00:12 AM.
Subterranean garage, Azure Spire.
The Chiron sat cooling, ticking like a satisfied predator.
A nervous voice crackled from the wall speaker.
"Mr Feng, the dealership is screaming fraud. They say the Veyron was bought under false—"
Lin Feng didn't let Mr Han finish.
"Tell them if they want the car back they can come collect the ashes. Otherwise, I'll buy the entire chain tomorrow and turn their headquarters into my dog's kennel. Clock's ticking."
Click. Line dead.
He placed one palm on Chiron's warm hood.
DING!
Godhand triggered.
Core concepts extracted: Speed | Durability | Precision Engineering.
Upgraded → Phantom Drive (SSS+)
Any vehicle, any era, any physics; summon, dismiss, or teleport at will. Bound to Hell Inventory.
The 50-million-RMB hypercar dissolved into black smoke and vanished.
Empty parking bay. No VIN, no plates, no evidence.
Perfect.
Elevator. 88th floor. Doors slid open onto twenty thousand square feet of silent, obscene luxury.
First thing he did: open Infinite Wallet and rain money like a silent god.
- Every valet, maid, guard, and cook on the Spire payroll → instant 5 million RMB bonus.
- Mr Han personally → 100 million.
- Total spent: 1.3 billion RMB in forty-three seconds.
By sunrise, half the city's service class would be ready to die for the man in the black suit. Loyalty purchased wholesale.
He found Li Wei asleep in the east-wing master suite, city lights painting silver across her face. Still too thin. Still carrying the damage of years spent saving everyone except herself.
Lin Feng sat on the edge of the bed.
No permission asked.
Two fingers to her temple.
Absolute Regeneration (SSS) – full deployment.
Green-black light poured from his hand. Old scars, vitamin deficiencies, stress fractures in her bones, micro-tumours from chronic exhaustion; everything erased in eight seconds flat.
She woke gasping, eyes wide and luminous.
"You're not human anymore," she whispered, reading him like a chart.
"Correct. I'm the loophole the Devil wrote into reality."
She sat up, silk sliding from her shoulders, unafraid.
"How long do you have?"
"One hundred years of being untouchable. Then eternity wearing chains."
Li Wei took his hand; no trembling now.
"Then we make those hundred years count for something more than revenge."
He almost smiled. Almost.
"First I have a problem," he said, turning to the floor-to-ceiling window.
Below them, every streetlight within a fifty-meter radius flickered in perfect five-second intervals.
Like a heartbeat made of electricity.
"My aura is leaking. At the current rate, I'll cause rolling blackouts across half the city by next week. Phones explode if I stand too close. Planes might drop if I fly commercial."
Li Wei followed his gaze, sharp mind already working.
"You're an open nuclear core walking around in a silk suit. You need a containment protocol."
"The System doesn't hand out manuals. It hands out quests."
DING!
New Hidden Quest Unlocked
[Master the Devil's Shroud]
Suppress 99.999% of your SSS aura without diminishing combat power.
Reward: Title "Shadow Emperor" + permanent city-wide stealth + one free skill evolution.
Failure penalty: You become a walking natural disaster.
Time limit: 72 hours.
Lin Feng's eyes narrowed, crimson flickering brighter for a split second; every light on the entire floor dimmed in response.
"Seventy-two hours to learn how to hide the fact I'm a walking apocalypse. Or the city starts burning from the inside."
Li Wei stood, barefoot on Italian marble, looking impossibly small and impossibly certain.
"Then we don't sleep. I monitor your vitals. You meditate, circulate, compress. Treat it like radiation shielding for the soul."
She placed her palm over his heart.
"Your heart rate is 31 bpm and dropping. Temperature 41 °C. You're already halfway to godhood and physics is screaming. Let me be your dosimeter."
For the first time since signing in blood, Lin Feng felt something dangerously close to relief.
He nodded once.
"Lock the floor. No staff, no visitors, no cameras. Seventy-two hours. If I lose control, you evacuate the building. That's an order."
Li Wei smiled; small, fierce, unbreakable.
"I don't follow orders anymore, Lin Feng. I follow you."
She walked to the control panel, killed every light, every feed, every trace.
The penthouse plunged into absolute darkness.
Only the faint crimson glow in his eyes remained.
DING!
Devil's Shroud training mode engaged.
Current leakage: 99.7%
Containment: 0.3%
Time remaining: 71 h 59 m 58 s…
Somewhere far below, the city's power grid flickered again, as if it could already taste what was coming.
Lin Feng sat cross-legged in the centre of the marble floor, Li Wei's hand steady on his back.
Seventy-two hours to teach a newborn god how to wear a human mask.
Let the loop begin.