My husband is an epic-tier Lancang Behemoth. Wherever he passes, the heavens and earth tremble, and ghosts and gods weep. He slays amidst the red dust of the world and withdraws through a forest of white blades. While he was still a thousand miles away, he first summoned billions of lightning bolts for us, illuminating the interior of the warehouse as bright as day. That intense pressure scared all the subordinate god-races to death; more than half of them vanished on the spot. In the suddenly cavernous warehouse, I saw a panicked Old Chu and a calm Zhang Litian. Zhang Litian’s amber eyes fixed on me—that look felt incredibly long, as if it had exhausted all his strength.
I could read his gaze.
He thought I was a total letdown.
But I truly felt that destroying the world was quite pointless. Even when I couldn't pass my Level 4 English exam, I never once thought about destroying the world.
After withdrawing his gaze, he tore an opening in the center of the warehouse. In an instant, a dark purple, high-velocity fluid substance erupted from the rift, collapsing into a stable space. Through it, a dim alleyway was visible. Just as he was about to dive through, the Third Son suddenly crawled over to block the door, screaming at them! Even the small light on its head began to vibrate! I had originally seen it as just a little monster, but after looking at it for a while, I could actually discern the emotions in those six small eyes: it was afraid. While it roared ferociously and dripped saliva at Old Chu and Zhang Litian, its little claws desperately pushed against the ground as it retreated, its little light swaying—it was both fierce and cowardly. *Lord,* it was exactly like me. *Damn it, you brat, you can't beat them!*
But just then, the Fourth Son—who had no visible form and could only be seen as a shadow—spat out the shadow demon he was devouring and lunged toward the shadows of Zhang Litian and Old Chu. Midway, he snatched up the shadow of a steel pipe. I saw a dark blur streak across Zhang Litian’s standing shadow, piercing through his body! In reality, Zhang Litian suddenly shuddered. He looked down, wiped the blood from his stomach, and then turned to glare fiercely at the Fourth Son. My head spun; I braced myself against a large, jagged slab of stone and leaped out.
Only afterward did I suddenly remember that I probably couldn't beat them either.
Then I had a second thought: no, that’s not right. I’m capable of destroying the world; killing a few gods should be a piece of cake.
As soon as I moved, my teammates pounced forward like dogs. Lu Daoshi, Ren Xing, and I had been struggling to find the truth amidst the chaos caused by the god-races; we had always felt so alone. But suddenly, I’d given birth—to four of them—so now, our side had quite a few teammates.
Leading the charge to fight alongside their brothers were the Eldest and Second Sons. The Second Son directly mimicked his father’s teleportation to flash over, heroically getting swatted away by Zhang Litian again, though he at least managed to block a blow for the Fourth Son. After that, Zhang Litian never found another chance to instant-kill the Fourth Son; the three in reality were enough to give him a massive headache.
Halfway through their run, Lu Daoshi and Ren Xing suddenly flanked them from the left and right. I noticed they were both holding salt shakers. White salt spilled from the shakers, and while Old Chu and Zhang Litian were bogged down by my three sons, the scattered salt formed a circle around them.
I slowed my pace, feeling a bit dizzy. I had seen this scene before—or rather, I had heard of it in Kru Kobaru’s memories!
Salt, pure white salt...
This eerie sorcery was passed down from the ancient dark ages. It was said that it could imprison gods...
"You're daydreaming at a time like this?!" Lu Daoshi barked, throwing a cola bottle at me that nearly hit my face. "This Old Chu has always avoided carbonated drinks!"
My mind snapped into focus. Two vines shot up into the sky, entangling Old Chu, who had just knocked down the Eldest and Second Sons. His hand was only half a foot away from my Third Son’s lantern, and a snake-like wisp of black smoke trailed from his fingertips. The Third Son was so scared his four claws were hopping in place, spitting at him with a mix of terror and ferocity.
I barely managed to restrain him before unscrewing the cola bottle and tossing it to Ren Xing, who had leaped into the air. Ren Xing caught the bottle and shoved it directly and accurately into Old Chu’s mouth, forcing the liquid down. Old Chu’s eyes rolled back, and he quickly tumbled off my vines.
Actually, his human skin was still up there...
The true body had sloughed off!
I had too much resentment toward that true body; the sight made me feel ill all over. I instinctively took a step back, but there happened to be a crack beneath me. Just as I lost my balance and was about to fall, someone caught me firmly.
At the same time, Zhang Litian, who had tried to escape through the spatial rift during the chaos, leaped forward only to hit a solid wall—the spatial rift had vanished into thin air. He was slammed against the warehouse wall by a massive rebounding force. After a loud *boom*, he slid down slowly, blood leaking from the corner of his mouth, appearing heavily injured.
"Enough."
Behind me, my roommate spoke indifferently.
Old Chu no longer looked human. My roommate reached out a hand toward it, and its bloated, transparent, parasite-filled massive body began to convulse. The scene was indescribably eerie. It was likely about to be turned into a puddle of oil.
Just then, someone suddenly shouted "Stop!" followed by a gunshot—someone had actually fired at my roommate! The bullet stopped two meters away, hanging in the air before dropping straight down with a *clink*.
My roommate slowly turned his face.
The rest of us followed the sound and looked over.
Standing there was actually... Monitor Zhang?!
"It has nothing to do with him." Monitor Zhang’s chest was heaving; he was clearly extremely nervous. "I stole the crystal skull. I was also the one who took your... little monsters."
My brain stalled for a moment.
What?!
Could it be that my dorm monitor wasn't fucking human either?
But my roommate said calmly, "Humans will pay the price for their own stupidity."
Monitor Zhang simply shook his head. "I don't care about humans or not-humans. I know what you're capable of; wiping us all out would take you nothing more than a word. But this has nothing to do with him. This was all Zhang Litian’s idea. Let him go."
As he spoke, he cautiously moved two steps to the side, shielding the monster on the ground from my roommate.
I massaged my temples. "What happened to you!"
Monitor Zhang impatiently tried to reach for a cigarette but found none. "I don't understand what you're saying."
I told him to confess honestly. Monitor Zhang had a look of total desperation. "I was on their side from the very beginning. I’ve been monitoring you all along."
"Why?"
Monitor Zhang’s expression became pained. "...It promised to return the real Chu Min to me."
I froze. Chu Min—that name sounded slightly familiar. Then it clicked: wasn't that Old Chu’s real name!
For the sake of the real Old Chu, Monitor Zhang had been blackmailed by the fake Old Chu into being a mole for the human race?!
I tugged on my roommate’s arm and said to Monitor Zhang, "Don't be afraid. The real Old Chu will come back, I promise. Now move aside and let this monster go to hell."
But Monitor Zhang pursed his lips and stayed rooted to the spot, refusing to leave. What the hell was this situation?!
"My roommate is way more powerful than them, you know that now! If anyone can bring back Old Chu, it’s him. What are you still worried about? Is my promise worth less than the monster in front of you?!"
Monitor Zhang closed his eyes, lowered his gun, and simply sat down right there. "Don't ask anymore. I won't move."
I suddenly understood.
"You... you love the monster behind you."
When I said it, I felt a terrifying, suffocating sense of familiarity.
"Stop calling him a monster!" Monitor Zhang clenched his fists. "If it's different from humans and powerful, it's a god; if it's different from humans and weak, it's a monster! If it lays eggs with you, it's a god; if it kills your son, it's a monster—what kind of logic is that?!"
I was stunned. Before I could process his words, my roommate flashed to his side and ripped his spine out from behind. Monitor Zhang’s bones and tendons gave a sharp *crack*; his head snapped back, and like a machine with its plug pulled, he instantly lost breath and consciousness. My roommate indifferently tossed him far away. "I am the logic."
As for the fake Old Chu—that grotesque mass of flesh cowering on the floor with no strength left to retaliate—it let out a scream and tried to give chase, but a massive glowing rune array appeared beneath it, making it impossible to move an inch. Once the purple runes vanished, it vanished as well.
The Abyss Guardian leaped down from the top of the warehouse, transforming into human form to stand by his side. "Zhang Litian is dead."
My roommate walked over and nudged the body. Zhang Litian lay on the ground clutching his stomach, his face ashen and sunken. He looked like he had been dead for a long time; one could almost see the corpse rotting with the naked eye.
"A human body is merely a house he inhabits. When one collapses, he seeks the next." He met my eyes, and we both thought of the same person.
"Jin Mu," Lu Daoshi said.
When my roommate kicked the door open with a gust of wind, the small apartment I had visited not long ago had become a living hell. Jin Mu was sprawled over oil paintings scattered across the floor. From his thin body sprouted those terrifying tentacles I had dreamed of in the hospital’s basement, sticking to the walls at various angles to form a web. His back, which had split open again, looked like a cocoon, a nest. I couldn't imagine what currently existed inside his body, or how he was being wantonly possessed by those tentacles thicker than my thighs. Even though I was prepared to see anything, I couldn't help but feel a breakdown at the torture he was enduring.
More importantly, Jin Mu was alive. He was enduring all of this while conscious.
Hearing the noise, he lifted his head, clawing at the wooden floor as he stared deathly at me. My roommate stepped forward, intending to end his suffering, but the tentacles quickly hoisted him up, hiding him deep within the web.
"Overestimating his own strength," my roommate said indifferently.
Except when confessing to me, he rarely showed much emotion when speaking. Even in this situation, he didn't show any mockery or disdain for Zhang Litian; he was simply stating a fact. Yet it sounded exceptionally cold.
"Wait... wait..."
Jin Mu’s face suddenly appeared through a gap, speaking weakly to me. As soon as he finished, he was submerged again by thousands of tentacles. I heard his agonized screams coming from within.
I didn't know what I was hoping for, but I grabbed my roommate’s arm. "Wait a bit longer."
My roommate quieted down and waited. We stood at the door and watched as those tentacles writhed in the room, as if digesting some vital nourishment. At first, we could hear Jin Mu screaming or saying things we couldn't understand, but after a while, no sound came out at all.
"Enough," my roommate warned me, looking down. "If this continues, he will gain a new body."
I released my grip on his arm and closed my eyes. "Fine. Do it."
The moment the words left my mouth, I heard a loud *thud*. At first, I thought the tentacles had knocked something over again, but looking closer, I realized the living room door frame had been ripped down by the tentacles. This was abnormal because, at some point, the massive tentacles waving throughout the room had begun to spasm and curl, as if trying to grab onto something! Confused, I asked my roommate, "What’s happening?"
For the first time, my roommate frowned. He didn't speak, nor did he immediately turn Zhang Litian into oil as he had intended.
Following that, I saw the tentacles recede like a tide, being forcibly pulled back into Jin Mu’s body. When the last few tips of the tentacles tremblingly gripped the opening in his back, I suddenly realized what had happened. Zhang Litian was afraid. Although he wanted to possess Jin Mu’s body, he had clearly encountered some accident and wanted to flee, but he couldn't get away... "Jin Mu took out Zhang Litian?!"
My roommate’s frown deepened. "This person’s mental strength is incredibly powerful—so much so that he devoured Zhang Litian’s godhood. Now, this person has become a new god, and Zhang Litian is imprisoned within his inner world."
I looked at Jin Mu, who was sprawled on the floor drenched in cold sweat, feeling both shocked and relieved. But I immediately noticed that my roommate was not friendly toward Jin Mu. A beam of light condensed in his hand as he walked toward him. I wasn't stupid enough to think he wanted to use that to say, "Hello, welcome to the god-race."
I blocked his path. "Why do you want to kill him?"
"Because he was once a human, and you deeply distrust humans," Lu Daoshi finished for me.
I realized Senior Brother Lu was standing at the door, wearing his hiking backpack, looking perfectly composed.
"Humans have made a mistake sufficient to enrage me this time," my roommate said.
"Endure it," Senior Brother Lu said indifferently, leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed.
I was terrified! Even as the 'healer,' I never dared to speak to the 'boss' of our house like that! What kind of courage had Senior Brother Lu swallowed!
"They are incredible creatures," Lu Daoshi said.
My roommate was silent for a long while. Then, he raised his hand and slammed Lu Daoshi against the wall. "The last time you said that to me, you stole the Fire of the Abyss. What did you steal this time?"
Lu Daoshi coughed, spitting out blood. "It is what they deserve."
My roommate applied a bit more pressure, crushing his sternum. "No one can become a god. They are powerless, mediocre, stupid, selfish, indulgent, weak, and murderous."
"But you love humanity; you love an original human. He is powerless, mediocre, stupid, selfish, indulgent, weak, and murderous. For a long time, you never bestowed any beautiful attributes upon him—you even stripped him of hope—but he learned, step by step, on his own. A single spark was enough to lead him from savagery to where he is today. Please believe in him. Let him help you." Lu Daoshi looked at me deeply from within the rising purple-red array, then shifted his gaze back to my roommate’s face. "Even if everything is predestined, there can still be miracles."
As soon as he finished speaking, he vanished from the wall. I asked my roommate where he had gone. He replied indifferently, "To accept eternal punishment."
I didn't actually understand what Lu Daoshi was talking about, but I was at least worried about whether my roommate was going to destroy all of humanity. My roommate tilted his head to look at me. "You don't want that?"
I felt quite ashamed; after all, my son had been stabbed. But then again, my roommate often went around stabbing people too, and they just thought it was an accident.
While I was feeling uncertain, my roommate patted my head. "Fine. They were created to keep you company anyway. If you want them, I won't interfere."
I felt an immense sense of honor.
My roommate created all of humanity just to keep me company.
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**Glossary**
Chinese | English | Notes/Explanation
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澜沧巨怪 | Lancang Behemoth | A legendary, epic-scale monster; "Lancang" refers to the Lancang (Mekong) River.
楚珉 | Chu Min | The real name of the character referred to as "Old Chu" (Lao Chu).
神格 | Godhood / Divinity | The essence or status of a god.
深渊的火种 | Fire of the Abyss | A legendary source of power or enlightenment stolen by Lu Daoshi.
原初的人 | Original Human | Refers to the MC's primordial or original state/identity.
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