[You have grasped the spirit skill: Dual Wielding!]

[Dual Wielding has been assigned to an unoccupied spiritual acupoint.]

Moon felt the change before he finished reading the notification. A foundation was being set in his eighth acupoint, one of the empty ones, and it happened instantly. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

It was as if the skill was a key being slotted into a lock that had been waiting for it.

Knowledge of dual wielding flooded his mind. Whether it was stances, transitions, timing, or the independent coordination of two weapons.

Moon read the notification fully.

The phrase ’spirit skill’ caught his attention immediately.

It was not a normal skill. A spirit skill. He had no idea what that meant or what it entailed. This was the first time he had gained a skill from killing a spirit, or any creature for the matter. Every other skill he possessed had been copied, comprehended through training, earned as a reward or merged from existing ones.

Moon waited for more notifications in hopes of getting some more clarification. But none came.

Dozens of questions sat unanswered in his mind. Moon could only rely on himself to figure it out.

So, he pulled up his status screen.

[ Name: Moon ]

[ Race: Human ]

[ Class: Classless ]

[ Level: 37 ] [80%]

[ Lives: 222,181 ]

[Super Lives: 0]

[ Strength: 156 ] [ Agility: 216 ] [ Constitution: 178 ] [ Mana: 258 ] (+20 to all stats)

[ Attribute Points: 10 ]

[ Skills: Elemental Attack, True Elemental Physique, Tenacity, Golden Skin, Ignite, Runemaster, Eye of Truth, Thunderclap Raiju, Calmness, Beastmaster, Minor Mend, Cleanse, Stone Clasp, Heaviness, Air Step, Bird Dance, Bullseye, Feint, Rune Enhancement, Weaponmaster, Curse, Mark of Omen, Battle Instinct ]

[ Talent: Grim Reaper ]

[ Class Skills: Class Slot {0/1}, Life Burn ]

[ Beast Souls: Fire and Nature ]

Moon read through the skill list twice, then a third time to make sure he wasn’t missing anything. Yet despite that, Dual Wielding simply wasn’t there.

"What is going on." Moon muttered under his breath, unable to hide his confusion.

He closed the status screen since it offered him no useful information. His next attempt at understanding was to activate the skill directly. He flared his mana and reached for Dual Wielding the same way he would activate any other ability.

By spending his mana to activate the skill, then using spiritual energy to amplify its prowess. Nothing happened. The skill didn’t respond to his call.

"Something is wrong. This spirit skill is completely different from normal skills."

Had he not seen the notification with his own eyes, had he not felt the knowledge integrate into his body and settle into his eighth acupoint, he would have thought he was hallucinating.

Moon summoned two swords from his storage ring. First Order blades he kept for emergencies. He held one in each hand and began to move.

His stances flowed naturally. His arms moved independently, each blade tracing its own path without conflicting with the other. His footwork adjusted automatically to account for the wider attack range. The transitions between offensive and defensive positions with both weapons felt graceful, fluid, better than anything he had ever managed before.

But that was it.

There was no damage bonus. No percentage increase. No special effect or activation trigger. The skill gave him the knowledge of how to wield two weapons effectively, and nothing more.

Moon couldn’t accept that. A skill gained by activating his title from killing a Three Star pavilion spirit couldn’t be purely knowledge-based with no other function.

"There must be something I’m missing."

Unfortunately, Moon couldn’t even activate his legendary skill — Eye of Truth to understand more about the skill. It wasn’t tangible, but more of an abstract. He could only rely on his own experience and intelligence to figure it out.

He closed his eyes and turned his focus inward. His eighth acupoint sat deep inside his body, the Dual Wielding spirit skill resting within it. Upon further inspection, Moon realised that he had made a mistake in thinking that the skill was like his others.

Unlike his other acupoints, this one hadn’t been woven by his own hand, and what made it more unique was the fact that the skill didn’t seem to take charge over the acupoint like his other skills did.

It was more of a visitor that harmonized with his spiritual energy, living with it in peace.

Moon studied it carefully. Then an idea crossed his mind. So bizarre that his first instinct was to dismiss it entirely.

"What if..."

Moon didn’t waste time. He abandoned the idea of using mana entirely and turned his focus inward, toward the acupoint and the skill sitting within it.

"Spirits are known for their immense spiritual energy. That’s what they use to fight humans on stronger grounds. Their spiritual energy and intelligence is what makes them feared."

He focused deeper on the spiritual energy flowing through his eighth acupoint.

"Since the skill I received is from a spirit, then it’s only logical that..."

Suddenly, a surge of power rushed through Moon’s body, moving through his spiritual pathways, flowing outward into his arms, his hands, his fingers wrapped around the twin blades.

It felt as if the swords were an extension of his own limbs. His body felt lighter, faster, sharper. The knowledge that had been sitting dormant in his mind activated fully.

"The skill can only be used by spending spiritual energy." Moon grinned.

That was why it didn’t appear on his status screen alongside his other skills. That was why it couldn’t be activated through mana. It existed in a completely separate system. A spirit skill. A skill that ran purely on spiritual energy, independent of mana entirely.

Two separate fuel sources. Two separate skill systems. Operating in the same body simultaneously.

"So that’s what a spirit skill is." Moon muttered, feeling the power coursing through him. "A skill that runs purely on spiritual energy."

The power increase was significant. Moon tested a few swings with both blades, each one cutting the air with a speed and power that far exceeded what the knowledge alone had provided. If he had to quantify the output, it was comparable to an Epic skill in full use.