"All pursuits are inferior; only the martial path reigns supreme."
In the Shen family of Qingyang City, Shen Jue, a member of a collateral branch, had spent two whole years training in martial arts, yet had not even crossed the first realm. With the family assessment looming, if he failed to break through soon, he would be thrown out and lose all hope of pursuing the martial path.
Mediocre in his previous life, still mediocre in this one: he thought his life was destined to stay this way.
Until late one night, a translucent screen appeared before his eyes without warning:
[Host: Shen Jue]
[Martial Bone Amplification: 0x (Level One Amplification Requires 10 Silver)]
[Spear Intent Amplification: 0x (Level One Amplification Requires 10 Silver)]
It was a System that multiplied one's martial potential with silver.
Ten taels doubled his martial potential permanently; a hundred taels quadrupled it; a thousand taels multiplied it eightfold. As long as he had enough silver, he could keep multiplying his talent without limit.
With his martial bone doubled, his stance training advanced by leaps and bounds, and the bottleneck that had held him back for two years broke in an instant. With his spear intent doubled, he mastered the first stage of the Astonishing Spear Art in three days, leaving everyone who watched dumbfounded.
Others relied on talent. He relied on money, and even more on the grit he forged with every punch.
He broke through to the Blood Condensation Realm in a month and made a stunning name for himself on the Martial Fame Stele; he challenged the Gu family's prized prodigy with his spear and publicly humiliated his enemy's genius; he rose from the family's most useless member to the peak of the stele.
When he was poor, even spending ten taels made his heart ache. Once he was rich, he made all of Qingyang City remember: that Shen family good-for-nothing had trampled the geniuses underfoot.
The eyes that had once looked down on him would one day have to look up.
This was no luck. It was what he had earned with silver, with sweat,