Deep Blue, Give Me Points!

"Still, claiming the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning caused way too much commotion..."

Xu Jingming, having reined in the lightning, looked at the wrecked living room and scratched his head.

The entire living room looked as if it had been bombarded by missiles, with fragments of shattered objects scattered everywhere.

Some of the debris still had lingering flames burning on it.

The walls and floor were also riddled with pits blasted out by electric arcs.

"Good thing I noticed something was wrong while I was transforming and tried my best to control my power. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been just this living room that suffered."

Xu Jingming felt a lingering sense of fear.

The Purple Heaven Divine Lightning originated from Eastern mythology and was one of the ten primordial lightning forces of ancient times, possessing the power to annihilate immortals and slay gods.

As merely an Awakener, he was unable to display the full might of the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.

But if he let his power run wild, he could easily blast through the entire floor! The whole building would collapse as a result.

With the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning protecting him, he himself would be fine even if the building collapsed.

But the other residents living in the building would suffer.

Fortunately, he had restrained the lightning's power with all his might, preventing such a tragedy in the end.

"Looks like I underestimated the power of the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning. If I'd known it would make such a huge commotion, I should've gone straight out to the suburbs to claim the beginner gift pack."

Though he said that, Xu Jingming was still extremely satisfied.

After all, the stronger his ability was, the more beneficial it would be for his future development.

"Oh right, the beginner gift pack also gave me 200 Ability Points. What are those for?"

Just as Xu Jingming recalled the other reward from the beginner gift pack, the system prompt sounded in his mind:

"Ability Points can be obtained by killing ferocious beasts. Consuming Ability Points can increase levels and skills.

"The system panel displays your Ability Point total, as well as upgrade options."

With that explanation from the system, Xu Jingming understood.

So-called Ability Points were actually just like experience points in online games.

"A monster-grinding leveling system. Simple, but effective."

A faint smile appeared on Xu Jingming's lips as he opened his system panel.

Name: Xu Jingming

Level: Awakener

Ability: Purple Heaven Divine Lightning (S)

Physique: 121 Qi-Blood (+)

Spirit: 140 Hz (+)

Skills: Spearmanship (Beginner +), Lightning Gale Slash (Beginner +)

Ability Points: 200

The information on the system panel was extremely concise. The plus signs at the end also indicated what could be upgraded and what could not.

Physique and Spirit represented the two fundamental attributes of an Awakener, respectively. His values were fairly good.

After all, most Awakeners only had around 100 points in Physique and Spirit.

"But I've practiced spearmanship for five or six years, and my proficiency is still only Beginner. Isn't that a bit much?"

Xu Jingming grumbled to himself.

Besides abilities, humans also used weapons as a means of attack.

However, unlike most people, who chose sabers or swords as weapons, he had chosen the spear.

He had started practicing it when he was in his teens, yet even now, his rating was still only Beginner.

One had to know that skill proficiency was divided into six levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Master, Grandmaster, Perfection, and Complete Mastery.

Beginner was equivalent to having only just started.

As for the other skill, Lightning Gale Slash, it was a spear-type Battle Technique.

He had bought it for 300,000 Great Xia Coins after awakening his Weak Electric Ability at the age of sixteen.

He had practiced it for less than two and a half years, so having only Beginner proficiency was normal enough.

"Looking at the panel, these 200 Ability Points can be used to improve my attributes or my skills. What should I use them on?"

After venting, Xu Jingming fell into thought.

Tomorrow was the annual college entrance examination.

He had to spend all 200 Ability Points where they would count most and raise his combat power as much as possible.

"Physique and Spirit are the two fundamental attributes.

"Once these two attributes improve, both using Battle Techniques and controlling abilities will improve accordingly.

"In that case, I'll raise my fundamental attributes first!"

After pondering for a moment, Xu Jingming split the 200 Ability Points evenly, putting them into Physique and Spirit!

"Deep Blue, give me points!"

After pressing the plus signs on the panel, Xu Jingming first felt his Qi-Blood surge sharply!

His roiling Qi-Blood rushed through his body like a raging river!

Then his thoughts improved as well, becoming much clearer.

And that wasn't all. Even his control over the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning improved!

"Abilities essentially originate from the human Physique and Spirit.

"Improving these two attributes also increases the power of the ability."

Xu Jingming clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within him and the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning he could summon at any moment. He nodded in satisfaction.

He then looked at his system panel again:

Physique: 141 Qi-Blood (+)

Spirit: 160 Hz (+)

"Both fundamental attributes rose by 20 points. In other words, 1 Ability Point corresponds to 0.2 Qi-Blood or 0.2 Hz of Spirit."

"The exchange rate is a little low, but it's still fine. After all, this is a direct increase with no side effects."

"Too bad the beginner gift pack only had 200 Ability Points. Otherwise, I could've raised them another round."

"Of course, with my current strength, getting into Metahuman University is more than assured."

From the moment he obtained the S-rank metahuman ability, Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, Xu Jingming had already ranked among the strongest college entrance examination students in all of Jiangnan Province.

Now that his two fundamental attributes had improved, he could truly be considered one of Jiangnan Province's top candidates!

The reason he said one of them rather than the strongest was simple.

Jiangnan Province had a population of more than eighty million, and over seven hundred thousand candidates took the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination.

Among those seven hundred thousand candidates, freaks were the least scarce thing!

These freaks might not have S-rank metahuman abilities.

But A-Rank Abilities, combined with advantages such as combat experience and Battle Techniques, were equally not to be underestimated!

After all, some students came from families that could not only hire famous teachers to instruct them and teach them rare, powerful Battle Techniques.

They could even arrange bodyguards to escort them directly into the Wilderness Area to fight ferocious beasts and accumulate combat experience.

In this regard, Xu Jingming, an orphan, could not compare.

But the S-rank metahuman ability he possessed was likewise something the other candidates could not compare to...

"Knock, knock, knock~~~~"

At that moment, urgent knocking suddenly rang out. Before Xu Jingming could react, there was a loud bang, and the entire door was kicked flying.

Then, a group of firefighters dressed in orange-red uniforms and carrying water guns came into view.

When they discovered there was no raging fire in the room as they had imagined, and that there was even a living person standing there, they froze in shock.

"Uh, hello?"

Xu Jingming blinked and gave them a tentative greeting.