Chapter 1: The Corpse Painter in Another World

Dark clouds hang low and drizzle continues.

Between the gray sky and earth, there stands a gigantic peach tree with its crown towering toward the sky. Its trunk is as rough as iron, and the peach blossoms on its branches are as bright red as fire.

Under the peach tree, there seemed to be countless pairs of eyes peering through the rain curtain.

These eyes are either emerald green, blood red, or dark black...

The expressions in their eyes can be ferocious, strange, or charming...

suddenly,

A bright red figure flew out from between the peach leaves, passed through the rain curtain like lightning, and appeared in front of him in an instant.

The small bright red figure looks as agile as a fox.
But behind him was a powerful shadow.
In a very short time, the virtual and the real are combined, and the illusion is unified.

A woman with a graceful figure and beautiful appearance appeared.

Behind him, dragging the nine tails,
Nine tails, nine colors!

The red tail is like fire reflecting the void, the black tail is as agile and strange as the night, the white tail is as pure as snow, and the yellow tail is as bright as gold...

Raindrops are flying, nine-tailed foxes are dancing,
Interwoven into a strange and beautiful picture!

The woman's eyes were as red as blood, with a strange and charming expression in them, looking straight at Su Yu.

Eye contact,

He felt as if he had been electrocuted.
boom!
There was an explosion in my mind...

……

Su Yu woke up slowly amid the explosion in his mind.

What a strange dream!
Damn, I drank too much again...

Head hurts!
Before he opened his eyes, he felt a nauseating, strong smell of blood entering his nostrils.

Slowly open your eyes...

What came into view was a corpse with its limbs bound by iron chains as thick as fingers and its head and body separated.

The corpse looked half human and half beast, with coarse black hairs all over its body!

At the end of the limbs, the fingertips are long and sharp, like ten daggers.
There was a clean cut on the neck, and blood was still dripping slowly from the broken neck.

clatter……

Da da……

Blood dripped into the wooden basin under the stage, and the sound was particularly clear in this silent and closed room.

The head of the deceased was placed in front of the wooden platform.

Although the face resembles a human face, the edges are also covered with black hair and the teeth are as sharp as cones!

The expression on his face was also frozen at the moment before his death.
Twisted, hideous, painful...

In a pair of angry eyes, the pupils had not yet dilated, and there was an expression of pain and resentment in the eyes.

Su Yu looked at the scene in front of him and was completely stunned.

"Where is this?"

Why doesn't this dead thing look like a human?
Su Yu not only felt fear in his heart, but also had many questions.

He clearly remembered that he had drunk too much at a friend's party before and was then sent back home. How come he woke up and ended up in this place again?

Just then, a strange memory suddenly flooded into his mind.

In an instant, he felt a headache and his entire head felt as if it was torn apart.

Great Sheng Kingdom!
The Demon Slayer Division!
Painted corpse!
Many strange yet familiar concepts flooded into the depths of his consciousness.

He really crossed!

This world is still in ancient times, and the country he is in is called Da Sheng!

Although Da Sheng had been established for a hundred years, the old emperor was incompetent, the court was in turmoil, and the people were in panic.

The people were suffering from famine, plague, natural disasters and man-made calamities, and their lives were in misery. What was even more terrifying was that there were all kinds of horrible monsters and ghosts running rampant in the wild lands and mountains.

And he,

Although he is only seventeen years old this year, he is an ordinary corpse painter under the Da Sheng Demon Slaying Division.

The Corpse Painters are a special department of the Demon Slaying Bureau.

In Da Sheng, when ordinary criminals are beheaded, there is no need to draw the corpse.

The corpse is only drawn when a criminal who might be a demon or possessed by an evil spirit is beheaded.

If you only kill the physical form of the monster or fox ghost, it is still not enough to end its life.

Its remaining soul can still gain a glimmer of life, like the revival of plants!
Only by using the blood of the dead and drawing it on paper, will a wisp of its soul enter the paper along with the bloody brushstrokes.

Then, the soul-soothing master of the Demon-Slaying Division will use a spell to seal the scroll in order to completely imprison its soul and prevent it from entering the six realms of reincarnation!

Finally, the Demon Slayer Division will seal the soul painting in a special place.

During the corpse painting process, only the corpse painter remains alone in the Demon-Slaying Hall, and the only small door for entry and exit will be sealed by talismans.

The corpse painters in the Demon Slayer Division are usually mutilated.

Or born in a yin year, yin month, yin time,
Only in this way can one be born with the ability to communicate between yin and yang, use the blood of the dead to paint, and outline the soul!
Although Su Yu in this world is not physically disabled, he is an extremely rare person who was born in an yin year, yin month and yin time.

Therefore, his predecessor was selected into the Demon Slaying Division when he was eight years old. From then on, his parents severed ties with him and he followed a demon painter to learn painting.

Although he is only seventeen years old this year, he has been an expert in drawing corpses for three years!

Who knew that an accident happened when he was drawing the corpse today? He was hit by a ghost and died with blood coming out of his mouth. He didn't even have time to ring the warning bell.

However, Su Yu, who came through time, took advantage of him!

It is also common for corpse painters to be hit by ghosts when they are painting corpses.

Although many demons and ghosts have been killed, their residual souls are still very ferocious. Every year, many corpse painters are killed by the residual souls of demons and ghosts.

However, demon slayers cannot be present when painting corpses, as their evil spirits are too strong and their souls cannot be included in the painting.
In this secret room, no matter what kind of accidents the corpse painter encounters while painting corpses, he has to bear them alone.

The Demon Slaying Division selects many children from the public every year. As long as they are disabled or born in an yin year, yin month and yin time, they can communicate between yin and yang and outline their souls.

After learning how to draw corpses, the Demon Slaying Division will assign a separate residence, but it is just a simple thatched hut, and the monthly salary is one or two taels of silver, which is only enough for daily living.

If someone died accidentally while drawing a corpse, the person would be dragged to a mass grave outside the city and buried without even a tombstone.

Anyway, these people are basically selected into the Demon Slaying Division at a few years old. When they are selected, the division will pay their parents fifty taels of silver in one lump sum, which is considered to have bought out their lives.

Their families had long been cut off, and no one complained when they died.

The real risk is high and the income is low.

For corpse painters, the only way out is to get promoted in the Demon Slaying Bureau and become a demon painter.

Demon painters have higher status and are well paid, and are two types of high-ranking staff in the Demon Slayer Bureau, on par with demon slayers.

Su Yu turned his gaze to the canvas in front of him.

Most of the slain demon has been drawn, only the face is left to be drawn.

If the corpse painter leaves the Demon-Slaying Hall before completing his work, he will be killed on the spot.

He must finish the work before the blood of the deceased coagulates. If the painting is not completed before the blood coagulates, the painter will be beheaded!

Therefore, no matter how scared you are or how dangerous the situation is, you must grit your teeth and finish your work first.

After understanding his situation, Su Yu gritted his teeth and picked up the paintbrush.

The pen is an ordinary brush, but the ink is the blood of the dead.

boom……

The moment he picked up the brush, he suddenly felt a strong sense of malice.

The power of the deceased's residual soul seemed to penetrate through the blood and along his arms into his chest, like a sledgehammer, hitting his heart!
Suddenly, Su Yu felt dazed.

In a trance, he seemed to see the slain demon, standing in a pool of blood, glaring at him.

His whole body was pitch black and his face was hideous!
(End of this chapter)