High Martial: I Inherit Cultivation by Collecting the Dead

[High Martial Arts + Corpse Collector + Legacy of Final Wishes + Defeating Stronger Foes + Ruthless Combat + Human Spirit]

The day the alien beasts surrounded the city, the escorting martial artists took the last vehicle, leaving Lu Chen and his entire corpse-collection team in the wilderness to die.

Before leaving, the escort captain tossed out just one line:

“You’re only corpse collectors. Your lives aren’t worth as much as a martial artist’s.”

With the beast horde closing in, everyone waited in despair for death.

But among the corpses, Lu Chen clasped a hand that still held a trace of warmth.

[Master-level final wish detected.]

[Protect this city for ten more minutes in my place.]

[Accept the final wish to temporarily inherit a master’s peak cultivation!]

Ten minutes later, reinforcements arrived.

The fleeing martial artists fell to their knees. Outside the city, heaps of alien beast corpses covered the ground.

And the corpse collector they had dismissed as a good-for-nothing stood alone before the shattered city gate, one foot planted on the head of a fourth-tier alien beast.

From that day on, Lu Chen discovered that whenever he fulfilled the final wish of someone who had fallen in battle, he could permanently inherit their greatest ability.

He returned a veteran’s medal and inherited mastery of Baji Fist.

He avenged a captain by killing a traitor and inherited thirty years of combat experience.

He retrieved a Sword God’s blade and inherited supreme sword intent.

He reclaimed the battle flag of an army wiped out to the last man and awakened one hundred thousand undying spirits.

Others grew stronger through talent.

Lu Chen grew stronger by collecting debts on behalf of the dead.

Years later, when the gods of foreign races shattered the frontier and every human powerhouse had fallen in battle, Lu Chen carried a black coffin on his back and walked alone toward the gods.

Behind him stood all the undying spirits of humanity from the past three hundred years, unwilling to fade away.

“The battles you couldn’t finish while you were alive,”

“I’ll fight them for you, until every last god is destroyed.”