Honor of Kings System

After some exploration, Lin Changqiang quickly figured out his system.

The system had seven functions: inspection, equipment, storage, achievements, quests, lottery draws, and the most important function of all—cultivation.

The others were easy enough to understand, but the cultivation function truly gave him a pleasant surprise.

Simply put, every day, he could have the system assist him with cultivation once. If it was a martial art he had yet to master, he would gain a certain amount of cultivation experience. If it was a technique he had already mastered, it would add the equivalent of twelve hours of perfect cultivation to that technique.

Not only that, he could directly feed the system ores, Spiritual Medicine, and other energy-rich items to extract their energy. In terms of presentation, it was quite similar to Lin Dong's cheat.

Without another word, Lin Changqiang used today's cultivation opportunity on Stone Splitting Leg, the only martial art he had mastered so far.

Ding, congratulations, Host. Assisted cultivation (Stone Splitting Leg) has been completed.

As the system's voice fell silent, a profound memory surfaced in his mind. Within that memory, he had trained through the bitter cold of winter and the scorching heat of summer for many days.

When he awoke from the memory, Lin Changqiang raised his brows, a hint of delight appearing on his face. His gaze sharpened as he drew a steady breath. Then, with a slight twist of his left foot, he swung up his now considerably hardened right leg and kicked the tree beside him fiercely.

With a sharp crack, the large tree split open with a thick gash.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss—" Remembering that this world did not have global warming, Lin Changqiang reassured himself with three sharp intakes of breath. "I never expected even such a low-grade martial art to be this powerful. Wouldn't those Creation martial arts and Spirit martial arts in the later stages be absolutely insane?"

After testing the martial art, Lin Changqiang calmed his slightly excited heart. He looked down at his somewhat chubby body, fell silent once more, and began running along the mountain path.

Now that his life had taken a turn for the better, he naturally had to cherish every second and work hard. His foremost goal now was to obtain a healthy body!

Ding, congratulations, Host. You have viewed all functions. Reward: Lottery Draw Count ×3.

Ding, detected that the Host's current cultivation level is Body Tempering Stage Three. Congratulations, Host, you have achieved: First Contact with the Path of Cultivation. Reward: Lottery Draw Count ×3.

Ding, detected that the Host has mastered the martial art—Stone Splitting Leg (First Grade). Congratulations, Host, you have achieved: First Mastery of a Martial Art. Reward: Lottery Draw Count ×2.

Before he had run very far, the consecutive notifications made Lin Changqiang halt. The next instant, his heart was filled with delight.

"Use all Lottery Draw Counts."

Ding, eight Lottery Draw Counts have been used. Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the following items.

Intimacy Rose ×1: Can be used on any target possessing intelligence. The target will more easily notice the Host's strengths, thereby increasing their favorability toward the Host. (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.)

Double Experience Card ×3: For seven days after use, whenever the Host gains cultivation experience by any means, an additional 100% will be gained. (Cannot take effect simultaneously with the passive ability "Inner Demon.")

Double Gold Coin Card ×2: For seven days after use, whenever the Host gains universal currency by any means, an additional 100% will be gained. (Young man, go make some money.)

Inner Demon Trial Card ×1: For seven days after use, the Host may gain a certain percentage of cultivation experience at the current realm every day. (Surely no one plans to use this at the Body Tempering Stage, right?)

Arthur's Passive Skill—Holy Light Protection: The Host's stamina, injuries, Yuan Power, and Spiritual Power will continuously repair themselves automatically. (Then there is only one answer: I have no regrets in my youth.)

"I never thought that I, Lin Changqiang, a total unlucky draw player, would one day become lucky."

Looking at the items he had drawn and feeling the warmth continuously welling up within his body, Lin Changqiang wore an intoxicated expression. Then, as if he had been pumped full of adrenaline, he sprinted forward even more excitedly.

The lingering wind brushed lightly past, and sunset was in sight. On the slightly rugged mountain path, the youth's not-so-slight figure moved continuously, charging ahead with all his strength as though he knew no fatigue.

The next day, as the red sun rose and a gentle breeze brushed the green leaves, snoring now came from the Back Mountain, which had previously held nothing but birdsong.

As usual, Lin Dong had come up the mountain early in the morning. Curious, he followed the sound of the snoring and found its source.

"Lin Changqiang?"

Lin Dong's eyes widened slightly. He had never expected his cousin to be sleeping here. If the snoring had not been so loud, he would have suspected that someone had harmed him.

"Changqiang, Changqiang, wake up!"

Amid the repeated shaking and shouting, Lin Changqiang woke up groggily. He rubbed his sore eyes while muttering nonstop.

"Why are you waking me up so early? I'm slacking off today. I want to sleep until I wake up naturally (.-ω-)zzz."

"Sleep until you wake up naturally? Why aren't you sleeping in your bed instead of up on the mountain? What if you catch a cold? You'll suffer for it."

Looking at Lin Changqiang, who wanted to keep lazing around in bed, Lin Dong felt helpless yet concerned. It was only because he got along well with Lin Changqiang. If it had been Lin Shan, he would not have cared even if he slept the entire day.

Lin Changqiang finally sobered up. Looking at Lin Dong kneeling beside him, he felt that Lin Dong looked exactly like the disciplinary director passing by the classroom window while he was asleep in class...

"Well, I was too tired from training yesterday and accidentally fell asleep." Feeling the warm current continuously surging within him, Lin Changqiang felt deeply fortunate. If not for Holy Light Protection, he might really have caught a cold.

Lin Dong rolled his eyes irritably and stood up. "At least come up with a believable excuse. With your lazy personality, who in the Lin Family doesn't know about it?"

"Forget you. Even I wouldn't have believed it before."

For the first time, Lin Changqiang felt that being close to someone was not entirely a good thing. For example, right now, he had to come up with a reasonable explanation for his change in personality.

"When I saw you defeat Lin Shan so easily yesterday, I started thinking: how great would it be if I could be like you and had the ability to change the things that upset me? So that night, I made up my mind that I would cultivate seriously!"

"Really?" Lin Dong was full of suspicion. He truly did not think habits and personality could change so easily.

"How could that be fake?" Lin Changqiang widened his eyes and patted his chest theatrically. "Aren't you going to cultivate on the mountain later? Just watch and see."

Seeing Lin Changqiang's solemn expression, Lin Dong could not help but smile. He bent down and pulled him up from the ground, then walked into the dense forest without looking back. Before long, crisp slapping sounds rang out from within the woods.

Hearing the sounds Lin Dong made while cultivating, Lin Changqiang's eyes immediately lit up, and a sly grin appeared on his face.

"Use Intimacy Rose on Lin Dong!"

Ding, congratulations, Host. Successfully used.

After quickly running home to wash up, then casually buying something to fill his stomach, Lin Changqiang hurried back up the Back Mountain and headed toward where Lin Dong was cultivating.

The repeated slapping sounds grew closer and closer, and he soon found Lin Dong. Of course, he did not foolishly stand there watching Lin Dong train. Instead, he began today's long-distance run in an open area nearby.

Within the dense forest, a fourteen-year-old youth wore a resolute expression. His body moved like an ape's as he performed Through-the-Back Fist over and over, crisp slapping sounds echoing endlessly through the clearing.

The other youth, slightly chubbier, was not practicing martial arts, yet he too seemed tireless as he ran lap after lap around the clearing, sweat soaking through his clothes.

Lin Dong caught sight of Lin Changqiang running faster and faster, and naturally felt greatly surprised.

"This guy wasn't just talking big. He's really started cultivating seriously!"

Lin Dong's eyes were filled with disbelief. He had always thought Lin Changqiang was merely all talk and no action as usual, but now it seemed that Lin Changqiang had truly made up his mind to change.

"Although it's only simple long-distance running, it's still a good start. I hope he can persist a little longer this time and doesn't just make resolutions without ever sticking to them."

Thinking that Lin Changqiang had resolved to cultivate diligently because of him, Lin Dong felt immensely gratified, and his recognition of this cousin deepened by several degrees.

Ding, congratulations, Host. Lin Dong's favorability toward the Host has increased to 61.

"Nice!" A gleam flashed in Lin Changqiang's eyes. Without another word, he opened the system's Equipment Slot and equipped the Scholarship Gem in the only currently unlocked slot.

(This is the equipment function mentioned earlier. As the protagonist's cultivation rises, the system will gradually unlock Equipment Slots and open all equipment from low to high according to price.)

Scholarship Gem:

Passive—Blessing (Among all people whose favorability toward the Host has reached sixty, if the Host's cultivation is the lowest, then for every accumulated twenty-four hours, the Host gains cultivation progress equal to a percentage of the current realm. The percentage ranges from 20% to 1%, from lower realms to higher realms.)

Passive—Guerrilla (Among all people whose favorability toward the Host has reached sixty, whenever the person with the highest favorability gains any kind of experience, the Host will additionally gain a corresponding portion of that experience.)

It seemed that perhaps I should not have written the Honor of Kings System after all. Most readers who came here were fans of Martial Universe, and very few played Honor of Kings. Some had even dropped the book because of it. Still, I understand completely. After all, among the games the author often played—Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, Sanguosha... the mix was a little complicated—there really were many extreme groups, so it was only natural that some people would dislike them.

But please rest assured, the author should be a normal person. The system will not take up too much of the story, and even if you have never played Honor of Kings, you will still be able to understand it easily. I hope everyone will not drop the book because of this reason.