The Butcher and the Spy Strike Back

Jiang Chengzhe, a modern corporate drone, is reborn in another world as a young butcher with the same name, taking over the destitute Jiang Family Butcher Shop. Just when he thinks his life is hopeless, he awakens a bizarre ability: every time he takes a life, he gains strength! By chance, he saves Meng Nanxi, a seriously wounded and unconscious Hundred-Household officer of the court’s secret intelligence organization, Shadowless Studio, who is being hunted. Drawing on his familiarity with the streets and his steadily growing strength, Jiang Chengzhe helps Meng Nanxi investigate a bizarre murder, only to stumble upon a shocking plot by the Grand Tutor to rebel against the throne! The two join forces, using the butcher shop as their base as they navigate the treacherous court and martial world. They expose the Grand Tutor’s treason, reveal how a great general slaughtered innocents and claimed credit for their deaths, disrupt imperial examination fraud, and more. With blades flashing and schemes unfolding, they humiliate powerful elites at every turn, delivering one satisfying face-slapping moment after another! But after the pair strike at the heart of powerful interests, the hidden mastermind launches a fierce counterattack, and a massive bounty is placed on their heads. They flee for their lives, narrowly escaping death again and again (first comes the suffering). In their darkest hour, they unexpectedly discover an ancient cultivation legacy. Jiang Chengzhe’s ability to “gain strength by taking lives” reveals terrifying potential in the world of cultivation! From then on, the butcher takes up his blade and enters the immortal sects, surging forward, striking back against his enemies, humiliating the heirs of immortals, and ultimately attaining the Dao as the supreme Heavenly Emperor!