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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Wu Zhe considered Huo Jian's opinion from the night prior and ultimately decided against bringing a guide. Simply because he neither wished to spend the coin nor waste time searching for one, and more importantly, he couldn't trust a stranger not to reveal his ability to steal lifeforce.


So, without any further delay or preparation, the group set out toward the Outer Wilds with only a few supplies and their talismans.


They exited through the city gates, crossed the open plains of the Blighted Wilds, and entered the forests of the outer fringes, continuing onward.


Until suddenly they stopped, as a thick fog blocked their path. 


"This is what I told you about, Master," Xu Shazi muttered. While he had been hunting, he had come across this fog. The hunters he asked referred to it as the Outer Wilds, a region shrouded in dense, chaotic mist that could cause one to lose consciousness if they lingered too long.


Chapter 32 - Chapter 32: Hunting in the Outer Wilds