One Proof, Eternal Proof: I Slay Demons in Republican-Era China

[System] [Mostly everyday life] [No female lead] [Martial arts] [Decisive and ruthless] [Slow burn]

Chen Luo, a gang boss, wakes up as a dock laborer in a parallel world set in Republican-era China.

Here, warlords carve up the land, demons run rampant, and human martial artists struggle to hold the line. He’s bound to a strange system panel: no quests, no intelligent assistant, just one cold function. Skills he learns on his own are permanently locked in, and enemies he kills with his own hands become nourishment. It gives him nothing for free and offers no charity. It only recognizes what he earns through his own ability.

His past life, spent living by the blade, taught him one thing: staying alive matters more than anything.

So he keeps his head down and hauls cargo at the docks, quietly observing everyone’s secrets. When the moment comes, he’s ruthless: either he doesn’t strike, or he wipes out every last trace. From dock laborer to lord of a city, from an ordinary man to a maker of rules, he climbs over a trail of corpses.

But deep in the darkness, a forgotten evil god is awakening.

As a will of chaos blankets the land, Chen Luo realizes there’s only one way to stay alive:

Kill it.