Chapter 470: Grandmaster-Level Spear Art! The First in History!

After finalizing the next day's plan, Xu Jingming immediately announced dismissal and returned to his room.

"Whew, finally I can come out."

The moment he returned to the room, the green-haired twin-tail loli Yiwa couldn't wait any longer and popped out of the smart bracelet.

Then, with a thought—

The room's holographic projection TV and smart speaker were all controlled by her and switched on automatically.

"You hacked the hotel's control system?" Xu Jingming's sword-shaped brows rose slightly.

The Bagan Hotel was, generally speaking, a fairly high-class hotel.

Even if an AI were to hack the system, it would be detected immediately and trigger a warning.

Yet Yiwa's intrusion seemed to have set off no alarms at all.

"Yep."

Yiwa's holographic projection sat down on the sofa as if she were a real person, swinging her crystalline little feet as she spoke casually:

"This level of firewall is basically no defense at all for me.

I could even hack the entire Myanmar network."

"I see." Xu Jingming nodded thoughtfully.

With this, having Yiwa by his side in the future should make gathering intelligence much easier.

At the very least, even without help from the Spirit Fox Guild, he could easily search for relevant leads on missions like this one.

"You go play, I'm going to take a shower."

Taking off the smart bracelet, Xu Jingming got up and headed into the bathroom.

Although this room wasn't exactly top-tier, it was still over ten thousand kyat a night.

The bathroom had not only a shower but also a bathtub.

Half an hour later, Xu Jingming—washed clean of his fatigue and feeling refreshed all over—sat down on the room sofa in a loose training outfit.

"Deep Blue."

With a thought, a pale-blue virtual panel appeared in his mind.

【Name】: Xu Jingming

【Level】: Fifth-Tier Mid

【Ability】: Doushen Shenlei (SS)

【Physique】: Qi and Blood (+)

【Spirit】: He (+)

【Skills】: Spear Art (Master+), Fist Art (Master+), Lei Shen Jiang Shi (SSS-rank, Beginner+), Thunder Dragon Art (SS+ rank, Beginner+), Heart Net (SS-rank, Beginner+), Thunder-Piercing Demon-Slaying Spear (S+ rank, Beginner+), Lei Shen Zhi (S+ rank, Beginner+)......

【Body Tempering】: Indestructible Body of Divine Thunder (SS-rank, Seventh Layer)

【Spirit Refining】: Shenhe Visualization Method (SS-rank, Second Layer+)

【Ability Points】:

After spending the points last time on Indestructible Body of Divine Thunder, over the next few days—

He had killed quite a few fierce beasts, accumulating his ability points back up to 180,000.

However, it still seemed a long way from another breakthrough.

"Compared to Magic Den No. 4, farming ability points in the Kanda Wilderness Zone is indeed much more efficient.

Once I finish this S-rank mission in the next couple of days, I can stay here a while longer and farm as many ability points as possible.

The Global Genius Exchange Competition starts in November, so going back home by then won't be too late.

Also, online registration for the Global University League officially opens at 9 p. m. tomorrow.

Before that, I still need to get a consciousness helmet and, while I'm at it, swap out my smart bracelet for a better one."

Xu Jingming murmured to himself.

Besides that, he needed to try repairing the damaged Extreme Glory Thunder Ring and the incomplete elemental essence.

"After finishing the mission tomorrow, I'll go find Leng Yuexi again—she should be able to come up with something..."

After pondering for a moment, Xu Jingming took the Flowing Cloud Gold-Edge Spear out of his spatial ring.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!......

He rose from the sofa and, without activating any ability, casually brandished the long spear.

The entire spear seemed to transform into a phantom—uncanny, unfathomable, and razor-sharp!

This was Master-level Spear Art! A goal ordinary ability-users might spend their entire lives reaching.

Xu Jingming had once been quite satisfied with this, but now he felt it was no longer quite enough.

After all, his current opponents were either peak Sixth-Tier ability-users or Seventh-Tier Masters.

In their use of weapons, they were basically all at Master-level proficiency, and some Seventh-Tier Masters had even reached Grandmaster-level proficiency!

In terms of spear art, Xu Jingming could no longer simply rely on proficiency to crush opponents the way he used to against peers.

"Going from Master-level proficiency to Grandmaster-level requires 100,000 ability points.

Since the ability points on the system panel are still enough, and I'll be heading back into the Kanda Wilderness Zone later, I'll just spend them now.

Tomorrow I can find that Enhancement-system Seventh-Tier Master and test the effect..."

No sooner said than done—Xu Jingming's mind stirred, and he decisively tapped the plus sign after Spear Art!

Ability Points −100,000!

Master-level Spear Art → Grandmaster-level Spear Art!

Boom!

In an instant, countless spear-art techniques exploded through Xu Jingming's mind.

Even the muscles throughout his body were adapting to these memories, as if he himself had practiced master-level spear techniques for decades!

These memories, like the underlying code of a program, were deeply imprinted in his mind......

"Thrust!"

With a fierce shout, Xu Jingming, having digested all the memories, suddenly stepped forward, the long spear in his hand thrusting out like a giant python!

Ssslit—

The sharp spear tip carved a dark-gold arc through the air like a bolt of lightning.

The surrounding air, struck by this tremendous velocity, let out a piercing shriek!

When the long spear halted, an invisible shockwave rippled outward from the point of impact.

Blowing Xu Jingming's wild long hair upward!

If a fifth-rank ability user were here, they wouldn't even be able to see the spear's trajectory clearly.

They could only watch the long spear vanish as if teleporting, then reappear!

"Sweep!"

Riding the residual force of the thrust, the long spear swept sideways with almost no pause at all, in an extremely cunning arc.

If an ability user were standing before this long spear, then this sweep—

The sharp spear tip, combined with its ferocious kinetic energy, would be enough to lop off their entire head.

Hum—

The long spear stopped abruptly, emitting a fine, dense Jin Ge sound.

"This is... Master-level spear technique!" Xu Jingming's eyes blazed with sudden brilliance.

He hadn't activated any ability at all—merely relied on his body and spear technique skill.

Yet the might he unleashed was a full notch stronger than before!

And the transitions between moves were far smoother, almost reaching a realm of complete freedom of movement.

"If I combine this with Lightning Extreme State and Lightning Storm State, my close-combat killing ability could absolutely crush most seventh-rank lower Masters!"

Xu Jingming let out a long breath.

Of course,

The actual effect still had to wait until tomorrow's real combat to be known.

"Huh? S-Class, your spear technique skill has broken through to Master level?"

Possessing a vast database of ability users' combat records, Eva, sitting on the sofa, also keenly detected the change in Xu Jingming's spear state.

"Slow fermentation after long accumulation—I had a premonition of a breakthrough earlier," Xu Jingming said brazenly.

"Really Master level?"

Eva's eyes went perfectly round, her small mouth slightly agape, as she exclaimed in shock:

"I remember S-Class your birthday is December 1st, right?

In other words, you haven't even turned 20 yet and you already possess Master-level spear technique?!

Whether in our modern history, or the history of the Second Civilization era—

No one at your age has ever achieved such weapon mastery!

S-Class, you've set a record! You're truly the first person in history!"

Xu Jingming smiled faintly at her words and said nothing.

Don't joke—if I had enough ability points, I could break through to Perfect-level spear technique right before your eyes!

PS: This is ridiculous—Chapter 302 from January got banned today, no choice, can only revise......