Heaven-Defying Martial Saint: I Treat Divine Skills Like Meals

My name is Zhu Zao, and I’m a beggar. In these chaotic times, I live worse than a dog.

Then one day, I was beaten to death over a stale steamed bun and thrown into a freezing pool. As I hovered between life and death, the Xuanwu birthmark on my chest came alive, turning into a gigantic Taotie maw that could devour anything!

It gave me a second chance at life, along with the most vicious curse imaginable: I have to eat martial arts manuals to survive!

To stay alive, I broke into the Beggars’ Sect and, in front of everyone, tore out the pages of their treasured Dragon-Subduing Eighteen Palms manual and stuffed them into my mouth, chewing greedily.

[Ding! Devoured a fragment of Dragon-Subduing Eighteen Palms. Learned ‘See the Dragon in the Field.’ Vitality +100!]

[Ding! Devoured ‘Iron Shirt.’ Your body has evolved into the ‘Xuanwu Battle Body’!]

[Ding! Devoured ‘Great Star-Absorbing Art.’ Your Xuanwu fate has gained the ‘Repayment’ trait, allowing you to absorb other people’s inner power!]

From then on, the entire martial world went mad. The orthodox sects branded me a monster, while demonic overlords coveted the secret I carried. They hunted me and laid siege to me, unaware that every time they struck, they were only serving up more delicious “food.”

They thought I was a madman with nowhere left to turn. They had no idea I had already transformed this curse into a stairway to the pinnacle of martial arts.

When I have devoured every divine art under heaven, I, Zhu Zao, will be the only martial art left in the world!