1: Sixty years of skill

Outside the county, Daxing Village.

Dilapidated houses, a dim and damp ground, and the air filled with a strange odor.

The crying of infants, the screams of women, the roars of burly men; flesh and blood flew everywhere, puddles of sludge and gore flew from one side to the other, like a rain of flesh and blood.

Chu Jiang looked up at the sky in a daze, stunned, as fragments of memory in his mind pieced themselves together bit by bit.

He had undergone Transmigration; he was hit by a large truck while crossing the road, and when he woke up, he was here.

His identity was one of the four head constables of the Demon Hunting Division in White Stone County, in charge of over thirty demon hunters.

Demons were plaguing the world, and the common people were miserable.

And he had just been killed by a demon.

The fragments of memory in his mind gradually surfaced, causing his head to swell with inexplicable pain.

It took him some time to clear his thoughts and understand why the original body had died.

By colluding with demons, the original body had not only saved his own life time and again during demon attacks but had even risen step by step, eventually becoming a famous head constable in White Stone County.

However, this head constable was an out-and-out scoundrel; he treated the common people as sacrifices for the demons, wantonly oppressed them, and committed all sorts of evil deeds.

But the original body's collusion with demons was no secret among the high-level officials of White Stone County.

This was also something they tacitly approved of.

Every time the original body led the demons to attack, once they were full and satisfied, there would be a period of peace.

It could be said that the overall peace of White Stone County was partly due to Chu Jiang's contribution.

And the price was sacrificing a small portion to protect the majority.

Everything was understood without being spoken, natural and self-evident.

The big shots in the higher echelons never explicitly told Chu Jiang to do this, and Chu Jiang never expressed it either.

The two parties reached an astonishing tacit understanding.

It was something everyone knew, but no one dared to say it directly.

Although everything seemed perfect, doing it too often would inevitably leave traces.

Some rumors would spread.

Therefore.

When the original body was needed, he could act with authority.

When the time came, his death was needed to appease the resentment of the common people.

Then a new spokesperson would be replaced.

Even knowing the final outcome, many people would fight tooth and nail to get the position and fail.

So, today happened to be that critical point.

It was time to change people.

Chu Jiang felt silent in his heart; what kind of world was this?

...

[Martial Arts Simulation Panel Activated]

System?

His heart was filled with huge waves. After checking repeatedly, he confirmed that a panel had indeed appeared in his mind, and Chu Jiang was extremely excited.

[Acquired Martial Art · Gathering Yang Skill (Minor Achievement)]

[Acquired Martial Art · Demon Suppression Blade (Minor Achievement)]

[Lifespan: Sixty-three years]

[Can consume Lifespan to accelerate Martial Art progress]

...

He took a deep breath, composed himself, and then focused his attention on the panel.

Gathering Yang Skill was a Cultivation Technique distributed by the county government to all demon hunters. Every demon hunter could Cultivate it, which could build a solid Martial Arts Foundation for the practitioner.

However, the original body was relatively lazy, and coupled with limited talent, he had only reached the second stage of the Physical Body after ten years of Cultivation.

After all, the original body relied on his relationship with the demons to get by in White Stone County, not on strength.

If he had great strength and talent, the high-level officials of the county government would not have chosen him to be this middleman.

And the Demon Suppression Blade was not simple either; it had miraculous effects when fighting demons. However, this blade technique was easy to start but very difficult to reach Major Achievement.

Chu Jiang's mood gradually calmed down. Looking at the lines of text on the panel, he thought, "Good guy, it would be more appropriate to call this a life-burning panel."

To Cultivate Martial Arts, one had to risk one's life.

Whoosh!

A hoarse voice rang out, the smell of blood approaching from far to near, and the long wind whistled.

A pot-bellied pig demon floated over, with a pig's head and a human body, its mouth covered in blood, its lower body void, only the head was solid.

Faint black Qi permeated the air, like a messenger from Hell.

It seemed a bit surprised by Chu Jiang's awakening.

"Why are you awake? According to custom, you should be lying on the ground now!" The pig demon had no expression on its face, but its eyes carried a kind of condescending mockery.

"Could it be that I was too light-handed just now?"

After saying this, the pig demon revealed a strange smile and then attacked again without hesitation. Its movements were very proficient; it was clearly not the first time it had done this.

But this time, it was obviously different.

This pig demon was going for the kill.

Watching the pig demon gradually approach, the pot-bellied pig head was soul-stirring, pressing down on Chu Jiang until he couldn't breathe.

Isn't it just life?

The panel opened again, looking at Gathering Yang Skill, a flash of ruthlessness in his eyes.

"Panel, let me see your limit!"

The urgent matter at hand was to improve his Realm; that was the only way. He was too weak right now.

The Physical Body has ten stages, divided into three major phases.

The first three stages refine Qi and blood, the middle three stages forge tendons and bones, the last three stages strengthen the five internal organs, and the tenth stage is to wash the marrow and cut the body.

Right now, he hadn't even completed the first phase; he couldn't fight demons at all.

As for Martial Skills, he would deal with them later. His life was almost gone, just brute-forcing the Cultivation Technique was enough.

The originally calm panel suddenly began to shake violently, as if an invisible force was frantically devouring his vitality.

As time passed, the Lifespan number displayed on the panel dropped at an astonishing speed, quickly deflating like a punctured balloon.

In the blink of an eye, the originally long Lifespan was already bottoming out.

[You have bitterly cultivated the Gathering Yang Skill. In the ninth year, your Qi and blood overflowed, breaking through to the fourth stage of the Physical Body, entering the phase of forging tendons and bones.]

[You continue to Cultivate, day and night. In the twenty-first year, your tendons and bones become stronger, breaking through to the fifth stage of the Physical Body.]

[In the thirty-eighth year, you break through to the sixth stage of the Physical Body.]

[In the sixty-second year, your bones are as strong as an ox, breaking through to the seventh stage of the Physical Body, entering the phase of strengthening the five internal organs.]

[Acquired Martial Art: Gathering Yang Skill (Major Achievement)]

...

Sixty-two years had passed on the panel, but surprisingly, time in reality seemed to have frozen, without any change.

The ferocious pig demon still maintained its attacking posture, and a strange smile hung on its hideous and twisted face, as if mocking the ignorance and incompetence of the world.

At this moment, Chu Jiang gripped the long blade in his hand tightly. Due to the surge in strength, he felt that this blade had already merged with him.

In the dim and deadly environment, the long blade flashed with a glimmer of light, like a ray of light in the dark night, about to split the dark Chaos.

The pig demon's eyes were stunned, and the smile on its face looked particularly exaggerated. "A mere Acquired martial artist wants to counterattack before dying? Ridiculous!"

Chu Jiang's expression was cold and stern. The blade in his hand was his best response. "This blade, sixty years of Cultivation, can you block it!"

(PS: Realm in this book: Mortal Realm — Acquired, Innate, Diamond, Grandmaster, Great Grandmaster (three stages). Transcendent Realm — Golden Core, Divine Power, Faxiang Realm, Heaven and Earth Realm, Rongtian Realm, Transformation Heaven Realm, Reaching Heaven Realm. ... Demons — Void, Ghost, Resentment, Evil, Underworld. True Demon stage — Spirit Rank, Xuan-Grade, Earth-Grade, Heaven-Grade, Demon Commander, Demon King, Demon Emperor.)

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