Chapter 5: Permanent Closure

Wanfu City, South District, Old Street of Tianji Workshop.

Outside Jiao's Meat Shop, with a bang, the door opened wide.

But what the customers who wanted to buy meat early in the morning saw first was not the familiar Jiao Qing and Sun Sun Sanniang, but a strange youth.

Even if their eyesight wasn't great and they couldn't see the two evil eyes on the youth's forehead, they could still feel a non-human, forbidden, and evil aura from him.

Immediately, the crowd was in an uproar.

From the previous drinks and curses, many neighbors clearly knew Li Yu, or rather, the existence of that "Dog Cub."

Precisely because of this, they were astonished.

Many of them were fighting for their lives to ascend to 【Sequence 8】, so naturally, they knew how much the couple valued their foster son, planting him in a vat as soon as he came of age, fearing he would run away. How could they allow him to come out and open the door to meet guests?

With doubts in their hearts, they all wanted to step forward to inquire.

Li Yu didn't care, and spoke to everyone in front of him in a cold, stiff tone:

"Jiao Qing and Sun Sun Sanniang are both dead."

"Everything here is inherited by me."

"Jiao's Meat Shop will be permanently closed. If you want to buy meat, go somewhere else."

After speaking, Li Yu stepped over the threshold and slapped the notice he had written last night directly onto the door frame of the meat shop.

Without any surprise, his decision immediately triggered great dissatisfaction.

Every single person's gaze towards Li Yu turned malicious.

Even those commoners who were originally timid were now full of ferocity, staring at Li Yu with venomous eyes that looked like they wanted to kill.

Among them, almost none were normal people.

The food they had been craving and addicted to for days suddenly disappeared and couldn't be bought; naturally, they were all annoyed.

"Why? You say close and it closes?"

"Where did this bastard come from? Does Boss Jiao have a son? How come we don't know?"

"A shop of more than ten years, you say close and it closes? Are you crazy?"

"You say they are dead, so they are dead? Where are the corpses? We want to go in and see."

"Right, we want to go in."

Amidst the noisy movement, a group of people surged up, wanting to break into the courtyard.

Li Yu had long anticipated this scene, which was also why he was starving to death but deliberately didn't look for breakfast to eat.

At this moment, he abruptly relaxed the willpower that had always been suppressing the forbidden egg in his belly, letting that terrifying and horrific appetite surge up.

In an instant, the change he expected happened to him.

"Hmph!"

Accompanied by Li Yu's non-human cold snort, his originally thin body suddenly expanded, and his hands turned into sharp claws.

His mouth full of sharp teeth opened, and while saliva was stringing, a meat tongue embedded with sharp teeth extended out, and the two evil eyes that were originally closed on his forehead slowly opened.

Even if it were a blind person, they could feel a terrifying existence appearing in front of them at this moment.

That dense malice and evil Qi had almost solidified into substance.

With a whoosh, the crowd rushing forward immediately stalled, and then scattered.

These South District commoners who were addicted to "two-legged sheep meat," although they looked fierce, were actually cunning rats who bullied the weak and feared the strong. Seeing Li Yu transform, where would they care about their appetite?

They only wished their parents had given them a few more legs, fleeing extremely fast.

Although most of the customers were scared away, Li Yu still maintained his state.

The reason?

In the crowd, some people still hadn't dispersed.

Without exception, they were all evil cultivators who mastered transcendent strange powers.

Of course, most of them were unranked.

According to the original body's memory and comparing it with the fragments in Sun Sun Sanniang's account book, none of these people were 【Sequence 8】 Transcendents.

And so, in the next breath, Li Yu reached behind his waist and pulled out that filthy bone-stripping knife. While sweeping his cold gaze over them one by one, his mouth seemed to be out of control, automatically chanting that terrifying "Meat-Person Song."

Immediately, an aura several times more mad and fierce than before surged out like a storm.

You must know that the evil cultivators in the field had abilities similar to Jiao Qing and Sun Sun Sanniang before they died, and most were even worse. How could they withstand this momentum?

Li Yu guessed!

The Son of the Forbidden God, who was still carrying a filthy bone-stripping knife after transforming, should have combat power comparable to a Meat-Person, or even stronger.

Although he was a fake transformation, a paper tiger, it was enough to bluff people.

The evil cultivators who originally harbored malice immediately stalled, retreating one after another.

If they united, or even if just one of them truly attacked, they could poke through the lie before them.

Unfortunately, no one would stand out.

It was just failing to buy meat; why risk one's life?

In this place of survival of the fittest, everyone was very fierce and very cautious.

Everyone knew that once they were injured, the fellow Daoists around them would not sympathize, but would tacitly pounce to cannibalize them.

Sure enough, before long, the evil cultivators either retreated with expressionless faces or left with mocking words. "Unexpectedly, Old Jiao and Sun Sanniang failed in the end."

"It's cheap for this dog cub, getting a blessing in disguise and ascending to 【Meat-Person】?"

"Hmph, there's no such good thing. I'm afraid he's being possessed by that forbidden egg. Before long, the South District will have another cannibal monster running around."

"Forget it, it has nothing to do with us, let's all disperse."

"Jiao's Meat Shop is closed, so be it. Without Jiao the Butcher, can we only eat hairy pigs? This is Wanfu City."

Amidst the ridicule, the area outside Jiao's Meat Shop, which was originally lively and crowded, soon became empty.

This conflict of permanently closing the meat shop ended in this way.

It also meant that Li Yu, this "inheritor," had gained a foothold in the South District, Old Street of Tianji Workshop, for the first time.

For this, he had no time to be happy.

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Pretending to be fine, he snorted coldly, then closed the door.

The moment the outside scene was obscured by the doorway, Li Yu burst out with extreme speed, ghost-like, and darted toward the kitchen.

Halfway there, his belly visibly swelled, his skin stretched to transparency, blood spots grew in patches, and a face exactly like Li Yu's was trying to drill out.

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die!"

"Don't give birth, I'll eat something right now to feed this damn thing."

The complaint fell, and Li Yu had already used his hands and feet to stuff all the black cured meat, yellow worm-eaten rice, and stinky pickles he could find in the kitchen into his mouth.

In his past life, he wouldn't even bother to look at these rotten things.

Now, to survive, he wished he could teleport them directly into his stomach.

Fortunately, this parasitized body had sharp teeth and a perverted digestion speed.

He hadn't finished eating all those things when his belly began to shrink back, and that violent restlessness and cold evil intent hid again.

Li Yu, who had recovered, leaned against the dirty stove, breathing heavily.

Successfully gained a foothold on the street!

The belly-breaking crisis was temporarily resolved!

But his face showed no joy, instead, he touched his belly and said solemnly:

"This dog-shit forbidden egg must be solved as soon as possible!"

"If I eat too little, I don't know how many times a day it will try to break open my belly?"

"If I eat too much, it will successfully obtain nutrition and continue to mature... I can't rely on self-mutilation to survive from now on, right?"

Muttering, Li Yu looked around.

The last bit of rotten food had been eaten by him.

If he didn't purchase more, he wouldn't be able to survive today, let alone his subsequent plans.

Thinking of this, Li Yu didn't delay any longer, stood up, rolled his saliva to swallow the unpleasant smell in his mouth, and then went to the master bedroom.

Just in time to see that crudely made bronze rooster come out, high-spirited, still surrounded by choking smoke.

Completely ignoring him, the "master," it walked into a small, inconspicuous wooden shed in the shadow of the corner.

Accompanied by clicking sounds, its wings retracted, and it crouched down, as if entering a standby state.

"This troublesome thing actually has its own chicken coop?"

Li Yu entered the room with an absurd look.

Not daring to complain anymore, his gaze swept across the two yellow-talisman wooden boxes on the table.

In his mouth, he muttered:

"The bone-stripping knife can still be used to chop people, can't sell it."

"The human skin scroll is one of the symbols of the Forbidden God Sect, can't sell it either."

"Jiao Qing's brain matter is highly toxic, maybe it will be useful later?"

"Only Sun Sun Sanniang's intestines, hehe, I'd rather raise that bronze rooster as a pet than need a blood intestine that has come alive."

After speaking, Li Yu had already made a decision in his heart.

Then, not caring about how crowded it was, he stuffed both wooden boxes into his bosom, and tucked the bone-stripping knife behind his waist, covering it with his clothes.

As for the human skin scroll engraved with the "Meat-Person Song," he simply stuffed it into the sole of his shoe.

There was no other way; he was penniless now, and only these four terrifying and disgusting strange items were, in his view, very valuable and could not have the slightest loss.

Now he was going out, and if he left them at home, he was worried about being stolen, so it was safer to carry them on his body.

After confirming there were no mistakes, Li Yu took advantage of the fact that the forbidden egg in his belly was still digesting his "breakfast," grabbed the keys, locked the room door and courtyard door in turn.

In the next breath, he officially stepped onto the street of this terrifying otherworld.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 6 =====