Hell’s Handbook

The seven planets glimmered as they arrived.

Su Jin’s temple had broken the spacetime barrier to come here and a light from The Beginning began to shine on Su Jin. It restored Su Jin’s maniacal power completely in an instant and even upgraded it!

“Everyone, get into the temple first. I’ll settle things here,” said Su Jin to the new gods. Xiang Nan and the rest instantly flew toward the temple.

The current gods weren’t going to let these new gods enter the temple this easily. Many top tier gods immediately launched an attack to prevent them from doing so, but Su Jin was already back in business.

“Get lost!” Su Jin pushed his hands forward and his maniacal power deflected all the attacks, creating a new path toward the temple for his friends.

After rushing in, they immediately saw that Chu Yi and the rest were already waiting for them. Xiang Nan said, “Aren’t you guys going to think of a way to save Su Jin?”

“No need for that. It’s just a little more than 200,000 gods out there. With The Beginning and Su Jin combined, that’s not a problem.” Xu Ran had a lot of faith in Su Jin and The Beginning, so he was certain they didn’t have to do any rescuing. In fact, if they tried to help, they would end up becoming a hindrance to Su Jin instead.

And just like Xu Ran said, the gods were no match for a repowered and upgraded Su Jin. None of their attacks worked because The Beginning could give Su Jin a defense plan against any of their attacks the moment they launched one, so Su Jin was not hurt by their attacks at all.

But whenever Su Jin brandished his knife, he would destroy a huge number of gods. If this happened before the temple came, these gods would have had a chance to slay Su Jin. But now that the temple had arrived, the battle had turned into a slaughterhouse. Su Jin was able to slaughter them and they were unable to defend themselves at all.

“It’s useless feeling indignant – this is our fate, and this is how things are going to be!”

Some gods began roaring angrily. They were indignant about the ending of this battle because they had fought really hard to get here. But reality was cruel. The path ahead led to nothing else but death.

Su Jin paused his attacks and said frostily, “None of you have ever made a choice. All of you have willingly become the will of the universe’s claws and followed the path he had already set beforehand. You have nothing to feel indignant about!”

“You’re right! We’ve never made a choice because we don’t even have one! If we don’t agree with things, we’ll have to die. Even if we become insurgents, so what? Since time immemorial, over the past thousands of years, you’re the only one who’s actually managed to get this far! The rest were all tracked down and killed by the Handbook!” wailed one of them, his voice filled with despair.

Su Ji frowned. What these gods were griping about wasn’t without reason. It was true that very few had the courage to even choose to become an insurgent, plus none of them actually succeeded. Even among the new gods of his cycle, he was the only one who chose to become an insurgent. Following that logic, would that mean that Chu Yi, Xu Ran, and the rest with him were also a bunch of weaklings?

“Alright then! Since you say that you didn’t have the chance to make a choice, I’ll give you that chance now! You can choose life by joining my temple!” declared Su Jin loudly.

Everyone exchanged glances for a moment. A top tier god took the first step forward and came toward Su Jin. “Are you serious about this offer?”

“I am!” Su Jin nodded and raised a hand. “Give me a high five and we’ll seal the deal!”

The top tier god was a little stunned, but a smile slowly spread across his face as he reached a hand toward Su Jin’s and said, “A high five to seal the…”

BAM!

Before the god’s hand could reach Su Jin’s, he suddenly shattered and turned to powder, which shocked Su Jin.

“The will of the universe!” roared Su Jin angrily as he looked into the distance. The will of the universe was standing there and smiling at them, along with a strange looking clown and Jing Hua and the rest.

“What a surprise! Not only have you managed to survive the combined attack of these useless things, but you’re now trying to buy them over. I can’t help but applaud you for doing this! But… anyone who goes against me has to die!” The will of the universe glared icily at the rest of the gods. Every god his gaze fell on felt a terror that struck them deep in their souls. A terror they couldn’t ignore or fight.

“Alright, alright, that’s quite enough. If we continue playing this game like this, it’ll become boring. After all, if the chess player actually gets killed by the pawns on the chessboard, that would be a joke. So today, all the gods and Su Jin will… return to dust together!” said the will of the universe, casually giving all 200,000-odd gods a death sentence.

“O great will of the universe! As you can see, we aren’t able to fight the insurgent at all!” said one of the gods to the will of the universe.

The will of the universe nodded and yawned. “Yep, I can see that. That makes all of you nothing but trash, and why would I want to keep trash?” said the will of the universe before snapping his fingers and turning that god into ashes.

“Let’s get him! We’re going to die either way, so the least we can do is to die trying to survive! Die while standing on our two feet!”

“You’re right! We’ve groveled at his feet for thousands of years, so we’re not going to kneel anymore when we die!”

“Attack!!”

The gods were furious and stopped targeting Su Jin, but started charging toward the will of the universe instead. But the will of the universe merely burst out laughing.

“Haha! That makes things more interesting, but… you’re all nothing but a bunch of useless bums!” The will of the universe laughed heartily, then said to the incarnation of the Handbook and Jing Hua’s group, “Get Su Jin and The Beginning and don’t let them get away. I’ll have some fun with these guys first.”

“Got it!” The group nodded, then the incarnation of the Handbook, the four geniuses and the Demon Lord made their way toward Su Jin and his temple, while the will of the universe attacked the other gods.

The clown leaped toward The Beginning, transforming into a black dragon whose body was almost as large as the largest planet of the temple and swiped a claw at the temple.

“Get lost!” bellowed Su Jin as he threw a punch at the dragon, causing it to fly away from the temple. But when he was about to throw another punch, the Demon Lord and her group stood in his way.

“Move aside, or I’ll kill you!” Su Jin’s gaze was burning with rage, but he was still willing to give the Demon Lord a chance because he was grateful to her for what she had done back then. Otherwise, he would have just punched her in the face and turned her to dust by now.

The Demon Lord bit her lip slightly and shook her head as she laughed bitterly, “Su Jin… you know that I don’t have the choice to move aside.”

“Don’t push me!” Su Jin suppressed his rage. He didn’t want to kill an old friend if he didn’t have to.

“Don’t waste time talking to him! Attack him!” Jing Hua came charging with a sword in hand, which transformed into a brilliant galaxy that targeted Su Jin’s waist.

“You think you can really kill me?” Su Jin thrust his hand toward that galaxy and shattered it upon impact.

“Fire God’s Flames of Fury!” Phoenix turned into flames and charged toward Su Jin, but Su Jin caught hold of her neck and the flames were instantly doused. Her face turned red and she could feel energy leaving her body at an alarming rate.

“My sword, slice him!” The Dog God brandished his sword as well. His moves were not as elegant as Jing Hua’s and even seemed clumsy, but he was able to slice through Su Jin’s wrist so that Tiny could quickly save Phoenix from him.

While there were probably a good hundred or more geniuses that survived thousands of cycles, the will of the universe only chose these four not because they were more capable than the others, but because they worked extremely well with one another. Compared to the other geniuses who were mostly loners who preferred to work on their own, this group of four were able to do a lot more by working together as a team.

Meanwhile, the will of the universe was killing the gods at an even faster and more efficient rate than Su Jin. Once a god came close enough, they would be turned to smoke and did not pose a threat to him at all.

“If this goes on, they’ll all end up dead,” thought Su Jin as he began to grow anxious. The godhood of these gods was something created by the will of the universe in the first place, so he could destroy them as easily as someone having the right key to open the right lock.

“I’ll take whatever I can!” Su Jin roared angrily as he grabbed the air. A huge hand made from his maniacal power grabbed hold of as many gods as it could and threw all of them toward his temple.

The temple immediately created an opening to absorb the gods. But when Su Jin tried to grab more, he was already too late. The will of the universe had spun around to face him and shouted frostily, “How greedy you are!”

“Let’s go!” shouted Su Jin. The Beginning obediently carried out Su Jin’s orders and made the temple break through the spacetime barrier. The black dragon incarnation of the Handbook immediately gave chase.

“Come back here!” Su Jin grabbed hold of the dragon’s tail and pulled it out of the hole that the temple had created in the spacetime barrier. His maniacal power also covered Jing Hua and the rest so that they couldn’t give chase either.