Level Up in Martial World

Chapter 218: True Nature of the System

Ahhhh!

"Help! Monster…."

Before the man could even finish his sentence, his body was cleanly cut in two pieces.

Lu Zhen looked at the gruesome sight of the mangled body that lay on the ground with a frown on his face.

"Are they all dead?"

"Yes, young master," an elderly man bowed as he looked at all the bodies.

"Let's burn them or there might be other troubles as well…" Lu Zhen said as his frown deepened when he jumped up to look at all the corpses on the ground. It was above a million or so, all dead and stacked on top of each other.

Today, these days, the four major families of Phoenix City have turned into one major family, with only his Lu family left now.

A depressing aura emitted from them as Lu Zhen could even see a black miasma slowly forming in the stacks of corpses.

"How many have I killed till now?" Lu Zhen thought as he looked at his blood-soaked body. Although these people weren't exactly innocent, and after all, how could soldiers be innocent? But these mangled corpses made him still have a second thought.

"No, my martial heart is becoming weaker…" He tightened his fist as his gaze turned cold.

"This is the path I chose in my life and this is my aim. I will have to face these situations countless times in the future if I want to be an emperor. It is an inevitable thing. It is better to die being an emperor rather than being a peasant," Lu Zhen thought, as his goal was set, his heart steeled, and his conviction became like iron.

He was under no delusion that he was a hero; rather, he knew that he himself was a sinner for killing all these people. He could be called the villain instead.

However, as long as Lu Zhen's determination didn't falter, he wouldn't even flinch. After all, it was natural for one to live, and for one to live, one must consume another.

It didn't matter who it was; as long as Lu Zhen was killing for his purpose, his martial heart would not falter.

"If immortality is possible, I will attain it; if not, I will die trying," he declared as he looked up at the sky.

"System, how exactly were you made?"

[There is no information in the database, host.]

"Sure, sure," Lu Zhen chuckled. He knew he was no god, and coincidence wasn't something that Lu Zhen believed in. The first-ever system he encountered—how could it conveniently follow him to this martial world and provide him with all these cheats? And the question was, how could the system even grant him skills?

"There is definitely someone behind it, or rather, something behind it—whether it is god, devil, or another entity. No matter who you are, I am going to exploit you until you cease to exist," a sneer appeared on Lu Zhen's face as he narrowed his eyes. He then landed on the ground again, his aura seeming to have changed.

It exuded an intimidating presence, as if Lu Zhen were previously a tiger cub but had now transformed into a dragon.

However, Lu Zhen didn't allow these changes to persist. He slowly retracted his aura, masking it to that of a normal, average second-stage martial artist with that intimidating aura he was emitting completely gone.

….

"This human seems to have gained some self-awareness. What should we do?"

"Let him leave; he is going to be harvested soon anyway."

"True, humans are quite easy to fool. The power they lust for is their doom."

"Even if they weren't fools, it is inevitable that they will become our food so that we can grow stronger."

A loud laughter resounded in the place as they watched countless screens where the life stories of countless people unfolded in real-time, as if they were watching a live stream.

…..

As Lu Zhen landed on the ground, he looked at the old man.

"Burn all these corpses and give them orders."

"Yes, young master." Although the grand elder was stunned, he immediately followed orders. After all, these millions of corpses could produce terrifying ghosts and even a ghost general, equivalent to a first-stage martial artist. Either way, they would be terrifying figures to deal with, and the old man knew the consequences of leaving them unattended.

"Mother, you should also help."

"Alright, son." A smile appeared on Lu Ying's face as she also helped burn down all the corpses and dispose of them before a ghost could form from the tragedy that had happened here.

Suddenly, a portal appeared, revealing a deep abyss as Lu Ming came out from it with a blood-soaked body, holding the head of a man.

The man's head was full of wrinkles, and his eyes were wide open, as if frozen in horror even in death, blood still slowly dripped from the neck area as it slowly fell to the ground one blood droplet at a time.

"Is that ancestor Hei's head?"

"Yes." Lu Ming nodded his head with a strange smile.

"Ancestor Lu, are you already done?" Lu Zhen expressed surprise, bowing respectfully, yet keeping a cautious distance.

"Yes, I killed him." Lu Ming chuckled, his eyes holding a peculiar glint as he looked at Lu Zhen.

"You might be wondering who I am, right?"

Lu Zhen flinched at the question, but he remained relatively calm. "Yes."

"When did you guess that I wasn't Lu Ming anymore?" Lu Ming chuckled, observing Lu Zhen with a mysterious gaze.

"When you saved me in the forest." Lu Zhen's expression turned cold, and he stared at the man without flinching.

"How?" the man inquired with a surprise expression for the first time as he looked at Lu Zhen with narrowed eyes.

"My ancient warrior physique," Lu Ming replied plainly. Lu Zhen's eyes narrowed; he had noticed that the ancestor he initially encountered was marked by his divine physique, but this man in front of him lacked that distinctive mark.