Chapter 107: How Can One Eat the Flesh and Blood of Demons!

【Heaven rewards diligence, your perseverance and hard work bring you genuine progress】

【In the punches of every morning, you feel the scorching heat of the sun】

【In the punches of every evening, you feel the alternation of the sun and moon】

【Ordinary fists evolve in repeated stances, your understanding of martial arts and fist techniques deepens】

【Seven years of uninterrupted fist swings have transformed “Qi and Blood Long Fist,” congratulations, you have comprehended “Qi and Blood Tyrant Fist”】

【Your fist technique roars like the sun】

【Your qi and blood are as domineering as a furnace】

【Successfully advancing to the Blood Replacement Realm, your strength has seen an astonishing increase, from now on, you will fear no demons below the Innate stage】

【The girl sees you punch through blue steel stone, her face frozen in shock, utterly dumbfounded】

【She seems to have misunderstood something, thinking you were holding back, despite your repeated explanations that it was just an ordinary punch】

【The girl’s attitude towards you changes】

【She earnestly and sincerely asks you how you managed to punch so astonishingly without advanced martial techniques or supreme methods】

【The girl no longer calls you by your surname Xu, but addresses you as Mr. Xu】

【The knowledgeable is the teacher, you are older than the 16-year-old Wu Yingxue, and your martial skills are beyond her comprehension, so Wu Yingxue directly asks you for martial arts guidance】

【You feel slightly troubled, all your strength comes from your own perseverance, you don’t know how to teach this】

【Wu Yingxue hands you a bottle of True Qi Pills】

【The effect of the pill is to greatly increase the success rate of Blood Replacement Realm martial artists reversing from Postnatal to Innate】

【You suddenly feel like you enjoy being a teacher】

【You start teaching Wu Yingxue based on your own experience, not for any other reason, but because you are kind】

The days of recuperation pass slowly.

As the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to heal from a broken bone.

To ensure a full recovery of strength and return to the capital in perfect condition to investigate the truth behind her attack, Wu Yingxue has been resting at Xu Xi’s home.

Layers of mountains, shaded by forests.

Located at the border of the Great Qian Dynasty, Qingniu Town can clearly see the majestic veins of the Ten Thousand Mountains, like a heavy shadow, making it hard to breathe.

For Wu Yingxue, who grew up in the Imperial Capital.

Such scenery is both novel and eerie.

The Ten Thousand Mountains.

Also known as the Ten Thousand Demon Caves.

It contains tens of thousands of different types of demons, real evil beings that chew human bones and drink human blood.

In the past, Wu Yingxue only read about them in storybooks, but now seeing the Ten Thousand Mountains with her own eyes, she finds the demons infinitely more terrifying than in the books.

Moreover, life at the border of the Great Qian Dynasty is much harder than imagined.

If not for the attack and being wanted by the authorities, the girl might have returned to the capital early, unwilling to endure this torturous life.

“Sir…”

“Are we eating this again today…”

Qingniu Town.

Warm sunlight falls on the earth, quiet and silent.

Wu Yingxue’s words, like a stone thrown into a lake, break the summer’s tranquility, showing great difficulty.

The uneven wooden dining table.

Holds two bowls of rice porridge and a bowl of seemingly tempting meat.

However, the girl’s gaze at the porridge is merely disdainful.

Her gaze at the meat turns into complete fear and shrinking, if not for Xu Xi sitting opposite, she might have flipped the table.

Difficult!

“Demonic flesh, how can it be eaten!”

“Of course, it can.”

Xu Xi responds indifferently.

Wu Yingxue doesn’t believe it, having experienced it once before, the taste was indescribable.

But Xu Xi’s performance of chewing the meat heartily makes the girl doubt her own judgment.

Maybe it’s really delicious?

Maybe last time was an accident?

Should I try again?

The 16-year-old girl is tempted, her stomach growling, she can’t help but pick up a piece of braised demon meat with chopsticks and tentatively chew.

So sour!

So tough!

“Yuck yuck yuck!”, Wu Yingxue spits it out with a bitter face.

She can’t imagine how Xu Xi manages to swallow the demon meat with an unchanged, calm expression.

And the other people in Qingniu Town, upon receiving demon flesh from Xu Xi, show extremely happy expressions.

“Sir, why don’t you and the others in town eat better?”

“As far as I know, the Great Qian Dynasty has had favorable weather in recent years, life shouldn’t be so frugal.”

Facing the girl’s confusion.

Xu Xi slowly swallows the black unknown substance in his mouth.

When his eyelids open and close, distinct eyes are revealed.

“No particular reason, it’s not as complicated as you think, it’s just simply not available.”

“Qingniu Town is located at the border of the Ten Thousand Mountains and the Great Qian Dynasty.”

“Officially, Qingniu Town is part of the Great Qian Dynasty, but it’s too dangerous here, not many merchant caravans are willing to come.”

“And the demon tides every spring and winter further devastate the town’s crops and livestock, in the end, it becomes like this.”

Is demon meat bad?

Indeed.

Xu Xi doesn’t deny it.

Most demon flesh is either toxic or carries demonic energy, the few that are edible also have an indescribable taste.

But it’s this rare demon meat that allows countless border towns like Qingniu Town to survive in the harsh borderlands.

Wu Yingxue is stunned for a long time.

At 16, having grown up in the Imperial Capital.

She can’t understand why such suffering exists.

She asks again: “Life here is so hard, why don’t… people move to safer counties?”

“You don’t know?”, Xu Xi glances at the spirited yet naive girl.

Now, Wu Yingxue has reclaimed her long spear.

The spear tip is sharp, the shaft hides light, paired with her red and white robe and light armor, she looks so vigorous, and so detached from the mundane.

“Right, you probably haven’t been exposed to this before.”

Xu Xi pauses, then reveals a shocking statement the girl has never heard.

“The reason is simple, the court doesn’t allow it.”

“Regarding household registration and the people, the Great Qian Dynasty has a very strict set of rules.”

“Especially towns like Qingniu Town, bordering the Ten Thousand Mountains, are absolutely not allowed to migrate.”

“Violators, die.”

The plain words bring a strong impact.

Wu Yingxue’s pupils contract, her whole body trembles violently: “This, isn’t this forcing the people here to…”

The girl doesn’t utter the cruel word.

That word is too terrifying.

Too terrifying for the girl to say outright.

This forms an extremely twisted contrast with what she has known since childhood, that under the protection of the Great Qian Dynasty, humans live in great peace and happiness.

Holding onto a last inexplicable hope, she asks:

“Hasn’t the court sent anyone to manage this?”

Xu Xi calmly replies: “Yes, they send people every year to collect taxes.”