This Piece of Meat Is a Taisui

Ladies and gentlemen, today we're not talking about emperors and generals, nor talented men and beautiful women. Today, we're talking about a piece of meat.

This isn't the braised pork knuckle on your dinner table. It's a Tai Sui, a fleshy fungus, a legendary treasure of heaven and earth said to grow just one inch every three thousand years. They say that eating a piece of it can let you ascend in broad daylight and live forever. For thousands of years, countless emperors have died and countless cultivators have fallen trying to find it.

But no one knew that this thing had come to life.

And not only was it alive, it also contained the soul of someone from another world: a fellow who spent his time dealing with dead people's bones and thousand-year-old antiques, an archaeologist.

Think about it. How would a scholar who studies artifacts react to suddenly discovering that he'd become the oldest, most valuable, and most coveted living antique in the world?

He didn't have time to think. The moment he opened his eyes, a demonic cultivator nearly boiled him into a pot of nourishing soup. After barely managing to kill the cultivator instead, he heard a “ding” in his head and found himself bound to some kind of [Devouring Evolution System]. It told him he had to gather enough death energy to evolve within three days, or he would vanish completely.

Fate played a cruel joke on him. The great powers of the world were all looking for him, hoping to refine him into a pill, use him as medicine, or claim him for themselves. Meanwhile, he was buried in the earth, unable to move, using a few newly sprouted tendrils to figure out how to kill a little zombie that had been wandering around the graveyard for hundreds of years, so he could complete his first evolution.

This is the story of that piece of meat.

A story about how to survive in the most dangerous world by means of the least human methods...