Wooden Door

Qin Chuan transmigrated and became the only mortal in Qingshan Village. The woodcutter at the village entrance had an ancient reincarnation pattern carved on his axe; the old man drawing water from the well left the water surface perfectly still when lifting the bucket; the butcher's cleaver sliced through meat, leaving bone ends smooth as a mirror. Qin Chuan thought he had stumbled into a retirement home for retired experts—until the seal on the rear mountain shattered, and fragments of the End rose into the sky. The woodcutter pulled a dark blue sword from the woodpile and turned to him, saying, "Stand behind me. No more than three steps." Qin Chuan later learned that these villagers—the woodcutter, the water-drawer, the butcher—were last-resort supremos who had burned for over ten thousand years. And unknown to him, an End mark had appeared inside him—every previous vessel had been turned into a "door" to open the apocalypse at the moment of their greatest victory. The woodcutter taught him to split wood for a year: "Splitting wood isn't about fighting the log; it's about sliding along the grain. The End is also a piece of wood." Later, standing before the Dread Lord, facing a force capable of destroying a sect, he asked only one question: "Do you remember the last time you felt fear?" The lord thought for a long time and withdrew his hand. Qin Chuan turned and went back to splitting today's wood.