King of All Weapons: The Spear! (Please Bookmark, Follow, and Vote with Monthly Tickets)

King of All Weapons—the Spear! (Please Bookmark, Follow, and Vote with Monthly Tickets)

Cultivating the Nine Heavens Martial Dao System required spending 100 Source Power to initially transform the body and make it compatible with this world's basic cultivation laws.

Just as Mu Hu finished explaining the key points of cultivating the Iron Blood Malice Art to Gu Yi, and Gu Yi was preparing to absorb Heaven and Earth Origin Qi into his body to temper his flesh and Martial Souls—

A message suddenly emerged from Gu Yi's soul.

Gu Yi, sitting cross-legged, stiffened. He quickly closed his eyes and focused, communicating with the Myriad Worlds Gate.

A moment later, Gu Yi opened his eyes, a trace of frustration appearing on his little face.

"Ha, I knew crossing worlds and cultivating another system wouldn't be so easy."

"So my body needs to be altered too..."

According to the information relayed by the Myriad Worlds Gate, the Laws of Heaven and Earth differed slightly in every world, and their cultivation systems differed even more.

Although the cultivation systems of Douluo Continent and Nine Heavens Continent were both founded on Martial Souls, the differences between them were enormous.

It was not as though Gu Yi could cultivate both simply because he wanted to.

Likewise, the internal structures of the bodies of Douluo Continent's people and Nine Heavens Continent's people were vastly different.

Gu Yi's body in this life had been conceived on Douluo Continent, so it was naturally suited for the Soul Ring System.

If he wanted to cultivate Nine Heavens Martial Dao, his body would also need to be altered to become compatible with Nine Heavens Continent.

Fortunately, the Source Power needed for the initial alteration was not much—only one hundred points, which Gu Yi could accept.

Of course, this "initial alteration" would only allow him to cultivate up to the peak of the Qi Martial Realm.

If Gu Yi wanted to continue down this cultivation path and break through to the Spirit Martial Realm, he would need to spend more Source Power to further alter his body.

Naturally, it was also possible to alter his body completely in one go, allowing Gu Yi to cultivate all the way to the highest level of Nine Heavens Continent. It would just require ten thousand Source Power.

So it was better to undergo the initial alteration first and continue once he had more Source Power.

Glancing at the Source Power on the panel, Gu Yi sighed helplessly. "I need to earn Source Power as soon as possible."

One hundred points of Source Power silently vanished. Gu Yi felt countless streams of heat surge through his body and flow into his limbs and bones, slowly but steadily transforming him.

Several dozen seconds later, the transformation was complete. Gu Yi felt as though a huge stone had been lifted off his body. He felt light and refreshed, and even his perception of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi had improved somewhat.

It was as if his talent had been enhanced through this transformation as well!!

"That hundred points of Source Power weren't wasted." Gu Yi grinned.

He no longer wasted any time. He entered meditation, mobilized the energy and blood throughout his body, circulated them according to the cultivation route of the Iron Blood Malice Art, and breathed in and out the surrounding Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.

During this process, the level-ten Soul Power within Gu Yi's body and the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi he absorbed quietly tempered his limbs and bones, nourishing his two Martial Souls: blood and bones!!

Gu Yi's physical fitness gradually improved.

Watching over him nearby, Mu Hu was both shocked and gratified to see that Gu Yi had successfully cultivated the Iron Blood Malice Art after such a short time on his first attempt.

"It seems my grandson Xiao Yi has the makings of a Xuanwu."

Over the following days, Gu Yi devoted himself wholeheartedly to cultivation.

With Mu Hu guiding him at his side, Gu Yi's understanding of the Iron Blood Malice Art deepened by the day.

Even in some areas that Mu Hu himself did not understand, Gu Yi could comprehend them on his own.

The Blood Martial Soul was naturally highly compatible with Blood Malice Qi. It could be said to be a Martial Soul born to cultivate this technique.

As a result, Gu Yi cultivated very quickly, and his strength grew every day.

However, Gu Yi was still too young. To prevent early cultivation, his tempered body, and Blood Malice Qi from affecting his later physical development and causing him to remain short in the future—

Mu Hu required Gu Yi to cultivate no more than an hour and a half each day.

And after every cultivation session, he also had to soak in a medicinal bath.

Gu Yi understood that too much was as bad as too little.

So he followed Mu Hu's advice and cultivated only an hour and a half each day.

As for the rest of his time, Gu Yi did not waste it either. He diligently practiced martial skills.

For a martial artist, cultivation techniques and martial skills were both indispensable.

Cultivation techniques were "internal arts," able to speed up a martial artist's cultivation. Martial skills, on the other hand, were "external arts"—methods of attack that could increase combat strength and give a martial artist the ability to protect himself.

Powerful martial skills were the foundation for a martial artist to fight above his level!

Moreover, mastering martial skills allowed one to control one's own strength more precisely, use it with greater ease, and unleash even greater combat power.

Thus, after cultivation, Gu Yi learned several martial skills from Mu Hu for self-defense.

As a retired soldier who had once reached the ninth level of the Qi Martial Realm and was now at the sixth, Mu Hu had mastered quite a few martial skills.

Of them all, the one he was most skilled at was undoubtedly spear martial skills.

Because Mu Hu's Martial Soul was a Cloud-Patterned Long Spear!!

It could be said that more than half of his strength lay in his spear arts. He had trained with the spear for decades.

Thus, the first martial skill Mu Hu taught Gu Yi was the lower-grade Yellow-rank Basic Spear Arts—only after mastering the basics could one learn more advanced spear martial skills.

This was exactly what Gu Yi wanted.

Among the many weapons, the staff, spear, saber, and sword were known as the four great weapons, and the spear was called the king of all weapons!

Its status and power were plain to see!

Compared with the sword's graceful agility and fierce moves, or the saber's broad, domineering strikes—

Gu Yi preferred the spear's unstoppable forward thrust and irresistible sharpness!

In his previous life, Gu Yi had greatly admired Zhao Yun, the wielder of the Iron Courage Silver Spear, who had charged in and out of Changban Slope seven times.

But spear arts were not easy to learn. Not only were they difficult to master, they were also difficult to begin learning.

As the saying went, a month for the staff, a year for the saber, a lifetime for the spear.

This saying showed that mastering spear arts required a great deal of effort, as well as sufficient talent and comprehension.

Gu Yi happened to be precisely such a genius.

Under Mu Hu's guidance, Gu Yi began practicing the Basic Spear Arts step by step.

Thrusting, stabbing, lifting, deflecting, sweeping, blocking, seizing, picking, pressing, cleaving, rebounding, flourishing...

Gu Yi hungrily absorbed the knowledge of Basic Spear Arts. Every day, he practiced spear arts for at least several hours, until his muscles were exhausted.

As time passed, his spear arts became increasingly proficient. When he wielded his long spear, it whistled with fierce force.

A mere set of Basic Spear Arts was enough to increase his overall strength by forty to fifty percent.

Besides spear arts, Gu Yi also learned Basic Archery and a middle-grade Yellow-rank movement technique, Wind-Following Steps, from Mu Hu.

After retiring, Mu Hu had hunted in the mountains and wilderness for many years. Though his archery was inferior to his spear arts, it still far surpassed that of ordinary people. Within normal range, he could hit his target every time.

The reason Gu Yi chose to learn archery and movement techniques was because he was preparing to hunt soul beasts after returning to Douluo Continent and obtain Soul Rings.

As Gu Yi's cultivation in Nine Heavens Martial Dao deepened, his physical fitness grew stronger and stronger.

The age limit of the Soul Rings he could absorb also rose higher and higher.

Under such circumstances, Gu Yi naturally wanted to obtain Soul Rings of the highest possible age.

He set a goal for himself: his first Soul Ring had to be at least a thousand years old!

Soul beasts at that level were no weaker than Soul Elders of level thirty-five or thirty-six.

Although Nine Heavens Martial Dao martial artists were far stronger in combat than soul masters of the same realm with comparable internal energy, they could not fight above their level too outrageously.

Compared to Gu Yi, who was currently only level ten, a Soul Elder was over twenty levels higher! Converted to the Qi Martial Realm of Nine Heavens Continent, that was also a gap of five or six minor realms!

Even if Gu Yi later broke through to the first level of the Qi Martial Realm, possessing the strength of a thousand jin and excellent spear arts, it would still be somewhat difficult for him to directly fight a single thousand-year soul beast to the death.

Not to mention that thousand-year soul beasts either resided deep within the Soul Hunting Forest or in vast soul beast gathering grounds such as the Star Dou Great Forest and Sunset Forest, where numerous soul beasts surrounded them.

Once he fell into a hard battle, Gu Yi could easily be besieged by multiple soul beasts, making it even more dangerous.

So Gu Yi planned to learn archery and become a hunter, using long-range attacks to hunt Soul Rings.

This would give him a higher success rate in obtaining Soul Rings and better ensure his safety.

Thus, every day, Gu Yi set aside part of his time to practice archery and movement techniques.

Amid such fulfilling cultivation, time slowly passed, and three months swiftly went by...