When you grow up in this world, you learn to question one thing above all else. Our existence… What is the inherent meaning of it? What is our purpose?

Life can be the cruelest thing for one moment and unexpectedly generous the next, repeating this cycle without end. Always remaining indifferent, like a wheel spinning without reason or intent, landing wherever it happens to fall. Yet it is precisely this indifference and the absence of inherent meaning or purpose in life, that can be seen as beautiful, because it leaves meaning and purpose in your hands alone, something you must create for yourself.

But what happens when a man has become so broken that he becomes blind to this truth? 

Instead, he has convinced himself of the madness, that existence itself is a flaw, an impurity that should never have been. What follows next is not understanding, but destruction. He no longer seeks meaning, purpose or the trival vanities that life offers. Instead, he seeks erasure, not only of himself, but of all things.

That man is Wu Zhe.

He is a man who has lived two lives, one as a mortal on Earth, the other as the strongest being in Yunluo. Feared by all, entire realms united to bring an end to his madness. Alone, he stood against them all, facing the collective might of countless realm, and in the end, he perished.

But death was not his end.

Reborn into yet another world, he rises once more, casting aside all restraints. Through any means necessary, no matter how vile he must become, he pursues a single, unimaginable goal, the annihilation of all existence.

Witness a man consumed by his own madness, slaughtering his way to his heaven.

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"Good," Wu Zhe murmured, turning to pour alcohol into the cup. With his back turned to Xu Shazi he secretly slipped the worm-like insect, wriggling in his hand, into the drink. The moment it touched the alcohol, it turned translucent.


"A toast," Wu Zhe muttered, holding the cup out to Xu Shazi.


Xu Shazi took it respectfully, bowed his head, then raised it high and downed it all in one gulp, blissfully unaware of the creature swimming inside.


The insect traveled through him, embedding itself within his body, completely unnoticed.


Xu Shazi rose, feeling a surge of hope. With his dantian repaired, that meant it would gradually mend his broken meridians. It wouldn't be long before he could cultivate again. The very thought filled him with a renewed sense of purpose. And all he had to thank was Wu Zhe, who had given him this newfound hope.


Chapter 20 - Chapter 20: Material Attachments