Conquer God, Asura, and 1000 Beauties

Chapter 2 Meat and Desire

Jaime proceeded through the forest and found a wide river.

"Conquer three realms, be the king of all living things, and open one thousand beauties' hearts! Even Tong Sam Chong, who took a journey to the west, walking thousands of miles, had to start with a single step, devotion! As for my single step, it will be... taking a bath in the river!" Jaime looked at his body packed with dry blood and mud. He opened all his clothes, jumped into the river, and enjoyed its cold water.

After a few minutes, he began to calm down. He looked around at this place far, far away from his original world. This place was much better than his original world. The air was much fresher. He didn’t know if he would ever go back to his world anymore. Jaime clenched his fist.

"My hundred years’ research failed, but I got a second chance to meet Ye Xiu. Not to mention conquering the three realms and 1000 hearts. Even if it needs more than that, I will take the risk." Jaime shouted with all his strength. "In 100 years, I will conquer everything under the universe! Wait for me, Ye Xiu!"

He saw some fishes swimming along the river and suddenly had an idea.

"Book of Karma, I need information about making a simple fish trap... no," Jaime glanced at the forest. "Information about creating traps for small animals in the forest." Jaime felt his mental energy go to the book while he gained some insight about making animal traps. Jaime walked out of the river only with his underpants and moved to the nearest bamboo tree. Using Hu Hai ancestor’s sword, the only thing that the dead body had, and some clothes, he cut three bamboos and dug out bamboo shoots. He cut the bamboo into smaller pieces and would use it to make a basket-like fish trap.

"Knowing how to create it is sure different than making it for real." He noticed that fact after trying so hard to connect all the small bamboo pieces to make a fish trap. It wasn’t an easy task even though he knew how to make it. He asked the Book of Karma. "Book of Karma, can you give me real experience of a trap maker?"

The Book of Karma responded and gave Jaime the real experience of a trap maker. At that moment, Jaime felt parts of his strength and health go. His level fell from level 5 to level 4.

"It took one level!" In Jaime’s mind, he suddenly felt like he had lived a life of a trap maker, born, living for 78 years, and death by old age. All of this happened in a second.

Now, the bamboo pieces in his hand moved really quickly, as if he had known these things his entire life. He only needed a few minutes, and a bamboo fish trap was finished without much effort.

If this trap was put inside the river, fish may easily enter from a big hole in the front of the trap, but once it entered, it wouldn’t be able to get out again. For every trap that had been finished, Jaime went to the river and found a place where fishes would mostly or likely cross. He put stones inside the trap, tied it to the riverbank, and sunk it down.

He was working as hard as worker ants or an ant’s slave, making traps and cutting bamboo.

He checked one bamboo tree and started to hit it. After the second hit, a black figure fell from the tree near him. A two-meter dangerous black snake showed its wide mouth and fangs. Suddenly it moved fast and jumped to attack Jaime aggressively. Jaime turned his body, trying to run away, but at the same time, the snake jumped and fiercely bit Jaime’s buttock.

"Motherf**ker Heaven!!!!"

Taking his sword, Jaime quickly turned his body and randomly slashed the snake’s body crazily. "Let go!!! Let me go!!! Arrrghhh!!!"

The snake’s body finally fell to the ground after being cut into two, but its head was still on Jaime’s ass. He could feel the snake’s head tightening its bite. The snake’s head usually stayed alive for one hour even after its body was gone.

"Árrggghhhhh my ass!"

Jaime forced his hand onto the snake’s head and pulled it with all his might.

I am going to die! This snake has poison! How can I put my lips on my ass and suck it out! F**k maybe I can run to the bamboo peak and force one of the inner disciples to kiss my ass!

Jaime checked the snake’s head in his hand. “Book of Karma, what kind of snake is it? Is it a poisonous snake or not!? I am going to die!”

The Book of Karma glowed.

[You have killed a level 3 bamboo snake. The snake was non-poisonous. It is already dead, and its life energy is now without an owner. Will you take the energy?]

“Take the energy?” The fact that it was non-poisonous already made him calm enough. He didn’t have to think about getting someone to kiss his ass anymore.

Jaime looked at the snake’s carcass. It seems like there is a ball of light hanging off its body and started to diffuse with the surroundings.

“Take it!” Jaime’s motto is, ‘everything free is good. If it isn’t good, you can always throw it away later. No harm in taking anything free in advance.”

The energy ball flew into Jaime’s body and made him feel really comfortable. Suddenly, Jaime could feel his status change. He sensed his level going up from middle level 4 to the peak of level 4. It seemed like he could rise to the next level by killing some random animals and collecting their energy.

When night began to fall around the forest, Jaime had finished four fish traps and a simple backpack basket made from bamboo to carry his loot. He had eight bamboo shoots and one snake carcass. Back at the bamboo house in Bamboo Peak, he saw a bamboo bed inside and fell asleep just 3 seconds after laying down. He was just too tired to do anything anymore.

Feeling cold, Jaime awoke from his deep slumber. “What time is it?”

Deep inside his mind, Jaime had arranged a biological clock. In his previous life, to train his mind and intelligence, he tried a few things. One of them was a biological clock. He only needed to set a time in his mind and let his unconscious mind move the time like a digital clock. It was very easy. No matter how busy he was, he could always see what time it was inside his mind.

Yesterday, he had already set a time of 12:00 pm when the sun was at the top of his head.

“It is 03:35 o’clock in the morning.”

After he awoke, he couldn’t see anything because of the darkness, so Jaime closed his eyes and let his mind draw a map of the surroundings. Jaime was once famous for his intelligence and photographic memory—the ability to remember things accurately and in great detail after seeing them once. With closed eyes, Jaime took two flints from the place he remembered, and then walked through the forest, headed towards the river using his memory. Without opening his eyes, he easily went down to the river and took out four fish traps.

He only opened his eyes when trying to make fire with the flints. Without any problem, the fire lit up and brightened the surroundings. Jaime caught 31 fishes inside the four fish traps and killed them with a wooden stick. After taking all of their own less energy, Jaime raised his level from level 4 to 5. He smiled smugly.

“Good, I feel that my strength doubled. Maybe I could waste those bamboo peak inner disciples already.” He looked at the fishes, the fire, and became dumbstruck. He never cooked in his lifetime. Why bother to cook when you could buy it? Truthfully, he didn’t really care what he ate. He ate all kinds of instant food and junk food all his life. Sometimes he ate expired food; it was okay, his stomach had gotten used to it.

But this time, it was a matter of life and death. If the food tasted like shit, he would be headless.

“Book of Karma, I need profound information and experience of the best chef ever.”

The Book of Karma quickly responded, and a screen appeared in front of Jaime. On the screen, there were thousands of lists about chefs and cooking skills. He glanced at the top of the list.

[...

God of Cooking’s skill and experience. Exchange with 1,000 levels and 100,000 mental energies.

God of Cooking first apprentice’s skill and experience. Exchange with 900 levels and 90,000 mental energies.

Demon Master Chef’s skill and experience. Exchange with 890 levels and 89,000 mental energies.

...]

"Alright, let's check something affordable. Window shopping is good but can also cause too much stress."

Jaime moved to the very bottom of the list, and the last one seemed affordable to him.

[5996. Apprentice of some random lowly restaurant chef on a deserted village’s skill and experience. Self-proclaimed as the best chef in the world. Exchange with 4 levels and 40 mental energies.]

Jaime sighed. “At least it has the title of ‘the best chef in the world.’”

“I’ll take it!” His level and mental energy were sucked by the Book of Karma. Jaime’s level moved down to level 1, and from the book, some information and experience flowed out to fill Jaime’s mind.

In that moment, Jaime understood something. In this world, there are two kinds of energies: spiritual energy and mental energy. Spiritual energy is stored inside the body. People with a high density of spiritual energies inside their body will have a higher level. Mental energy is something like mind energy to process information or to imagine something.

The Book of Karma takes spiritual energy and mental energy to exchange with information from it. As it takes spiritual energy, Jaime’s level will be lower than before as a result of vanishing spiritual energy from the body.

As the Book of Karma forcefully filled information into Jaime’s mind, suddenly he experienced a life of the self-proclaimed best chef in the world. It took only a second, but it felt like 80 years. In no time, Jaime knew everything he needed to make tasty roasted fish. His hands moved like a chef and processed the fishes.

Before sunrise, he divided the roasted fishes, roasted snakes, and bamboo shoots into 28 portions and wrapped each with leaves. Using his basket as a backpack, he went back to Bamboo Peak and delivered each package to each cave.

Looking at some dirty clothes in front of each cave, he grabbed all of them, brought them to the river, and washed them. He also took water from the river and filled each big clay barrel in front of the cave. In his spare time, he made more fish traps. Days passed just like that.

On the third day he was there, he found a very big beast in the forest. The beast's body was very big, like a rhino or elephant, but filled with horns all over its body.

“What kind of animal is it?”

[Hundred Horn Rhino, a level Demonic Beast. It is in the Elementary Realm, a very aggressive animal with tremendous strength but low intelligence.]

Jaime laughed because he knew that the big thing’s intelligence was only 1 point, but that rhino's strength couldn’t be laughed at. That beast could kill Jaime four times with one hit. And to kill that beast, Jaime would need to hit it a thousand times just to scratch its itch.

“I won’t be able to kill it for sure.”

Soon three days passed again, and Jaime met an inner disciple of Bamboo Peak when he delivered food. He was a guy around twenty, looking very arrogant and full of killing intent.

“Slave, I am sick and tired of fish, rabbit, or small animals. If you can’t give me something like demonic beast’s meat, I will collect your head.”

Jaime glared disdainfully at him.

“Who does he think he is?”

[Zhou Wei, level 25 - Junior Realm, an inner disciple of Bamboo Peak, a cousin of Elder Fan. Very arrogant and loves to kill people because of small matters, had killed 58 people on a whim.]

Jaime quickly turned his head down.

“Well, he only needs to hit this future king of the three realms once, and I will die twenty times.”

He had just reached level 6 after killing fishes and random small animals that were trapped by his land traps. How could he face a demonic beast whose levels were usually over ten and were at least at the elementary realm? Any animal under level ten was a normal animal, and from level ten up, all animals were categorized as Demonic Beasts. The beast is believed to be mutated by demonic aura and grew stronger from other normal beasts.

He knew from the Book of Karma that in this world, below level ten is categorized as normal, level 10-19 is categorized as Elementary Realm, level 20-29 is categorized as Junior Realm, level 30-39 is categorized as Senior Realm, level 40-49 is categorized as True Human Realm, level 50-59 is categorized as Elder Realm, level 60-69 is categorized as Patriarch Realm, and next are King Realm, Emperor Realm, Ancestor Realm, and Demigod Realm.

“But I....”

Zhou Wei waved his hand, and wind pressure hit Jaime like a solid wall, causing Jaime’s body to fly five meters back and land with his ass up in the sky.

“I want demonic beast’s meat tomorrow! For each day late, I will break one of your bones!”

“Curse your mother and her nine generations! Why not just say, please be demonic beast food wholeheartedly!”

Jaime knew for sure he wouldn’t be able to kill a demonic beast. “Brother, it isn’t good to follow your desires. Find your life purpose in happiness, not desire. Wanting demonic beast’s meat is a shameful desire. A monk shouldn’t want any meat, nor have desire, so you can cultivate smoothly.”

“You will die now!” Zhou Wei moved his hand.

“Tomorrow you will get the tastiest demonic beast’s meat you ever ate in your whole life.” Jaime was already running as fast as he could. Facing a level 25 disciple or a level 12 demonic beast, he knew which one was better to face.