Chen Xian rubbed his forehead and opened his eyes.
A dense, heavy blood aura floated before him, impossible for the wind to disperse.
His gaze was slightly vacant.
He clearly remembered forcing himself to chug an entire bottle of baijiu at the dinner table to land a major client and scrape together the 380,000 yuan bride price.
In the end, he signed the deal—and got drunk as a skunk.
But before his eyes...
Chen Xian felt as though every bone and tendon in his body were about to fall apart. Soon, a flood of memories that did not belong to him surged into his mind...
Great Ning Dynasty... Demon-Slaying Pass... cook... clearing the battlefield...
Chen Xian was completely dumbfounded!
He had actually transmigrated!
Even more absurdly, this was a world where demons ran rampant and human lives were as cheap as grass.
Chen Xian could not help feeling speechless.
In his previous life, he had lived worse than a pig or dog for a house, a car, a wife, competition with relatives and friends, and all that other nonsense.
Who would have thought that even after fucking transmigrating, every step would still be fraught with hardship?
Having recognized reality and understood that he could not return,
Chen Xian let out a miserable sigh in his heart.
"Crunch, crunch..."
As he was thinking, chewing suddenly sounded by his ear, like a dog gnawing on bones.
Chen Xian subconsciously raised his head and took a look.
He saw a thing covered in blood and blackish-gray fur, broad-backed and brawny, squatting with its back to him as it gnawed on a human thigh.
Bodies littered the ground around it—humans and Demonic Beasts alike... Were those wolf demons?
When he clearly saw the savage head on one of the Demonic Beast corpses,
In that instant,
Chen Xian's scalp went numb, and his pupils shrank to pinpoints.
"Mm!"
Just as he nearly cried out,
A bloody hand clamped over his mouth.
Chen Xian froze!
Turning his head, he saw that someone beside him was still alive. The man lay on the ground, repeatedly signaling at him with his eyes.
He meant for Chen Xian to stay silent and play dead!
Chen Xian understood instantly. He immediately lay still and closed his eyes.
As though it had heard movement behind it, the wolf demon turned to glance over, puzzlement flickering through its scarlet eyes.
It slowly rose upright. Its thick tail swayed once, and sticky saliva mixed with blood dripped from its sharp teeth through the corner of its slightly parted mouth.
It looked around. Aside from the wind, there was not the slightest movement.
The wolf demon hesitated for a moment before squatting back down to enjoy its dinner.
Listening to that piercing chewing, Chen Xian felt ten thousand grass-mud horses stampeding through his mind.
This really was a hell-level opening!
After carefully recalling the memories, he finally understood what had happened.
The original owner had been a junior cook in the Ninth Battalion under the Ninth Demon Suppression Army stationed in front of Demon-Slaying Pass.
Cooks generally did not go to the battlefield. Their main duty was preparing meals, though when manpower was short, they also cleared battlefields on the side.
The Ninth Battalion was close to Wumeng Mountain.
Today, demons had launched a surprise attack on the Ninth Battalion, and the entire army had prepared for battle.
The cooks had been tasked with clearing the battlefield and transporting the wolf demon corpses back as food.
So Ding Chen, the head cook, had brought everyone to Wumeng Mountain to haul away the wolf demon corpses.
But one wolf demon had not been fully dead. It sprang up from the ground.
The thirteen cooks had been completely unprepared and had no power to resist. Within moments, they were slaughtered by the wounded wolf demon.
The original owner had been the first to die.
The one who had covered his mouth earlier was Ding Chen, the head cook.
After figuring it out, Chen Xian groaned bitterly in his heart. He could only pray that the wolf demon would hurry up and eat. Once it was full, it would not be able to eat him.
Just as he thought that, rows of pale blue words appeared before his eyes:
Experience: None Martial Arts: The Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique (Entry-Level), Demon-Slaying Blade Technique (Minor Accomplishment), Great Tablet Smashing Hand (Entry-Level) Realm: Body Refinement Entry-Level
According to the memories, the three martial arts had been issued by the imperial court when he enlisted. At first, the original owner had not come to Demon-Slaying Pass. He had trained for three years in a county military camp, and only after achieving modest success had he been assigned to Demon-Slaying Pass.
Originally, he had wanted to earn merit and establish himself, then return home to marry a wife.
Instead, his strength had been too weak, and he had been assigned to the Cooks' Camp as a lowly cook.
"The imperial court hands out wives?"
Chen Xian was somewhat stunned. In the original owner's memories, the emperor of the Great Ning Dynasty had issued a decree: if they won this battle, unmarried men in the Demon Suppression Army would be assigned wives according to their merits.
The more military merit they earned, the more wives they would receive.
They could even marry the most beautiful princess of the current dynasty.
Of course, wives were not the only reward. There were many others as well.
There was actually such a good thing?
Chen Xian's heart brightened, and the trace of gloom and fear within him was involuntarily swept away.
Though it was clearly the emperor's method of encouragement, meant to make the Demon Suppression Army fight demons with all their might, a ruler's word could not be spoken in jest.
Otherwise, who would willingly sell their life for an emperor in the future?
For an old man who had been single for thirty years in his past life and had never tasted meat, he suddenly found the desire to keep living.
What nonsense about no women in one's heart making the drawn blade naturally divine?
With women, he would have the strength to train with a blade.
I want women!
So I can't die here!
Chen Xian's heart stirred slightly, and his gaze drifted downward.
Slay demons and eliminate evil: sacrifice the opponent's soul to obtain Experience Points, which can be used to deduce and enhance martial arts. You may also sacrifice your own lifespan to enhance martial arts. Your remaining lifespan: seventy years.
Use his own lifespan to deduce and enhance martial arts? Was he crazy?
Chen Xian immediately rejected the thought. He still had seventy years to live—wouldn't it be wonderful to hold one woman on the left and another on the right?
"Crunch, crunch..."
The piercing chewing jolted Chen Xian awake.
What women? What left arm and right arm? First, he had to stay alive!
If the wolf demon did not leave, he would croak here tonight.
No matter how much lifespan he had left, it would be useless.
As he thought this, Chen Xian could not help growing tense.
He squinted and saw the wolf demon rise. While eating a bloody arm, it dragged corpses along.
They were all the dead cooks.
It arranged them one by one in neat rows.
"...!!"
Chen Xian was instantly dumbfounded!
It could not finish eating, so it wanted to pack them up and take them away!?
He opened one eye and looked toward Ding Chen, the head cook beside him, only to freeze.
Ding Chen had been only half a meter away moments ago. How had he ended up three meters away after Chen Xian closed his eyes for a while?
This guy was slowly moving?
Chen Xian understood at once.
But the distance the head cook had crawled was not even worth one step to the wolf demon.
It seemed he could not count on the head cook if he wanted to live. He had to rely on himself.
But with his current meager strength at Body Refinement Entry-Level, killing the wolf demon before him was simply impossible!
Sacrifice his own lifespan?
The moment the thought arose, Chen Xian's heart ached terribly.
When he saw the wolf demon walking toward him, Chen Xian became tense and frantic in an instant.
There were three martial arts.
The Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique was a cultivation method.
The Demon-Slaying Blade Technique and Great Tablet Smashing Hand were martial techniques.
After a brief moment of thought, Chen Xian called out in his heart, heartbroken, "The Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique, sacrifice one year!"
You have sacrificed one year of lifespan to enhance The Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique: Body Refinement Entry-Level.
"???"
Chen Xian froze. He had already been at Body Refinement Entry-Level. He had sacrificed a year of lifespan to enhance his martial art, yet he was still at Body Refinement Entry-Level?
Just then, he noticed changes in his body. He felt warm all over, and it seemed that he had gained a little strength.
That was it?
Huff!
Hearing the wolf demon's heavy breathing draw closer, Chen Xian grew anxious.
"Quick! The body refinement technique—ten years!"
You have sacrificed ten years of lifespan to enhance The Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique: Body Refinement Minor Accomplishment.
"Only Minor Accomplishment?"
Chen Xian was speechless. Right afterward, his body began to change.
"Not enough! The body refinement technique—sacrifice another ten years!"
You have sacrificed ten years of lifespan to enhance The Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique: Body Refinement Approaching Great Accomplishment.
"...!!"
Chen Xian went blank, cursing inwardly:
How fucking useless am I? Twenty years and I still haven't reached Great Accomplishment in Body Refinement, yet I dare dream about women?
"What a damn piece of trash... Body refinement technique, sacrifice thirty more years for me!"
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