Kill demons and earn your life, start martial arts and become a god from the night watch!

The world has fallen into chaos, overrun by demons, and people have turned to devouring one another. The moment Su Ming opens his eyes, he finds himself lying in a filthy ditch in the slums of Black Mountain City, reduced to a helpless, half-dead wreck. Around him, starving figures with bloodshot eyes close in, ready to carve up his flesh and share it among themselves. At the brink of death, a strange panel suddenly appears before him. It offers him the ability to trade his lifespan for martial arts training, and once he pushes a technique to its absolute limit, he can even awaken a unique talent. Through this power, he gains insights like “All things are as firewood, cutting through all falsehoods,” the Demon-Suppressing and Evil-Slaying Knife that purges the foulness of the world, and the Immortal Blood Cicada Armor, which turns his own blood into an unbreakable shield. Su Ming wields his wood-cutting blade to break free from the jaws of death, fighting to survive in a world overrun by demons. He seizes the lifespans of the demons he slays, using them to refine his own martial path. Starting as a captive in Black Mountain City, he battles demons and dark forces at every turn, and eventually rises to become the legendary demon-slaying martial saint of this broken age.