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The village chief's face froze. "This, this... Sirs, taxes are due this year, and in this Heavenly Desolation land, we can't even pay them!"

Ban Xu snorted coldly, turned around and looked around, but couldn't find the dog.

Finally, he looked at Su Luo, who had remained silent, and said, "Mr. Luo, here, you eat first."

After saying that, he threw the bowl and chopsticks on the ground.

Su Luo raised an eyebrow, surprised that she could eat without lifting a finger. She immediately sat down and began rolling up her sleeves.

"Holy crap, what are you all doing?! What are you doing?! Ugh!"

The village chief was shocked to see the village schoolteacher, who hadn't been in service for three years, come up and start eating his beloved little penis.

Ban Xu was also shocked, looking at him as if he were crazy.

Holy crap, you actually ate it?

Ignoring the hypocritical two, Su Luo reached into the scalding hot iron pot, ignoring her red hands, and scooped up the whole chicken. She tore off half of it with her right hand and stuffed it directly into her mouth, completely disregarding her burned mouth and esophagus, and simply stuffed the food into her stomach.

In just ten seconds, an animal weighing about one kilogram disappeared into Su Luo's hand. Not satisfied, he continued to reach into the boiling water to scoop out the ingredients.

Ban Xu then realized what was happening and reached out to stop Su Luo.

Su Luo raised her eyes and glanced at him expressionlessly.

A few seconds later, the two men lay neatly on the ground, with gashes on their heads, as if they had been hit by something hard.

The village chief has fallen into a peaceful sleep, and will most likely never wake up again.

A flash of blue light appeared on Ban Xu's body. A jade pendant on his chest suddenly exploded into countless tiny fragments. The fragments drifted in the air, turning into a wisp of blue smoke, which condensed on the top of Ban Xu's head, resembling a green hat.

He opened his eyes.

A ethereal light seeped from the blue smoke, seeping into the crack in his skull like water. The flesh at the edge of the crack began to heal, the healing speed was so fast that it was almost visible to the naked eye, and his eyes were fixed on Su Luo, who was still eating.

"Whose side are you on? Do you know who I am? I am—"

"Bang!"

Su Luo withdrew her toes, not letting Ban Xu finish his standard speech.

"It's alright, the taste is good, but this place is too poor, there's no decent food at all."

After finishing a whole pot of strange stuff, and feeling her severely burned mouth and esophagus, Su Luo's Attributes began to slowly and automatically increase.

He crouched down and began searching Ban Xu's body. The only clues he found about his identity were a pass to enter and exit the Pagoda City, and a rectangular old elm wood plaque imbued with a trace of Qi, on which was written:

[By Imperial Decree, Appointed as Village Head]

[Pagoda County Left Private Ward, Drunken Dawn Township, Futu County]

[Ban Xu of the People]

[Temporarily in charge of 100 households, collecting grain taxes, handling lawsuits, and performing official duties]

[At the end of the year, after evaluation, those deemed worthy will be appointed as village heads.]

Provisional Village Head is equivalent to a civil servant without a formal position, working as a third-party labor dispatch agent, burdened with three types of debt, and constantly covered by the five social insurances.

It's as if by simply siding with those in power, one ceases to be a nobody, as if one now possesses power. They lose sight of who they truly are.

Su Luo put away the token and continued her looting.

It's understandable, really, it's just the environment.

When I was a commoner, I endured being bullied by you officials.

Now that I'm about to become an official, I'm still being bullied by my superiors. I... I'll just have to endure it.

If I don't oppress the people, what's the point of being an official?

After looting the two men, Su Luo went into the inner room and dragged out the village chief's family members, granting them a peaceful sleep. Including the village chief and Ban Xu, there were seven people lying together neatly.

She went outside, caught the remaining three chickens, and the remaining plants in the courtyard. After processing them slightly, Su Luo ate them all and then began to try to draw spiritual energy into her body.

The starting point for Qi Refining is the entry of spiritual energy into the body, which is to pave the way for subsequent refining and absorption of Qi. It generally requires more than 12 Attributes, similar to Mana cultivation.

However, when Su Luo was a beginner, she first came into contact with Mana, so she was quite proficient in manipulating energy. She quickly improved her cultivation technique, removing those steps that required special Constitution and simplifying those steps that required the assistance of pills, and began to absorb and exhale Qi.

Its Attributes began to slowly increase out of thin air, using the life energy refined from the food within its body as a catalyst to draw upon Qi for refinement and strengthening.

Su Luo down and began learning the local language using the basic books that Ban Xu had brought.

"Understanding Characters and Words", "Gazetteer of Pagoda County", "Miscellaneous Talks of the Immortal Sect", and "Geological Travelogue".

Although the Survival System has a translator, you still need to learn the local language; you can disguise yourself slightly when you encounter Survivors.

"This era... is quite strange."

After flipping through several books, Su Luo summarized some keywords.

"Immortal Sects, various kingdoms, the struggle between immortals and demons, Leyline..."

He glimpsed only the tip of the iceberg of a vast era from just one biography.

The subject of the biography was a cultivator who started as an ordinary rogue cultivator, cultivated all the way to the Violet Palace, and finally perished in a war between immortals and demons.

The biography mentions a great deal of information about this era: Immortal Sects, warring nations, and the struggle between immortals and demons that lasted for countless years. Leyline were the foundation of cultivation, and the grade of a Leyline determined the rise and fall of a sect.

The Pagoda City, in terms of the world's overall management system, is equivalent to a town in the Steam Age.

Pagoda City belongs to the Yunmeng Kingdom.

The Yunmeng Kingdom was equivalent to one of the twenty-eight provinces of the Steam Age Empire— the Elfa Province.

The Elfa Province approximately 3.6 million square kilometers, but the Yunmeng Kingdom covers at least 20 million square kilometers.

Of course, differences in productivity and management methods, as well as the impact on the level of world development, mean that the population of the Yunmeng Kingdom may not be much larger than that of the Elfa Province, but the distance between Survivors is definitely much greater than in the Steam Age. It's no longer so crowded, and you can easily start a passionate battle just by walking a few steps.

As for the conflict between the Immortal Sects and the immortals and demons, Leyline and the like are merely terms and concepts; the Ban Xu is not qualified to possess such information.

After waiting for a little over an hour, Su Luo raised her mental Attribute to a little over 9 o'clock and began to Soul Search of the obedient children who were taking their afternoon nap.

At this point, some people might ask...

Scholar, Scholar, the village chief isn't a good person; he deserves to die. But Ban Xu didn't do anything wrong, just a little embezzlement, right? And the village chief's family didn't do anything wrong either. Why do they all have to die?

Su Luo rarely kills the old or young, but the village chief's father is not a child, and the village chief's children are not old people.

As for Ban Xu, you can't say that a pile of shit looks more human-like than a pool of runny shit just because it's a person.

Anyway, Su Luo can kill whomever she wants.