Starting as a centurion, he fought his way through the chaos of the world.

Chapter 1: Murderers Everywhere
In 1567, during the Great Yu Dynasty, in Hongdu Prefecture, Heishan County, Fenglei Town.

Just after midnight, the dark night enveloped the town.

The silence was eerily quiet.

"what!"

A piercing scream shattered the silence.

"Clap!"

The crisp sound of a whip cracked.

It's really quite creepy.

Lu Ming habitually rolled over and sat up, then lowered his eyes after realizing what was happening.

The moonlight shone in and fell on his slightly immature face.

It was filled with loneliness.

He transmigrated to a chaotic world where those in power in the imperial court levied exorbitant taxes, practiced cultivation of immortality, and were detached from worldly affairs, showing no regard for the lives of ordinary people. Local tyrants were everywhere, controlling their respective territories, and there were also bandits who plundered and looted.

I've heard that outside the imperial court, there are also demons running rampant.

The common people are like weeds.

In remote towns like Fenglei, infighting is even more severe.

Nestled against the Black Mountain, the area is frequently raided by mountain bandits.

The local tyrants were greedy and insatiable, leaving the common people starving and countless people selling their children.

Lu Ming has been here for more than ten days, but he still can't adapt to this dark and gloomy world.

He was originally a military elite trained by the state, but during a mission, he died together with a ruthless bandit while trying to save someone.

He is now the centurion of the Fenglei Town Hundred Household Office.

However, as soon as he arrived in this world, he received a cheat code: he could see through everyone's life experiences.

If you kill or subdue those wicked people or demons in this chaotic world, you can earn corresponding points, which can be exchanged for the cultivation techniques, weapons, and so on you want in the system shop.

Moreover, the higher the official rank, the greater the authority and the more items one can exchange.

"Husband, are you awake?"

If the room hadn't been quiet enough, it would have been almost impossible to hear, even from right next to me; clearly, the voice was being deliberately lowered.

The speaker was Lu Ming's wife, Li Xirou.

She was beautiful and virtuous, a true lady of high birth.

Unfortunately, she had just married the original owner of the body, but before they could consummate their marriage, Lu Ming transmigrated and took over her place.

"I'm awake, but I can't fall back asleep." Lu Ming's gaze fell out the window, and he was curious about what had just happened.

“Husband, judging from the sound, it seems to be coming from the direction of Old Man Li’s house. Aunt Sun next door said that they haven’t paid the rent they owe the Zhang family. It must be that they’ve used some underhanded tactics.” Li Xirou kept her voice very low, as if she was worried about being overheard by people outside.

Lu Ming felt a tightness on his back. He didn't know when, but a soft, warm body had already wrapped around him from behind.

It felt cool near my ears.

I inhaled the delicate fragrance.

Lu Ming did not speak.

He could feel his wife's body trembling.

After learning the whole story, he showed no intention of stepping forward.

If you're not strong enough, it's best to mind your own business. Besides, every world has its own rules, and if you want to survive, you have to abide by those rules, otherwise it's hard to survive, even though that makes him feel a bit depressed.

After a moment of silence, the room was filled with the sound of gunfire.

Li Xirou seemed to have mustered a lot of courage, and her gentle, jade-like hands became restless. "Husband, do you think we can go back? I miss my mother."

My back was already wet without me noticing.

Lu Ming moved his finger.

The Li family of Hongdu Prefecture, which is Li Xirou's maternal family, is a large and wealthy family. They make a fortune every day and are associated with high-ranking officials in the prefecture.

Half a month ago, the original owner of this body went to the prefectural city to buy an official position. When he passed by the Li family mansion, he met the eldest daughter of the Li family, Li Xirou, who threw an embroidered ball.

He caught it right in the act.

After the Li family learned that he was a centurion stationed in the countryside, they naturally refused to allow the marriage.

But to everyone's surprise, the eldest daughter of the Li family seemed to have gone mad and insisted on marrying Lu Ming.

In the end, it even led to him severing ties with his family.

Lu Ming still can't figure out what kind of incredible luck the original owner had to encounter such a thing.

"Don't worry, once we're better off, we'll have a chance to go back." Under the beauty's comforting words, Lu Ming gradually relaxed and gently reassured his wife.

Then, with a quick turn, he pressed down on her.

"woo"

The next day, Lu Ming woke up as soon as the sun rose.

He glanced at his wife, who was still fast asleep, tucked her delicate arms back under the covers, and then went out to the outer room to get dressed.

"Squeak"

He pushed open the door and went out.

It was late autumn, and a chilly air mixed with the smell of decaying leaves filled the air.

He walked into the yard with a frown.

As the garrison commander of Fenglei Town, his main responsibilities were to prevent bandits from the mountains and maintain the security of Fenglei Town.

In terms of power, it's not insignificant. While he might not be a local tyrant, he could certainly live a life free from financial worries.

But that's all in the past.

Because of the weakening of the imperial court's control over local areas, the payment of grain and salary was delayed, and the staff under its command was never full. Now there are only a dozen or so people, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled.

Therefore, the powerful families of Fenglei Town did not take this centurion seriously. The previous centurion mainly relied on his servants to make a living, and since he was also a martial artist who had entered the realm, he could still make a living and live a modest life.

But in the end, he offended some powerful figure and died in his own home.

The silver was looted, and not even the children, who were over ten years old, were spared.

Lu Ming had only been in office for less than seven days. Because of his position as centurion, the original owner of this body had spent all the money left by his parents, so naturally he didn't have any extra money to hire servants.

Now, the only valuable thing around me is this two-courtyard house where I live.

But it wasn't theirs; it belonged to the imperial court's centurion office.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Sir, something happened!"

A rapid knocking sounded, accompanied by a voice as loud as a broken gong.

If I remember correctly, this is the voice of Old Zhang from the Hundred Households Office. His name is Zhang Meng, but he is not fierce at all. He is over forty years old but looks like he is sixty. He always wears a tattered undershirt.

His ribs were clearly visible.

"My lord, last night Old Sun had Zhang's servants tie him up and beat him all night!"

"Creak!" Lu Ming opened the courtyard gate.

It really was Zhang Meng.

"Old Sun has worked in our centurion's office for over twenty years. Sir, you can't just stand by and watch her die! The Zhang family said that if they can't pay back the money, they'll sell their daughter to pay off the debt!"

He had already knelt down while speaking.

Teeth covered in wild vegetables were exposed.

It made Lu Ming's stomach churn.

"So it was Old Sun, not Old Man Li," he muttered.

"It seems Old Sun has agreed to give the girl to your son, hasn't he? You old bastard, you're the most cunning one!" Lu Ming cursed.

But he still slung his sword over his shoulder and walked towards the door.

He could ignore the others, but he had to go and check on Lao Sun, otherwise his already small number of men would be completely scattered.

Zhang Meng gave an awkward smile and then walked out the door.

As soon as I stepped out of the courtyard, I saw more than a dozen soldiers from the Hundred Households Office arrive. They didn't even have knives in their hands; they were carrying hoes and shovels. There were only two young men in their twenties among them.

The others look like they're from the grandfather's generation.

"Where is Old Sun's house? Lead the way!"

"Please, sir!" Zhang Meng called out and led the way, guiding Lu Ming toward the Sun family's house.

The town of Fenglei is traversed by a grid-shaped street.

There are also two bustling streets.

The Baihu family lived in the middle of the town, while the Sun family lived to the south.

The town has a fairly large population because it is located near the Black Mountain, which contains a large amount of iron ore. In the past, before the imperial court became completely corrupt, it attracted many people to mine, gradually forming a mining area.

At its peak, the population was in the tens of thousands.

Now, although the iron mine has been abandoned due to banditry and the inaction of the imperial court, the people have not left. Therefore, there are still more than 30,000 people in Heishan Town, which is equivalent to a low-grade county town.

Normally, it is controlled by the three major families.

They were all so fat they were dripping with oil.

The early autumn morning was still a bit chilly, but it couldn't dampen the people's enthusiasm for making money.

Walking down the street, I saw that people had already started setting up stalls on both sides.

The aroma of cooking wafted through the air.

If he hadn't been busy and short of money, Lu Ming would have really wanted to stop and have a bowl of wontons.

Who would have thought that a dignified centurion would fall to such a state?

When they arrived at the Sun family's courtyard, Old Sun had already been beaten beyond recognition.

There wasn't a single piece of flesh on his upper body.

He was only wearing a loincloth.

A young woman in her late teens knelt on the ground, hugging his legs and weeping.

A middle-aged man with a plump figure, dressed in black silk, sat in the center of the courtyard, holding two iron balls in his right hand.

His rough hands, brimming with power, suggested he was an advanced martial artist.

This is Zhang Fu, a steward in the Zhang household.

When Lu Ming first came to Fenglei Town to take up his post, the other party followed behind the Zhang family head to greet him.

He didn't even lift his eyelids when he saw Lu Ming and his group.

Besides him, there were four other men in the courtyard, all dressed in coarse black clothes with short sticks at their waists, and one of them was carrying a bloodstained whip.

Lu Ming's gaze swept over.

Name: Li San

[Cultivation Level: None, Physically Strong]

[Life Story: A native of Lijia Village, he was driven out of the village at the age of fifteen for humiliating a widow. During his wanderings, he joined the Black Wind Stronghold to rob merchants. After the stronghold was destroyed at the age of twenty, he was lucky enough to escape with his life and settled in Fenglei Town.]

At the age of twenty-one, he joined the Zhang family because they shared similar vices, becoming their henchmen. He murdered five tenant farmers and, together with others, assassinated a centurion.

[Mission: Kill Sun Tian, ​​give Lu Ming a warning, create discord between him and his subordinates, and then, like the previous centurion, deal with him discreetly.]

Overall brutality level: 100

Killing it will grant 100 Chaos Points.

(End of this chapter)