Betrayed by his own clan, stabbed in the back by a friend, drained of blood for a month, then hanged from the city wall.
Li Shan awakened an [Experience Points Panel]. Every life he killed earned him a corresponding amount of experience, and reaching 100% let him improve his martial arts and cultivation.
Li Shan discovered he also had an innate talent. Improving his own talent offered even better value, taking him from [Strength of Nine Bulls and Two Tigers] to [Dragon-Elephant Lifts the Heavens], then to [King Yama Tears Apart Ghosts]...
What martial arts? What immortal arts? Aren’t my endlessly improvable talents stronger?
He crossed mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, slaughtered immortal sects, wiped out ancient clans, subdued divine kingdoms, took his seat in holy lands, beheaded their lords, chopped down Dragon Kings, hammered human immortals, and trampled demon lords...