The End of Dharma 40K: My Evil God Wife Feeds Me to Prove My Emperorship

Fengzhou, Yin County.

Under the dark green moonlight, on the bed inside the room.

Li Mingyu wore a coarse gray cloth cross-collar and narrow sleeves, and her hair was tied into a bun at the back of her head, with a few stray hairs falling in front of her forehead.

He stood by the bed, gazing at the stunningly beautiful woman lying before him—

A clear and sharp facial contour, a long and fair neck, high and firm breasts, a slender waist, plump and shapely thighs, and snow-white and delicate feet.

Li Mingyu bent down and gently tidied the woman's hair. Her skin was smooth and delicate to the touch.

"She is truly a rare and exquisite beauty."

He held his breath, closed the woman's eyes, and put her into a body bag.

According to the information purchased—

This woman was originally a Qi Refining cultivator, but due to a broken financial chain, she was unable to obtain the spiritual resources and materials needed to maintain her cultivation level. Her cultivation level plummeted, and she eventually became a mortal. Unwilling to suffer humiliation, she committed suicide.

"Alas, even a hero can be brought down by a penny."

Li Mingyu sighed, and couldn't help but think of the debt he had incurred a few months ago. If he couldn't pay it back, his fate wouldn't be any better.

"It's so frustrating. I could have lived a comfortable life on Earth, but now I have to travel back to this miserable place, Xuanling Heaven, to collect corpses and sell them to pay off my debts every day."

Starting three years ago, Li Mingyu began swapping bodies with a middle-aged man surnamed Wei from Earth, doing so precisely every day.

During the day, Li Mingyu's soul travels to Earth, taking the place of a man surnamed Wei and integrating into his urban middle-aged life.

At night, Li Mingyu would travel back to Xuanling Heaven, return to his youthful body, catch up on the cultivation lessons he had missed, and complete his studies as a cultivator.

The man surnamed Wei did the opposite.

The two have always kept to themselves and have a tacit understanding.

"Making money and surviving is the most important thing."

Li Mingyu sighed inwardly, then quickly tidied up the female cultivator's remains, put them in a bag, sealed it, picked up the ram's horn hammer beside him, and walked out the door.

A burst of angry curses came from the surrounding area.

"Li Mingyu, you're ruthless!"

"Hey Li, you don't have many years left to live. Take this dead Qi cultivator back for dual cultivation, I'll let you off this time!"

"The intelligence says this deal is valuable; that guy surnamed Li is making a fortune. We have so many of us, why don't a few of us go and grab it?"

……

Li Mingyu dragged a body bag in one hand and carried a hammer in the other. He yawned, his eyelids were half-closed, and his posture was casual, but his gaze swept around coldly like a needle.

People around him kept hurling insults, and some even tried to fan the flames, but no one dared to step forward.

The profession of finding and collecting corpses is detrimental to cultivation, so it is mostly done by low-level cultivators in the first stage of the Spirit Awakening Realm.

The Awakening Realm is a preparatory stage before the Qi Refining stage.

Li Mingyu was the only cultivator at the second level of the Enlightenment Realm present.

Since entering the industry a few months ago, Li Mingyu has been known for his ruthlessness and cruelty, and has repeatedly used brutal methods to stop violence with violence.

Right now, whoever steps forward first will be taken down by him first, and no one is willing to be at the forefront and suffer losses.

Li Mingyu didn't say anything, but slowly walked towards the crowd.

Everyone looked resentful and jealous of Li Mingyu's big profit this time, but they were also afraid of his ruthlessness. They all tacitly fell silent at the same time, making way for him to pass.

Li Mingyu walked through the crowd, passed through a small alley, and arrived at a main street.

The streetlights on both sides of the street illuminated the upturned eaves of the surrounding buildings and some mottled bronze pipes.

He headed straight to the location he had arranged with the body collector.

……

After the transaction is completed.

Li Mingyu carried a bag of money and walked towards the small courtyard where he lived.

"This deal made quite a bit of money, but unfortunately, I owe even more from before, and I don't know when I'll be able to pay it back."

More and more refugees were gathering around the courtyard, including many emaciated children, barely clothed, who silently watched him.

He walked through silently without stopping.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw a beautiful woman standing there in the dim light. She was in her early thirties, with skin as smooth as jade. Her phoenix eyes were slightly upturned and misty, with a faint red at the corners, as if she had been crying.

The old clothes she wore looked loose and baggy, with her waistline accentuating her graceful curves.

Behind the beautiful woman hung a portrait on the wall. The portrait depicted a kind-looking middle-aged man, and several sticks of incense were burning in an incense burner on the table below the portrait.

Li Mingyu is sixteen years old this year. He lost his father at a young age and his mother at the age of nine. After that, he left his hometown to make a living at his uncle's house in Fengzhou.

The beautiful widow in front of me is Li Mingyu's aunt. The portrait on the wall is of her deceased husband, who is also Li Mingyu's uncle.

"Auntie, I'm back."

As he spoke, Li Mingyu put down his money bag, stepped forward, and offered his uncle a stick of incense.

My uncle was once a cultivator at the third level of the Qi Refining Realm, but he fell seriously ill due to an accident and lost his source of income. His family's savings were no longer enough to buy enough spiritual resources, and due to the lack of additional spiritual energy intake, his cultivation level dropped to that of a mortal. The following year, he was captured and used as a sacrifice.

Before leaving, he left a small sum of money to help his aunt and Li Mingyu maintain their cultivation at the first level of the Qi Ling realm.

But things changed.

Li Mingyu advanced to the second level of the Spirit Awakening Realm a few months ago. Recently, the spiritual resources required for the second level have almost doubled, and this money is seriously insufficient.

That's why he would go out at night to compete with others for the job of "retrieving remains".

Tonight, after following the clues for many days, we unexpectedly stumbled upon the remains of a female cultivator worth a lot of money, which brought us a bit of a breather.

"Xiaoyu, avoid dealing with corpses. Their yin energy can easily entangle you and is bad for your health. We're not doing this anymore."

Seeing that Li Mingyu always came home late at night and often slipped money into the house, his aunt felt sorry for the pressure he was under and looked reluctant to let him go.

"It's alright, Auntie. Brother Chen said he has a lucrative job to introduce to me. I'm meeting him tonight. Once I have a better job, I won't have to worry so much about maintaining my cultivation level."

"Wang Chen, sigh, that kid is really kind-hearted. Although he's the son of a wealthy family and not in our social class, you two grew up together, and he's always taken good care of you over the years. Luckily, he helped you pay back the money this time, you should thank him properly..."

"Yes, I understand."

Li Mingyu chatted briefly with his aunt, asked her for a basket of cooked rice, and then left the courtyard with the money.

At this time, refugees gradually gathered on the streets.

He gave the rice first to the children among the refugees, and after watching the children eat their fill, he put the remaining rice in the corner for whoever wanted to take it.

He can barely take care of himself, and that's all he can do each day.

After doing all that, he took the money and headed to the place he had agreed to meet with Wang Chen.

This money is to be returned to Wang Chen.

"Old Wei, look how much trouble you've caused me," Li Mingyu said helplessly.

A few months ago, Li Mingyu returned from Earth to find that his cultivation level had been raised from the first level of the Enlightenment Realm to the second level by the man surnamed Wei.

The other party also left a note, with the reason being:

[I want to see just how powerful the second stage of the Spirit Awakening Realm, which everyone is afraid to advance to, really is.]

He even borrowed a large sum of money from outside sources for this purpose.

The reason why everyone is stuck at the cultivation level and has not yet advanced to the second stage of the Spirit Awakening Realm is because of the scarcity of resources. Impulsively advancing will almost certainly lead to bankruptcy. Once you mess things up, you can expect to fall back to being a mortal and be captured as a sacrifice.

Fortunately, during the most difficult period, when debt collectors came to his door multiple times, Wang Chen eventually paid the money on his behalf.

This time, Li Mingyu brought this bag of money to repay Wang Chen, and at the same time, he also wanted to know what the good way to make money that Wang Chen mentioned was.

The night was deep, the moonlight was dark green, and car lights dotted the road.

The meeting place mentioned in the letter was not unfamiliar; it was an abandoned warehouse in the factory where he usually worked as an apprentice.

For a thousand years, when spiritual energy was depleted, the Immortal Dynasty vigorously developed the bronze machinery industry. As industries clustered together, industrial cities emerged, and the thirty prefectures of the Immortal Dynasty rose from the ground.

Fengzhou City is one of them. Yin County, under the jurisdiction of Fengzhou, was originally rich in chalcopyrite and bornite. After hundreds of years of large-scale mining, the output of primary copper mines has decreased, and the local industrial capacity has shrunk year by year, resulting in the emergence of many such abandoned warehouses.

Li Mingyu was not far from his destination, and soon he entered the warehouse area of ​​the factory, searching for the abandoned warehouse.

The agreed time should have arrived by now.

But the winding and circuitous route took a long time, which made him suspicious.

What kind of good job could it be that requires us to talk in such a secluded place?

Before long, he arrived at an abandoned warehouse with its doors wide open.

Standing at the warehouse entrance was a broad-shouldered young man with disheveled hair. He was dressed in dark brocade robes and had an arrogant yet elegant demeanor. It was Wang Chen.

He had a smile on his face:

"Yu, you're here. Come in quickly."

Li Mingyu found it strange. Wang Chen usually dressed neatly with his hair tied up, but today he was dressed in a messy, disheveled manner.

But he didn't think much of it, smiled back, walked forward, and went into the warehouse with Wang Chen.

The warehouse was large, with copper power pipes embedded in the surrounding walls, engraved with intricate cloud patterns.

It was dark, with only the faint, dark green moonlight outside the window providing some visibility.

"Wait a minute, I'll close the door." With that, Wang Chen turned around and closed the warehouse door.

A harsh, metallic scraping sound rang out.

The door was very difficult to close, taking about two or three minutes to close completely.

"That way, even if someone tries to get in, they won't be able to hide it from us." Wang Chen nodded in satisfaction.

"What's going on? Why are you being so mysterious?" Li Mingyu asked.

"Great news." Wang Chen chuckled and led Li Mingyu deeper into the warehouse.

"Oh, right, here you go. I'm still short of the money to pay you back." Li Mingyu handed the heavy bag in his hand to Wang Chen.

Wang Chen's smile faltered, and he pushed the money back.

"There's one more thing. If you help me with that, you don't need to pay me back."

"Okay, what exactly is it?" Li Mingyu asked.

"No rush, let's talk in detail inside," Wang Chen said.

The two passed some long-abandoned equipment such as lathes, drilling machines, punching machines, bending machines, and cutting machines, and arrived at the end of the warehouse.

The two stopped, and all was silent.

After a moment of silence, Wang Chen sighed and said:

"Yu, have you heard any strange noises lately?"

"What was that sound?" Li Mingyu was completely confused.

"It's a bit... like a whisper." Wang Chen's tone concealed his excitement.

"Whispering in hushed tones," Li Mingyu said, a hint of curiosity in his voice.

"During this time, that voice kept repeating itself. It told me that I have a destiny." Wang Chen was already showing signs of fanaticism. He held Li Mingyu's shoulder, and a strange dark green halo was faintly emanating from his pupils.

Li Mingyu felt a little strange. He didn't know what state Wang Chen was in. Could it be that his mind was being controlled?

Wang Chen seemed to realize that he had lost his composure, took a deep breath, and laughed, "Yu, tell me, as brothers, shouldn't we be completely open and honest with each other?"

"Okay, tell me what it is, and I'll definitely help if I can."

"It's nothing much. You said we've been friends for so many years. Now, there's just one thing that needs you to open your heart to me this time."

As Wang Chen spoke, the eerie green light in his pupils intensified, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up.

"What do you mean?" A sense of alarm rose in Li Mingyu's heart, and he took two steps back.

"Brother, literally!"

Wang Chen's grin stretched almost to his ears as he stepped forward, pulled out a short knife, enhanced it with spiritual energy, and stabbed it into Li Mingyu's neck.

Li Mingyu had no time to dodge, so he used his spiritual energy to catch the knife with his left arm. In the process, his left forearm was pierced by the sharp blade.

Ignoring the intense pain, he decisively raised his leg and kicked the other man in the groin.

Wang Chen hadn't expected his move to be so ruthless, and quickly dodged.

This sudden movement gave Li Mingyu a chance to catch his breath, and he turned and ran towards the most chaotic part of the warehouse.

It was a terrain composed of various cargo containers and mechanical devices.

'Wang Chen's spiritual energy circulation speed has actually reached the second stage of the Spirit Awakening Realm.'

The first stage of spiritual awakening has very little spiritual energy, and the condensation speed is slow, making it difficult to circulate spiritual energy freely throughout the body.

Once you reach the second stage of Spirit Awakening, you can freely circulate spiritual energy and amplify specific parts of your body at any time.

Li Mingyu didn't know why Wang Chen suddenly went mad and wanted to kill him.

But he knew that now that his left arm had been stabbed, he had no chance of winning in a head-on fight.

Only by taking advantage of the warehouse's terrain and finding an opportunity to launch a counterattack can a chance be turned around.

He picked up a copper pipe while running and struck it repeatedly and irregularly against the surrounding machinery, making noise that interfered with Wang Chen's judgment of the sound's location.

Immediately, he turned around, quietly found a wooden box about the height of a person beside the wide passageway, and hid it by bending over.

Next, all you need to do is take advantage of the dim lighting, and in the instant of the attack, empower your right hand with spiritual energy, and swing the copper pipe to strike the opponent's head.

At that time, even if it doesn't kill them in one blow, it will be enough to decide the outcome.

"Mingyu, stop hiding! Just help me this once! If I take your life, I can achieve Heavenly Mandate. Don't worry, I'll definitely take good care of your aunt from now on! Haha..."

Wang Chen was approaching and was about to reach Li Mingyu's side.

Li Mingyu suddenly felt dizzy and his consciousness became hazy; he almost fainted.

He instinctively reached for the wooden crate beside him, but found that the surface of the crate was fuzzy and a little soft and sticky, and when he touched it, it felt like his hand was about to sink into it.

What's going on...?

This isn't right...

Wait a little longer! Just one more chance to make a move...

Suddenly, the footsteps stopped on the other side of the wooden crate.

The crucial moment that will determine life or death has arrived.

Behind the wooden crate.

With a clang, the copper pipe slipped from his hand and fell to the ground. Li Mingyu felt weak all over, his forehead tingled, and he completely lost consciousness.

……

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The night is dark.

On the bed in the bedroom.

Li Mingyu gradually awoke from his deep sleep, feeling comfortable and relaxed all over. His previously severely injured left arm was now completely healed.

He subconsciously picked up his phone from beside his pillow and glanced at it.

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