In this world, where there is light, there is also darkness.

In the Qianyuan Empire, every citizen is a soldier and everyone practices the Martial Way, but that doesn’t mean everyone in the Qianyuan Empire can live a good life.

As they say, wealth lasts three generations, so does poverty.

There are always people whose lives go badly, who slowly sink into dire straits.

Practicing the Martial Way also costs money.

Even though the Qianyuan Empire distributes Cultivation Techniques for free, all kinds of herbs and Spirit Stones needed for cultivation must be prepared by oneself.

When a family’s finances fall to the point they can’t afford the herbs and Spirit Stones needed to cultivate, that family is basically finished!

Because if you can’t afford herbs and Spirit Stones, you can’t become a Martial Artist.

If you can’t become a Martial Artist, then in the Qianyuan Empire, where Martial Artists are everywhere and every job requires Martial strength, you can hardly find any work!

Without work, it’s naturally impossible to earn money to buy Spirit Stones and herbs.

It’s a vicious cycle, and in the end these people degenerate to a point where they almost can’t survive!

Here, when Martial Artists farm, they can till a hundred mu in a single day!

Ordinary people have no competitiveness at all in front of Martial Artists.

Once they lose the Martial Way, the people of the Qianyuan Empire fall into a living hell.

Outside the city walls on the western outskirts of Tianhe City of Boyang Prefecture, there lives such a group of people!

These people are so poor they can’t practice the Martial Way, naturally they can’t work either, and can only survive by begging.

In Qian Yuan, a state ruled by military law where all people practice the Martial Way, the fate of beggars is obvious!

"Mom, I’m hungry..."

A little girl thin as a stick of bone curled up in her mother’s arms, mumbling weakly, her breath faint as a thread.

Her equally emaciated mother gently patted her daughter’s back and said softly, "My little Wild Millet, go to sleep. Once you’re asleep, you won’t feel hungry..."

When she said this, there was a sheen of tears in the mother’s eyes.

Because she didn’t know if, after her daughter fell asleep, she would ever wake again.

The mother and daughter hadn’t eaten anything for two days already, because they were too weak to even go out to beg.

The place where the two of them were was like a shack, but it had no roof, no walls, only four poles at the corners; even the bark on the poles had been gnawed clean.

If the poles weren’t so hard, they might have been eaten too!

Clatter.

A chipped porcelain bowl missing half its rim was tossed down in front of them; in the bowl was less than half a bowl of rice porridge.

The smell of the porridge reached the mother’s nostrils and her eyes suddenly lit up!

Hugging her daughter, she scrambled and crawled over to the earthen bowl, snatching it up and bringing it quickly to the girl’s lips.

"Wild Millet, there’s food, porridge to drink. Hurry and open your eyes and drink the porridge!"

In truth, the mother already knew that this bowl of porridge couldn’t save her daughter who was lingering at death’s door, but she still clung to a sliver of hope.

Maybe, after one sip of porridge, her daughter would get better.

The little girl hazily opened her mouth, but she no longer even knew how to swallow!

The mother tipped the bowl, sending the rice porridge into her daughter’s mouth.

With just one mouthful—before the porridge even fully entered the girl’s mouth—her eyes suddenly snapped open, and her whole person seemed to regain vitality.

The mother was wild with joy; she didn’t even think about why this bowl of porridge had such an effect, and only focused on feeding every bit of it into her daughter’s mouth!

Boom!

Suddenly a figure dropped from the sky like a boulder, slamming into the ground not far away!

A cloud of dust billowed up!

"Who gave you Spirit Porridge? Speak!"

The newcomer was clad in Black Armor—it was a soldier of Tianhe City’s City Defense Army.

The mother was so dizzy with hunger that, in her eyes, there was only her daughter who had just snatched life from death; she didn’t hear the Black-Armored City Defense soldier’s question at all.

In the surrounding slums, those sallow-faced, skinny beggars all bolted madly in every direction, fleeing far from the Black-Armored City Defense Army as if avoiding flood and ferocious beasts.

"You dare ignore me? Courting death!"

The Black-Armored City Defense soldier flew into a rage and stepped toward the little girl in the mother’s arms.

If that foot landed, the little girl would undoubtedly be smashed to pieces, her flesh and blood turned to pulp!

"Alas!"

Just as the soldier’s foot was about to come down, a sigh sounded by his ear.

"Who’s there..."

The Black-Armored City Defense soldier’s hair stood on end; before he could even react, he felt his neck twist, his head spinning one hundred and eighty degrees, letting him see who had attacked him from behind.

It was a woman wrapped in a tattered cloak.

But beneath the cloak was a pair of eyes bright as a sky full of stars.

"As expected, I really am not suited to hiding..."

Just before his consciousness collapsed, the Black-Armored City Defense soldier heard this sentence.

Toot!

Almost at the same time as the Black-Armored City Defense soldier died, a sharp alarm suddenly blared from the city gate, and streaks of Black Armor shot out from the gate toward this side.

"Take your daughter and hide farther away... Forget it, I’ll just leave instead..."

The woman’s body flickered, and she vanished amidst the ruined slums.

Only then did the mother realize what had happened, and she covered her face and began to sob.

She understood where that bowl of Spirit Porridge that had brought her daughter back from death had come from, and she also understood that that woman had saved her and her child.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

Four impacts in succession!

The City Defense squad of five men to a unit was easily slaughtered by the woman!

However, as the Leader of the squad died, the Jade Plaque at his waist suddenly lit up!

"Barbarian from Another World sighted! Inform the General!"

From within the city gate, more and more City Defense troops rushed out.

The woman in the tattered cloak knew she could not linger; her figure blurred, and when she reappeared she was already hundreds of meters away!

It was like she was flickering!

Whoosh!

Two Red-Armored Thousand-man Generals flew into the air from within the city, pursuing in the direction of the cloaked woman.

"Damn it! They’re acting this fast! I just hope I can get out of here alive!"

Bang!

The cloak on the woman’s body burst apart, and her speed increased yet again!

Her true appearance was revealed—it was Langya, Lin Mu’s Disciple in Name!

Langya at the Core Formation Stage was the strongest among all twelve of Lin Mu’s exiled immortals of the extreme realm.

Even so, amid the endless hunts of the Qianyuan Empire, she was forced into a state of constant, wretched flight.

If she hadn’t been lucky and landed in a small city where the strongest expert was only a Thousand-man General, she would probably be dead by now!

But this time, Tianhe City was a large city, and the Garrison Commander of a large city was a Ten-Thousand-Man General!

"Cut!"

Langya was sprinting at full speed when a sharp sound of air being split suddenly rang out behind her!

Bang!

Langya spun around and punched!

Clang!

The arrow loosed by the Red-Armored Thousand-man General was knocked flying by her single punch!

"Fake God Child! This woman is from a Nameless Minor World. Quickly! Gather all forces and surround and kill her!"

Seeing the strength Langya displayed, the two Thousand-man Generals were not afraid but delighted!

By now, what had happened in Qingfeng Prefecture over the past half day had already spread throughout the world!

Now, every major city in The Thirteen Prefectures of the Southern Territory knew of a group of Barbarians from a Nameless Minor World; each of them was a Fake God Child and must be killed on sight!

With a howl from the Thousand-man General, a white light suddenly shot up from within Tianhe City, Sword Qi spraying in all directions as it pierced straight into the heavens!

The Garrison Commander of Tianhe City, the Armored General of Ten Thousand Bai, charged out!

"No way to escape, then I’ll just fight!"

Knowing there was no hope of getting away, Langya stopped running instead.

Her figure leaped and she turned back!

The Thousand-man General chasing behind clearly hadn’t expected that the Fake God Child from the Otherworld would dare to turn around at this moment; he almost crashed straight into Langya’s arms!

Bang!

Langya punched out!

With the invincible fist technique passed down from Lin Mu, she shattered the Thousand-man General’s skull with a single blow!

Though they were both at the Thousand-man General realm, Langya was an exiled immortal of the extreme realm, a Divine Child!

She crushed him and killed him in absolutely overwhelming fashion!

The other Thousand-man General watched his comrade die and was so enraged his eyes nearly split apart, but he was forced to retreat.

Boom!

The ground beneath Langya’s feet shattered under her step, and her body shot out like an arrow!

Puff!

Langya and that Thousand-man General brushed past each other, a spray of blood trailing in their wake.

"Courting death!"

The Armored General of Ten Thousand Bai, who was flying on his sword, flew into a towering rage and slashed out with one sword!