From the beginning of this turbid world, the Taoist priest descended the mountain.

In the first year of the new nation's founding, President Zhaowen announced the establishment of the Great New Republic of China in Nanjing. Customs and traditions were reformed nationwide; men cut off their queues and women unbound their feet.

The Daxu dynasty, established by the barbarian tribes outside the Great Wall, became the previous dynasty.

……

In the thirteenth year of the new dynasty, just after the summer solstice.

Hanyang Province, with Qingshi Town under the jurisdiction of Echeng.

To the east of Qingshi Town is a dilapidated mortuary, which the townspeople rarely visit when they have nothing else to do.

The night breeze gently lifted the two yellow talismans pasted on the gate of the mortuary. The talismans were covered with chicken blood mixed with cinnabar, and the strokes were like dragons and snakes, drawing talismans to ward off evil.

However, due to daily exposure to wind and sun, some areas have already lost their original color and become blurred.

The southeast wing room had its doors and windows covered with paper, and only a faint candlelight could be seen. It was swallowed up by the long night within a few meters.

Electric lights from foreigners were introduced as early as the previous dynasty.

But in this small town, ordinary people don't have much money in their pockets. They are struggling to make ends meet with candles or kerosene lamps, let alone have the money to install large lights.

Inside the side room, on an old wooden-framed bed.

Lin Ye woke up rubbing his head.

Looking around, there were slightly drafty doors and windows, old ornaments that looked like they'd been there for years, and an unlit oil lamp on the table.

The blanket covering me didn't even have a cover; it felt very rough to the touch, and looked like it was made of homespun cloth. Even the stitches were messy, unlike anything made with modern materials.

Not to mention the white short-sleeved shirt with centipede buttons and the coarse cloth trousers she wore.

Just then, a headache struck.

Images that didn't belong to me kept appearing in my mind.

He time-traveled, and even traveled to a place similar to the Republic of China era in his previous life.

He is now Lin Ye, the second disciple of Lin Zheng, a Taoist priest in Qingshan Town.

By the dim light of the candle beside the bed, he glanced at his outstretched hands. His ten fingers were long and strong, and there were faint calluses on his palms.

Clearly, the original owner was not someone who lived a life of luxury.

Just then, a cold wind blew in through the window cracks.

Even at night, there shouldn't be such a cold wind in the middle of summer.

The wind carried a chill, and when it blew on Lin Ye for a moment, he felt a sudden coldness.

Not only that, but a sharp pain shot through my chest. Even a soft, whimpering sound began to reach my ears.

"Fang Can... Fang Can... Fang Can..."

The source of that sound was in my own chest!

Lin Ye unbuttoned his clothes and saw a dark red wart on his right chest.

The thing was only about the size of two fingernails, and it clung to my chest like a strangely shaped, ferocious spider.

It had a face exactly like its own!

And the sound comes from inside it.

At this very moment, this thing was actually wriggling inside the flesh of Lin Ye's chest, moving like a maggot toward the left side of his heart.

If that thing really gets inside, even a god couldn't save it.

We have to get it out of here.

Lin Ye saw a copper-handled dagger on the wooden table in front of the bed. This was an item that the original owner had carried with him since childhood, which he used when he fled from the south to this place.

He jumped off the bed, grabbed a dagger from the table, and drew it from its sheath.

A glint of cold light flashed between his brows.

He held the blade up to the burning flames and heated it over and over again.

Medical care was not advanced enough in this era, so thorough disinfection was impossible, and there was no time for it either.

Without saying a word, he bit down on a corner of the blanket.

He held the knife tip to his chest. Enduring the excruciating pain, he slowly plunged it in.

"Ugh—"

Lin Ye let out a muffled groan, his wrist, gripping the knife hilt, bulging with veins. He now had to rip that thing out of his chest.

(Having just arrived in this mortal world and acquired a new body, you discover that this body has been cursed with the [Teng Technique].)

(As a visitor to the mortal world, you displayed astonishing decisiveness, using a dagger imbued with the "Golden Fire Qi" to suppress the human-faced sores on your body. You absorbed this trace of Golden Fire power. Health +1)

Two texts suddenly appeared in front of Lin Ye, like a text adventure game he had played before his time travel.

As the text appeared, the excruciating pain in his chest subsided, though the wound from the dagger was still bleeding.

But the human-faced sore had stopped moving and remained quietly on the forestry worker's chest.

It seems that the so-called "golden fire" power contained in his dagger helped him suppress this thing, and also awakened the so-called "golden finger".

But when Lin Ye looked at the dagger in his hand, he found that the blade was rusted and even the copper handle was stained black.

Then, with a "snap," it broke right in front of me.

(The human-faced sore is a "tainted evil creature" created by the Teng technique of the "True Lord of Evil Spirits of the South Seas." It is said to be caused by vengeful spirits possessing the body with yin energy, bringing bad luck and death, and it has now been deliberately stirred up by someone.)

Lin Ye gasped as he looked at the broken dagger lying on the ground.

This thing called the "Human-Faced Sore" is truly terrifying. The golden fire energy on the dagger suppressed it just now, but without that golden fire energy, the dagger was quickly corroded and melted after touching the Human-Faced Sore.

This is something that even science cannot explain.

Just then, a panel appeared in front of the forestry department.

[Yearly Ruler: Forestry]

[Qi and Blood: 2]

[Strength: 1]

[Agility: 1]

[Divine Consciousness: 0]

[Ordination: Not yet available]

It's a simple four-dimensional panel that shows Qi and Blood, Strength, Agility, and Spirit.

It seems that my cheat system not only has a textual description with a strange worldview, but also a skill point allocation panel.

That makes things easier.

As long as you have the magic touch, you'll never have trouble finding a way to suppress facial sores.

As the facial sores were suppressed and his body gradually stopped feeling cold, Lin Ye's mind gradually integrated the original owner's memories.

His original name was Fang Can.

The original owner seems to be from the south. Because his father participated in the Constitutional Protection Movement in the early days of the new country and died in battle in the north, he fled to Qingshi Town to avoid disaster.

After being picked up by his master Lin Zheng, who was traveling around, he changed his name to Lin Ye in order to prevent his former enemies from finding him.

But unexpectedly, more than ten years later, his enemies still came looking for him.

The person didn't even show their face; they simply activated a spell, and the human-faced sore came back to life, nearly killing itself.

This situation is rather precarious. I possess a strange and deadly "tainted evil spirit," and I also have enemies lurking in the shadows.

It seems I need to quickly learn some survival skills.

(You have traveled from the mortal world, paying a heavy price to buy a ticket to the turbid world from the "Lord of Life and Death." In this land where the Twelve True Lords have successively disappeared, you arrive at a place that seems to be the successor to the "True Lord of the Celestial Master's Way.")

(Affected by the [seeing of filthy and evil things] in your chest, your consciousness -1)

[Yearly Ruler: Forestry]

[Qi and Blood: 2]

[Strength: 1]

[Agility: 1]

[Divine Sense: -1]

[Ordination: Not yet available]

forestry:"?"

Alright, alright, you're still not settling down, are you?

Just then, the outside door was pushed open.

"Junior brother! What's wrong?"