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Demonic cultivation, as the most prevalent power system of the former Yin‑Shang dynasty, persisted even though the Great Shang dynasty was destroyed by a demonic calamity, leaving a lingering curse that created countless forbidden zones.

In the present world, the overwhelming majority of nations naturally shun this power system—well, actually, their stance is rather subtle.

Demonic cultivation has an extremely high failure rate and severe side effects, yet one must admit its potency justifies those drawbacks and the lofty failure chance.

When sufficiently powerful, it allows people to overlook all its flaws.

Whether it is the demon‑transformed monster's supremely brutal physique or the human‑transformed demon's bizarre, capricious abilities, both have proven this point.

And those beings are merely 'failures', wholly devoured by demons, unable to control themselves, losing reason, with their souls rotting.

True Dao cultivators, even if they fail a breakthrough, at worst simply die, with their Dao extinguished and souls scattered.

But demonic cultivation is different; a failure means an irrecoverable calamity, a life that cannot be attained and a death that cannot be escaped.

"Extreme Heaven Diamond Gate…" Si Tu Jin muttered the sect's name, not believing it to be the true name of Wang Wu's sect.

Nevertheless, it must indeed be some extinct sect, after all she had never heard of it.

"An ancient, hidden Yin sect left over from antiquity?"

Although the Great Shang fell, its people certainly did not all perish. Yin descendants naturally exist in Great Zhou, and in considerable numbers.

The Si Tu family are Yin descendants and former Yin aristocrats; it is both a surname and a title.

The Si Tu clan is one of the Six Nobles of Southern Province, highly prestigious, and are Yin descendants. In fact, most locals of Southern Province are Yin descendants, though now they are Zhou people.

After all, this place was once a sacred land of Yin‑Shang, and those living near the sacred site are naturally proper, pure‑blood Yin.

As a former Yin aristocrat, Si Tu Jin's attitude toward demonic cultivation is naturally even more nuanced.

In Great Zhou, demonic cultivation is not universally condemned; although the Great Zhou authorities certainly do not support the Demon Dao, once you have mastered it, you are no different from other cultivators.

The Demon Dao differs from today's True Dao power system, which divides practitioners into cultivators and warriors; cultivators specialize in techniques, while warriors focus on the flesh.

Demonic cultivation has no shortcoming in either area; it grasps both hands, and both are outstanding.

Although some cultivators practice 'body cultivation' to imitate demonic cultivation, the results are mediocre; in close combat they fall short of True Realm warriors, and in techniques they are inferior to cultivators.

It's rather awkward, but not entirely without merit.

Regarding Wang Wu's 'demonic cultivation' status, Si Tu Jin has no particular objection; in Great Zhou only evil cultivators are universally condemned.

After all, Yin people naturally remain closer to their own, and Southern Province, as one of the core regions of the Yin‑Shang dynasty, still retains a strong Yin‑Shang atmosphere.

For example, the most classic human sacrifice.

Even though the court repeatedly and explicitly bans human sacrifice, the custom has persisted so long that some 'flavor' must be retained.

If live sacrifices are forbidden, then use already dead people.

If even dead bodies are disallowed, then use dummies. In short, 'people', in any sense, are indispensable.

Of course, nowadays animal sacrifice is more common. Animal sacrifice is a tradition inherited from the Yin‑Shang era; Great Zhou adopted it from Yin‑Shang and made it the official ritual, fully replacing human sacrifice.

Naturally, the excellent tradition of burial accompaniments has been well preserved in Great Zhou.

When the Son of Heaven is interred, nine tripods and eight vessels are arranged, four burial tunnels, nine carriages, and hundreds of slaves are slain as burial companions. In addition, close ministers, consorts, and some children also accompany the tomb.

The Yin‑Shang burial‑accompaniment tradition has been essentially perfectly retained by Great Zhou; moreover, a new provision obliges consorts and close ministers to be buried, while the requirement for children has been removed.

In the large tent, Si Tu Jin kept studying the map, her finger lingering on a spot in Si Hun Shan marked 'Tongtian City', repeatedly tapping it.

"How interesting."

A moment later, she stopped, tapped the map's Tongtian City with her finger, and chuckled.

The earlier encounter in He Xi Xian and Wang Wu's subsequent handling of the silkworm maiden made Si Tu Jin think he was rather interesting, but that was all.

Now, with his 'demonic cultivation' and compatriot status as bonuses, she began to develop some interest in Wang Wu.

Wang Wu, already far beyond He Dong Xian, naturally doesn't know what others are thinking of him now; he is currently speeding along the Guan Dao outside the county town in a Mercedes.

Activating optical invisibility, his form vanished from the road, his aura concealed, transforming into a Heavenly Demon body, he swiftly flew toward his home direction.

His massive body flew over the forest; looking down, he could see many figures wandering in Wang Gu Lin.

Compared with the previous two days, the number of demonic specters active in the woods has increased, and their strength is higher. At the same time, Wang Wu noticed his concealment effect has become weaker.

Because he was discovered.

A lone figure, with a very narrow and long face, sat on a massive rock about seven or eight hundred meters to his lower‑right in the forest.

That 'person' wore clothing of Zhou‑style; Wang Wu wasn't sure if it was truly Zhou‑style, but it was clearly not the Yin‑Shang style of Zi Yuan.

Its face was extremely narrow—perhaps only about ten centimeters wide—but unusually long, with two eyeballs packed tightly together, giving the impression it might explode any second.

When it noticed Wang Wu looking, the figure rose from the rock, opened its mouth, raised a hand, and swayed toward Wang Wu.

Wang Wu ignored it and flew straight past.

But the next moment, a kilometer later, that thing reappeared to Wang Wu's right.

It perched on a tree, looking up at Wang Wu; its narrow, long face now had a wider mouth, revealing densely packed, nail‑like teeth.

A golden beam shot from Wang Wu's forehead, striking precisely inside the opponent's open mouth.

Boom—!

This time there was an explosion; the opponent was instantly engulfed by golden light. Then Wang Wu suddenly accelerated, shattering the barrier called 'air', and surged forward at a top speed of 1,400 km/h.

After his body left, a blast rang out from his former position.

Aooo—!!!!

After a few seconds, Wang Wu heard a frantic howl from afar, and his heart instantly cheered.

"Ha ha, you're stupid, huh?"

When he stands on invincible ground, or rather feels unassailable, Wang Wu becomes extremely arrogant and begins to act petty.

For example, his favorite—no, second‑favorite—routine is to go out in the morning to brush his teeth, then use his Heavenly Demon Eye to check the forest for monsters he can't currently provoke, and fire a Heavenly Demon Cannon at them.

Then he brushes his teeth while watching that thing rage impotently, charging wildly through the forest.

As for whether it will come here? Sometimes it does, but thanks to the Demon‑Subduing Array and the new abilities unlocked after reaching the Eighth Rank, he isn't scared at all.

That thing can't even approach the Demon‑Subduing Array's defensive or blocking range; it can't get close to the array's new dispersal radius either.

The dispersal range lies outside the existing defensive barrier of the Diamond Demon‑Subduing Formation, and by diffusing Geng‑metal Qi it makes the surrounding Yao Mo Gui Gui instinctively loathe this place, so they will not approach at all.

This aversion is extremely strong, consumes almost no energy, and covers a huge area—about three thousand square meters.

And that is the confidence that lets Wang Wu be so brazen at this moment.

Of course, in terms of concealment the metal element is clearly inferior to the mysterious Yin‑water element, but Wang Wu also practices a water‑based cultivation method. So on the basis of the Diamond Demon‑Subduing Formation, he can add water‑element functionality.

The mutual generation and restriction of the Five Elements is truly magnificent, folks.

Come to think of it, Wang Wu was born in the second month—Lunar February back home—so his innate Five‑Element nature is water.

But just as Assassin Brother can mislabel the dosage of his own supplements, he clearly got Wang Wu's innate element wrong.

Still, that doesn't really matter; your birth month gives you a head start when practicing techniques aligned with that month's element, but it doesn't forbid you from learning techniques that clash with it.

Just shift the internal‑force element a bit; if you don't want to spend time manually converting each skill, you can use a pill.

The rumble in the sky faded, and Wang Wu slowly descended from the heavens, landing in his own courtyard. Now the area just outside the gate is his courtyard.

Wang Wu thought about planting something in the yard, but after a long pause he couldn't think of anything to grow. He doesn't know how to cultivate wild vegetables either.

He walked to the boulder, just about to move his home's security gate. Before he could act, the gate opened by itself, and before he could react, several arms shot out simultaneously and yanked him inside.

"Hey! Close the door first!! Close—…!!!"

The next part is Wang Wu's favorite segment; what is it? It's the cultivation of the world‑shaking divine skill of the Extreme Heaven Diamond Gate.

From the first night to the second midnight Wang Wu couldn't close his eyes, which left him puzzled—'It hasn't even been long. Why is it more exaggerated than last time?'

But Wang Wu didn't mind; cultivation must be continuous, and if he slacks off a day or two, he'll have to double up later.

On the third morning, Wang Wu lay on his bed, holding the three‑thousand‑yuan high‑value‑for‑money phone he brought from home, surfing the web.

Behind him leaned Zhu San Niang, with Shu Niang on his left and Wu Er Niang on his right.

The room was brightly lit; the house's lights never turned off, simply because they were lavish and wealthy.

After eating the grapes that Shu Niang fed him for a while, without caring about her next move, Wang Wu kept his focus on the phone in front of him.

Now this place is truly better than his hometown, Wang Wu thought. "So awesome, folks—being a monster in another world is way more awesome than being human."

【Bo Sheng Turtle‑Butt Your Mom Is Dead: Disciple, I've sent you another package. Please receive it; it's a set of camping gear I bought when I was a kid. I think it suits you, since you also live outdoors, right.】

【Bo Sheng Turtle‑Butt Your Mom Is Dead: I saw you agreed to the shipment a couple of days ago; judging by the speed, it should arrive today, right?】

【Mountain Top Cave Monster: Thank you, Master!! (emoji)(emoji) But Master, you always send me all kinds of good stuff; I'm a bit embarrassed.】

【You sent a red envelope of amount: 100】

【Your red envelope has been received by the other party】

【Bo Sheng Turtle‑Butt Your Mom Is Dead: What are you talking about? You're my disciple; do you think I'm a stingy wastrel like Wu Yun? I even buy birthday gifts for my own brother at street stalls.】

【Bo Sheng Turtle‑Butt Your Mom Is Dead: Although this was a toy I played with as a child, it wasn't cheap; my mother bought it for me, and now I'm giving it to you.】

【Bo Sheng Turtle‑Butt Your Mom Is Dead: This is a privilege none of my other disciples have; don't brag about it to them. I cherish what my mother gave me and don't give it away lightly.】

【Bo Sheng Turtle‑Butt Your Mom Is Dead: I even sent it back to the factory for repair; functionally it's perfect now, just a bit old.】

【Bo Sheng Turtle‑Butt Your Mom Is Dead: Speaking of which, I have a mother but that idiot Wu Yun doesn't, which probably explains why he turned out such a beast.】

【Mountain Top Cave Monster: Thank you, Master, many thanks!! (emoji)(emoji)】

Looking at the chat log on his phone, Wang Wu couldn't help but smile.

Now Zhu San Niang and the others have the walkie‑talkie Wang Wu gave them, so he no longer needs to avoid using his phone in front of them, because he never avoided it before.

At first, Wang Wu did try to be discreet, never pulling out that gadget in front of them, after all, protagonists in novels handle their 'golden finger' that way.

Until one day Shu Niang suddenly came looking for him; he happened to be filming his own basket with his phone, and the golden finger was thus exposed.

But when the golden finger was exposed, Wang Wu was about to explain—or try to gloss it over—but the other party lunged at him the moment they saw it.

As for the phone? What phone?

They seemed to ignore the phone in Wang Wu's hand, yet they were aware of its existence.

He couldn't quite describe it; it was like the stone hat in the old Doraemon episodes that made people overlook the wearer.

Wang Wu's golden‑finger phone is exactly that concept to them.

As for why he filmed that spot, it was just a sudden whim—nothing serious.

Of course, the walkie‑talkie he got from his master is different; they know it exists and are very curious about its long‑range call function.

But they didn't consider it a rare artifact; it's just a remote‑communication tool. Even if they've never seen or heard of one, it doesn't stop them from understanding the idea.

The human world is full of countless strange and wondrous things.

'Ong—Ong—Ong'

At that moment, Wang Wu's phone rang; a call came in. He was no longer surprised by receiving calls on his phone, having answered many before.

The first was a call from the bank after he opened a bank card, reminding him not to lend or transfer the card, as that's illegal.

The second call came from a courier company, actually two different ones: one was Shenfeng, the other Shuntong.

The latter is the courier his master uses to send supplements, the former is the one Assassin Brother uses to send trial versions.

Today's call was from a new company called 'Jingda'.

"Hello, this is…?"

Wang Wu answered and greeted.

"Hello, your package has arrived," a mechanical voice said on the other end.

"Okay, I'll be right out."

He hung up, patted the heads of Shu Niang and Wu Er Niang, crawled out of Zhu San Niang's arms, and quickly grabbed the discarded clothing on the ground and threw it on.

"Wu Lang, what's up?"

The three female demons asked.

"Something's been delivered; I'll go get it."

"Okay."

The three women lay back down, paying no attention to it at all.

Wang Wu initially felt very strange, because the first time the courier arrived he was still wondering how to explain it, and after chattering on for a while, all he got was a single reply from the third woman: "Oh, okay."

It was as if treating it like his own phone; this completely unreasonable, even novel‑level absurd thing seemed to the women to be utterly commonplace.

As for the fact that Sha Shou Ge's world could deliver parcels across universes, Wang Wu was, without a doubt, utterly shocked at first.

The day after receiving the parcel, he went online and asked—first Sha Shou Ge, then his master, then the group members—and the answers were surprisingly consistent:

【Everyone: What a stupid question. Isn't the courier company just there to deliver stuff to places you can't get to, or don't have time to go?】

【Wang Wu: B-but this is another universe, right?】

【Everyone: You mean a place I can't go, right?】

When that was said, Wang Wu had nothing left to say.

At first Wang Wu would conceal that he was from another universe, but later he stopped hiding it; he stopped hiding it as soon as he was chatting with Sha Shou Ge.

After all, his concealment was meaningless, because Sha Shou Ge knew he was a monster as soon as he saw his username.

【World's Number One Assassin: Damn it, your name is Shan Ding Dong Yao Guai, and you tell me you're human—do you think I'd believe that?】

【Wang Wu: But that's just a username?】

【World's Number One Assassin: So what if it's a username? You're definitely a monster, you think I'm who? You still want to fool me?】

People in Sha Shou Ge's world are utterly absurd, they don't follow any logic at all.

But thinking about it, all the novels he's read have those golden‑finger cheats that also lack any logic.

Upon closer thought, although this chat‑based, door‑to‑door delivery of an other‑world cultivation technique looks ridiculous, isn't the system of those system‑novel protagonists functionally similar?

So, realizing he too was a protagonist of a system novel, Wang Wu felt a surge of exhilaration.

Yeah, I'm actually more reasonable than those system‑armed protagonists! My stuff is bought with my own savings! Others deliver goods to you; they don't just appear out of thin air!

The cultivation method too—no instant enlightenment; you have to start from zero and train step by step!

The needles are insanely expensive, costing dozens a day, and you still have to take liver‑protecting pills to aid absorption.

Damn, it's still too hard.

Whenever he thinks about this, Wang Wu feels a bit unsettled. In other novels, protagonists get a golden finger and just sign in daily; the power is granted instantly—no cultivation needed. Cultivation? Nonsense.

Sigh, but there's no other way, no choice.

To live happily in this harsh world, you have to endure it. As the saying goes, without weathering storms you can't see a rainbow.

He dressed and stepped out; the big stone at the entrance hadn't been closed since yesterday, so the soaring sounds echoing from the cave these past two days must have resonated through the forest countless times.

Although those things won't know where the sound actually originated.

"Hello, your parcel is here."

A drone hovered at the cave entrance, a large crate hanging beneath it. After Wang Wu emerged, it emitted the same mechanical voice as on the phone.

"Thank you," Wang Wu took the crate from the grappling hook and nodded at the drone.

"Please sign for receipt."

After Wang Wu took the crate, a light screen appeared before the drone. Though the drone looked modern, indistinguishable from those back home, its technology level was clearly far higher.

Sha Shou Ge's world had extremely advanced technology, so advanced that Wang Wu almost suspected they were from the same world as that blue‑fat guy.

He pressed his thumb on the screen; after a moment, a green checkmark appeared. Wang Wu lifted his hand and nodded again at the drone: "Thank you, you've had a hard journey, stay safe on the way."

"Thank you," the drone shook its body in gratitude and then began to ascend rapidly.

After rising to a certain altitude, a spatial vortex appeared ahead, and the drone plunged into it, vanishing instantly.

Although it wasn't the first time Wang Wu had seen a drone depart, he was still profoundly amazed.

After standing outside for a while, Wang Wu took the crate back to his nest, closed the door, and faced the three women who had reappeared in the living room. He opened the cardboard, pulling out layer after layer of protective padding.

Finally, a square little box appeared in Wang Wu's hand.

When he opened the box, two capsules lay quietly inside.

"Uhh..."

At the sight of the two capsules, Wang Wu fell silent for a moment, then a thought sprang to mind:

"This thing..."

"No, the Sha Shou Ge's hometown... could it be..."

But Wang Wu quickly realized it wasn't. Though the capsule's function matched that of a certain capsule—both produce items when thrown.

【Children's Camping Set 1952】

That is the product's name; it includes an all‑terrain motorcycle and a spherical fortress.

【Instructions】

Spherical Fortress Secret Base: deployable on the spot, terrain‑independent. When needed, only a single door may appear, attachable to any surface. The interior is a three‑level, 500‑square‑meter space; for extra expansion, contact Sanshui Toy Company.

Suitable age: 5 and up; children under five must use under parental supervision.

All‑Terrain Motorcycle: deployable on the spot, can be set to hover mode as the default; when no ground is available it automatically switches to aerial hover.

Suitable age: 8 and up; children under eight should use parent or tutoring mode.

Capsule Box: portable storage; if no pocket, can be stored in hyperspace.

Manufacturer: Sanshui Toy Company, Plant 107

Place of production: Yun Guang City, Industrial Zone 85, Plant 107

Production date: February 17, 1952

Anti‑counterfeit code: SSWJ754842472

"..."

Wang Wu stared at the manual in his hand, unable to utter a single word for ages.

"What kind of treasure is this, Wu Lang?" At that moment, the three female monsters gathered around, curiously eyeing the box in Wang Wu's hand and asking.

(End of chapter)