Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu learned that the National Guard Bureau wanted him to enter Excellence Technology's new game, War of the Gods, to draw the Future God Religion's attention and help identify its members. He prepared with his assigned security consultant Chenghong Moli and joined Mofeitosi in the game, then entered it with Chenghong Moli when the open beta began.

• Old Li explained the Bureau's plan and gave Xiao Yu information about War of the Gods, a new game made by Excellence Technology using the computer that had run Sky World.
• Old Li assigned Chenghong Moli to live with Xiao Yu, protect him, and report on his actions in the game; she objected but accepted the order.
• Xiao Yu took Chenghong Moli home and decided not to invite his old friends, but Mofeitosi contacted him and agreed to play under Xiao Yu's leadership.
• After three days of preparation, Xiao Yu and Chenghong Moli entered their gaming pods and logged into War of the Gods together.

Xiao Yu organized a group to play undead characters in War of the Gods, then created his own undead character after choosing the dark faction. The chapter ended with him entering the game as King's Return, still unsure what kind of undead he would become.

• Xiao Yu chose undead characters for himself, Chenghong Moli, and Mofeitosi, but Mofeitosi rejected the plan and decided to play an adventurer alone.
• Xiao Yu failed to recruit Esmehalda and Leah Bloodmoon, then asked Big Water Cunt to play a zombie; Big Water Cunt readily agreed.
• Xiao Yu and Chenghong Moli entered War of the Gods, and Xiao Yu chose the dark faction, undead, and the Burying Ground as his birthplace.
• Xiao Yu selected the Rhine Empire, named his character King's Return after Azathoth was rejected, and chose soldier as his former occupation and age thirty at death.
• Xiao Yu completed character creation and entered the game without being offered a choice of undead subtype.

Xiao Yu found himself controlling a wounded Rhine Empire soldier on a brutal battlefield, where he fought off several Kern Kingdom soldiers and realized the encounter was likely his character’s experience before death. When the Mad Lion Knights arrived, he fled into the woods to escape them and continue trying to influence his character’s attributes.

• Xiao Yu woke inside the body of a Rhine Empire soldier and killed a Kern Kingdom axeman who attacked him.
• Xiao Yu used combat skills and the soldier’s memories to kill three more Kern Kingdom soldiers, causing the survivors to flee.
• Xiao Yu saw the Mad Lion Knights charging toward him and concluded that his battlefield experience was a starting quest that would end in his character’s death.
• Xiao Yu ran into the woods, and the knights stayed at the forest’s edge and sent surviving soldiers after him.

Xiao Yu fought through the enemy soldiers, then sacrificed himself to kill a Mad Lion Knight by throwing them both off a cliff. After years passed, the system offered him a choice of undead form and displayed the known upgrade paths for each type.

• Xiao Yu killed nineteen soldiers but was wounded and nearly exhausted, then fled from four Mad Lion Knights toward a cliff.
• Xiao Yu let a knight stab him, grappled with him, and threw them both off the cliff, killing them.
• Xiao Yu watched the battle continue as the narrator described the war and the passage of years over the two bodies.
• The system asked Xiao Yu to choose his undead form and presented descriptions and upgrade paths for walking corpses, skeletons, and ghosts.

Xiao Yu chose a skeleton and selected talents, including two hidden talents unlocked by his past battlefield kills. He entered the game and awakened by clawing his way out of the earth.

• Xiao Yu chose the skeleton path, while Chenghong Moli was set to take the ghost path.
• Xiao Yu selected Bone Hyperplasia, Memory Fragments, and Loyal Hound Owner as his initial talents.
• Xiao Yu discovered hidden talents unlocked by killing enemies in life, including Weapon Master, Indomitable Will, and the locked Command the Battlefield.
• Xiao Yu replaced Bone Hyperplasia with Weapon Master and Indomitable Will, using all five talent points.
• Xiao Yu entered the game, felt Naraku’s power awaken him, and burst out of the earth.

Xiao Yu became a level 1 skeleton soldier, activated two weapon skills, and named his skeleton dog Ribs. While heading toward the Burying Ground, he encountered an adventurer who turned out to be another player.

• Xiao Yu examined his undead body and pulled the rusted Mad Lion Knight's longsword from his stomach.
• Xiao Yu activated Memory Fragments and Weapon Master, gaining Consecutive Sword Strikes and Longsword Specialization.
• Xiao Yu summoned his skeleton dog and named it Ribs.
• Xiao Yu checked the map and headed from the Death Wilderness toward the Burying Ground.
• Xiao Yu encountered a heavily armored man carrying a torch and weapons, who eagerly approached him to attack.
• Xiao Yu realized the man was a player and prepared to fight with both swords.

Xiao Yu was killed by the Demon Hunter Firas, then reunited with Chenghong Moli and Big Water Cunt in the Burying Ground. The three sought ways to grow stronger, and Andar invited them to join Naraku, God of Death.

• Xiao Yu fought Firas, but Firas killed him with Let the Dead Return to Death.
• Xiao Yu revived in the Burying Ground and discovered that his death had cost him 20 experience points.
• Xiao Yu reunited with Chenghong Moli and Big Water Cunt, and they decided to seek their advancement quests.
• Xiao Yu and his companions met Andar, who offered to strengthen them if they joined Naraku's army.
• Andar's invitation appeared as a system notification, warning that they could not change factions after joining a deity.

Xiao Yu rejected joining Naraku, God of Death's faction and accepted Andar's quest to kill a demon hunter and retrieve his holy emblem. He gathered Chenghong Moli and Big Water Cunt to find help, then met Sword of the Fallen Angel, who argued that Mula, God of Darkness was a better faction choice.

• Xiao Yu reasoned that the Future God Religion might be using the gods and their followers to cultivate a real god, so he decided to avoid every faction and aim to slaughter all the gods.
• Andar offered Xiao Yu a harder path to advancement: kill a demon hunter near the Burying Ground and return with the hunter's holy emblem.
• Xiao Yu accepted the quest and discussed its dangers with Chenghong Moli and Big Water Cunt, deciding they needed more people to face the demon hunter.
• Xiao Yu led his companions to Sword of the Fallen Angel, who was recruiting players for an advancement quest party.
• Sword of the Fallen Angel said he had joined the closed beta and recommended Mula, God of Darkness, over Naraku, God of Death.

Xiao Yu explained how NPC adventurers worked in War of the Gods, then recruited a full party by posing as a closed beta expert leading a leveling expedition. The party headed into the Death Wilderness, where a scout found three adventurers near an abandoned house, leaving Xiao Yu ready to ambush them.

• Sword of the Fallen Angel explained that the demon hunters were NPC adventurers added to War of the Gods, not players.
• Xiao Yu took party leadership and recruited six advanced undead by advertising a leveling expedition led by a closed beta expert.
• Xiao Yu filled the ten-person party and persuaded a questioning member that their unadvanced characters would increase the party's experience gains.
• The party marched from the Great Graveyard toward the Death Wilderness, with Xiao Yu sending a shadow ahead to scout.
• The shadow reported a three-person adventurer party consisting of a warrior, a ranger with a hunting hound, and a mage, and Xiao Yu chose an abandoned house as the site for an ambush.

Xiao Yu and his undead set an ambush in an abandoned farmhouse and killed three adventurers who followed ghostly crying to the house. After dividing the loot, Xiao Yu decided to keep using the farmhouse to hunt more adventurers.

• Xiao Yu arranged the walking corpses around a treasure chest, hid four skeletons in the farmhouse, and sent three ghosts to lure adventurers inside.
• Invincible Sword God, Invincible Magic God, and Invincible Bow God heard a little girl crying and followed it to the farmhouse, where they found the chest and three apparently dead bodies.
• When Invincible Sword God touched the chest, Xiao Yu and the skeletons attacked while the walking corpses and ghosts overwhelmed the warrior.
• The undead killed all three adventurers, and the survivors divided their dropped relics and equipment.
• Xiao Yu gained over 40 experience points and decided to use the farmhouse to ambush more adventurers.

Xiao Yu led his undead party in ambushes until they defeated a powerful priest and took his holy symbol, but a four-person adventurer party exposed and burned out their hiding place. The undead were wiped out, and Xiao Yu respawned at the Great Graveyard before planning to turn in his quest and explore a dungeon.

• Xiao Yu’s undead party lured adventurers into their house and killed them, leveling up as they went.
• The party lured a bearded priest inside; Big Water Cunt weakened his aura with Corpse Fluid Spit, and the undead killed him and took his holy symbol.
• Xiao Yu agreed to ambush one more group, but the four-person party detected the undead inside and refused to enter.
• The mage spread Grease over the house and set it on fire, forcing Xiao Yu and the undead to charge outside into prepared attacks.
• A priest’s Let the Dead Return to Death spell and a warrior’s strike killed Xiao Yu, and the four adventurers wiped out the party.
• Xiao Yu respawned at the Great Graveyard, where Sword of the Fallen Angel planned to change classes and run a dungeon; Xiao Yu decided to turn in his quest first.

Andar rewarded Xiao Yu and his companions with Nerull's Gift, allowing each to advance into a new undead form. After choosing their forms and gaining new abilities, they discussed why Sword of the Fallen Angel had gained access to a skeleton mage advancement.

• The four visited Andar and gave him the holy emblem, which he recognized as belonging to a priest of the God of Order.
• Andar granted them Nerull's Gift, and Xiao Yu chose to advance into a skeleton swordsman, gaining the Parry Counter skill.
• Big Water Cunt advanced into a zombie and gained Enrage, Corpse Poison, and increased health regeneration.
• Chenghong Moli chose to become a wraith, gaining Curse and Possession.
• Sword of the Fallen Angel advanced into a skeleton mage and learned Flame Missiles, surprising Xiao Yu, who asked how he had unlocked that option.

Xiao Yu learned from Sword of the Fallen Angel how a vagrant could unlock the skeleton mage path and discovered that adventurers used limited spell slots rather than mana. He left the conversation understanding why casting classes became vulnerable after exhausting their spells.

• Sword of the Fallen Angel explained that a vagrant with Qatar City-State as a background could unlock the skeleton mage option by dying in a mage's experiment and reviving with magic in their body.
• Sword of the Fallen Angel revealed that Azathoth, or Xiao Yu, was his idol, and Xiao Yu kept his identity secret.
• Sword of the Fallen Angel explained that creature feats such as Flame Missiles did not consume spell slots, unlike spells.
• Xiao Yu looked up the spell system and learned that casting classes used a limited number of slots based on spell level, which they recovered by meditating.
• Xiao Yu realized the earlier mage and priest had likely exhausted their spell slots and that enough undead could have overwhelmed their party.

Xiao Yu led a ten-player party into the Lost Village instance, where undead were tasked with killing the villagers. After scouting the village and finding its defenses, the party used Chenghong Moli’s possession ability to open the barred gate, leaving them poised to attack.

• Xiao Yu chose the beginner Lost Village instance, assembled a party of ten level-two undead players, and entered with them.
• Undead wizard Isaac assigned the group to kill Poli Village’s residents for Lord Andrew’s cause.
• You Can't See Me scouted the village and reported four bosses, scattered villagers, and a church glowing with holy light.
• Xiao Yu devised a plan to avoid the gate’s defenses, and Chenghong Moli infiltrated the palisade by possessing a militiaman.
• Chenghong Moli removed the bar and opened the gate, and Xiao Yu rallied the party to charge into Poli Village.

Xiao Yu’s undead party defeated the militia captain, and Sweet and Sour Ribs claimed a Soul Fire Fragment that granted dual-wielding proficiency. They then confronted the powerful blacksmith Akto, whose hammer sent Big Water Cunt flying as the battle began.

• Xiao Yu and the undead overwhelmed the militia captain and killed him after his militiamen fell.
• The group rolled for the Soul Fire Fragment, and Sweet and Sour Ribs won it and gained Dual-Wield Weapon Specialization.
• A militiaman killed by Big Water Cunt rose again as a wandering zombie, and the party rested before heading to the smithy.
• Akto charged out of the smithy, resisted the party’s curses and fire attack, and swept his hammer into the undead.
• Akto’s blow smashed Big Water Cunt’s brains and sent him flying as the party’s fight with the blacksmith began.

Xiao Yu’s group defeated the blacksmith Akto by using Chenghong Moli to possess his son and turn him against him. After dividing the loot, Sword of the Fallen Angel stopped the group to explain something about the next boss, the trio of lost adventurers.

• The blacksmith killed most of Xiao Yu’s group, forcing them to retreat and regroup at the respawn point.
• Xiao Yu realized the blacksmith’s apprentice could be used as leverage and led a plan to capture him while the others distracted Akto.
• Chenghong Moli possessed the apprentice, and Xiao Yu used him to threaten Akto, but the boy broke free and stabbed his father while still possessed.
• Akto died, Chenghong Moli was forced out of the boy’s body, and Xiao Yu killed the boy as the undead celebrated their victory.
• The group divided the drops, with Chenghong Moli taking the Soul Fire fragment and Big Water Cunt winning the short sword.
• Sword of the Fallen Angel stopped the group before they moved on and said he needed to explain something about the third boss, the trio of lost adventurers.

Xiao Yu’s group attacked a tavern in Poli Village to confront a trio of NPC adventurers, first killing the villagers and bartender before the adventurers fell back behind the bar. As the trio held their ground, Xiao Yu ordered a skeleton mage to fire at the liquor cabinet behind them.

• Sword of the Fallen Angel explained that NPC adventurers could appear as dungeon bosses, had randomly generated parties, and did not drop Soul Fire Fragments because they did not truly die.
• Xiao Yu decided to attack the NPC adventurers, and his group arrived at the brightly lit tavern in Poli Village at midnight.
• Xiao Yu led the undead in a surprise attack on a warrior, a monk, and a bard, while four patrons and the bartender joined the fight.
• Xiao Yu killed several patrons with his sword skills as the rest of his group killed the others; only Wesker died among the undead.
• The three adventurers retreated behind the bar and resisted the attackers, so Xiao Yu told Sword of the Fallen Angel to fire a fireball at the liquor cabinet behind them.

Xiao Yu's party reached the final boss of the dungeon, a priest who blocked undead with a divine barrier and killed them with repeated exorcism spells. After the party died and respawned, Xiao Yu realized they could use zombies made from Poli Village's residents to exhaust the priest's spell slots.

• Xiao Yu's party defeated the tavern's three undead and distributed their loot before heading to the church.
• Xiao Yu provoked the priest into leaving the church, but the priest trapped the undead outside with Barrier against Evil.
• The priest repeatedly cast Let the Dead Return to Death, killing Xiao Yu's party one member at a time.
• Xiao Yu respawned in the graveyard and rejected his party's suggestion that the dungeon was impossible to beat.
• Xiao Yu decided to have Big Water Cunt and Wesker turn villagers into zombies so they could exhaust the priest's single-target spell slots.

Xiao Yu learned that Corpse Poison only turned villagers into zombies when it killed them, then used the resulting horde to exhaust the priest’s spells and defeat him. The priest dropped only a Soul Fire Fragment, leaving Xiao Yu disappointed by the final boss’s meager loot.

• Xiao Yu tested Corpse Poison and discovered that only victims killed by the poison became mindless zombies.
• Xiao Yu and the zombies infected more than seventy Poli villagers and drove the horde to the church.
• The priest used Barrier against Evil and cast Let the Dead Return to Death twenty-three times, destroying about a third of the zombies before his spells ran out.
• When the barrier vanished, Xiao Yu had Sword of the Fallen Angel attack the priest, and the horde overwhelmed and killed him.
• Xiao Yu checked the priest’s loot and found only a Soul Fire Fragment.

After clearing Poli Village, Xiao Yu collected a Soul Fire Fragment and activated it, reliving the memories of Victor, a Faithless who had come to hate the gods after his village was destroyed. The memory ended with a mysterious voice calling the wounded Victor to come to it.

• Xiao Yu took the Soul Fire Fragment after the party declined to roll for it, and he received his dungeon reward and reached level three.
• The party left the dungeon and disbanded, while Chenghong Moli said she had gained a memory and went off to level alone.
• Xiao Yu activated his Soul Fire Fragment and entered the memories of Victor, the Priest who had once been an ordinary man.
• Victor’s memories showed his village destroyed by Orc bandits and revealed that he despised the gods for failing to protect its people.
• After God of Order followers robbed and wounded Victor, he collapsed in the wilderness, where a mysterious voice called him.