Hell’s Handbook

Inside the temple, Su Jin’s first task was to make sure that those who were powerful enough could become gods. The other thing he had to do was to alter Oscar’s godhood. It wasn’t difficult, but it needed a lot of time.

Oscar had become a top tier god of the Handbook and his body had been snatched away by a genius before too, so his body and godhood were deeply connected to the Handbook, which would require a lot of hard work to disconnect.

Su Jin went into seclusion with Oscar and did not concern himself with anything happening out there. He left the running of the temple to The Beginning and focused on altering Oscar’s godhood.

He couldn’t help but gasp in admiration at the Badge of Godhood that a top tier god possessed. This was definitely the creation of geniuses. The badge was like a bottomless source of energy and it was stamped with the most complex of the Handbook universe’s rules. The badge was created specially for the Handbook and the will of the universe, a source of power to the gods.

And since the gods had different tiers, their badges were of different tiers too. Oscar’s badge was enough for Su Jin to understand the mystery behind it without having to collect more badges to refer to.

Su Jin began to study every rule of the badge in great detail. He became obsessed with understanding how they were positioned, whether they could be improved and which parts he could adapt.

Time slowly ticked by. One year… three years… five years… ten years!

Su Jin spent a grand total of ten years to fully understand Oscar’s top tier badge, and that was partly because The Beginning had helped. Su Jin could not imagine what would have happened if The Beginning had not helped. He might have spent his entire lifetime trying to analyze this thing and still fail to fully comprehend it. He could forget about fighting the will of the universe.

What was the strongest thing about the will of the universe? Almost nobody knew the answer to that before, but now, Su Jin knew that the will of the universe was made powerful by Hell’s Handbook. That was also why he wanted the primordial deities to help him build this system, then went around conquering worlds only after the system was ready. Without this system, he wouldn’t have been able to achieve this on his own.

In other words, if Su Jin could not get his hands on a system that was at least as powerful as the Handbook, then the efforts of any insurgent would be a complete joke. You could even say it was merely wishful thinking.

Once Su Jin came out of seclusion, Chu Yi and the rest gathered around with excited looks on their faces. None of them expected Su Jin to end up locking himself away from them for ten whole years.

Su Jin stared at the people before him and went into a daze. Ye Yun looked as young as she was before, because she was an owner. Wu Jingru looked much more mature than before. She no longer looked like a teen and was now a young woman in her late twenties.

The Nine-tailed Fox pushed Su Wen toward Su Jin. The little boy didn’t seem to have grown much. During these ten years, he seemed to have only grown by two or three years and still had childlike features, but the look in his eyes was different. He no longer looked completely ignorant or like a doll with no mind of his own.

“You locked yourself away for ten years just like that… I can’t believe you were alright with that!” Ye Yun’s eyes reddened. The pressure they had felt over the past decade was simply staggering. Thankfully, the will of the universe never came to make trouble for them. In fact, the will of the universe seemed to have disappeared altogether. Even the Handbook was operating normally.

“I’m sorry,” said Su Jin very apologetically as he gently hugged Ye Yun.

Ye Yun made a face, but didn’t complain. She quietly whispered into his ear, “We’re all still alive and we’re all doing well.”

But that made Su Jin feel even more guilty. How many women would wait ten years for someone they loved? He suddenly gazed into her eyes and said, “Ye Yun… will you marry me?”

“Wait, what?” Ye Yun was a little at a loss. “I… you… You just emerged from a decade of seclusion and you haven’t even brushed your teeth… Ahhh! You haven’t even brushed your teeth and you tried to propose to me?! Su Jin, you’re gross!!”

That was definitely not the response Su Jin was expecting. He looked at the rest around him and noticed that everyone was laughing.

He burst out laughing too as he let go of Ye Yun and said, “Give me ten minutes!”

Ten minutes later, Su Jin had taken a bath, changed into suitable clothes for the occasion, and held up a bouquet of flowers in rainbow colors.

He walked up to Ye Yun, went down on one knee, and offered the flowers to her as he said with great seriousness, “Beautiful Miss Ye Yun, I’ve had many dreams about what my future could be, but the best one, the most blissful one, is a vision of myself becoming your husband.

“I love you, Ye Yun! Won’t you marry me?” The colorful flowers turned into butterflies as he held his hand out toward her with a pleading look in his eyes.

Ye Yun’s eyes were filled with tears and she wasn’t sure what to do at first. They had spent more time apart than together, but she had reason to believe that their relationship was solid.

“Okay!” Ye Yun nodded as tears rolled down her cheeks.

Su Jin got up to hug her, then said quietly, “I’ll count on you for the rest of my life.”

“I’ll count on you too,” responded Ye Yun.

All seven planets of the temple instantly let off fireworks. Ye Yun felt that this was the best moment of her life, and Su Jin felt the same way.

“Congratulations!” Wu Chen congratulated the couple.

“Teehee, you’re years behind me, Boss! Jingru and I already got married three years ago.”

“Bo Ya and I are already married too,” said Situ Jin as he laughed along with Bo Ya.

“Congratulations, my master!” The three demons continued to address Su Jin this way and seemed used to it.

“Congratulations, Dad!” Su Wen saw Su Jin as his father, so he naturally called him Dad.

“Congratulations!”

“Gosh, this is not a good place for singles to be!”

“That’s quite enough, you guys!”

Oscar, Durand, and Xu Ran complained loudly, but their expressions were filled with joy too.

“Congratulations, Su Jin!” A transparent figure appeared. That was Natasha’s soul that was recuperating in the temple. Her soul had stabilized, and she would be able to have a body again in no time.

Right behind her was The Beginning…

Su Jin and Ye Yun couldn’t help but fall silent as they looked at The Beginning. A sadness filled their hearts. They would never forget how Kano Mai sacrificed herself for them.

“Hey, let’s make a promise, shall we?” said Ye Yun to Su Jin.

“What sort of promise?” asked Su Jin magnanimously.

“Promise to bring Mai back, no matter how long it takes,” said Ye Yun sincerely.

Su Jin nodded without hesitating and smiled. “Of course. I will do that, no matter how long it takes!”

Su Jin and Ye Yun’s wedding was going to be the biggest event in the temple, so everyone started wracking their brains to think of the best way to hold it. They decided to start with giving the couple presents. Durand and Oscar retrieved all the precious items they had accumulated and managed to put together two sets of items for the Ceremony of the Gods. They knew that there were still some more members of Team Boning Knife that needed to be revived.

Su Jin liked this present very much. It wasn’t their wedding yet, but he decided to make use of this present first. He added two Keys to Immortality to the sets and revived Ning Meng and Yang Mo.

The two revived individuals looked completely confused. They were stunned to see Su Jin and Chu Yi. Ning Meng asked puzzledly, “Didn’t I… die?”

“Yeah! I remember… I remember dying at the hands of one of the seven sins!” Yang Mo scratched his head in confusion.

“You did die, but you’ve been revived. Welcome back, Ning Meng and Yang Mo!” Su Jin was overjoyed. Besides Kano Mai, all members of Team Boning Knife had been revived. His next step was to bring Kano Mai back as well.

As for Yang Mo and Ning Meng, after getting their opinion on the matter, he cut off their connection with the Handbook. They had fallen too far behind and there was no time for them to grow strong enough now. Besides, they really didn’t enjoy the dangers that came with being an owner.

Su Jin took some time to slowly tell them about what had happened over the past ten odd years. Neither could believe they had been dead for ten years, and they could hardly accept how many things had happened during this time.

“I would like to go back and look for my sister. She must be having a hard time living on her own.” Ning Meng really missed her sister and actually, Su Jin knew her too. They had met before during a Challenge, and her name was Ning Ran.