In a quiet courtyard, the door creaked open as a young man stepped inside. His eyes scanned the familiar surroundings before he moved toward the inner section of the house. This was Li Ming.
With a deep breath, he stopped and raised his hand. A translucent screen blinked to life before his eyes.
[ Name: Li Ming
Martial Arts: None
Martial Arts Cultivation: None
Slaughter Path Cultivation: Crimson Vein – First Level (0/20) ]
Seeing this, a faint smile curled on Li Ming's lips. He murmured to himself,
"It seems that my system has a cultivation level of its own which I don't know yet. As my martial arts cultivation level is still showing none, yet I can feel a strange power flowing inside me."
Saying that, he stretched out his hands. In that moment, a crimson-colored qi shimmered into existence, forming a faint aura that hovered around his palms, extending outwards in a twenty-centimeter radius. It swirled gently, dancing like mist.
He played with it for a moment, watching it with curious eyes. Then, clenching his fists, the blood-colored energy vanished in an instant.
Turning his gaze to the sky, he spoke again, as though explaining the world to himself,
"The martial cultivators in this world are divided into refining the skin, refining the body. After that comes bone refining, then marrow refining, then Five Viscera, then blood refinement. After completing these processes, one could attempt to breakthrough to the Acquired Realm. After it, by connecting to the gates of Heaven and Earth, one could become an Innate. An Innate master could destroy mountains with a snap of his fingers and have a lifespan of thousands of years.... In our city, a body refining cultivator could be called a master, and bone refining are top clans' leaders.... I just don't know what level my first level Crimson Vein corresponds to..."
He sighed.
"I will have to test it. Since my only path to survival is filled with blood, I will have to keep a record of my own and enemy's strength. Since if I don't know it, it may lead to my death..."
Even as he thought those words, a familiar electronic chime echoed in his mind.
[ Ding.... The first mission is being assigned to the host...
Kill the County Magistrate of Sioux City...
Mission Completion Reward: A new function of the system will be unlocked for the host.
Penalty: Death.
You have ten days' time to complete the mission, host. ]
Li Ming's expression drained of color. The system had just ordered him to assassinate the County Magistrate of his own city an expert at the peak of bone refining. That alone was enough to send chills down his spine. But there were also the countless guards that always surrounded the man...
Just then, a knock sounded at the door.