MERIDIAN OF THE DAMNED
In a world where the strength of one’s meridians determines whether a person has the right to breathe, Li Jian Nan was born a powerless piece of trash. Cast aside, ridiculed, and secretly prepared as a test subject for a forbidden experiment by his own father, the ruthless King Wuji.
But the king made one fatal mistake.
That frail body was no longer empty. It had been taken over by Jian Wu Chen, a cold-blooded mafia clan leader from the future, a man accustomed to living amid betrayal, murder, and power struggles.
When the king’s forbidden experiment failed and unleashed the Meridian Corruption zombie plague, transforming Tingzhou into a sealed hell, Wu Chen was forced to activate the mysterious System within his body. But power in this world never comes for free. Every time he forcibly opens his sealed meridians, the System demands a cruel price: the remainder of his lifespan.
Hunted by mutated monsters lurking in the darkness and pursued by the kingdom’s elite forces, who want his body as a specimen, Wu Chen has no intention of becoming a hero. He only wants to survive.
And if the world forces him to become a monster just to keep breathing, then he will tear the entire kingdom down until nothing remains but ash.
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Chapter: Ch 84. The Undead KingThe sight was enough to freeze the blood of anyone on the battlefield who still possessed a shred of sanity.Through the billowing dust and smoke left behind by the earlier explosion, Wei Kang strode forward with absolute arrogance. The First Mutant was no ordinary oversized zombie. He was the apocalypse given breath and flesh.Standing over five meters tall, he towered above the battlefield, blocking out the light of dawn. His entire body was covered in swollen, necrotic muscles as hard as solid steel, while clusters of dark purple meridian spikes protruded from his flesh, pulsing continuously as they radiated a poisonous aura.Every time his massive feet struck the ground, the earth before the South Gate of the Core City shook violently."Dear God... What kind of monster is that?" San whispered, his knees trembling so violently that he nearly dropped his machete. "Boss, that's no ordinary mutant! It's as tall as the gate walls!""Shut up, San! Keep a firm grip on your weapon!" Wu Ch
Last Updated: 2026-10-11
Chapter: Ch 83. The Last Shield WallThe blood-red dawn illuminated the endless sea of death stretching across Lantern Sector. Beneath the shadow of the Inner City's colossal steel Southern Gate, thousands of regular Tingzhao soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder in a tight phalanx formation. Together, they formed a massive wall of interlocking steel shields, with thousands of long spears jutting outward like a deadly forest of thorns.Atop an emergency command tower assembled from wooden beams and stone in the center of the formation, General Han Rui stood rigidly in his black armor, already soaked with dew and blood. His sharp eyes caught sight of the ragged troops emerging from the drainage trench on the left flank.The general gave Wu Chen a stiff nod. A silent acknowledgment of their tactical alliance.“We take the left flank!” Wu Chen roared, driving his wooden cane into the mud. “That area has the thinnest defenses! If the left flank breaks, Han Rui's shield formation will be rolled up from the side!”“Understood, B
Last Updated: 2026-10-10
Chapter: Ch 82. The War Drums of Lantern SectorFilthy dust rained down from the stone ceiling of the water prison, settling on the shoulders of refugees huddled together in terror.Thud. Thud. Thud.The sound was no ordinary earthquake. It was the synchronized march of tens of thousands of living dead advancing across the surface of Lantern Sector, directly above their heads. The vibrations were so powerful that puddles on the stone floor rippled violently, while the walls of the water prison groaned as though they were about to collapse.“An apocalypse... This is a goddamn apocalypse!” one of the clan's young men wailed, clutching his trembling head. “There’s no end to those monsters! The ceiling could cave in at any moment!”“Doctor, what are we supposed to do?! My baby won’t stop crying because of that noise!” a woman screamed, clutching her infant with a deathly pale face.Mass panic began spreading like a deadly poison throughout the underground stronghold. A dozen clan loyalists who had been standing at attention moments ear
Last Updated: 2026-10-09
Chapter: Ch 81. The Giant Shadow Behind the FogThe night sky above the Lantern Sector looked as though it were bleeding. Fiery red and sickly green light from the exploding lantern oil facility billowed high into the sky, driving back the thick storm clouds and casting a flickering glow across the muddy pools below.The tremors from the explosion had not yet fully subsided. The air still vibrated with residual force. But amid the swirling dust, an incredibly deep and deafening roar tore through the silence of the night.HRAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH!The sound was nothing like a human or an ordinary zombie.Its frequency was ancient, savage, and filled with such overwhelming dominance that it seemed capable of paralyzing reason itself.Wu Chen, who had only just dragged himself out of the muddy lake, froze where he stood. His dragon cane slipped from his hand. His left hand clutched his chest, which was covered by mutated leather armor. His heart pounded wildly, sending sharp waves of pain through him as the remnants of the Primordial Ser
Last Updated: 2026-10-08
Chapter: Ch 80. The Birth of the Monster King“Cough! Cough! Gahk!”Murky lake water mixed with thick mud surged from Wu Chen’s throat. The former mafia king crawled with great difficulty through the icy shallows toward the shore. His trembling fingers clawed into the roots of dead mangrove trees, dragging his battered body out of the filthy water.His breathing came in harsh, ragged gasps, painfully loud in the middle of the night. His left leg, still stiff from the lingering paralysis, dragged helplessly through the mud.Behind him, Jiao, San, and three other clan loyalists crawled onto dry land. They coughed violently, vomiting up lake water and the remnants of the acidic gas they had inhaled. Their clothes were torn to shreds, their bodies covered in horrific burns and bruises.But they had made it out alive.“Boss... we made it, Boss,” Jiao groaned, collapsing onto his back in the wild grass, his chest heaving. Tears of relief streamed down his soot-streaked face. “We really made it out of hell.”Wu Chen did not answer. With
Last Updated: 2026-10-07
Chapter: Ch 79. Escaping Through the Eye of a Needle“Everyone, run for the drainage chute!”Wu Chen’s roar thundered through the facility, tearing through the shrill decompression alarms screaming throughout the steel corridors.The floor beneath their boots shook violently, as if struck by a tectonic earthquake. The reactor engines in the chamber behind them, already beginning to overload, sounded like metal being ripped apart by invisible blades. Blood-red emergency lights flashed aggressively, illuminating the absolute panic that had seized the hellish facility.Jiao, San, and the remaining clan loyalists stationed at the intersection immediately ran after Wu Chen. Their faces were deathly pale, covered in cold sweat and soot.“Boss! Is the reactor really about to blow?!” Jiao shouted between ragged breaths as he ran alongside Wu Chen.“We’ve got less than a minute before this place turns into an ash crater! Keep running. Nobody stops to catch their breath!” Wu Chen roared.The left side of his chest, now covered in mutated black ar
Last Updated: 2026-10-06
