Becoming a master started with manually rubbing the control panel.

Chapter 001 Hand-crafted Year, Golden Finger Online

I crossed.

I've been in this world for sixteen years since I was born.

If I had to pick the thing I'm most proud of over the past sixteen years...

That is-

I created a system panel from scratch.

……

Happy birthday, son.

Lin Bei opened the door, the key still in the lock, and saw his parents waiting side by side in the hallway.

The food on the table smelled delicious.

A birthday cake sits in the center of the coffee table in the living room.

"She's already 16."

Lin Bei suddenly realized something.

Today is his sixteenth birthday, and also the sixteenth year since he transmigrated to this world.

In his previous life, he was a programmer.

He died suddenly at his workstation late one night.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself transformed into a newborn baby.

That's how he time-traveled.

In this life, I have both parents alive.

He is an only child, with no older or younger sisters.

There was no travel to ancient times or any strange alternate world.

Just like in my previous life, this world is technologically advanced, with the internet, food delivery, and Pornhub...

The difference is that everyone here practices martial arts.

To be fair, the start wasn't bad.

His only regret was that, as a time traveler, he didn't have any cheat codes.

When I was six years old.

Lin Bei, who had been waiting for a golden finger (a powerful cheat code) for a long time, made a major decision:

"If you don't have a cheat code, then create your own!"

In his previous life, he was an avid online novel reader and had read thousands of novels.

He knows all kinds of cheat codes like the back of his hand:

God-level cultivation techniques, special treasures, immortality, extraordinary comprehension, personal space, travel between worlds, many children and many blessings, simulators, save files, vocabulary entries, daily check-ins, transformations...

After thinking about it for three days and three nights.

Lin Bei ultimately chose the [System Panel] as his future cheat code.

There are three reasons:

1. The panel has the feature of one certificate being valid indefinitely, with a high upper limit.

2. The panel is practical and highly malleable.

3. The panel has an interface, everything is data-driven, which facilitates iterative upgrades and perfectly matches the thinking of programmers.

The project requirements are clearly defined.

Next came the design and implementation.

……

"Son, what are you daydreaming about?"

Mom urged, "Go wash your hands, eat first, we'll cut the cake later."

"oh."

Lin Bei snapped out of his daze.

He put down his backpack, washed his hands, and sat down at the dining table.

Dinner was plentiful, including stewed chicken soup, braised beef, braised pork ribs, hot and sour shredded potatoes, stir-fried bok choy with pork cracklings, and his favorite steamed grouper.

"Eat quickly, the fish won't taste good if it gets cold."

His mother put a piece of pork rib into his bowl. "Your dad knows you like fish, so he specially saved one for you today."

"Mom and Dad, thank you for your hard work."

Lin Bei picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

My mom's cooking is as good as ever. The pork ribs are rich in sauce and the meat is tender. The grouper is steamed just right, with snow-white and delicate flesh that tastes sweet and fresh...

The family of three enjoyed their dinner together in a warm and harmonious atmosphere.

But Lin Bei knew that behind this warmth, someone was silently bearing the burden.

He glanced up at his father's already gray hair and his weathered face.

My father, Lin Qiqiang, is a fishmonger.

They have to go to the dock to collect fish every day before dawn, which is very hard work.

My mother, Gao Lan, had a serious illness five years ago. After being discharged from the hospital, her health remained poor, and she had to quit her job.

The burden of supporting the family fell entirely on my father's shoulders.

Lin Bei withdrew his gaze and, while eating, his thoughts unconsciously drifted to the secret project deep within his mind.

It's been ten years.

From the moment he decided to create the "Golden Finger" project, it became the center of his life.

Aside from eating and sleeping, he devoted almost all his time to it.

This is a world of high martial arts.

Ordinary people can become martial artists by cultivating their qi and blood within their bodies.

He studied it carefully.

Although the Qi and Blood are miraculous, they can enable martial artists to lift hundreds of tons of weight, break the sound barrier, and even withstand nuclear bombs with their bare hands.

However, this level of power is not enough for him to create a cheat code.

He needs a higher level of power.

then.

He turned his attention to [mental power].

In addition to cultivating their qi and blood, martial artists also cultivate their mental strength.

By practicing special meditation techniques, one can condense tangible spiritual power in the mind.

This kind of substantial spiritual power is extremely mysterious.

It can be used to sense the outside world, manipulate objects, and even change the surrounding environment in an instant...

This is a power that transcends reality.

What he needs is precisely this mysterious and powerful force that can transcend the rules of physics!

Perhaps it's because of time travel.

His mental strength is naturally stronger than that of his peers.

While other children were playing in the mud in kindergarten, he had already condensed a sliver of tangible spiritual power by relying on a meditation mantra he found online.

By the time he was nine years old, the substantial mental power in his mind had become quite considerable.

That was in that year.

Lin Bei completed the initial design of his cheat system: using mental energy as code, he would encode and construct his own [System Panel] in his mind.

The hardware is readily available.

The brain is like his CPU and memory, while the rest of the body is like peripherals.

The hardware infrastructure is in place.

The next step is to create a working underlying system in your mind.

And that is precisely the most difficult part.

Starting at the age of nine, Lin Bei continuously constructed a "mental circuit" in his mind, attempting to build the most primitive underlying system.

This process is particularly difficult.

He often fainted due to exhaustion, only to wake up in a hospital...

It took two and a half years.

He successfully took the first step.

In his mind, a mental network consisting of 28,000 mental circuits suddenly took shape, capable of performing some of the simplest operations.

But how to encode with mental power has become a new challenge.

When I was thirteen years old.

He overcame the difficulties, solved the problem of mental energy encoding, and "typed" the first line of mental energy code in his mind—

Hello World!

He was so excited about it that he didn't sleep for two days, even though the code crashed after only ten seconds.

The fifteenth year.

He wrote the first functional module—full-body scan.

Although he could only measure the most basic data, such as heart rate and blood pressure, he knew he was not far from success.

Until three days ago.

The UI of the panel is finally taking shape.

Ten years of sharpening a sword.

Lin Bei had been waiting for this day for far too long.

……

After the meal.

The family gathered around the coffee table to cut the cake.

When the candle is blown out.

Lin Bei silently made a wish: he hoped that he could successfully complete the first test tonight.

"Mom and Dad, I'm going back to my room to cultivate."

"Okay, get some rest early, don't overwork yourself."

"understood."

Lin Bei responded and returned to his room.

The room was small and simply furnished.

A bed, a desk, and a wardrobe.

Lin Bei sat cross-legged on the floor, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes.

now.

Deep in his mind.

136,523 spiritual pathways.

Following his meticulously designed logical path, they are closely connected, forming a vast mental network...

These are not mere figments of imagination, but real entities, much like sophisticated circuitry.

Lin Bei quietly admired his work.

This is not just a mental network, but a super system that operates at the core of his mind and is capable of sensing, collecting, and processing his own information.

"Start self-test program".

His mind stirred slightly.

hum-

The mental network was activated instantly.

The dense network of mental pathways twinkled like stars...

Initialization complete

[Basic Module Activation]

The core logic unit is operating normally.

There was no sound, no image.

Only streams of information, like a waterfall of data, appeared in Lin Bei's mind.

This is the system's underlying log output.

He could clearly sense that everything was operating and executing according to the set logic.

"Running normally."

With a firm resolve, Lin Bei immediately issued his first command:

"Scan your own status."

The mental network was fine-tuned instantly.

His mental energy transformed into countless invisible probes, which began scanning his body along his brain.

[Full body scan in progress]

[Scan complete]

[Generate a report?]

"yes!"

Lin Bei took a deep breath.

The cheat system I've been developing for ten years is finally going live.