[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-simultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr":3,"chapter-simultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr-simultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr-chapter-686":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Simultaneously Transmigrated: I Forge the Dao Across Multiverses",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":12,"novelImage":21},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2346124,4584,"Chapter 686: New Luo Fu! The Prison That Chains the Gods! The Final King","simultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr-chapter-686",686,"\u003Cp>Perhaps because Luo Fu had been given a six-month deadline by Luo Hao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This caused Lu Yinghua, who had long endured Luo Hao’s violence, to feel a mistaken sense of kinship and shared suffering toward Luo Fu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his shock subsided, Lu Yinghua hesitated a moment, then said: “Young Master Luo, forgive my frankness—the Holy Sect Master transcends emotion; she will not show Itachi mercy over that distant, negligible blood tie.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know that well,” Luo Fu nodded. “Even if we were to be exterminated down to the ninth kin, we’d still have no connection to the Holy Sect Master.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Fu’s analogy made Lu Yinghua’s lips twitch, stirring a strange sense of satisfaction within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could only say that under Luo Hao’s oppression, Lu Yinghua’s inner self had been utterly twisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking a deep breath, Lu Yinghua respectfully tucked away the small jade vial and said: “In one month, I shall await Young Master Luo at Mount Lushan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief pause, Lu Yinghua summoned his courage: “If Young Master Luo has a corpse by then, I shall certainly collect it for Itachi—I will not let your body lie exposed in the wilds.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yinghua’s unspoken meaning was clear: he had promised to collect Luo Fu’s corpse, but that required one precondition—that Luo Fu actually have a corpse to collect. Otherwise, what corpse would he gather?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, in Lu Yinghua’s eyes—and not just his, but in the eyes of many within the Five Purgatory Holy Church—if Luo Fu truly went to Mount Lushan for the appointment, his only fate would be to be utterly annihilated, with no burial, no remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Fu gave Lu Yinghua a strange look, yet he could not deny that the man’s promise to collect his corpse truly stemmed from genuine empathy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then I thank Itachi for your kindness, Lu Young Master. But life and death are but a vast, empty dream. If I truly die at the Holy Sect Master’s hands, my body is merely a rotten sack—yet right now, I do have one matter requiring your aid.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very moment he promised to collect Luo Fu’s corpse, Lu Yinghua already regretted it—he did not know whether his act would provoke Luo Hao’s displeasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that Luo Fu actually needed help, Lu Yinghua nearly wanted to slap himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet since he had come on Luo Hao’s orders, and out of a measure of empathetic pity for Luo Fu, he could only grit his teeth and say: “Young Master Luo, speak plainly—I cannot promise anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Fu nodded understandingly: “Lu Young Master, as a disciple of the Holy Sect Master, Itachi surely know that only a Godslayer can fight another Godslayer. The Godslayers are absolute demons of the earth; as mortals, one cannot possibly defeat a Godslayer. The only beings who can stand against a Godslayer are the Unsubmissive Gods—or those of the same bloodline.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yinghua instinctively nodded—but in an instant, he guessed what Luo Fu intended to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I hope Itachi can help me find out where in the world Unsubmissive Gods may be found.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Luo Fu finished speaking, Lu Yinghua was genuinely startled by his utter resolve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a fleeting moment, Lu Yinghua even felt a pang of admiration—Luo Fu truly was of the same bloodline as Luo Hao, the Martial King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Lu Yinghua dared not make any decision on his own regarding Unsubmissive Gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment’s hesitation, he said: “Young Master Luo, your boldness moves me. But this matter must be decided by the Holy Sect Master. I shall relay your request to her—her judgment alone shall prevail.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then I am in your debt,” Luo Fu thought. If Lu Yinghua truly relayed his request to Luo Hao, then based on his understanding of her, she would not obstruct him—perhaps even actively aid him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, for the months before entering the shared space, Luo Fu had done nothing at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had Luo Hao not suspected him of slacking, she would not have sent Lu Yinghua with poison to grant him a swift death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Luo Hao’s character, Luo Fu knew she would care nothing whether he obediently drank the poison or showed up at Mount Lushan a month later to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, by showing the courage to fight to the death, he would earn her admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outcome unfolded exactly as Luo Fu had predicted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving Luo Fu, Lu Yinghua headed straight for Mount Lushan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep within Mount Lushan, a small hermitage stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From its exterior alone, few would believe that this unremarkable hermitage housed the famed Martial King, Luo Hao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Godslayers varied in temperament, it was astonishing that Luo Hao, the earliest of them, could reside so peacefully in such a place for centuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, her contemporary, the Marquis Voban, had indulged in every earthly pleasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hastily returning, Lu Yinghua arrived outside the hermitage, straightened his attire, then bowed deeply toward it: “Disciple Lu Yinghua humbly wishes the Holy Sect Master boundless virtue, martial glory, and benevolence to all beings—may your reign last ten thousand generations...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yinghua.” A voice like silver bells rang out, instantly silencing Lu Yinghua’s flattery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From behind the hermitage’s door, Luo Hao asked: “How went your task?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Report to the Holy Sect Master,” Lu Yinghua prostrated himself on the ground. “Young Master Luo refuses to take his own life.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So he intends to drag out his life for another month? Or does he think I’ll spare him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your wisdom, Holy Sect Master,” Lu Yinghua said carefully. “Young Master Luo believes that only a King may defeat a King. He asks me to help him find the whereabouts of any Unsubmissive Gods in the world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Lu Yinghua finished speaking, the hermitage fell silent for a moment, then Luo Hao’s melodious voice returned—this time, beneath its ethereal beauty, there was a touch of approval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell him: the Monkey God, imprisoned in the Nikkō Tōshō-gū of the Eastern Island Nation, is an Unsubmissive God who descended from Chinese mythology. If he accomplishes the feat of slaying a god and makes our Luo family produce two Kings, this great-grandmother will not deny him a path to life!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Disciple obeys,” Lu Yinghua thought. Simply delivering the message was already more than enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for anything else, he lacked the courage to speak further before Luo Hao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go. As a Luo clan descendant, if Itachi die fighting an Unsubmissive God, Itachi shall not disgrace our Luo family’s martial courage!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yinghua dared not utter a word—he immediately kowtowed: “Disciple obeys the Holy Sect Master’s decree.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Retreating in full prostration until he had put distance between himself and the hermitage, Lu Yinghua rose and hurried down Mount Lushan once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Lu Yinghua’s heart, he would rather be traveling than remain on Mount Lushan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lu Yinghua reappeared before Luo Fu, only a few hours had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Luo Fu was astonished by his speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Mount Lushan was not as treacherous as Mount Hua, in this world, it was truly an untouched, primeval forest—no development permitted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, as the residence of the Martial King of Jiangnan, no one in the world would dare develop Mount Lushan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Godslayers are called humanity’s sole protection against Unsubmissive Gods, they themselves are regarded as demons—demons wielding irrevocably overwhelming power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these circumstances, Luo Hao’s decision to remain quietly on Mount Lushan without wandering was a blessing beyond the dreams of ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who in their right mind would dare disturb the most vicious of the Godslayers?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the path to Mount Lushan was inevitably rugged and primitive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Lu Yinghua had made a round trip in such a short time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing Luo Fu, Lu Yinghua blurted out: “Young Master Luo, the Holy Sect Master has instructed me to tell Itachi: the Chinese Monkey God, an Unsubmissive God, is now imprisoned in Nikkō Tōshō-gū in the Eastern Island Nation. If Itachi die fighting an Unsubmissive God, Itachi shall not disgrace the martial courage of the Luo clan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the hours Lu Yinghua was away, Luo Fu had been pondering how to become a Godslayer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was not because the power of a Godslayer surpassed the power Luo Fu had shared—or because he could not rapidly localize the shared power without becoming a Godslayer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quite the opposite: as a disciple of the Five Purgatory Holy Church, and especially as Luo Hao’s blood relative, and given that his parents had died fighting to delay the Unsubmissive Gods’ devastation upon humanity,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Fu, though lacking great talent, had been exposed to many martial arts, alchemical techniques, and Daoist methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With these lineages, theoretically, he needed only to gradually study the local world’s transcendent system to rapidly localize the shared power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the world of the Godslayers had a uniquely peculiar problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unsubmissive Gods—or what humans call gods—though perceived by mortals as forged through faith, seemed similar to the incense-faith system of the Dream of the Red Chamber world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in truth, the gods of the Godslayers’ world were primordial spirits born from nature itself at the dawn of creation, when humanity was still barbaric—or even pre-evolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such origins, in some vast great worlds, were akin to primordial celestial beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These primordial spirits, upon birth, inherently possessed the Dao and logic of the world itself—the source of their powers. But as the world evolved, human incense-faith allowed these primordial spirits to discover they could expand, even deepen, their innate powers through human belief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, conflicts erupted endlessly among the primordial spirits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As myths evolved and legends shifted, the true roots of the gods were ultimately drowned in the tides of time—or rather, humanity had never truly understood the gods’ essence from the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Fu’s need for a Godslayer was not for the power itself, but for the essence of the power: the Dao and logic of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If, in the process of localizing the shared power, his prior knowledge was merely fiddling with stones or counting rods, then the martial arts, alchemical techniques, and Daoist methods of the Five Purgatory Holy Church were like an abacus—or even a computer—while acquiring an Unsubmissive God’s power was like obtaining a quantum supercomputer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would accelerate Luo Fu’s localization of the shared power at an astonishing rate, even allowing him to ascend directly from mortal to god.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This god was not merely an Unsubmissive God.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Godslayers and Unsubmissive Gods were, in essence, merely a play staged by those primordial spirits of antiquity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Godslayers were like pawns: no matter how many Unsubmissive Gods they slew, they would all be swept away once the Final King descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the Final King eliminated all Godslayers, a new cycle of Godslayers could begin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like an endless cycle: in this cycle, the true primordial spirits, incarnating as Unsubmissive Gods, used the Godslayer ritual to grant temporary authority of their powers to the Godslayers. When the Godslayers died, the power naturally returned to the true primordial spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through this process, the primordial spirits could cleanse the negative effects of incense-faith—such as madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Incense is poisonous—or faith is poisonous—in many transcendent worlds, this is no empty saying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long ago, the primordial spirits of the Godslayers’ world discovered that while human faith allowed them to master their powers faster, the evolution of myths gradually altered the gods themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This conflict between mythic evolution and the primordial spirit’s own will was what became known as madness—the reason Unsubmissive Gods, once leaving myth and entering the mortal world, became cruel and uncontrollable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fundamentally, this was the helpless rage of the self against external change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, mortals were far too weak to oppose true gods—but the sheer scale of human belief could become a prison to bind the gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, human faith affected gods regardless of their will: as long as humans believed, the gods were inevitably changed by that belief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was nearly identical to the incense-faith system of the Dream of the Red Chamber world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they believed, the power of faith, like the fundamental law of the universe, wrapped around the subject of belief—the god—like a chisel, continuously carving until the god became what humanity desired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even primordial spirits, let alone any being with self-awareness, would never accept such transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this applied only to the gods of this world—the true primordial spirits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no means to resist human belief—it was one against the entire human race’s conviction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Godslayers were the gods’ or primordial spirits’ helpless choice under these circumstances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Know this: though the Godslayers gained only temporary use—decades, at most centuries—of a power, not ownership, it was enough for them to glimpse the mysteries of the Dao through that power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2116,"2026-06-21T01:08:31.665Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b4c74121d99e9c93a4c8e5e8b0a9a39a86484cca601df1d0c2d44d78e2042380",null,"simultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr-chapter-685","https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr-cover.jpg"]