It wasn't that easy, really tough, but as you can see, my ancestors made it through (otherwise how would I exist?).

"Oh my, I can't bear to watch any further, but I really want to know the stories my ancestors left behind."

Among those chosen children, he was the only one who survived.

And it was from then on that Juxi had a head of snowy white hair, the horrific experiments on his body making all his hair pale in comparison.

"Hmph, what did they say? Oh right, it's just a side effect, it doesn't affect me at all."

Juxi reminisced, and then they started giving Juxi a series of training, which took a long time, and finally he was able to leave the confinement of the Tiandao Academy on the day he graduated, to embark on his own path.

As he left, they awarded Juxi a talisman the size of a medal...

"You see, it's this one, this symbolizes ability." Juxi lifted up a silver-white tiger head emblem and explained to Yuanhui.

Both Juxi and Yuanhui were equipped with two swords, one wooden and one iron.

Besides the swords, Juxi carried a silver spear brimming with passion, motivation, and, um... what was it again? Yes, belief.

Because he believed he was a useful and needed person. Yula, because this world is full of all kinds of monsters and beasts, and my duty is to protect those humans threatened by monsters.

From the day his ancestors left the Tiandao Academy, he began to face off against the most powerful monster in life - dreams.

He couldn't wait to meet the monster, and finally, the moment arrived.

On the day of graduation, Juxi, wearing the academy's uniform, came across an old man with bad teeth lying in the street, mouth agape. Juxi encountered him on the road.

"Something doesn't seem right, is it my imagination?" Juxi had intended to get off the carriage and help the old man, but the old man seemed to have already passed away.

Forget it, he wasn't that kind of good-hearted person. Apart from his thin cloth clothes, there was nothing on the old man, so Juxi patted the horse's rump and went around from the other side.

Although he went around, his conscience still bore some reproach.

"Think about it, no idiot would go save that old man..."

Before Juxi could finish his sentence, the dense shade of the roadside trees brought a hint of coolness to him, coolness!!!

Something was getting more and more wrong. As someone specializing in exorcisms at the Tiandao Academy, he naturally detected a strong stench of corpses.

The pungent smell of corpses made Juxi have to whip the reins and hold his nose while speeding up the carriage, saying incredulously, "Just the body of an old man couldn't possibly have such a thick stench of death. Besides, the old man just now was already a twitching empty shell, either his soul reincarnated or ascended to heaven, where would the corpse smell come from?"

Indeed, corpse odors generally attach themselves to bodies whose souls haven't left yet, eventually evolving into corpse spirits; another kind is where the soul wanders in the human world unwilling to depart, leaving behind powerful resentful evil spirits.

And the old man Juxi had just seen clearly belonged to the latter, so could the body just now be... a deceitful bait?!

As Juxi had foreseen, not long after he left, he heard the sound of a carriage galloping behind him.

"Dad, be careful!!!"

"Hurry, hide inside the carriage, I'll stay here and resist, if anything happens to me, make sure you get safely to your mother!"

Saying that, the man pulled out his close-combat sword, jumping out of the carriage to cut down the undead crawling up along the carriage side one by one.

Ah, it seemed like a kind old man had been tricked...

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!!!"

Just then, a giant flesh-eating ghoul suddenly appeared on the path the carriage had to take, and it raised its heavy hammer to strike the horse's body. The sudden attack was too much, the horse hadn't even been able to neigh in agony before dying under the ghoul's massive hammer.

From the carriage, they pulled out a young girl in her early twenties, perhaps not even twenty yet.

His companion restrained the girl's father as the ghoul stripped the girl of her clothes, and the girl let out a hoarse scream.

Ah, what a hassle, hopefully that girl's father will have some silver to pay for my first exorcism fee, Juxi thought, but for now let those ants learn what a real man is!

Juxi untied the horse from the carriage, mounted it alone in front of them, dismounted, and said to the monster leader, "You should know what a real gentleman is, right?"

At that moment, Juxi thought his humor and wit would bring a better entrance effect, but in reality... the bald one dropped the girl, picked up a big hammer, and charged at Juxi.

"So, this is the leader of the ghouls?" Juxi sneered as he touched the gun barrel.