Early one morning, a few days later.
Lin Haiyang was cleaning Lin's Shop, waiting for the day's customers to arrive.
Mother Lin stood at the counter, flipping through a calendar. "New Year's only a week away. Shuguang hasn't come home in a while. Who knows what he's been busy with? Surely he can't spend New Year's away from home?"
Lin Haiyang shook out the broom and said casually, "It's normal for him to be busy with work. Give him a call during the lunch break and ask whether he'll have time to make New Year's visits with us this year."
While his parents were talking about him, Lin Shuguang had just stepped out of the Hejian Sect's Study Pavilion. He brought up his Attribute Panel to review his gains over the past few days.
Aside from the sixty thousand calories of blood energy he had gained from killing the giant corpse last time, he had gained another eight thousand over the past few days, despite having little time to cultivate.
His greatest gains were probably in martial skills. Through pay-to-win, Lin Shuguang had learned every one of the Spellcraft techniques that the Hejian Sect's members were unable to practice.
There were three soul-related Spellcraft techniques, including Soul Leaving the Body, and one for quietly nurturing his soul in ordinary times.
There was also the Thunder-Controlling Art. Lin Shuguang had spent a full fifty million on this Spellcraft. With it, the threat posed by the corpse worms was finally resolved. He attached lightning to his soul and blasted them, refusing to believe those corpse worms lurking in the shadows would survive.
Besides that, since the Hejian Sect was a Sword Dao sect, saber cultivation methods were naturally rare. Still, the Study Pavilion contained three saber manuals, left behind by a predecessor