What use is this lump of meat? Cut!

Adam Smith looked at the black videotape dumped on the floor with a confused expression. He didn't remember when such an old-fashioned videotape had appeared in his briefcase.

He picked up the videotape and examined it front and back, but there were no markings on the surface.

With a hint of curiosity, Adam found a rarely used VCR from the clutter in his attic. His life had become dull, and he felt like a slave driven by a whip every day, finding no novelty or surprise.

He connected it to the TV, inserted the tape, and the screen filled with static.

Whether it was an illusion or not, Adam felt a gaze from the screen looking at him before the picture started to appear.

In the picture was an Asian woman, dressed in a red dress, with her hair down to her waist. She looked charming, yet her every move was unrestrained, heroic, and full of spirit.

She wore a gourd flask at her waist and would occasionally lift it to drink, letting the wine spill without appearing dissolute, only exuding a natural, free-spirited aura.

If it were just these scenes, Adam Smith would have been merely surprised and then turned off the TV. Having grown up with American culture, he couldn't grasp the essence of Eastern culture.

But the next scenes left him stunned, unable to look away.

The woman in red in the picture leaped onto a tree over ten meters high, and with a flicker of her body, she left a trail of red afterimages above the forest canopy.

Then, she sprang from the bottom of a cliff, touching the cliff face with her toes only twice before soaring up a cliff face taller than the Empire State Building.

This was just astonishing speed. Later, the woman in red smashed a large stone over ten meters high with her slender palm, yet her hand remained unharmed.

In battles with enemies, she drew a slender long sword and with a few light strokes, cut her opponents' weapons and even their bodies into shattered pieces.

These enemies were no ordinary people; each could cleave a horse in half with a single sword strike. The strongest enemy could even unleash a laser-like "sword energy" that easily sliced through a building.

Yet, even such powerful enemies lasted only a few seconds in the woman in red's hands.

The final scene was even more outrageous. The woman in red walked on the sea alone, charging towards the Dutch invincible fleet. Her sword danced, shattering the dense cannonballs raining from the sky with her sword light. In just a moment, she reached the warships.

What followed was a one-sided slaughter. The woman in red's sword was like a swift swallow. The bodies of Dutch soldiers, their steel sabers, the sturdy decks, the thick masts, and even the metal cannon barrels were like foam. Anything touched by her sword light shattered.

Finally, after annihilating the entire Dutch fleet, the woman in red stood on the flagship's mast, took down her gourd flask, and drank.

The flagship beneath her was in ruins, littered with corpses, and slowly sinking into the sea.

At the end of the sea was the sunset glow.

The evening clouds surged, imprinting eight Chinese characters in the sky.

"Sunrise in the East, I am Invincible!"

This was a scene adapted by Lin Hao and recorded onto the videotape by Sadako using her superpowers.

The only real character in the entire sequence was Sadako, playing Invincible East. All others were illusions created by superpowers. There was no such person as Linghu Chong. The simple and brutal plot was solely to showcase Invincible East's power.

Furthermore, Lin Hao adapted Invincible East to use a long sword instead of embroidery needles, naturally to promote the Evil-Warding Sword Manual. Otherwise, Americans unfamiliar with Eastern martial arts culture wouldn't understand why Invincible East, using embroidery needles, would be more powerful than enemies wielding swords.

To put it bluntly, this was a promotional video for the Evil-Warding Sword Manual.

If the power of the swordplay wasn't presented directly and powerfully, how could American men be persuaded to make the cut?

After watching this short footage, Adam Smith was shocked by the power of the woman in red but wasn't deeply moved. After all, it was just a videotape, perhaps a movie filmed in a country across the ocean.

Unexpectedly, at the end of the scene, after finishing her drink, the woman in red turned and stared directly at Adam Smith in front of the TV.

The next moment, something happened that almost scared Adam Smith to death.

The woman in red leaped forward, flying towards the camera, then piercing through the TV screen and appearing alive and well before Adam Smith.

Adam Smith, dumbfounded, rolled his eyes and fainted from fright.

"His mental fortitude is lacking!" Lin Hao, who was borrowing Sadako's spiritual body, shook his head.

The contract with the Little Devil allowed Lin Hao to freely control every soul that had signed a contract, enabling him to alter memories, borrow perspectives, and even remotely control them with his own consciousness.

All souls that signed a contract with a demon had sold their souls to the demon.

At this moment, Lin Hao wasn't fully occupying Sadako's spiritual body; he was only occupying half of it.

"This time, I'll demonstrate it for you. You'll follow suit from now on."

First, use Sadako's superpowers to drag the target's consciousness into an illusion, and show him the Evil-Warding Sword Manual...

When Adam Smith regained consciousness, he found himself in a space enveloped by black and white static. In this monochrome world, only Sadako, dressed in red, was striking.

"You... you're that person from the movie!" Adam Smith recognized her, terrified. "What... what is this place?"

"Do you want power?" Lin Hao, using Sadako's spiritual body, spoke in a voice that was neither male nor female.

"Power?"

Adam Smith had read fantasy comics and watched movies as a child, where similar plots often appeared. Thus, he quickly realized that he, like those protagonists, had encountered a fortuitous encounter.

"Of course, I want power!"

His life was already so miserable that Adam Smith desperately wanted to change, even if it meant selling his soul to the devil.

"Very well, I can grant you power as great as mine." Lin Hao coached Sadako on the lines she should say in the future.

"Really?" Adam Smith, having just seen the movie scenes, was overjoyed.

Invincible East's power in the movie was almost superhuman. Even though current technology was far more advanced than during the era of the Dutch invincible fleet, if he possessed that power, he would still become a superhuman.

He would be more powerful than Captain America in history. At least Captain America couldn't leap onto the Empire State Building in a few steps, nor could he unleash laser-like sword energy that sliced through a building.

"Yes, but this power comes with a price." Lin Hao controlled Sadako to reveal a smile.

"It's fine, I'll pay anything!" Adam Smith couldn't wait.

He already had nothing.

"My power comes from a magical Eastern martial arts secret manual called the Evil-Warding Sword Manual..."

"To practice this technique, one must first castrate oneself."

Lin Hao smiled gently, "Actually, I used to be a man, but to master this sword technique, I cut off the parts down there..."

Adam Smith froze on the spot.

Cut, or not cut, that was the question?

His wife was openly messing around with other men, she hadn't let him touch her in ages, his income was meager, and he didn't even have money to go to a bar for some fun.

What was the use of this piece of flesh?

"Cut! I'll cut!"

Adam Smith gritted his teeth, letting out a piercing roar, "Without power, I'll soon have nothing. I need power!"

"Then take it!"

Lin Hao directly used Sadako's superpower to engrave the moves and circulation routes of the Evil-Warding Sword Manual into Adam Smith's memory.

Then, he raised a sharp blade over Adam Smith, who lay on the floor with his eyes closed.

"Wait, is it just the eggs, or the whole sausage too?"

Lin Hao was troubled, after all, he had no experience!

"Forget it, better safe than sorry, let's cut it all off."

With a swift motion, he severed Adam Smith's troublesome root.

After it was done, Sadako's other spiritual body, which she controlled, reached out and used her healing ability to mend Adam's wound.

"Not bad, my Sadako is also a doctor!" Lin Hao was quite surprised.

There was a version of Sadako that split into a benevolent side that also mastered healing superpowers; he hadn't expected his version to have it too.

After the wound healed, Lin Hao stepped forward to complete the final step.

"Remember, there is no Inner Force in this world originally, so every new cultivator must have someone with existing Inner Force plant the seed of Inner Force within them. You cannot find the sensation of Ki through meditation."

"From now on, you'll have to personally transfer the Inner Force I've stored in your body into the target's body. As for how they pass it on later, you don't need to worry about that."

Lin Hao eagerly wanted the Evil-Warding Sword Manual to spread rapidly among American men, preferably if all American men would give themselves a cut.

After all, they wouldn't be able to obtain other Inner Force cultivation methods. Even if they gained a little bit of Inner Force, it would quickly dissipate without replenishment.

Lin Hao was very attentive to Adam Smith, the first test subject, for fear he wouldn't understand the method of circulating energy. After implanting the Inner Force seed into his body, he also guided him hand-in-hand to unblock the meridians required to cultivate the Evil-Warding Sword Manual. He only stopped after completing one cycle.

After he finished, a sliver of white light appeared in the sky.

"Did you learn it?" Lin Hao instructed Sadako, "This is what you'll do from now on. Strive to make the Evil-Warding Sword Manual popular throughout America as soon as possible."

After speaking, Lin Hao withdrew his consciousness. Sadako, dressed in red, tilted her head and thought for a moment before drilling back into the television.

A moment later, the black videotape inside the VCR vanished into thin air and reappeared in a dilapidated apartment in Atlanta.

An hour later, as the morning light grew stronger, Adam Smith opened his eyes.

At this moment, he clearly felt a magical energy surging within his body, and his mind was filled with new memories.

This confirmed to him that everything that had happened was not a dream.

A cool sensation spread from his lower body, and a bloody piece of flesh lay beside his hand.

He was silent for a moment, gazing at the flesh that had fallen from his body, mourning his lost youth.

Soon, he composed himself, sat down cross-legged, and circulated the energy within his body according to the techniques in his memory.

After completing one cycle, Adam felt a bit stronger.

He immediately grabbed a short iron rod from his study and began practicing the sword techniques according to the moves he remembered.

With the added Inner Force, the short iron rod moved so fast it pierced the air. The iron rod flew, creating a gust of wind in the study.

"It's not very handy, I guess I need to find a long sword."

After practicing the sword technique once, Adam Smith's spirit and demeanor underwent a drastic change. His gaze became sharp, his eyes sinister, and his demeanor gained a feminine touch.

"Bastard, what time is it?" a shrewish roar came from downstairs, "Aren't you going to work? Do you want to be unemployed and bankrupt?"

Adam Smith immediately revealed a cruel smile.

He turned to look at the piece of flesh on the floor and muttered to himself, "Didn't you love it so much before? Then let it be one with you forever..."

Asking weakly for a few monthly tickets, recommendation tickets, and some collections and follow-ups, okay?