Immortality Begins with the Black-Scaled Ape

Li Xuan transmigrated into a martial world where humanity flourished and demons were treated as expendable resources.

The bad news was that he hadn't been reborn as a human. Instead, he had become a Black-Scaled Ape, the lowest-ranked demon beast in the Black Mist Mountains. Not only was his bloodline inferior, but a great demon had raised him like livestock, intending to slaughter him for food. The good news was that a line of text hung in his mind: [Demon Nature: Diligence brings abundance; the Great Dao opens of its own accord]. As long as he kept practicing a martial art, he was guaranteed to make progress, regardless of bloodline or limits.

Beyond the mountains, martial dynasties rose and fell. Demon kings died, the world changed, and old friends passed away. Demon beasts grew ever rarer. Li Xuan hid deep in the mountains and practiced the opening stance of the unremarkable [Tongbi Fist] a hundred thousand times, a million times, ten million times...

Years later, a human hunting party entered the cave.

Seeing the vigorous apes inside, the human martial artists were delighted. They wantonly slaughtered his kin and harvested their remains for materials. Li Xuan sighed and was forced to rise, throwing an utterly ordinary punch.

In an instant, the ultimate force of his blood and qi surged into the sky. The terrifying pressure of his fist drained the air, unleashing a sonic boom that tore through the heavens.

The lofty martial elites, along with half the mountain behind them, were blown to dust by that single punch.

Not long afterward, Li Xuan's blood and qi began to wane. To survive, he resolutely stepped into the human world...