In the final years of the Great Yu dynasty, demons devoured people, sects carved up the land, and the dynasty teetered on the brink of collapse.
Lu Changsheng transmigrated into the body of a lowborn boy. From the start, he was sold into a black mine, where his life was worth less than dirt and death could come at any moment.
He thought he would spend his whole life struggling in the mud, but then he awakened a strange ability:
He could see lifespans, seize them, and channel them into every kind of cultivation art.
Others had to cultivate for ten years to reach a new level.
As long as he stayed alive, he grew stronger. As long as he killed his enemies, he could steal their lifespans. With enough years to spare, even the most difficult techniques could reach perfection overnight.
From mine slave to minor city official, from nobody to a mighty figure in the Demon Suppression Bureau, from a mortal martial artist to an immortal demon overlord surveying the Myriad Heavens, Lu Changsheng fought his way step by step out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
But as he grew stronger, he gradually discovered that demons were not the only things in this world that devoured people.
Aristocratic clans treated people as firewood, sects used them as medicine, and the imperial dynasty offered them up as sacrifices. Even the so-called path to ascension was nothing but a vast scam targeting all living beings.
If this world treated all living things as ants,
then he would use their lives to forge his own supreme immortality.
In this life, he sought neither benevolence nor virtue. He wanted only to outlive everyone and stand above them all.
