Ch 4: The Pact of No Eating, Blood Food Tax!

Chu Mo did not speak, allowing Zhao Ruchen to vent his emotions.

In a single day, his family was destroyed, and his home was ruined. Under such a great shock, if he kept his emotions bottled up inside, he would sooner or later become ill. In fact, if Chu Mo had not awakened his past life memories, he would not have been able to get over this matter so easily.

“Wait!” Chu Mo suddenly thought of something, “Demon Qing… Does that mean I’ve transmigrated into the Lost Era? Will I be able to condense a Demon Qing-level Heroic Spirit when I return this time? Sigh… Never mind, a Demon Qing Heroic Spirit is still a Heroic Spirit!”

Awakening a Heroic Spirit, no matter how weak… it meant that one was different from ordinary cultivators! Even if the cultivator’s strength surpassed that of the Heroic Spirit, it was still the same.

Unless you were truly strong enough to defy the heavens… The Main World did indeed have such people, who could solely rely on cultivation to rival the top Heroic Spirits! But such people were far too few…

And even for these top cultivators, their cultivation techniques ultimately originated from the Heroic Spirits… Even if their strength was not weak, facing a Heroic Spirit of the same level, they would ultimately feel inferior in their hearts.

Chu Mo recalled the memories left to him by the Main World’s predecessor, “According to the compulsory education in the Main World… The Main World is now in the year 2030 of the New Calendar!”

The New Calendar was a new calendar system that started with a great change in heaven and earth.

On that day, a great change in heaven and earth directly caused the Earth’s area to expand greatly. The expanded area was unimaginably large, and all kinds of demons, monsters, and terrifying giant beasts descended… Human civilization was almost destroyed!

Fortunately, the demons and monsters did not deliberately hunt down humans, which allowed human civilization to survive. As time passed, a sufficient population gradually gathered, tracing back to ancient knowledge, recreating ancient technology, and continuously progressing…

But even so, humans were still at the bottom of the food chain. Technology had limited effect on demons and monsters… Otherwise, even if the population had been reduced to less than ten million due to the great change in heaven and earth and the large-scale demon attacks, it would not have been impossible to fight back.

It was not until eight hundred years ago, when the legacy of the Ancient Heroic Spirits descended, that human civilization mastered its own extraordinary power… Only then did it gradually return to the peak of the world!

And the two thousand years before that, the years with almost no records, were known as the Lost Era!

That is to say, no matter how conservative the estimate, it might be more than two thousand years since he transmigrated…

“According to the ancient documents unearthed by the Divine Province, the Demon Qing lasted for three hundred years, or even possibly a thousand years. The Ming Dynasty lasted at least a thousand years, and the dynasties before that were even longer.” Chu Mo pondered.

The trauma suffered by human civilization was too great… More than a thousand years of dark ages caused humans to almost discard ancient records.

They could only rely on speculation and the fragmented memories obtained by the Heroic Spirit inheritors to deduce… The Qing, the Ming, and even earlier dynasties, their situations, their information, their years of existence… All of this was obtained through deduction, and the accuracy was worrying.

“Young Master, what are we going to do next?” Zhao Ruchen looked up at the sky for a while and finally calmed down. He turned his head to look at Chu Mo. Even though Chu Mo was an eight-year-old child, he naturally placed Chu Mo in the position of the new head of the Zhao Family Fortress.

“Naturally…” Chu Mo’s words suddenly stopped. He stared at the direction of the tiger demon for a while, his heart beating uncontrollably—

All this was because he saw an illusory screen.

【Name】: Zhang Huqiang

【Race】: Northeast Tiger ━ Demon Seed （Extractable）

【Cultivation】: Tenth Level of the Acquired Realm

【Lifespan】: 110 years of lifespan, currently 90 years remaining

【The lifespan of the hunted demon seed can be extracted and used for point allocation! But the lifespan of the hunted cannot be used to extend one’s own lifespan.】

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“…” Chu Mo almost did not hesitate and chose to extract. The balance of his usable lifespan increased by ninety. It was just a pity that he could still only live in this world for one year…

“The future is promising!” Chu Mo’s heart surged. The Taizu Fist Intent might not be able to deal with that inexplicable black mist, but this was only what he had gained from investing for eighty-nine years. What if he invested for a thousand years, or even ten thousand years?

A pig that lived for ten thousand years could become a demon!!! And for him, ten thousand years was just a matter of hunting more than a hundred demons of the same level as the tiger demon… One year, with a little effort, it was not entirely impossible!

“But… hunted demon seed?” Chu Mo scanned the prompt interface. Does that mean that the lifespan of humans or ordinary beasts cannot be extracted after hunting? And…

“Extractable demon seed?” Chu Mo pondered. He remembered what the art committee member had said before, “Demon seeds that can be directly refined by the Blood Refinement Method, allowing the human body to directly become stronger and embark on the path of cultivation…”

“If I can extract this thing and bring it back… Just this one thing could probably be sold for three or four hundred thousand! What a pity…”

Chu Mo sighed inwardly. It was highly unlikely that he could bring it back.

“Young Master?” Zhao Ruchen’s voice was a little apprehensive. What happened again…

“Sixth Uncle!” Chu Mo glanced over and said calmly, “Where… are there the most of this kind of demons!”

Chu Mo walked over and kicked the dead tiger.

“…It should be the north!” When Zhao Ruchen said this, he gritted his teeth, and his eyes turned blood red, “Back then, the demon race entered the pass and used the common people as blood food, and the world was overturned!”

“If it weren’t for the eighteen Grandmasters of the world, who risked their lives to enter the capital, and the fact that the demon race unified the world with the help of many top human experts, who had a lot to say about this… It would have been impossible for the demon emperor’s lineage to establish the Pact of No Eating!”

“Pact of No Eating?” Chu Mo frowned.

“You don’t know… Oh,” Zhao Ruchen nodded with some understanding. He almost forgot Chu Mo’s current age, “It’s just that we, the local noble families, restrain the local people and raise a large number of chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, and cattle… Every year, we offer a portion to the demon generals stationed in various places. We call it the Blood Food Tax! In exchange, the demons no longer eat humans.”

“It’s just that as time goes by… The Blood Food Tax is getting higher and higher, and now, the one in the capital has overthrown the previous emperor and changed the new tax system, causing the amount of blood food we need to pay to double, to the point where we can’t afford it anymore… Perhaps!” Zhao Ruchen seemed to suddenly realize something, and his face showed shock, anger, and disbelief.

Could it be that it was because their blood food tax this year was slightly delayed for a few months, so… But, but a tax several times larger, no matter how hard they tried, it was impossible to gather it in a short time… It’s not like they weren’t going to pay, was it necessary to come to their door and kill and eat people?!

Chu Mo fell into deep thought. Jiangnan was not the core area ruled by the demon emperor, the north was… And Jiangnan was famous for its wealth. If even Jiangnan was like this, the real situation in the north was unimaginable…

Perhaps, the Pact of No Eating had been completely torn up… The demon race was unscrupulously eating humans?!

“Sixth Uncle!” Chu Mo took a deep breath, his eyes gleaming with spirit, and made a decision, “Get ready, let’s go north!”