Collecting Attributes on the Great Ming Battlefield: Killing Enemies Steals Their Lifespans

Zhu Ying transmigrates to the Hongwu era, where the Shen family frames him by falsifying his birth date and enrolling him in the army, sending him to Ning Prefecture to die. Just as he reaches the brink of despair, his golden finger arrives: he gains attributes by killing enemies, can even improve himself by touching corpses, and can steal years of life. After one bandit-suppression campaign, his strength surges by nearly a hundred points. He obtains an Iron Body technique, a fine-steel saber, and mastery of horsemanship, progressing in one night as much as an ordinary person would in ten days. Just after being promoted to squad leader, Zhu Ying learns that Ning Prefecture is gathering twenty thousand troops to march against the Jurchen Tatars of Jianzhou. While the others are afraid, his eyes light up: the battlefield will be covered in attribute drops. As the thousand-man battalion takes the vanguard, he stands in formation with a hundred arrows on his back, two bows, and a fine-steel saber at his waist, licking his lips. The Shen family believes he died on the frontier. Shen Wansan is plotting to curry favor with the Crown Princess’s consort, while Shen Rong is still determined to root him out. Only Shen Yu’er weeps and asks, “Why did you have to hurt Brother Zhu Ying?” No one pays her any mind. In the imperial palace at Beiping, Zhu Yuanzhang looks at the military report and sneers. “Naha Chu, the last hard nut left in the Northern Yuan.” He gives the order to launch a northern expedition and entrusts the supplies to Crown Prince Zhu Biao. No one notices that a young man who grows stronger by killing enemies has appeared on the frontier. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.