The Great Powers Carve Up the Land? I Burn Through My Lifespan to Slaughter Them!

[High Martial Arts] [Leveling] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Building a Strong Nation]

Li Yao transmigrates into the body of a death-row inmate. His execution is fast approaching when he discovers he has awakened the [Gluttonous Cauldron], which can refine anything in an instant and strengthen him, at the cost of his lifespan! In this world, Great Xia has descended into an apocalypse of divided territories, foreign powers, and rampant warlords!

And that is not all. Martial artists can reach the heavens, and demons and monsters run rampant! The most powerful are all foreign powers and warlords. The consulates of a ten-nation alliance control local governments, establish concessions, and erode Great Xia!

Li Yao is an ordinary mortal with only a few decades to live. He thought this supposedly useless golden finger meant trading his life for cultivation.

[Consume one month of lifespan to refine a scrap of iron. Qi and blood +1.]

[Consume one year of lifespan to refine a hundred-year-old red sandalwood tree. Qi and blood +10.]

Until one day...

[Detected the scattered, ownerless lifespan of a Cthulhu monster. Absorption complete. Acquired 60 years of monster lifespan and the spell Fireball (Upper Common Grade).]

[Monster lifespan can be consumed in place of your own.]

Li Yao grinned!

Why swallow iron and wood? He should be devouring demons!

Kill!

Kill tyrants! Kill warlords! Kill the foreign powers! Kill demons and monsters!

Carve out a clear and bright new world!

Carve out a Great Xia that stands as the leader of civilization!

And so, in this chaotic age, a young man in black appeared, cleaver in hand. Facing a million-strong foreign coalition and world-ending monsters, he calmly recited, “Would you care to test the sharpness of my blade?”