[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades":3,"chapter-extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-799":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},418789,682,"Chapter 799: Scammer","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-799",799,"\u003Cp>Neo opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first thing he saw was a blurry ceiling made of rough wood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were shadows on the walls, and soft voices echoed faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to move, but his body felt tiny and weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he realized something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t an adult anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone lifted him gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warm hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A soft blanket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman’s voice saying comforting words he couldn’t fully understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked around slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This place...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’True Blessed Lands. I reincarnated here.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grew up in a small village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His parents were simple people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were hard-working, and kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They treated him with genuine affection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a child, he smiled often.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He laughed when his father lifted him high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held his mother’s hand when she took him to gather water from the stream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were not warriors or cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just ordinary people living an ordinary life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Neo grew up quietly in that warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Years passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he turned sixteen, the sky felt heavier than usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The house was quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The villagers gathered behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo stood in front of a small pyre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two bodies had already turned to ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His parents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He bowed his head slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you for giving birth to me,\" he whispered in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The parents he had in this life were \"NPCs\" created inside the True Blessed Land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was what the Celestial Worthy had designed them to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Neo no longer thought of them as that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They loved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They made choices on their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They lived as real people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they could never leave the True Blessed Land, it didn’t matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside this place, they were human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Neo...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sarah hugged him from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice shook as she tried not to cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the village chieftain’s daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His closest friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had grown up together, often running through the fields and getting scolded by elders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-It’s fine... don’t cry,\" she said quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the one crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Neo didn’t say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only stared at the ashes and let the silence settle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since this place was True Blessed Land, Neo couldn’t affect their life or death unless he wanted to devour them, and then revive them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had lived a full life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had died a natural death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt wrong to disturb that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, knowing hecouldrevive them, but was not doing that made his heart twist painfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fists tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His emotions spiraled in ways he hadn’t felt in a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For weeks, Neo barely moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slept, stared at the ceiling, and drifted through each day without purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he had lived countless lives, the death of parents was hard on him. They had treated him kindly and loved him with all their heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The villagers checked on him often.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sarah visited him the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She always tried to talk, even when he barely answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I should stop moping around,\" Neo whispered one morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even then, he stayed lying on the straw bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body felt heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thoughts floated like dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heavenly Records,\" he murmured. \"How much time is left?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Roughly ten years, master.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Neo was resurrected in this life, he still couldn’t use his abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he realized he had managed to devour the Cultivator Bai Zhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am Dao, and Dao is I,\" Neo said to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The orb that had appeared inside Neo’s consciousness back then was Cultivator Bai Zhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sum of their life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Neo devoured another cultivator, another orb — their Dao — would appear inside his consciousness as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moraine’s Darkness Authority is definitely stronger than Darkness Firmament. But I feel like she could not have devoured a Dao like Darkness Firmament.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only reason Neo could do it was because Darkness Firmament had been created by a Heavenbreaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, it could devour the Dao of others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which led to his current situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now had the complete memories of Cultivator Bai Zhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only memories, but knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>History of the [True World].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traditions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Proper ways to use Qi (World Energy).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Concepts he had never fully understood before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more he learned, the more he realized how lacking he had been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was like a swordsman fighting with a dull sword,\" he said softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Neo was strong, even a dull sword could slice through his opponents, but the fact remained that with a sharp sword everything would be much easier\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least, now Neo won’t have this problem anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except one thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Path of Cultivator Bai Zhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was.... problematic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since it was a completely different Path, it was taking time to integrate itself into Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And unless Neo could integrate the new Path into himself, he wouldn’t get the [Third Step] Cultivation of Cultivator Bai Zhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until now, Neo had been devouring extensions of Paths—Elemental Gods and Awakeners.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people were just following the Elemental Path, and Evolution Path, so integrating these people and their powers into himself was easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, integrating an entire Path into himself turned out to be hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since it’s taking so much time, I’m still a normal mortal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was no longer a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Neo integrated Cultivator Bai Zhen’s Path into himself, he would gain new abilities, powers and reach Third Step and gain a new Cosmos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With energy of new Cosmos, Neo would be instantly able to repay the [Loan].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just need to wait for ten more years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was easier said than done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even now, Neo was feeling the location of Elizabeth and Vivi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were either in far off distance, or busy, which had left them unable to approach him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He anted to go meet them, but currently he was a mortal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just ten more years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And everything would end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Third Step Cultivator (Heavenbreaker), Neo would be strong enough to fight on equal footing with Apollyon, if not defeat him outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least, that was what Neo believed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dammit, I can’t sleep. I guess I will just mediate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how much neo tried, his thoughts kept returning to his current life’s deceased parents. They had died a natural death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it still pained him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to meet Hades and his mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He believed that would calm his emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But meeting Hades....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo kept postponing that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need to clear my thoughts. I should focus on Daos.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the memories of Cultivator Bai Zhen, there were thirty-two Daos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each Dao was like a \"direction\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every Path — of whether Cultivator or Heavenbreaker — would fall in one of these directions (Dao).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo currently had three Daos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dao of Absolute Transcendence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dao of Shadows Beyond the World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dao of Devouring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His current Mastery in Dao of Absolute Transcendence was First Step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would reach Third Step in Dao of Shadows Beyond the World after he integrated the Path of Cultivator Bai Zhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dao of Devouring was at zero Steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo had gained access to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he would have to build a Path on it, or steal a Path by devouring someone else, to increase the mastery of his Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daos had rank too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dao of Blood was what Ultris followed. This contained the Path of Evolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dao of Blood was ranked twenty eighth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to memories of Cultivator Bai Zhen, long ago a man named Ultris had appeared in True World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had come to Heavenly Sect to train, claiming he wanted strength for his revenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since he didn’t had a [Spirit Root], he was denied entry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, Ultris scammed a Cultivator who had left the sect for mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ultris got the cultivation method through scamming, and then ran away. The Heavenly Sect launched search operations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first time a non-member of Heavenly Sect gained a cultivation method. Cultivation methods were always kept as a closely guarded secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, they were unable to catch Ultris.\u003C\u002Fp>",1335,"2026-05-30T08:01:16.613Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.950Z",1,"novelbin.me","e24c8e5a12db374f6dbd6620d540da17c83cc388f1a6bbd1c59a262bf755cfc3","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-800","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-798",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]