The Merit System! Big Brother Sacrifices to Heaven!

Chapter 1: Merit System! Eldest Brother Sacrifices to Heaven!

Lu Chen woke up groggily, only feeling an unbearable stinging pain all over his body.

It felt like more than a dozen bones were broken.

His eyes were vacant as he looked at the tattered roof above, then he struggled to turn his head and look at the dark, narrow walls. After a long while, he had to accept the reality with shock.

"I've transmigrated?"

But this transmigration identity was too miserable.

In his memory, the original host was a 15-year-old child. He had been bullied by his elder brother and sister-in-law since childhood. When his parents were still alive, things were a little better.

Ever since he was eight years old, as soon as his parents died, his brother and sister-in-law revealed their malicious faces. Not only did they have endless chores every day, but they also often didn't have enough to eat or wear.

As long as he was a little slow with his work, he would be directly beaten by his brother and sister-in-law.

In this way, the original host lived until the age of 13 amidst the scolding and beatings of his brother and sister-in-law.

However, at the age of 13, his brother Lu Dahu directly sent him to a Wu Ji Porcelain Shop in the city to be an apprentice.

He thought that entering the city would bring a better life.

Who would have thought it would be the beginning of another nightmare.

The shopkeeper of the porcelain shop didn't treat them apprentices like humans at all. He would hit and scold them every day, and they would often go hungry for a whole day. It was even more vicious than his wicked brother and sister-in-law. Sometimes, some apprentices would get dizzy from hunger and faint, which was a common occurrence.

The original host endured this for two consecutive years. Finally, a few days ago, because he was too hungry, he accidentally broke a piece of porcelain.

This incident directly angered the shopkeeper. That evening, the shopkeeper called people to tie up the original host and beat him severely.

Not only were more than a dozen bones broken, but the original host was also thrown out of the shop and fired from then on.

The original host was covered in wounds and injuries. He struggled all the way back home.

When he crawled back, his brother and sister-in-law were furious and beat him again.

Seeing that the original host was on the verge of death, they simply stopped caring about him and threw him into the pigsty to fend for himself.

"Damn it, what kind of dark society is this?"

Lu Chen's face was shocked.

What kind of beastly brother and sister-in-law? A beastly shop?

But!

Given his current situation, what could he do to resist even if he wanted to?

Looking at his bruised and battered body, Lu Chen gave a bitter smile. It would have been better not to transmigrate.

This was too tragic!

When he was filled with despair, he suddenly felt his scalp itching, as if his brain was about to grow inside.

[Ding! Merit System is activating!]

[As long as the host punishes evil and promotes good, obtaining merit, you will receive corresponding rewards.]

A line of clear words appeared in his mind.

System?

Lu Chen was overjoyed.

Transmigrators were indeed favored by heaven.

But he soon frowned.

Punish evil and promote good?

What use was that?

He was severely injured now, with more than a dozen broken bones. Did he have any ability to punish evil and promote good?

He would call this the most useless system in history!

Just as Lu Chen showed a bitter expression and closed his eyes to wait for death again, he suddenly heard some voices outside.

"Hurry up and finish that little beast. Keeping him around disgusts me."

A shrewish woman's voice rang out.

"Don't worry, his injuries are so severe, he definitely won't live for a few more days."

His eldest brother Lu Dahu's voice followed.

"What do you mean he won't live for a few more days? I want him dead now. If he dies now, we can take his body and extort that shop. If they don't give us dozens of taels, this matter won't be over."

"What? We can extort the shop too?"

"Otherwise? Our living brother died while working at their shop, and they beat him to death. If they don't give us money, I'll report them to the yamen, and they won't get away with it!"

The shrewish voice rang out again.

"But the kid isn't dead yet?"

"That's precisely why I'm telling you to hurry up and suffocate him. He must die today. If he dies tomorrow, what if the shop denies it?"

Her shrill voice spoke again.

"This... isn't that bad?"

"You heartless wretch, you won't even earn tens of taels of silver? How could I have been so blind to fall for you? I'm not living anymore, I'm not living..."

"Alright, alright, I'll go, won't that do?"

Lu Dahu's voice rang out again.

Inside the pigsty.

Lu Chen's heart tightened. He heard everything clearly.

Did this bastard Lu Dahu and his wife want to kill me? "Damn it, even if I die, I'll drag you down with me."

Lu Chen felt around the ground with his palm and suddenly touched a sharp, rather sturdy branch. He quietly hid it, continuing to lie still.

Not long after.

Lu Dahu's body approached step by step from outside. Smelling the strong stench from the pigsty, he directly spat fiercely. Then, he stared at the half-dead Lu Chen inside, a malicious glint gradually appearing in his triangular eyes.

"Little brother, big brother has raised you for so many years, you wouldn't want big brother to be poor his whole life, would you?"

He gritted his teeth, grabbed a towel, and walked into the pigsty with his head down.

Just as he was covering Lu Chen's face with the towel, preparing to suffocate him.

Lu Chen's eyes snapped open, a cold light shooting out. As if using all his remaining strength, he fiercely thrust the sharp, sturdy branch towards Lu Dahu's neck.

Puchi!

The branch instantly pierced Lu Dahu's neck. Lu Dahu's eyes widened in terror, a large amount of blood gushed from his neck, and he desperately tried to shout.

But he felt as if all the strength in his body had vanished. No matter how he tried to shout, he couldn't. What's more, his vision grew dizzy and black, and he directly knelt down.

A cruel smile appeared on Lu Chen's face. He struggled to get up from the ground and said, "My good big brother, didn't you dislike being poor? Perhaps you won't be poor if you're reborn into a good family in your next life!"

"You... you..."

Lu Dahu's eyes were wide with fear, his mouth wriggling desperately.

But in the end, he couldn't utter a single word, falling to the ground, dead. [You killed Lu Dahu, resolving a family dispute. Merit points +3]

A line of text suddenly appeared.

Huh?

Lu Chen's expression froze, then turned to joy.

This works too?

This counts as merit?

But on second thought, it seemed to make sense.

When Lu Dahu was alive, he relentlessly bullied his younger brother and often beat his wife.

Now that he was dead, wasn't that resolving a family dispute?

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the first quest!]

[Reward: Novice Gift Pack received! Acquired Martial Talent: Convince with Virtue!]

[Convince with Virtue: To make others more willing to listen to your reasoning, you gain an incredibly strong physique, innate divine strength, and unparalleled ferocity.]

"Gift pack?"

Lu Chen's eyes lit up, his heart overjoyed.

The next moment, he felt his body change.

A warm current flowed into his body, rapidly transforming him from the inside out.

He had been severely injured, with over a dozen broken bones, but in the next moment, these broken bones began to mend. In the blink of an eye, his injuries were completely healed.

Not only that!

Even his previously scrawny body became much fuller, as if he had completely transformed.

"So comfortable, so comfortable!"

Lu Chen was overjoyed and stood up completely.

My injuries are completely healed just like this?

"So this is how you 'punish evil and promote good'?" Lu Chen's expression was joyful, he almost wanted to burst out laughing.

But at that moment, a panel appeared.

Name: Lu Chen

Cultivation Technique: None

Martial Arts: Galloping Horse Fist (Beginner)

Talent: Convince with Virtue

Merit Points: 3

"There's martial arts?"

Lu Chen's eyes flashed, and he suddenly remembered.

When the original host's parents were still alive, they had apparently sent the original host to learn martial arts from an old boxing master in the village. Unfortunately, the old master was later killed by someone seeking revenge, and the original host's martial arts were abandoned.

This was because many villagers later spread rumors that the old martial artist was actually a charlatan. But now it seemed the martial arts were real.

"Merit points, add some to Galloping Horse Fist."

Lu Chen thought to himself.

Swish!

The panel before his eyes changed rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, Galloping Horse Fist went from beginner to proficient, and then from proficient to minor accomplishment. Countless pieces of information instantly flooded his mind, dense and numerous, as if he had practiced for several years all at once.

All sorts of techniques and moves appeared, and even the skin on his arms became rougher.

Lu Chen was overjoyed.

These merit points were truly exquisite.

A martial art had been raised to minor accomplishment in the blink of an eye.