[{"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-838":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},418828,682,"Chapter 838  Seat Of Virtue","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-838",838,"\u003Cp>He opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay,\" he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked up at him, disbelief flickering across her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she moved quickly, standing and touching the chains binding Neo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know the Qi inscription passwords for all the locks in the royal prison. Heaven designed them, but he told me how they work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chains loosened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo stepped free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He escaped that night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The years that followed blurred together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo fought Heaven again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time, he was crushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difference was that now, he knew what he was fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't defeat Heaven. Not directly. Not yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he could move faster than Heaven expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saved the children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kidnapped them, if one wanted to be precise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rescued the Empress before Heaven could devour her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yes, Neo confirmed it with his own eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven had been planning to eat them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Heaven realized what Neo had done, his fury shook the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He united kingdoms, empires, sects, armies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo was branded the Heavenly Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enemy of the entire world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The war began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo still couldn't defeat Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he gathered allies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The children grew quickly. Their talent was absurd. Even with Neo's knowledge and experience, they advanced at terrifying speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, when they reached the rank of Dao Emperors, their Daos were different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn't hijack bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn't rot Paths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were clean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, victory never came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Years passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then centuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then eons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The war dragged on with no end in sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day, while moving through a battlefield long abandoned, Neo found a ruin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancient. Broken. Foreign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, he learned of Martial Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And everything clicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Martial Dao wasn't native to this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was what Heaven practiced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivation Dao—what Neo and the Dao Emperors followed—was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He realized something else too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason no one could reach the Fourth Realm through Martial Arts was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven forbade it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He refused to share his Path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the inscription of the chains that Heavens used to bound Neo looked similar to the runes here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After uncovering several such ruins, Neo reached a conclusion that sent a chill through him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Martial Dao didn't originate here. It came from another True World.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Witch of Greed confirmed his suspicion by revealing that Heavens had first learned of Martial Arts (Extreme Arts) from one such ruin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So someone from another True World planted knowledge of Marial Dao here. But why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never found the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he gained something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By understanding and reverse-engineering the technology embedded in the ruins, Neo learned how objects—and information—had been transported between True Worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From there, he spent another mind-numbing stretch of time developing a method of communication with other True Worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was impossible to defeat Heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not quickly. Not cleanly. Not without condemning everyone else to suffer alongside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the natural answer wasn't victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was departure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo and the others had already spent dozens of eons fighting Heavens, and nothing had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how many times Heavens was wounded, no matter how many plans were overturned, the end never came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven was too strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Neo had saved the Empress and her children, Heavens could no longer grow stronger by devouring them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, his behavior shifted. He stopped wasting effort on expansion and turned all his attention toward hunting them down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo wasn't worried about himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had begun to care about the Dao Emperors. About the Witch of Greed (fragment of the Empress). About the Empress herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't want them to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the moment Neo established contact with a safe True World, he made a deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That world would provide land, protection, and a place to live for the Dao Emperors, the Empress, the Witch of Greed, and all the allies who had stood with Neo against Heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In exchange, Neo would give them the knowledge of his Dao and several of his Heavenly Records to research, which had grown to a level second only to Heavens itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an unequal deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Neo accepted without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after, Neo opened a passage to that True World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, those who had fought alongside him stepped through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were supposed to leave happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Neo wasn't moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just come with us. Why are you staying back? To save the people who are helping Heavens kill you? They call you a demon!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They do not know the true face of Heavens.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You [Fate] is Seat of Virtue! Do you not realize what is happening!? If you don't leave now because of your kindness, you will remain stuck in this hell!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come with us… sniff, sniff… please…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm sorry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao Emperors—beings who had once been destined to become monsters, beings powerful beyond imagination—broke down in his arms like children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They clung to him, and cried into his shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When had they grown this close?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo didn't know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He smiled gently and patted their backs, waiting for them to calm down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never asked them to stay behind and fight with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew better than that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were terrified of Heavens, and after countless wars, that fear was carved deep into them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see the trauma. The losses. The exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'There's no need for everyone to suffer.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I'm enough.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, they left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, they crossed into the other True World and disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the passage finally closed, Neo stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The war continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eons passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo fought Heavens again and again, alone this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During those endless battles, he finally understood what his [Fate] meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Endless Hell] meant he would keep passing through hell after hell, each one worse than the last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that [Fate] was necessary to defeat Heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Eternal Transcendence] meant something similar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It meant he would never stop encountering stronger enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never reach a point where he could rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would keep moving forward, dragged through endless conflict, and he would keep going through an endless hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Neo could ignore his [Fate].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he stopped helping those in need, he would lose the [Fate] of Seat of Virtue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without kindness, there would be no reason for him to endure hell for others, and he would lose the [Fate] of Endless Hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without Endless Hell, he would no longer be forced to confront stronger and stronger enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And without that, Eternal Transcendence would fade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One [Fate] still puzzled him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still didn't know why he possessed the [Fate] of Mad God.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The war dragged on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo had long realized something else as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavens was unimaginably talented, and strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps even comparable to Cole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took Neo thousands of eons to finally kill Heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when it ended, the people of the world didn't thank him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They mourned the death of their benevolent Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They cursed the Heavenly Demon who had slain him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo didn't care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no time for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he finally uncovered the truth behind Martial Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world where Martial Dao originated was searching for geniuses on the Martial Path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why they planted ruins across multiple True Worlds and hid fragments of Martial Dao within them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their goal was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Find geniuses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then raise them in their own True World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I met Cole and Celestial Worthy, Heavens was already gone. What remained was only a fragment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That explained everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi was no longer generated because Earth was dead, and Heaven had left for another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the people from that Martial Dao world came to collect their chosen genius, they found something unexpected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo had already killed Heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A peerless genius of Martial Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By doing so, Neo had destroyed their plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they tried to kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo fought them for an endless stretch of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And won.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he had defeated the ruler of one world and the forces backing him from another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That made him dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other True Worlds noticed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They labeled him a threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They tried to kill him too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neo fought back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pattern repeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stronger enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bigger wars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Longer battles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the cycle continued, as he realized he could never rest, he started going mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, I have to stay sane.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I still have a promise to fulfill.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words faltered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Insanity gnawed at the edges of his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eternity was far too long to walk while maintaining sanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And each time a new enemy appeared, each time he realized this was his [Fate] tightening its grip, pulling him away from his family, a deep sense of hopelessness settled in his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No. I'll succeed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just a bit more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This time, I'll find a way to rest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This time…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words echoed into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Neo kept moving forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because stopping—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn't an option anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, there was still a clear goal anchoring him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He told himself that everything he was doing had a reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That as long as he stayed sane, as long as he endured just a little longer, he would meet his family again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That thought was what kept him moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But time did not stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eons passed. Then more eons. Then so many that counting them stopped making sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somewhere along the way, something began to slip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, it was small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He forgot names. Not important ones, he told himself. Just people he had met briefly. Allies from wars that had ended long ago. Faces that no longer mattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he forgot places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entire worlds blurred together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Victories and defeats began to feel the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another ■. Another True World. Another enemy who believed they were righteous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he fought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His goal remained simple in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Stay sane.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>23:14\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't realize when the reason behind that goal began to fade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The memories of saving his family, his friends, and his acquaintances from the Dao Emperors slowly eroded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not all at once. Not dramatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They thinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For someone who had lived billions of eons, the memories of a single eon were fragile things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were grains of sand buried under mountains of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, those memories became fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then impressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No… don't… forget…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reviewed those memories again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He forcefully replayed them in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He refused to lose himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>End of Volume 2: Eternal Transcendence \u002F Endless Hell\u003C\u002Fp>",1741,"2026-05-30T08:01:17.152Z","2026-06-01T04:30:42.950Z",1,"novelbin.me","b3e907d8b04d652f7c0817d2d9eb26294f8deca4b35da1b3838b0d9437a7c4d3","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-839","extra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-chapter-837",839,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fextra-s-death-i-am-the-son-of-hades-cover.jpg"]