Martial Path Points
No Money for Martial Arts University? Slaughtering Through the Border in High Martial World
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Martial Path Points |
| Alias(es) | Martial Dao Points |
| Species/Race | System resource |
| Affiliation | Martial Dao System; allocated by its bound host, Lin Feng |
| Occupation/Role | Upgrade currency used for realm advancement, cultivation, mental-power growth, technique improvement, and certain system repairs |
| Status | Active |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Body Tempering Art 1/10 → 2/10 | 2 | Lin Feng spends 1 point to test whether points can improve a cultivation technique. |
| Martial Disciple Fifth Stage 35/50 → 44/50 | 2 | The remaining 9 points are allocated to realm progress rather than a complete breakthrough. |
| Martial Disciple Sixth Stage → Seventh Stage | 3 | Costs 60 points. |
| Basic Body Tempering Art 2/10 → 10/10 | 3 | Lin Feng completes the art after reaching Martial Disciple Seventh Stage, exhausting his remaining balance. |
| Martial Disciple Seventh Stage → Eighth Stage | 5 | Costs 70 points. |
| Martial Disciple Eighth Stage → Ninth Stage | 6 | Costs 80 points. |
| Martial Disciple Ninth Stage → Perfection | 6 | Costs 90 points. |
| Martial Artist First Stage → Second Stage | 11 | Costs 100 points before Lin Feng confronts the seven Martial Artists waiting outside the Rift. |
| Martial Artist Second Stage → Third Stage | 20 | Costs 200 points during the battle against the Mutated Earth-Splitting Beetle. |
| Martial Artist Third Stage → Fourth Stage | 20 | Costs 300 points; the immediate second breakthrough lets Lin Feng kill the D-Rank beast. |
| Mental 10 → First-Rank Psychokinetic Master | 27 | Lin Feng first invests 100 points into Mental, raising it to 110, then spends the remaining 650 points. The total 750-point investment awakens Psychic Power and leaves him at First-Rank Psychokinetic Master (260/1000). |
| Martial Artist Fourth Stage → Fifth Stage | 28 | Costs 400 points after clearing an E-Rank Rift. |
| Martial Artist Fifth Stage → Sixth Stage | 28 | Costs 500 points. |
| Martial Artist Sixth Stage → Seventh Stage | 29 | Costs 600 points. |
| Martial Artist Seventh Stage → Eighth Stage | 29 | Costs 700 points. |
| Martial Artist Eighth Stage → Ninth Stage | 29 | Costs 800 points. |
| Martial Artist Ninth Stage → Perfection | 29 | Costs 900 points. |
| Martial Artist Perfection → Martial Master First Stage | 31 | Costs 1,000 points; the first major-realm threshold is crossed through direct allocation. |
| Martial Master First Stage → Second Stage | 31 | Costs 2,000 points. |
| Martial Master Second Stage → Third Stage | 31 | Costs 3,000 points. |
| Mountain-Breaking Slash → Perfected | 31 | Remaining points perfect the technique and unlock a fifty-meter Gale Wind that inflicts marrow-tearing wounds. |
| Lost Trace Step → Perfected | 31 | Remaining points perfect the movement skill, granting three solid afterimages and a 300% speed increase. |
| Martial Master Third Stage → Fourth Stage | 33 | Costs 3,000 points during the Beast Tide. |
| Martial Master Fourth Stage → Fifth Stage | 33 | Costs 4,000 points. |
| Martial Master Fifth Stage → Sixth Stage | 46 | Costs 5,000 points. |
| Martial Master Sixth Stage → Seventh Stage | 46 | Costs 6,000 points. |
| Martial Master Seventh Stage → Eighth Stage | 46 | Costs 7,000 points. |
| Martial Master Eighth Stage → Ninth Stage | 46 | Costs 8,000 points. |
| Martial Master Ninth Stage → Peak | 46 | Costs 9,000 points. |
| Martial Master Peak → Martial Ancestor First Stage | 46 | Costs 10,000 points; Heavenly Gale Body-Forging Art reduces the breakthrough’s side effects by 80%. |
| Martial Ancestor Second Stage → Third Stage | 54 | Costs 20,000 points after Lin Feng clears a B-Rank Rift. |
| Indestructible Golden Body Art → Perfection | 73 | A 40,000-point investment raises the art from 10,000/50,000 to 50,000/50,000. |
| Martial Ancestor Fourth Stage → Fifth Stage | 73 | Costs 40,000 points. |
| Martial Ancestor Fifth Stage → Sixth Stage | 77 | Costs 50,000 points. |
| Martial Ancestor Sixth Stage → Seventh Stage | 77 | Costs 60,000 points. |
| Martial Ancestor Seventh Stage → Eighth Stage | 78 | Costs 70,000 points. |
| Martial Ancestor Eighth Stage → Ninth Stage | 78 | Costs 80,000 points. |
| Martial Ancestor Ninth Stage → Perfection | 78 | Costs 90,000 points. |
| Martial Ancestor Perfection → Martial King First Stage | 82 | Costs 100,000 points accumulated largely through the Iron Rhinoceros’s Rift-clearing. |
| Martial King First Stage → Second Stage | 90 | Costs 100,000 points from the Iron Rhinoceros’s continuous farming. |
| Martial King Second Stage → Third Stage | 90 | Costs 200,000 points, leaving a balance of 119,400. |
| Martial King Third Stage → Fourth Stage | 113 | Costs 300,000 points. |
| Martial King Fourth Stage → Fifth Stage | 113 | Costs 400,000 points as part of three consecutive breakthroughs. |
| Martial King Fifth Stage → Sixth Stage | 113 | Costs 500,000 points; completes three consecutive breakthroughs to Martial King Sixth Stage and leaves 300,000 points. |
| Martial King Sixth Stage → Seventh Stage | 115 | Costs 600,000 points. |
| Martial King Seventh Stage → Eighth Stage | 115 | Costs 700,000 points. |
| Martial King Eighth Stage → Ninth Stage | 115 | Costs 800,000 points. |
| Martial King Ninth Stage → Perfection | 115 | Costs 900,000 points. |
| Martial Venerable Fifth Stage → Sixth Stage | 153 | Costs 5,000,000 points. |
| Martial Venerable Sixth Stage → Seventh Stage | 153 | Costs 6,000,000 points. |
| Martial Venerable Seventh Stage → Eighth Stage | 153 | The recorded expenditure is 700,000 points. |
| Martial Venerable Eighth Stage → Ninth Stage | 153 | Costs 8,000,000 points. |
| Martial Venerable Ninth Stage → Half-Step Martial Saint | 155 | Costs 9,000,000 points. |
| Half-Step Martial Saint → Martial Saint First Stage | 155 | Lin Feng reaches Martial Saint First Stage during a 19-million-point advancement sequence. |
| Martial Saint First Stage → Second Stage | 157 | Costs 10,000,000 points in the middle of combat. |
| Martial Saint Third Stage → Fourth Stage | 183 | Lin Feng allocates points when controlled-beast income brings his balance to 10,000,000, triggering the breakthrough. |
| Martial Saint Fourth Stage → Fifth Stage | 186 | Costs 10,000,000 points from a balance of 12,470,000. |
| Mental Power Rank Six → Seven | 221 | Costs 50,000,000 points. |
| Mental Power Rank Seven → Eight | 221 | Costs 100,000,000 points. |
| Mental Power Rank Eight → Nine | 221 | Lin Feng completes the upgrade to Ninth-Rank Psionic Power after collecting enough additional sea-beast and idle-farming income. |
| Martial Saint Eighth Stage → Ninth Stage | 248 | Costs 80,000,000 points. |
| Martial Saint Ninth Stage → Martial Emperor First Stage | 248 | Costs 90,000,000 points. |
| Martial Emperor First Stage → Second Stage | 248 | Costs 100,000,000 points. |
| Martial Emperor Second Stage → Third Stage | 248 | Part of the consecutive advancement sequence that ultimately reaches Martial Emperor Fifth Stage; the individual cost is not shown in the supplied passage. |
| Martial Emperor Third Stage → Fourth Stage | 248 | Part of the same consecutive advancement sequence; the individual cost is not shown in the supplied passage. |
| Martial Emperor Fourth Stage → Fifth Stage | 248 | Costs 400,000,000 points. The sequence is described as exhausting Lin Feng’s accumulated 1,370,000,000-point balance. |
Background
The Martial Dao System binds to Lin Feng after it detects his determination to survive upon registering for Northern Territory service. Its initial guidance states that killing Exotic Beasts grants Martial Dao Points, which may be freely allocated. 1
Lin Feng’s first documented point reward is a system award of 10 Martial Path Points. He tests the resource by spending 1 point on Basic Body Tempering Art and the remaining 9 on his realm progress. 2 His first documented beast-kill income comes from participating in the kill of an F-Class Iron-Armored Demon Wolf: the system awards 1 point and displays a current balance of 2. 3 From then on, the points become the foundation of his growth: he hunts Exotic Beasts, accumulates points, and converts them directly into immediate combat power. 3 6
As Lin Feng develops beast-control abilities, point acquisition expands from personal hunting into simultaneous farming through controlled beasts. Later, his battles against the Skyhorn Clan establish that alien warriors, not only Exotic Beasts, can also provide substantial point rewards. 77 241 248
Functions
Acquisition
Martial Path Points are primarily awarded when Exotic Beasts are killed.
- F-Class kills can award 1 point, while stronger F-Class beasts can award 3 points. 3 5
- E-Class examples include 50 points for an Iron-Armored Centipede and 80 points for a Black-Armored Spider King. 28
- Three E-Class Iron-Spined Black Pythons award 150 points in total. 18
- D-Class Iron-Armored Mad Rhinos award 200 points each. 29
- A D-Rank Purple Armored Earth Dragon awards 300 points. 30
- C-Class rewards vary by creature; Dark-Scaled Giant Lizards award 500 points each in one recorded group, while Iron-Spined Earth Dragons can award 800 each. Another group of six Dark-Scaled Giant Lizards awards 2,400 points in total. 46
- C-Rank Blood-Winged Corpse Bats award 500 points each. 66
- B-Class Iron-Spined Earth Dragons award 2,000 points each. 77
- A-Class Red-Armored Fire Lizards and Dark Rock Tusk Beasts award 10,000 points each. 115
- Two peak A-Rank Mutated Thunder-Armored Earth Dragons award 80,000 points in total. 115
- A recorded group of 34 Poison Gu Beasts awards 340,000 points. 202
- S-Class sea beasts can award 50,000 points each. 219
- A-Rank sea beasts award 10,000 points each in the coastal Beast Tide. 220
- A Martial Emperor-level Skyhorn Clan squad leader awards 30,000,000 points, confirming that eligible alien warriors also generate the resource. 241
Higher individual strength and beast classification generally produce greater rewards, though rewards are not fixed solely by rank. 5 28 46
Point acquisition does not always require Lin Feng to fight an untouched target alone. His early wolf battle provides credit for participation in a kill, and he later increases both his point balance and Steel of the Blade layers by taking finishing blows from beasts already engaged by other martial artists. 3 23
The system can also grant points directly as a reward, as shown by the initial 10-point award before Lin Feng begins earning documented beast-kill income. 2
Allocation
Points can be assigned through the System Panel to several forms of advancement.
- Realm advancement — Directly increases Lin Feng’s martial realm, including breakthroughs that normally require insight or prolonged cultivation. 3 31
- Cultivation arts and martial skills — Improves techniques such as Basic Body Tempering Art, Mountain-Breaking Slash, Lost Trace Step, and Indestructible Golden Body Art. 2 31 73
- Mental and psychic power — Raises Mental stats and psychic rank; Lin Feng awakens as a First-Rank Psychokinetic Master by spending all available points under threat from Uncle Fu. 27
- Weapon restoration — Repairs broken spirit patterns on the damaged A-Rank Mountain Splitter for 50 points. 15
Allocation can increase progress within a stage without immediately causing a breakthrough, as demonstrated when 9 points raise Lin Feng’s Martial Disciple Fifth Stage progress from 35/50 to 44/50. 2 When sufficient points are available, he can instead purchase several consecutive breakthroughs, including four Martial Artist stages in one session and a later sequence from Martial Saint Eighth Stage to Martial Emperor Fifth Stage. 29 248
Technique investment can unlock specific perfected effects rather than merely increasing general strength. Perfecting Mountain-Breaking Slash extends its Gale Wind to fifty meters and produces wounds that cannot heal for ten breaths; perfecting Lost Trace Step grants three attack-absorbing solid afterimages and a 300% movement-speed increase. 31
Controlled-Beast Income
Kills by Lin Feng’s controlled Exotic Beasts also generate Martial Path Points.
- Iron Rhinoceros — Its kills in C- and D-Rank Rifts are credited to Lin Feng, enabling simultaneous combat and “AFK” farming. 77 82
- Fierce Vulture — Continues producing idle-grinding income alongside the Iron Rhinoceros. 183 221
- Nether Flood Dragon — Its sea-beast kills contribute points; Lin Feng has it expel swallowed carcasses so their rewards can be settled by the system. 219 221
- Other controlled beasts — The system also records controlled-beast kills during the Poison Gu Beast massacre. 202
Lin Feng calls the simultaneous operation of his own hunting and the Iron Rhinoceros’s Rift-clearing “double-window AFK farming.” Both sources produce system notifications and add to the same balance. 77 He continues directing the rhinoceros during the Dragon Abyss Cup’s opening ceremony and matches, allowing point accumulation to proceed while he attends the competition. 79 80
For repeated farming, Lin Feng plans a route through a C-Rank Rift that takes the Iron Rhinoceros from the fifth layer to the bottom, back to the first layer, and through the Rift again. This cycling income helps fund his breakthrough to Martial King First Stage between matches. 82
Controlled-beast output varies with available prey. The Fierce Vulture brings in 120,000 points from one wave involving an A-Rank beast leader, and later doubles its production efficiency after discovering a large beast nest in the wasteland. 183 186
Scaling and Limits
- Realm costs rise sharply with advancement, progressing from tens of points at Martial Disciple rank to millions at Martial Venerable and Martial Saint levels. 3 6 153 157
- Lin Feng budgets 1,000,000 points for Martial King Perfection → Martial Venerable First Stage, 1,500,000 for First → Second Stage, and 2,000,000 for Second → Third Stage, totaling 4,500,000 points. 123
- From Martial Saint Fifth Stage onward, each further stage requires points in the tens of millions. 201
- Later recorded costs reach 80,000,000 for Martial Saint Eighth → Ninth Stage, 90,000,000 for the transition to Martial Emperor, and 400,000,000 for Martial Emperor Fourth → Fifth Stage. 248
- Martial Path Points remain Lin Feng’s principal bottleneck because his spending rate can outpace his acquisition rate. 201
- Lin Feng can spend his entire balance at once; doing so reduced his balance to zero when he awakened psychic power. 27
- Point-funded advancement can be performed during immediate danger, including battles against the Mutated Earth-Splitting Beetle, Bai Yong, and Feng Yiling. 20 153 248
- Although points bypass conventional cultivation bottlenecks, breakthroughs can still cause intense heat, bone reforging, torn and reformed muscle fibers, and meridian expansion. Major-realm transitions can be particularly painful. 3 31 46
- Cultivation arts mitigate these physical side effects. Heavenly Gale Body-Forging Art reduces the Martial Ancestor breakthrough’s side effects by 80%, while its later coordination with Indestructible Golden Body Art and Myriad Phenomena Unification Art makes some breakthroughs nearly free of side effects. 46 77
- Point-funded breakthroughs can restore combat capability as well as raise cultivation. During the advancement to Martial Emperor Fifth Stage, Lin Feng’s depleted blood and qi surge anew and his shattered bones reform, while Indestructible Golden Body undergoes a qualitative transformation. 248
Relationships
- Lin Feng — Bound host and primary user; he earns points through killing Exotic Beasts and allocates them through the Martial Dao System. He later also receives points for killing Skyhorn Clan warriors. 1 3 241
- Martial Dao System — The interface that tracks balances, awards kill credit, presents upgrade options, and executes allocations. It also supplies the initial documented 10-point reward. 1 2
- Iron Rhinoceros — Controlled beast whose Rift-clearing kills create a major secondary point-income stream. 77 82
- Fierce Vulture — Controlled beast that contributes continuous idle-grinding income alongside the Iron Rhinoceros. 183 221
- Nether Flood Dragon — Controlled beast whose sea-beast kills can be processed into Martial Path Points. 219 221
- Skyhorn Clan — Enemy alien force whose warriors, commanders, and war beasts become a major source of points during the coastal war. 241 248
Trivia
- The System initially uses the term “Martial Dao Points,” while later displays and narration use “Martial Path Points.” 1 2
- Lin Feng considers Rifts ideal for farming because their Exotic Beasts spawn on fixed schedules, occur in dense concentrations, and are comparatively predictable. 28
- Martial Path Points are separate from the Northern Territory military’s contribution points, which are calculated from submitted Magic Cores and determine leaderboard placement and access to military benefits. 40
- Lin Feng treats the Toxic Miasma Abyss’s nearly ten thousand Poison Gu Beasts as a point-farming opportunity rather than merely an enemy trap. He initially estimates a conservative return of at least 60,000,000 points; after harvesting the abyss and the Gu King, his displayed balance reaches 133,400,000. 201 207
- The largest displayed balance in the documented material is 1,370,000,000 points, accumulated after Lin Feng slaughters Skyhorn Clan forces, war beasts, and a commander. 248
- Some recorded numerical details are inconsistent. Chapter 3 displays 8 remaining points before describing the final Basic Body Tempering Art allocation as “2 points,” yet raises the art from 2/10 to 10/10 and leaves no points. Chapter 153 explicitly records 700,000 points for Martial Venerable Seventh → Eighth Stage despite adjacent breakthroughs costing several million. 3 153