"Ding, ding, ding..."
Past nine in the evening, the phone incessantly popped up newly received messages. Lin Xiu, who had been working hard all day, picked up his phone and glanced at it, a glint of longing flashing in his eyes. But then he sighed deeply. The recent messages all came from his class group.
Inside the group, several classmates were discussing the news that their class adviser had just received.
"Class adviser, Wu Yue: The standards for this year’s martial arts exam has been released. The minimum requirement is 100 for Qi strength, and 160 for first-class universities." The moment this message was posted, the group chat suddenly became lively.
"100 Qi strength, does that mean I still have hope to attend college?"
"My current Qi strength is 151, these last few days if I take a couple of Qi solidifying pills, it should be insufficient, I still have hope to attack first-class universities!"
"You guys are nothing, Liu Ying’s Qi strength is almost 180, with results like these, she could even potentially become a real martial artist before the martial arts exam!"
"Wow, no wonder she’s the school beauty, she really is not the same as us ordinary people."
Lin Xiu read through all these messages, the longing in his eyes gradually transformed into reality. Initially, Lin Xiu, like the others, was also preparing to break through into a first-class martial arts university. But now, all he could do was sneak peeks at the messages in the class group, harboring nothing more than envy.
In this world where the spiritual energy revived, magical beasts roam. The entire human race is oppressed by these resurrected beasts, pushed to live in remote corners.
In front of these monsters, the majority of conventional arms have become useless.
Martial artists have become the core force against these beasts.
They not only have a prestigious status in this world that surpasses ordinary people but also can rely on their powerful strength to earn wealth beyond what normals can imagine!
In this world, ordinary people can only do the dirtiest and most tiring work.
Even so, the money earned is only enough to get by.
However, martial artists can effortlessly kill even the lowest level beast, and earn several thousands, even tens of thousands!
As for those high-level beasts, they can easily sell them for several hundred thousand or even millions!
Therefore, to this day, everyone takes pride in becoming a martial artist.
However, becoming a martial artist is naturally not easy.
The primary condition is that one must have a Qi strength of above 200.
This Qi strength may seem not very high, but the fact is, many people might not reach it in their lifetime.
Take Lin Xiu, for example. Before he dropped out, his Qi strength was 79.
And now, after he dropped out for half a year, his Qi strength is 81.
Yes, in the whole half-year, his Qi strength only increased by two points!
This highlights the importance of education, whether it is the present high school or the university in the future, each interval provides a variety of vitality-boosting drugs for free.
But in society, if you want these, even the cheapest would cost tens of thousands!
However, Lin Xiu is very poor. It can be said that if he doesn't work one day, he might face hunger and cold the next day.
During these six months, even though Lin Xiu worked hard to make money from dawn till dusk, he was still just surviving.
The endless struggles of his harsh life have long eroded his dreams and desires for the future.
For him now, having a place to live and something to eat every day is already good enough.
Such a life, one can say, is tunnel vision without change, perhaps not even by the age of 80.
And Lin Xiu can only silently accept it at this point.
He used to be one of the top talents in his class.
Now looking at other classmates, even the weakest ones, they're most likely far ahead of him.
He knows that he and these classmates are no longer in the same world.
Thinking about this, Lin Xiu felt increasingly restless.
Listening to the buzzing sound in his ear, "smack," he killed a mosquito out of annoyance.
The next second, a mechanical voice echoed in his mind.
"Ding. Killing one mosquito, Vitality Value+0.01!"
This voice instantly revitalized Lin Xiu, who was already feeling a bit tired!
He jumped off the bed and stared at the virtual panel in front of him.
Name: Lin Xiu
Age: 18
Realm: None
Vitality: 81.01/200
Lin Xiu bit his tongue, assuring himself he was completely awake.
A smile he couldn't suppress emerged on his face.
Finally!
After being reincarnated in this world for over a decade, the unique advantage of a transmigrant, the so-called golden finger, had finally come!
Barely able to contain his excitement, Lin Xiu tried to communicate with the system in his mind, hoping to figure out the use of this system.
And yet, after calling out like a fool for a long time, the system showed no reaction whatsoever.
It seemed the only use was to check the personal panel and accumulate vitality by killing mosquitoes.
Even so, this was pretty awesome.
Killing one mosquito granted 0.01 points—100 mosquitoes equated to one point. Ordinary basic vitality-boosting pills could only increase five points of vitality at most.
So, killing five hundred mosquitoes is equivalent to consuming a Qi Boosting Pill!
He can't afford to buy a twenty thousand-dollar Qi Boosting Pill, but he can surely kill mosquitoes, can't he?
With this in mind, Lin Xiu was instantly energized.
His body, which had been worn out by a day's work, was once again surging with strength.
Without a second thought, he switched on the light in the room, swiftly killed all the visible mosquitoes around him.
After he was done, Lin Xiu checked his stamina values, it was now at 81.17.
But there weren't many mosquitoes in the room to begin with, so Lin Xiu tried to supplement with a few flies.
Turns out, the stamina values added were the same.
Well, this was wonderful.
The garbage dump outside the complex was swarming with a lot of flies!
Without a second thought, Lin Xiu, brandishing the bottle of insecticide he had recently purchased, headed out.
As he expected, under the street light, the garbage bin was nearly covered with a layer of flies, a large, dark mass of them!
Lin Xiu wasted no time in starting to spray the insecticide!
“Ding, kill a fly, stamina value +0.01!”
“Ding, kill a fly, stamina value +0.01!”
…
Listening to the pleasant sound in his ears, Lin Xiu couldn't help but quicken his actions.
Wasn't this a pathway to prosperity?
