Spear Mastery Achieved

Looking at the system panel, Lu Shaolin thought carefully for a moment and decided to click on the Three Absolutes Spear.

He was only a teenager now, with no means of making a living. He could only hunt to support himself as the previous owner of this body had done, so strengthening the Three Absolutes Spear was only natural.

With a thought, the plus sign behind the Three Absolutes Spear blurred for a moment before becoming still. The proficiency in the brackets changed to Minor Mastery.

At that moment, a flood of memories related to the Three Absolutes Spear surged into Lu Shaolin's mind. After absorbing them, he felt dizzy, while his stomach cramped continuously with painful hunger!

Realizing that his body had been overtaxed, Lu Shaolin staggered into the kitchen beside the courtyard and tore down the cured rabbit hanging from the beam, gnawing on it straight away.

He truly had no time to cook. He was afraid he would simply faint from hunger in a moment!

Fortunately, the previous owner's father had been a renowned hunter in the village, and there was plenty of stored food at home. Otherwise, he might have become the first transmigrator to obtain a system and immediately starve to death.

Only after swallowing an entire wild rabbit did Lu Shaolin feel much better, the dizziness in his head finally fading.

His mouth was still full of a bloody, salty taste, so he hurried to the well in the courtyard and gulped down a ladle of icy well water.

After drinking, Lu Shaolin tossed the ladle into the wooden bucket and let out a long breath.

He walked into the main hall, sat down in a chair, and summoned the system panel again.

The Source Points on the system panel had become 1.7, a decrease of 0.3. In other words, raising the Three Absolutes Spear from Proficient to Minor Mastery had cost 0.3 Source Points.

Seeing that the plus sign behind the Three Absolutes Spear was still there proved it could continue to be upgraded, but Lu Shaolin did not dare click it again.

His body was already weak. If he clicked it again, he might not survive it! He had to recuperate for a few days first, then prepare a great deal of food before clicking again!

Raising his head to look at the sky outside the door, he saw that it was already nearly noon. He should have been making lunch, but having just eaten an entire wild rabbit, he decided to take a nap first and cook when he was hungry again.

With that thought, Lu Shaolin shut the courtyard gate, entered the bedroom, and set up a small warning device behind the door—a lamp of oil.

This was a habit he had developed while working undercover in his previous life. A careful boat could sail for ten thousand years!

He then lay down on the bed and fell asleep before long.

An hour later, Lu Shaolin opened his eyes on the bed and stretched lazily.

He suddenly sensed something wrong. His clothes seemed a little tight. Raising his hand before his eyes, he saw that his palm was covered in calluses, and his grip strength had clearly increased greatly.

A sharp gleam flashed through Lu Shaolin's eyes. Was this the system's effect? Not only did it grant someone a vast amount of martial arts memories out of thin air, it also directly transformed the body, as though one had truly practiced martial arts for many years!

Getting out of bed, Lu Shaolin walked to the bronze mirror. His complexion in the mirror had improved considerably and was no longer so pale.

His clothes had indeed become tight, especially around his arms, where he could clearly feel the constriction!

Glancing at the black iron spear standing beside the bed, Lu Shaolin reached out, gripped the long spear, and lifted it with a slight exertion of strength.

The feeling was obviously different. The spear had become much lighter!

Just as he was about to go into the courtyard to test the spear, his stomach let out a protesting growl.

Lu Shaolin gave a bitter smile, put down the spear, and went to the kitchen to light the fire and cook!

He stewed a pot of rabbit meat and steamed half a jin of rice!

Once it was ready, he simply ate in the kitchen.

After sweeping every last bit of food clean, Lu Shaolin went into the courtyard to walk around and aid digestion.

Half an hour later, Lu Shaolin took out the black iron spear and began practicing in the courtyard.

The Three Absolutes Spear had only three moves: Falling Star, Water Severing, and Skybreak!

The move names sounded imposing, but in Lu Shaolin's eyes, they were merely chopping and smashing, sweeping horizontally, and thrusting straight ahead. It was just that the methods of exerting force were rather ingenious, allowing more than half the strength of the entire body to be channeled into the spear.

With a "whoosh" that tore through the air, a black afterimage flashed across the sky as Lu Shaolin brought the spear down in a powerful chop!

Just as the spear was about to strike the ground, he spun around, driving the spear into a rotation. With a "wuuush," he swept it outward once more.

After the sweep reached its end, he drew the spear back, stepped forward into a bow stance, and thrust it out with a "whoosh"!

The entire sequence flowed like drifting clouds and running water, completed in less than two seconds!

Still wanting more, Lu Shaolin raised his spear and continued practicing.

He practiced for nearly half an hour before a faint pain rose in his lungs and organs, forcing him to stop and stand where he was, breathing lightly.

So this was damaged internal organs? He could not even sustain physical exertion of this intensity for long? Even though his Three Absolutes Spear had already reached Minor Mastery!

At that moment, a clamor rose outside the courtyard as the villagers working in the fields returned home one after another.

Lu Shaolin did not go out. Not to mention that not a single villager had come to visit while the previous owner lay bedridden, he himself had no sense of belonging toward this village either!

After resting for a while, he carried the spear back into the house.

For the next three days, Lu Shaolin did nothing but eat and sleep, occasionally practicing with the spear so that his feel for it would not grow rusty.

On the morning of the fourth day, Lu Shaolin cooked all the meat in the house and carried the large basins over to the wooden table.

He first ate until his belly was round as a drum, then clicked the plus sign behind the Three Absolutes Spear again with a thought.

Another torrent of memories surged in, followed by an extreme drain on his body. Intense hunger struck in an instant.

Lu Shaolin immediately began eating and drinking.

A large basin of wild chicken meat and broth went down his throat, and he also wolfed down five bowls of rice!

Only after the hunger had faded did Lu Shaolin look at the system panel again.

The Source Points on the panel had become 1.3, decreasing by 0.4, while the Three Absolutes Spear had changed from Minor Mastery to Major Mastery!

Feeling that the Major Mastery Three Absolutes Spear was even more powerful than before, the corners of Lu Shaolin's mouth lifted slightly. The feeling of growing stronger was intoxicating!

His body had now recovered completely and was even stronger than before. It was time to head out.

First was the matter of his father, Lu Zhong's, funeral arrangements. Although his body had not been found, a cenotaph still had to be erected!

Then there was the matter of martial arts. Now that he had the system, as long as he obtained high-level martial arts, he could use the system to improve them directly! He could reach the Organ-Tempering Realm at an extremely fast pace!

As for demons and monsters, he could seek them out later.

Therefore, he planned to go to Pingshan County Town. There were martial arts schools in the county, and he also needed to buy a coffin for Lu Zhong, so he had to go to the county town anyway.

Lu Shaolin stood up and cleared the table, then entered Lu Zhong's room and began searching through it.

Whether joining a martial arts school to learn martial arts or buying and selling a coffin, he needed money.

From his memories, Lu Zhong had spent most of the income from selling mountain goods over the years on building this blue-brick house, but there should still have been some left over.

After searching for nearly half an hour, he finally found two taels of silver and more than twenty copper coins in a small black box beneath the bed.

Looking at the small amount of silver in his hand, Lu Shaolin estimated according to the prices in his memories that it was only enough to buy a coffin. It was nowhere near enough to enter a martial arts school and learn martial arts.

Never mind. He would ask around at the martial arts schools first.

Lu Shaolin tucked the silver into his clothes, picked up the black iron spear, locked the courtyard gate, and headed straight for Pingshan County Town ten li away.