After fresh rain in the empty mountains, the evening air brings the feel of autumn. Li Xiang brandished his self-made High-Density Chopping Knife, and with a single strike, a bamboo stalk as thick as a bowl's mouth snapped and broke.

Suddenly, an ordinary earth viper shot out.

With a gentle flick of his knife's tip, Li Xiang severed the earth viper's vital spot, and its ferocious head fell to the ground.

System: "Congratulations, Host, for killing the Tier One Exotic Beast. You have received a surprise reward."

"What the hell? This ordinary earth snake is an Exotic Beast?" Li Xiang pinched his chin and fell into deep thought. "...It's supposed to mutate ten years from now when the Apocalypse arrives and demonic and monstrous energies invade, right? Hmm, I've just slain an Exotic Beast in its infancy. My merit is immeasurable."

By that logic, Li Xiang had lived two lives, making him a total of 39 plus 25, or 64 years old.


Jiang Cai'Er didn't stay out too long, heading home to bed around eight o'clock in the evening.


Tonight was for the New Year's Eve vigil. Once it passed midnight, it would be the first day of the Lunar New Year.


Then, throughout the surrounding villages, people would start setting off "door-opening firecrackers." There's a saying that the earlier you set them off for a "fortunate start to the year," the more auspicious it is. In the past, people would mostly start around four or five in the morning. But the competition escalated, and people started earlier and earlier. Now, many just set them off the moment it strikes midnight, thinking, 'Let's see who can beat me to it!'


Chapter 154 - Chapter 127: Have You Ever Seen a Mountain Village at Four or Five in the Morning on the First Day of the Lunar New Year?