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Chapter 162 Chen Sheng (New World)

A bright orange sun hung in the gray sky.

The sunlight filtering through the clouds looked weak and feeble, yet it strangely baked the ground with waves of heat.

There was not a trace of green on the land, only endless barren mountains, cracked riverbeds, and endless yellow sand.

The strong wind blew coarse sand and gravel, which hit the houses made of yellow mud and straw and covered with stones, making a crackling sound.

The mud walls of the house have been stripped away by wind and sand, leaving it dilapidated, and most of the thatch on the roof has been swept away.

The faint sounds of men drinking and eating meat, along with the cries of women and children, could be heard from inside.

Outside, a dozen or so corpses lay scattered on the ground, some of them clearly having had parts of their muscles cut off by a knife.

Several lizards, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, were sticking out their tongues and licking the pool of murky blood.

A corpse stared wide-eyed, its dilated pupils slowly contracting, imprinting the scene before it into its mind.

Chen Sheng's consciousness awoke from the chaos, and as he sorted through the jumbled memories churning in his mind, he quickly understood the situation regarding the fruit:
Hundreds of years ago, tens of thousands of dragon corpses fell from the sky, polluting the entire world.

Dragon blood, brimming with powerful life force, merged into the ecosystem and spread across the land via the atmospheric water cycle, spreading a bizarre disease called "Dragonization" and plunging the fruit pulp into unprecedented chaos.

The transformation into dragons caused deformed growths on people's bodies, disordered scales, bird wings, insect carapaces, sharp claws, messy horns, and long, hairy tails...

For most people, these useless limbs not only bring inconvenience to their lives, but also drive them into a morbid madness. However, a few people make rapid progress in their martial arts skills because of them.

Thus, the era of the collapse of social order and the breakdown of social norms arrived.

The feudal lords under the Zhou emperor's control were embroiled in a war that lasted for hundreds of years.

Using the knowledge inherited from the bloodline of the demon dragon, various countries built powerful war machines and established alchemy furnaces on the earth to extract power from the earth's veins, constantly attacking each other.

The chaos lasted for hundreds of years until the First Emperor of Qin, building on the achievements of six generations, swept across the six states, finally restoring peace to the world.

However, the fruit was already riddled with holes by then.

Due to the continuous extraction from the alchemy furnaces, most of the Qin Dynasty's land turned into Gobi and desert, leaving only a few million people in the country, living in tribal communities in the few places on the land where they could survive.

The Qin Dynasty's rule was even more brutal than that of the previous states. For reasons unknown, the First Emperor began to build more alchemy furnaces throughout the country, making the human living environment even worse.

Meanwhile, the nobles of the six states that were not completely wiped out remained hidden in the shadows, waiting like venomous snakes for an opportunity to restore their kingdoms...

"Qin, Yingchuan Commandery, Yangcheng native, is the isotope in this fruit also named Chen Sheng?"
He's a descendant of a fallen noble family; no wonder he knows so much about major historical events!

His dormant brain began to discharge continuously, and his heart in his chest began to beat again. Chen Sheng, who had suddenly come back to life, looked at the panel floating in front of him.

Name: Chen Sheng
【Age】：13/63
[Occupation 1]: Jambudvipa Adult Insect
Level: Lv1 (1/100)

Talent: Omitted…

The ratio of time flow between the two worlds: 1:5
[Class 2]: Martial Saint
Level: Lv10 (MAX)

Realm: None
Talents: Incredible strength, unyielding physique, powerful muscles and ribs, dragon-like qi and blood, profound insight, spiritual embryonic martial arts, ability to innovate, healing body, and efficient digestion.

Job Change Direction: Human Immortal

Carried Item: Dragon Scale

The "Martial Saint" profession was something Chen Sheng acquired in the world of the Taiping Dao Kingdom, and it was once one of the pillars of his combat power.

However, as the main body achieved the fourth level of the Dao, activated the Arhat Golden Body Mech, and began to control the Zhou Tian Star Array, its role became less significant.

This time, being brought to the new world was both for the sake of safety during the initial stage of reincarnation and for planning its further growth.

As the body gradually revived, the Martial Saint's nine innate talents began to take effect, controlling this fragile body that was both malnourished and had been dead for a long time, and absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the outside world.

The commotion of the massive gathering of spiritual energy was masked by the howling wind, and Chen Sheng's muscles, bones, blood, and organs began to transform as they were immersed in the spiritual energy.

The missing flesh on the thighs grew back, the dragon scales grew backward on the face, the ferocious bone spurs pierced the skin on the back, the fangs that revealed the lips, the sharp claws... In the midst of the dense crunching sounds, these obvious dragon-like features were gradually suppressed.

At this rate, in at most another half hour, Chen Sheng will be able to become a third-level cultivator of the Life Path with the support of his profession, possessing the physique of a Martial Saint but lacking the cultivation of Martial Saint True Qi.

"Woo——"

The sudden sound of whimpers made Chen Sheng turn his gaze to a dozen or so giant beasts crouching not far away.

These giant beasts look somewhat like wolves, but they also have many characteristics of dragons.

Hairless, armored, with antlers, its cloudy eyes are bloodshot, and the saliva that drips from its mouth can corrode small pits in the ground.

Chen Sheng recognized them; they were the largest tribe in Yangcheng, members of the Dragon Wolf Clan.

Since the spread of the Dragon Transformation Disease, the human race's reproduction has been forced into a new era because the dragons' vitality is so strong that two people working together can only produce some freaks.

That is, by deliberately combining individuals of similar appearance, a more stable bloodline inheritance is formed, and the power of the dragon is stably inherited from the bloodline.

This reproductive characteristic leads to the lower classes within this fruit often living together closely in tribal forms bound by blood ties.

The Dragon Wolf Tribe, which attacked Chen Sheng's tribe, is a typical example of this.

Through generations of breeding and purification of bloodlines, they are now able to produce an extremely powerful dragon vein soldier.

Every female wolf in their tribe gives birth to twins, one of whom becomes a powerful human-shaped warrior, and the other a dragon-wolf-shaped mount.

After reaching adulthood, the already robust humanoid warriors, riding their own brothers to fight and charge side by side, were naturally invincible.

On this land where the earth's veins are constantly being drained by alchemy furnaces, resources are scarce, and people are constantly killing each other. Only such force can ensure the survival of the tribe.

In comparison, Chen Sheng's small tribe was far inferior.

In previous years, the group was formed spontaneously by displaced people. Not only did it lack a stable bloodline, it also occupied a well with good water quality.

A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime; now, his neighbor has come to kill him at his doorstep.

At this moment, the humanoid warriors of the Dragon Wolf Clan were drinking, eating meat, and playing with women inside the house, while their brothers were assigned to guard outside.

These beasts with their keen senses, now that they've discovered Chen Sheng as a living person, will surely engage in a fierce battle.

Chen Sheng sighed, clenched his strong hands, feeling the growing power within his body, and got up from the ground, beckoning to the dragon wolves.

"Hey puppies, I just lost two pieces of flesh from my thigh. Did you eat them?"

Hey~
A short wolf howl had barely sounded when Chen Sheng vanished from the spot in a blur.

In the next instant, he nimbly flipped onto the back of the seven-foot-tall wolf, grabbed its arm, and crushed the cartilage in its throat with his five fingers, silencing its roar. The serious injury to his companion instantly enraged the dozen or so dragon wolves nearby.

They are not low-intelligence wolves; they are dragon wolves born from human wombs, essentially wolf-shaped humans with astonishingly high intelligence.

He immediately roared, calling out to his brothers in the house, and then formed a familiar encirclement formation and rushed towards Chen Sheng.

Faced with the wolf bites coming from all directions, Chen Sheng calmly pulled a knife from the saddle on the back of the dragon wolf, slid smoothly under the wolf's belly, and nimbly emerged from the other side to slit the dragon wolf's neck.

The sharp blade, transformed into a white streak, easily tore through the hard dragon scales on the dragon wolf's body, revealing the tough muscles beneath, and the blood vessels and trachea protected by the thick muscles.

Foul-smelling blood gushed from the wound, instantly claiming the life of a dragon-wolf.

The blade, reflecting the weak sunlight, plunged into the neck of a dragon-wolf, piercing its beating heart.

The blade, dripping with blood, accurately pierced the third and fourth cervical vertebrae of the next dragon-wolf, severing the nerves inside.

The long sword sliced ​​through the air with a clear, ringing sound, smoothly cutting open the unprotected abdomen of the fifth dragon wolf, disemboweling it.

As he rose from beneath the belly of the slain dragon wolf, he used his free hand to gouge out the eyeballs of a nearby dragon wolf.

Having not used the Gale Blade Technique and Hand-to-Hand Combat Manual for a long time, Chen Sheng felt a great sense of exhilaration when he used them again after many years.

With his constantly improving physical abilities as a foundation, and the combat experience from several lifetimes, this battle was simply a case of crushing an easy opponent.

The gleaming blade flashed like a blurry whirlwind, ruthlessly reaping lives; splattered blood fell to the ground, quickly absorbed by the parched earth; the mangled dragon wolves collapsed to the ground, becoming corpses with their eyes wide open in death.

However, Chen Sheng, who had the upper hand in the battle, became increasingly alarmed as the fighting progressed.

Because he could clearly sense that these dragon wolves, despite not having cultivated any martial arts or Taoist techniques, possessed martial prowess no weaker than that of a first-tier late-stage Life Dao cultivator.

To achieve this solely through bloodline—what a monstrous race!

It should be understood that even those exceptionally talented demons in the Divine Court world must cultivate step by step to gradually master powerful abilities.

These beasts, merely tainted by dragon blood, have grown up naturally and possess such power—it's utterly unheard of.

Moreover, when their blood splattered on Chen Sheng, it was extremely corrosive and tried to enter his body, causing physical transformation.

However, it was forcibly suppressed by the [Martial Saint] talent that was strengthening his body.

All signs indicate that the cultivation system of this fruit is somewhat unusual.

……

At the very moment Chen Sheng was reborn.

Inside the dilapidated mud houses of the tribe, a fierce battle was also taking place.

The leader of this dragon-wolf cavalry was a majestic dragon-wolf man who was ten feet tall, with a wolf's head and dragon horns, a muscular build, and a body covered with dense black dragon scales.

He bent down in the low thatched hut, using a wooden box as a stool, and laughed with a contented expression.

"Not bad, not bad, this woman really didn't lie to me, she is indeed a silver-tongued person."

However, I've already experienced your sharp tongue; now I want to try something new. Turn around quickly.

As he spoke, he picked up a long black spear and patted the woman's fair face with the shaft.

Kneeling in front of the wooden box was a woman in tattered clothes. She had fair skin, regular features, and a plump figure. Because she didn't have many dragon-like features, she was quite attractive.

Hearing the team leader say this, she was immediately horrified, as her gums were aching. The other person was covered in scales, and if he changed his methods, he might torture her to death.

The woman dared not agree to such a thing; she could only shake her head repeatedly, tears welling in her eyes.

The team leader laughed nonchalantly when he saw that the man was not cooperating.

"If you are unwilling, then you will only be worth food."

Men, drag this woman and her son to my hungry brother outside my house.

He must have really enjoyed those two pieces of delicate flesh.

The sound of a child crying suddenly filled the room.

The woman turned her head and saw one of the team leader's men holding up a two- or three-year-old child, as if to go out and feed him to the wolves.

The child, whose bloodline was unknown, had soft little thorns growing on his head, making him look quite cute, like a delicately carved jade.

"No, no, Your Majesty, I will do whatever you wish for."

The woman, deeply in love with her son, had no choice but to lower her head in humiliation and obediently turn away.

"Hahaha, the she-wolves in our tribe are so ugly and so fierce."

"Women from other tribes are so much better! They're beautiful, gentle, and obedient. I don't even want to go back."

After finally getting what he wanted, the team leader breathed a sigh of relief and smiled even more broadly.

“You all line up yourselves. After I’m done, I’ll let you experience what it’s like to be a woman from another tribe.”

A dozen or so werewolves, smaller than the leader, gathered around the room and laughed along.

"Let's forget about it, team leader."

Our people are covered in hard scales, and apart from the female dragon wolf in the tribe, who can withstand our torment?

She'll probably be dead by you soon, so there's no point in waiting. Let's just wait a bit and eat the tender roast meat instead.

A roaring bonfire burned inside the house, and the dragon wolves used knives to skewer meat they had cut from prey from the tribes outside, roasting it over the fire, filling the air with an enticing aroma.

They stuffed the meat into the wolf's mouth, eating with gusto and grease.

The team leader looked at their spirited demeanor and thought to himself.

"This is what warriors in a tribe should be like."

Kill the tribe's enemies, devour the bodies of the prey, possess the beautiful female beasts, indulge in your desires, and destroy everything they have.

Only in this way can they continuously strengthen their tribe and pass on their bloodline from generation to generation.

The room was filled with a joyful atmosphere, but just then, the mournful howls of the brothers suddenly came from outside.

(End of this chapter)