Longevity starts with eating monsters

Chapter 1 Vegetable Cave

In the thirty-fifth year of the Qingli reign, the water in Shahe River became clear, a great disaster occurred, famine occurred, and people ate each other.

When you go out, you can't see anything, and the plain is covered by bones.

How depressed is Nakano, there is no one inhabited for thousands of miles.

Lu Chen pressed his head, endured the pain, and sorted out his confused memories. He had to admit that he had traveled through time and his situation seemed to be quite bad.

This world is completely different from the peaceful and prosperous world in my previous life.

Wars are rampant, ghosts are roaming around every day, and all kinds of demons and evil spirits are lurking around China, trying to spy on the divine artifacts. It seems like the country is about to collapse and sink.

At this moment, he was standing in a dark place, a bit like a dungeon.

Apart from a little light coming through the gap above the head, there was no light source in the entire space, and the mouth and nose were filled with an indescribable stench.

In addition, there was a graceful figure as white as mutton-fat jade squatting in the corner in front of him.

"No, don't. I obey you, don't send me away."

It was a girl, completely naked, like a skinned and washed lamb ready to be slaughtered, her pretty face filled with deep fear.

What happened?
Where is this place?

".Vegetable Cave."

Lu Chen subconsciously uttered a name, and the corresponding memories flooded in.

This place is called "Jingyang Mountain". It is the base of a hundred-year-old tiger monster, who calls himself the King of Jingyang Mountain and takes in refugees passing by.

After these rioters enter Jingyang Mountain, they will be sent to this vegetable cave and become food for the mountain king's family.

But even so, there are still people who can't forget it.

In the memory of his previous life, almost every day there would be civilians who would run to the foot of Jingyang Mountain to sell themselves to the mountain king, wanting to become a member of the Vegetable Cave.

Because the tiger doesn't want the vegetable people to become skin and bones, so as long as they become vegetable people, it will give them a bite to eat. And just this one bite of food makes countless disaster victims scramble to chase after them, and even kill each other. The tiger is also happy to see this happen, and even often enjoys it.

Every once in a while, the tiger would clean up the vegetable cave.

After the cleanup, those who are lucky enough to survive will become the managers of the next batch of vegetable caves, helping the mountain king manage those ignorant vegetable people.

The predecessor is one of them.

However, although he is called a manager, he is actually no different from other vegetable people. As long as the tiger is in the mood, he cannot escape the fate of being eaten.

Therefore, there are very few managers who are re-elected multiple times.

His predecessor had been re-elected the most times, having served as manager four times, which meant that he had survived four cleansings by the mountain king.

To be able to do this, the predecessor must have had a set of life-saving skills.

"Damn it, I can't calm down."

Lu Chen rubbed his eyebrows, but the pain did not ease. Only broken fragments of memory remained in his mind, forcing him to take the initiative to dig them out.

How did the predecessor die?

According to the last memory, it seems that a vegetable man bribed the predecessor of a handicraft, saying that it was a family heirloom, and exchanged it for an extra bag of rice from him.

The memory stayed at the moment when my predecessor was pondering that handicraft.

It was a small tripod the size of a palm.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Lu Chen's head suddenly ached again, and then his vision gradually blurred, and phantoms like a kaleidoscope of images emerged.

It was a three-legged tripod with round ears.

The tripod has a Taotie on it, with a head but no body, and the patterns on the tripod clearly outline lines of large characters.

[Current Realm: Mortal]

[Current martial arts: Sword Skills (Perfect)]

[Eating the flesh and blood of demons can take away their cultivation. 】

[Current ingredients: None]

"Don't worry, uncle is not a bad person."

Lu Chen's headache finally improved only after he saw the phantom clearly. But before he could comfort the frightened girl, a voice came from outside.

"Meat man, what are you standing there for? The king wants you to get out!"

A strong smell of blood wafted from behind, and a powerful voice was accompanied by a low roar, like the roar squeezed from the throat of a wild beast while hunting.

Lu Chen's breathing stopped suddenly and he slowly turned around.

Smooth black fur, streamlined, beautiful muscles with human blood flowing on them, and a huge wolf head staring straight at Lu Chen.

Lu Chen took a deep breath and dug out the memory related to it. This wolf demon was the guard of the Vegetable Cave. After all, not everyone came to the Vegetable Cave voluntarily, and some were sold in. Such people would think of escaping, but unfortunately, no one has succeeded so far.

Then, the wolf demon turned his gaze and looked at the girl in the corner.

"Hmm? It seems that I misunderstood you. Are you selecting ingredients for the king? This meat is not bad. It is just right for cooking to please the young master."

"Okay, take them together."

"Otherwise, if we miss the king's dinner, neither you nor I will be able to explain ourselves."

As soon as he finished speaking, the wolf demon walked directly to the corner of the wall, grabbed the girl's white neck, and picked her up as if she was holding a lamb.

Seeing this, Lu Chen opened his mouth, then lowered his head and followed.

At the same time, he finally remembered why his predecessor had survived four times in the Vegetable Cave and not only did he not die, but he also gradually gained the attention of the tiger.

Soon, he followed the wolf demon out of the dungeon.

What came into view was a city in the mountains. The monster was the master of the town. In addition to him and the wolf monster, there were many monsters carrying vegetable people out of the vegetable man cave.

Lu Chen took a look and saw that all the vegetable people had dull eyes, numb expressions, and no spirituality at all.

If they weren't still breathing, Lu Chen wouldn't even dare to believe that they were still alive.

Following the streets of the town all the way to the center of the town, Lu Chen finally saw a terrifying figure that was bigger than the hill.

"Ho! Ho!" It was a tiger, but it was several times bigger than an ordinary tiger, and its face was full of spirit. Beside it, there was a tiger cub, and the two animals were playing. From time to time, the tiger would stick out its tongue and gently lick the cub's messy fur.

In addition, there is a mountain of meat standing next to them.

Only after Lu Chen got closer did he see clearly that it was a dead wild boar. The hair on its body was like steel thorns, and there was still a terrifying evil spirit remaining.

However, as the Taotie Cauldron emerged, what Lu Chen saw changed again.

[Ingredients found, Pig Dragon (Yang Fire Great Perfection)]

[The pig demon has become a spirit, with its Yang Fire fully developed. Its twenty years of power has been condensed in its heart. Eating it can take away its cultivation.]

"I am holding a banquet today because my husband killed this dragon pig that always opposes him. I intend to use its blood to remove tendons and grow bones for my son, and to build his body and cleanse his marrow."

Having said that, the tiger demon turned its head and looked straight at Lu Chen.

"Meat man, your cooking skills are always good, so you will be the one to cook this dragon pig."

"Yes, sir." Lu Chen imitated his predecessor's words and actions, bowed his head deeply, then took the long knife handed over by the wolf demon and walked to the body of the dragon pig.

The normal procedure is to shave off the pig hair first.

After all, with all these pig hairs like steel thorns placed here, there is no place to start even if you want to eat them.

However, after a brief hesitation, Lu Chen began to act. He did not choose to shave the pig's hair, but instead started to cut the meat from the wild boar's heart.

At this moment, the tiger cub that had been playing beside the tiger demon suddenly spoke.

"Mother, I'm hungry!"

"Good boy, baby~" the tiger demon said softly after hearing this: "There will be food later, just bear with it."

"No!" The young tiger was immediately unhappy when he heard this. He rolled on the ground and shouted, "I'm hungry! I want to eat meat now!"

"Okay, okay~"

The tiger demon loved his son dearly, so he naturally would not refuse its request. He immediately looked at Lu Chen and said, "Forget it, meat man, make some appetizers for my son first."

"Return to the king!"

The wolf demon guarding the vegetable cave saw this and quickly jumped out to show off: "I have some excellent ingredients here, and I am willing to give them to the king!"

After saying that, he held the girl high in his hands.

Upon hearing this, the tiger demon glanced at the girl and saw that her skin was fair and tender. She did not look like a poor girl at all, nor a starving person fleeing famine. Instead, she looked like the daughter of an official.

"Yeah, that's good, let's go with her."

As soon as these words came out, the girl's pupils suddenly shrank, she screamed in fear, and struggled desperately. Seeing this, the monsters burst into laughter.

"Good shout! Good shout!"

"It will be more flavorful and tasty if cooked this way."

"Not bad."

The laughter continued for a while, but gradually stopped. This was because the monsters discovered that the person who was supposed to come and cook the food was now lying motionless.

"Meat man?"

The tiger demon paused and found that Lu Chen did not reply as usual and was still staying beside the dragon pig's body. Dissatisfaction immediately appeared in his eyes.

"Meat man!"

The wind came from the tiger, and the tiger demon roared softly. The rolling murderous energy suddenly turned into a strong wind that swept out, causing the monsters present to kneel on the ground in fear.

It was not until this moment that Lu Chen slowly turned around.

In his hand he held a piece of flesh that had just been cut out from a wild boar's heart, and he was biting it hard in his mouth.

The demon's flesh and blood, which should have been impossible to bite, melted in the mouth due to some strange force.

The hot demon blood overflowed from his mouth and flowed down his neck. However, Lu Chen did not feel any discomfort at all, and even stretched out his tongue to lick the blood on his lips.

This is why the predecessor survived.

His predecessor did not know any martial arts. The "sword technique for saving people" shown on the Taotie Ding was actually a survival skill he used to please the tiger's family.

My predecessor stayed in Cairenku for three years.

In the past three years, all the dishes have passed through his hands.

"Pooh."

If you stay with beasts for too long, you will become a beast yourself.

Moreover, even if we reach this point, it is nothing more than living one day at a time, like a walking corpse. What is the difference between being alive and being dead?
"Meat man! Come here!"

The tiger demon's furious roar echoed through the mountains and forests, but this time, it did not see fear and panic in the eyes of the ant before it.

There is only madness that comes from being forced into a desperate situation.

Lu Chen stared at the tiger demon with a sinister look in his eyes: "I don't want to die, nor do I want to continue living in humiliation."

In that case, you can only die.

The Taotie Cauldron emerges.

[Current ingredient: Pig Dragon (Yang Fire Great Perfection)]

[Current Realm: Mortal]

By devouring the flesh and blood of demons, you can take away their cultivation.

Looking at the words on the tripod, Lu Chen swallowed the pork heart in his mouth hard, and then clenched the handle of the knife in his hand.

[Current ingredients: None]

[Current realm: Yang Fire Great Accomplishment]

(End of this chapter)