(Brain storage area. Dear readers, please put your belongings away and remember to come back for them.)
Dongyan Nanqing City, Rongchangfang Medical Hall.
Chen Lin forced a smile onto his face and accompanied this body's father out of the medical hall.
A month ago, he had transmigrated.
He had transmigrated from Blue Star in his previous life to a high-martial world where demonic beasts ran rampant and rifts could appear in the starry sky at any moment.
His identity had changed as well, from a high school student who had just finished the college entrance exams to a failed martial arts candidate who had been drugged during the martial examination and failed to enter a martial academy.
More tragically, as a collateral descendant of the Nanqing City Chen Clan, if he had been raised by the Lineage until eighteen yet still failed to enter a martial academy, then the fate awaiting him and his family would be a life spent repaying debts like slaves.
And if he wanted to turn around his current predicament, he only had two choices.
Either he joined one of the Four Great Powers of the Xuantian Continent and became a martial artist under its banner, or he passed the Demon Slayer Envoy assessment jointly held by the Four Great Powers a month from now and became a prestigious Demon Slayer Envoy.
Otherwise, he would absolutely get a taste of slave life—working in another world to repay debts.
"A Lin! Are you all right?" Seeing Chen Lin sink into a daze again, Chen Hongbo asked worriedly.
"Father, I'm fine. Let's go home first!" Hearing the concern in Chen Hongbo's voice, Chen Lin answered calmly.
Seeing this, Chen Hongbo did not dare say anything more, afraid that one wrong word might provoke his child again.
Hurrying a few steps forward, Chen Hongbo drove over the harnessed donkey cart.
Just then, a familiar shout suddenly came from the distance. "A Lin! A Lin!"
Chen Lin looked up and saw a figure in the distance running rapidly toward the entrance of the medical hall.
After thinking back briefly, Chen Lin found the memories related to this person.
This man was named Zhang Shan, and he had been the previous owner's childhood friend.
Though they were not blood brothers, they had grown up together and entered the martial hall to train together. Having walked this road side by side, their bond was no less than that of real brothers.
Seeing Zhang Shan drenched in sweat and looking frantic, Chen Lin smiled and teased, "Ah Shan, why are you running so fast? Don't tell me Zhang Yunxiu went to your house to propose marriage again!"
"Hello, Uncle Chen!" Zhang Shan first scratched his head and awkwardly greeted Chen Hongbo. Then he replied to Chen Lin, "Stop teasing me about that. I don't feel that way about her. A couple of days ago, I heard Uncle Chen say that your injuries would be healed and you'd leave the medical hall today, so I thought I'd hurry over and see if you needed any help."
Chen Lin felt somewhat moved upon hearing that. Then a thought struck him, and he asked, "With your strength, you've already secured a place at Nanqing Martial Academy, haven't you?"
"Yeah! The martial academy has already issued the official document. I'm just waiting to report to Nanqing Martial Academy a month from now!" Zhang Shan did not want to upset Chen Lin, but he did not know how to hide it either, so he could only tell the truth.
"Mm! Keep it up!"
Chen Lin nodded and said nothing more. He climbed into the donkey cart his father had brought over, but his attention immediately shifted to the mysterious jade book that had appeared in his mind not long ago.
The jade book seemed to have been carved from beautiful jade. It was crystalline and translucent throughout, giving off a faint blood-colored glow.
The two words "Slaughter" were engraved upon its cover, mysterious and eerie.
As his thoughts turned, the jade book in his mind opened its first page by itself, though no wind stirred it.
[Slay to Become a God] [Based on the strength of the target killed, Slaughter Points of varying amounts will be gained] [Slaughter Points can be consumed to raise the level of cultivation techniques]
"This must be the introduction to my golden finger, right?"
Seeing that the first page contained only those few lines and nothing else, Chen Lin secretly guessed.
With another turn of his thoughts, the jade book flipped another page. A portrait and rows of data appeared before Chen Lin.
"Could that bald little figure on the left be me?"
Chen Lin frowned speechlessly and stared blankly at the little figure on the left page, which looked remarkably like him. Its expression was lifelike, as though he had been shaved bald, stripped naked, and pasted onto the page.
As he continued staring, dense red dots and red lines gradually appeared across the little figure's body. Light flowed through them, flickering between brightness and darkness until it dazzled the eye.
Chen Lin did not need to think to know that the red dots and lines on the little figure represented the acupoints and meridians within his body.
After examining the little figure on the left, Chen Lin shifted his attention to the right page.
The data displayed on it was as follows:
[Host: Chen Lin] [Realm: Late Martial Disciple] [Soul: 25] [True Qi: 0] [Physical Strength: 62] [Slaughter Points: 0] [Techniques: Soul Strengthening Technique Level 1 (1/10), Basic Body Tempering Method Level 2 (12/20)] [Martial Skills: Basic Swordplay Level 3 (13/30), Basic Movement Technique Level 2 (14/20)]
After reading the information in the jade book, Chen Lin thought to himself, Judging from the jade book's description, if I want to rapidly increase my strength, I need to keep killing to obtain Slaughter Points. Then I can consume those Slaughter Points to raise the levels of my cultivation techniques and thereby improve my own strength. That way, as long as I keep slaughtering, my strength can continue rising rapidly.
At the thought of such a result, Chen Lin was incomparably delighted.
After reading this page of data, Chen Lin became curious about what was on the jade book's fourth page.
Yet no matter how he turned his thoughts, the jade book remained completely still. He could not help flipping back a page. After confirming that the jade book could indeed be turned, he came to a conclusion.
That was, he had yet to fulfill certain conditions for the fourth page, so he could not view it for now.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, one method after another for rapidly growing stronger flashed through Chen Lin's mind.
But in the end, he snuffed them out one by one.
Because to obtain Slaughter Points, he had to keep killing. Killing people was definitely unrealistic. He was not some utterly deranged, bloodthirsty madman; he truly could not slaughter innocent people for no reason.
After ruling out killing people, the only targets Chen Lin could choose from were creatures such as wild animals, ferocious beasts, and demonic beasts.
With his current condition, having only just recovered from severe injuries, going out to hunt wild animals would be barely possible. But hunting ferocious beasts or demonic beasts would probably be too much. By then, who knew who would be hunting whom!
As for a place where he could harvest Slaughter Points without leaving the city, Chen Lin thought for a while and felt that there might be one place worth trying.
"Eh!"
Zhang Shan stared ahead and suddenly kept patting Chen Lin's shoulder as he whispered, "A Lin, look, look! Isn't that woman on horseback Ding Yushi, the one who was very close to you some time ago? Why is she together with Duan Xingze? Look at them—they're chatting and laughing, acting so intimate! Did you and Ding Yushi have a falling-out?"
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