about some private matters. You should just wait in the seat over there."

Once they went inside a room, I can hear the two of them go lovey-dovey to each other by whispering sweet nothing. It seems Third Uncle forgot Ren Qingquan is a Nascent Soul cultivator and can also hear him due to his sharp hearing. So, shooing Ren Qingquan away is quite useless.

Anyway, I ignored whatever those two were talking about. Currently I am busy scanning the pills located in this building. This place seems to be the location where the Pure Wave Sect stored and sold most of their pills.

Although I am not sure about the effect of most pills I [Scan]. I just store their information in [Storage] and check them later.

After a few minutes, Third Uncle and Fatty's Aunt returned.

Ren Qingquan quickly asked. "Aunt Zhang, I am here to take some Pure Water Frogs and Spirit Locusts."

Aunt Zhang replied. "You can just pick them up from the fields. But don't pick too many frogs within an area. As for the Spirit Locusts, just take as much as you want. No one is gonna miss them."

Seeing Ren Qingquan going to leave immediately, I reminded him of something.

[Host, System suggest you to also take some of those Spirit Plants. With those Spirit Plants as a food source, it will be easier for you to raise the locusts.]

Ren Qingquan nodded. "Aunt Zhang, can you also give me some Spirit Plants? If possible, I want the one that's easy to grow and multiply."

"If your requirement is only a Spirit Plants that's easy to grow and multiply, then I'll recommend you the Morning Dew Spirit Grass. It is easy to grow and can be sold as food for herbivore spirit beasts." Aunt Zhang smiled. "But this time I can't give you this thing for free. You'll need to pay 1 spirit stone for 100 seeds. Meanwhile, the cost for the mature stalk is 1 spirit stone for 10 stalks.

Ren Qingquan agreed and pulled a spirit crystal. "Then, I want a lot of them. Give me five hundred spirit stone's worth of seeds and stalks each."

Aunt Zhang seems a bit shocked upon seeing Ren Qingquan easily pulling a spirit crystal. but she still took it and went away. Soon, she returned with a big container. "There are 50.000 Morning Dew Spirit Grass seeds and 5000 stalks of Morning Dew Grass inside. If you wish to plant them, I recommend you to also purchase some Spiritual Spring Water and Spiritual Soil. Otherwise, they will take quite a long time to mature."

Ren Qingquan pulled a spirit stone once more and said, "Then, I'll buy 500 spirit stones worth of Spiritual Spring Water and 500 spirit stones worth of Spiritual Soil."

"This one is a bit troublesome. The amount is a bit too huge. How about I send someone to bring them to your cave residence this evening?" From her expression, Aunt Zhang is shocked by Ren Qingquan's nouveau riche aura.

Ren Qingquan nodded and went into the spirit herb garden. He first spent 100 Points to upgrade the [Storage] with 2 times the speed until reaching 100 cubic meters. Before spending another 90,000 points to upgrade it to 10,000 cubic meters. The price to upgrade that space increased from 1 point/ cubic meters to 10 points/cubic meters when the size of that space is between 100-10,000 cubic meters.

Finally, he went to capture some Pure Water Frog and send them inside the space. Upon collecting 1000 of them, Ren Qingquan proceeded to take several hundred thousand locusts and placed them inside [Storage].

As a good system, I helped him to separate the locusts and frogs from each other for now. This is also an ability I just found out. I can actually partition the space inside [Storage] which is quite convenient.

After he was done, Ren Qingquan returned to the palace like building and spoke to Third Uncle. "Third Uncle, do you want me to bring you home?"

"Are you done with your business?" Third Uncle asked. "You can go first. I still have something to talk about with your Aunt Zhang."

"Mmhm." Ren Qingquan nodded and flew away.

Upon arriving at his cave residence, Ren Qingquan went to laze around while opening the system library. I saw him read the novels stored inside.

When evening arrived, Ren Qingquan felt someone knocking on the door of his cave. So, he went outside and saw a floating boat with many huge containers placed above them.

The boat is parked at the square in front of his cave. I finally knew the real function of that square.

After seeing Ren Qingquan come out, a male cultivator walked towards him. "Hello, Elder Ren, I am Xiao Yang from Alchemy Peak. I am here to deliver the Spiritual Soils and Spiritual Spring Water you purchased."

Then, Xiao Yang pulled a paper filled with words and pointed at an empty space at the bottom right corner. "Please stamp your identity jade over here."

When I saw that, an extreme sense of familiarity struck me. This feels just like how I previously received package deliveries while on earth.

Ren Qingquan stamped his identity jade at the location Xiao Yang pointed. Xiao Yang then happily placed those containers at the square and then bid his farewell.

Luckily he doesn't ask for a five star rating or review. Otherwise I'll suspect there are other transmigrators from earth.

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With every preparation ready, Ren Qingquan began placing things to his 2x speed [Storage] by controlling them from the outside world.

First, he placed all of the Spiritual Soils inside. The frogs and locusts that initially stood above the barrier separating the storage space and the nothingness finally had something to step on. Then, he partitioned the land into several 10m x10m squares before placing allowing the Spiritual Spring Water to flow between those squares.

To make the best use of the space available, the shape of the 2x speed space is shaped to be a 100m x 100m x 1m block. That's right, the height of that space is a measly 1 meter. It is barely enough for the pitiful frogs inside to jump around.

As the amount of Spiritual Spring Water Ren Qingquan purchased is too much. The excess Spiritual Spring Water is stored inside Ren Qingquan's other storage space with frozen time. Everytime the spirit qi contained in the Spiritual Spring Water placed inside the 2x speed space ran out, I'll move a new one from the storage with frozen time.

While I was busy doing the detailed work, Ren Qingquan asked.

'System, do spirit plants require sunlight to grow?' Before I could answer him, Ren Qingquan continued. 'nevermind, I'll just buy some.'

He opened the system shop before pausing 'System, can you release the sunlight I purchased slowly, so it will last for a long time? For example, only release a few points worth of sunlight everyday and disperse it equally for 12 hours to make a day night cycle?'

[Yes.]

After he got my acknowledgement, I saw him strike a cringe worthy chuunibyou pose with one hand covering his eyes while the other arm was placed wide open. "Let there be light!"

He then purchased a thousand points of lights and brightened the area inside the 2x speed space.

Next, he opened the system shop and bought some Love Stones I scanned from Ren Qingchen for 100 pieces each. He dispersed it around the interior of that storage space and spread them at approximately equal distance.

Finally, Ren Qingquan planted all the Morning Dew Spirit Grass seeds and placed the mature stalk as food for the Spirit Locusts.

Ren Qingquan looked at his remaining point and spent several thousand points worth of spirit qi before throwing them into space.

The sheer density of spirit qi makes the interior of that storage space to turn slightly misty. The mists are caused due to the density of spirit qi has reached beyond a certain degree.

As for the problem with air circulation and whatnot, it can be handled by opening the entry of [Storage] and allowing air to enter.

Ren Qingquan saw the remaining points at his panel were exactly 50,000 points and nodded.

'System, everytime a creature dies inside the storage space, help me to activate [Devour] and swallow their souls. Also, automatically purchase sun lights, Spiritual Spring Waters, spirit qi, and the other materials when they run out.' Ren Qingquan then proceeded to observe the subsystems placed on others while lazing around on his bed.

[Alright.]

Although I agreed, I still cursed at him secretly. This lazy ass actually threw all of his work to me.

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