Hunyuan Spear Technique

"When choosing a weapon, remember not to be careless. A weapon determines a martial artist's future path, and is also their right-hand man!" the old servant shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice echoing in all directions. "All right, everyone, start choosing the weapons you like."

Hearing the old servant's words, the youths stepped forward one by one and carefully selected their weapons before the racks.

No one dared to be careless. Clearly, their elders had all warned them beforehand.

"Yang Chen, what weapon do you want to choose?" Fourth Master Yang asked curiously as he stood shoulder to shoulder with Yang Chen.

As the most outstanding genius of the day, Yang Chen's choice was something not only Fourth Master Yang, but everyone else was immensely curious about.

Yang Chen stroked his chin and pondered carefully. Before long, he said, "Fourth Master, I want to choose a spear."

"A spear?"

Fourth Master Yang and the Yang Family Patriarch exchanged looks, both greatly surprised.

The spear was an unconventional weapon, not part of the mainstream.

The mainstream weapons in this world were sabers, swords, rulers, staffs, and the like.

For no other reason than that sabers and swords had more variations, while spears were different. Spears were easy to master and had very few variations. When facing an enemy, using a spear made it easy to suffer a disadvantage. This was common knowledge among the Great Wilderness Hundred Clans.

Afraid that Yang Chen would take a crooked path, Fourth Master Yang said seriously, "Yang Chen, Fourth Master must explain this properly to you. When fighting others, the key lies in variation. Why have sabers and swords become the mainstream weapons? Because once these two are put to use, they contain ten thousand changes, leaving opponents unable to guard against them!"

"As for spears, they appear cumbersome and have few variations. When fighting others, it is difficult to seize the initiative. A spear is truly unworthy of your talent."

Hearing this, Yang Chen could not help but laugh.

It seemed this truly was the perspective of the Great Wilderness Hundred Clans.

His perspective was different from that of the Great Wilderness Hundred Clans.

Even in his previous life, his vision had been more far-reaching than that of others.

If it were anyone else from the Great Wilderness, they would certainly think Fourth Master Yang's words made sense. Indeed, the Spear Dao had few variations, and it was easy to fall into a disadvantage when facing enemies. Compared with the mainstream paths of saber and sword, the Spear Dao was simply filled with endless embarrassment.

But that was merely the perspective of Great Wilderness people. They thought so only because cultivation methods within the Great Wilderness were far too scarce.

The outside world was different. There, weapons had no distinction between high and low.

In his previous life, Yang Chen had once watched a peerless expert battle from afar. That battle had been the crucial turning point that made Yang Chen decide to cultivate spear techniques.

Yes, that day, Yang Chen had been fortunate enough to witness that peerless powerhouse make a move. The man held a long spear, standing beneath the vault of heaven as cold winds howled and his long hair fluttered. He looked down upon the earth. Facing that enormous demon beast, he needed only one spear thrust to shatter mountains and rivers in an instant.

Had Yang Chen not been protected by many experts, even a trace of the residual force would have been enough to grind him to dust. Even so, that single spear strike had left an incomparably deep impression in his heart. He knew clearly that the expert had long surpassed the realm ordinary martial artists could comprehend.

From then on, Yang Chen had conducted deep research into the spear technique lineage.

At the very least, spear techniques could not possibly have as few variations as Fourth Master Yang claimed. On the contrary, spear techniques were the path with the most variations!

Moreover, if one could cultivate spear techniques to great mastery, one would surely be able to gather ten thousand changes into oneself like that peerless expert. With one spear strike, mountains and rivers would collapse and heaven and earth would change color!

With such insight, how could Yang Chen possibly think that spear techniques were merely an unconventional path?

In his heart, every weapon was the same. They were the martial artist's right-hand men; what mattered was how the martial artist used those right-hand men.

With that thought, Yang Chen's resolve became even firmer. Without a moment's hesitation, he said, "Fourth Master, I have a special fondness for the Way of the Spear. Moreover, Yang Chen still believes that what one likes is best. The paths of saber and sword may indeed be mainstream, but I believe the Way of the Spear is no inferior to either of them."

"You... you..." Fourth Master Yang's eyes widened.

The Yang Family Patriarch said thoughtfully, "Fourth Elder, let Yang Chen follow his own wishes."

"Patriarch, this... you... sigh, fine." Fourth Master Yang struggled inwardly for a while before he could only follow Yang Jinhe's instructions.

After all, Yang Jinhe was right. A forced melon was never sweet. Yang Chen liked the path of spear techniques; even if he, as an elder, managed to persuade Yang Chen otherwise, what would it change?

Yang Chen immediately stepped forward, selected a silver spear that felt right in his hand, and gripped it tightly.

The spear was entirely silver, clearly forged from special material. The spearhead was roughly two-tenths the length of the shaft, making it the most suitable proportion. Yang Chen was delighted as he held it. With this suitable weapon in hand, the course of his future martial cultivation was completely set.

Yes, on the very first day of his rebirth here, he had already planned out his future martial path.

Choosing the path of spear techniques today was also something he had considered deeply beforehand.

After that, the Coming-of-Age Ceremony soon came to an end.

Li Youyan, representing the Li Family Commerce Association, then chose to formally begin cooperation with the Yang Family before many outsiders after the Coming-of-Age Ceremony ended. This scene thoroughly boosted the Yang Family's prestige and made many small tribes even more eager to cling to the Yang Family's high branch.

The best way to cling to a high branch was through marriage alliances.

Yang Chen had become the preferred marriage alliance candidate after the cooperation between the Li and Yang Families, two medium-sized tribes.

Thus, after the Coming-of-Age Ceremony ended, one never knew when a young girl might suddenly appear, scrambling to escort Yang Chen home.

Yang Chen could not bring himself to ruthlessly reject the "goodwill" those small tribes had painstakingly conveyed. It could be said that he had expended nine oxen and two tigers' strength before he finally managed to return home with great difficulty.

Only after arriving home did Yang Chen finally find some peace and quiet.

But Yang Caidie suffered instead.

Yang Chen had returned, but Yang Caidie was surrounded tightly by a group of outsiders, discussing Yang Chen's future "marriage" affairs.

At this moment, Yang Chen sat cross-legged on his bed, his silver spear placed beside him as he carefully contemplated his future martial path.

"Having chosen the silver spear, I will walk the path of spear techniques from now on. I need to carefully consider this Spear Dao cultivation method." Yang Chen calculated in his mind.

Cultivation methods and martial skills were two different concepts.

Simply put, martial skills were better suited for low-level martial artists.

Cultivation methods were different. They could accompany a martial artist from the lower realms to the higher realms. A powerful cultivation method could even increase a martial artist's chances of advancement. Compared to martial skills, cultivation methods were thousands upon thousands of times more precious.

Within the Great Wilderness Hundred Clans, even a simple cultivation method would likely make countless people fight until their heads were bloodied.

Yang Chen was different. The knowledge in his mind was simply an invisible treasure trove. For a medium-sized tribe like the Yang Family, those in the Body Refining Realm found it difficult to come into contact with something like cultivation methods, yet Yang Chen had already prepared to lay his foundation from the bottom up.

"The One Qi Hunyuan Spear, also known as the Hunyuan Spear Technique, is the most precious spear cultivation method I obtained in my previous life." Yang Chen thought to himself.

He did not know the origins of this Hunyuan Spear Technique, but he had studied it before and only knew that it was vast and profound. Its mysteries were simply beyond what someone at his realm could comprehend.

Yang Chen understood that this Hunyuan Spear Technique was absolutely not much inferior to the spear-wielding Martial Dao Sovereign he had seen in his previous life.

With his thoughts settled, Yang Chen gripped the silver spear and muttered, "In that case, I shall cultivate this Hunyuan Spear Technique on my future martial path."