Azure Spire, 88th floor.
Total darkness except for the city bleeding light through the windows.
Lin Feng stood in the centre of the marble void and forced the storm inside him to kneel.
Crimson-black essence roared in his veins like a supernova trying to escape.
He pictured Lucifer's bored scarlet eyes and thought:
Not yet.
One mental command.
Infinite internal loop.
CLANG.
The sound wasn't heard; it was felt in the bones of reality itself.
Every light in the penthouse stabilised.
The wall tablet's clock stopped jumping.
Even the air stopped tasting like ozone and blood.
DING!
[Devil's Shroud] – Perfect Containment achieved in 00:00:07
Reward: Title "Shadow Emperor" (permanent stealth aura – undetectable by any existence below SSS+)
Bonus: Skill Evolution Ticket ×1
Hidden condition cleared: Zero civilian casualties during breakthrough.
Lin Feng exhaled once.
The city outside didn't flicker again.
Li Wei's voice came from the darkness behind him, calm and surgical.
"Heart rate 33. Core temperature is 40.8 °C and stable. Leakage now 0.0003 %. You're officially invisible to the world, Feng."
He turned. She stood silhouetted against the skyline, tablet glowing in her hand like a holy relic.
"Good. Because the world just got rewritten."
He placed one finger on the glass.
DING!
Godhand → Target: Global Digital Infrastructure
New skill acquired → Omnipresent Digital Dominion (SSS+)
Every server, every camera, every bank ledger on Earth was now an extension of his nervous system.
Ten seconds of silence.
Then the tablet in Li Wei's hand exploded with data.
- Phoenix Legacy Investment Ltd. was incorporated simultaneously in Cayman, Singapore, and Switzerland.
- Ten-year backdated trading history: 4,872 % compound annual return.
- Net worth on paper: 87 billion USD and climbing in real time.
- Forbes, Bloomberg, and Caixin are all updating within the next nine minutes with "Mysterious 20-year-old Chinese prodigy returns from overseas silence."
Li Wei looked up, eyes shining with something between awe and terror.
"You just hacked the planet's memory of you into existence."
"No," Lin Feng corrected, voice soft and terrible. "I edited it. Reality is my save file now."
He walked to her, took the tablet, and typed a single line with one finger.
Transfer: 500 million RMB → Li Wei personal account
Transfer: 2 billion RMB → private medical foundation for her grandmother (perpetual trust)
Done before she blinked.
"You're not my employee," he said. "You're my regent when I'm breaking faces. Title: Chief Operating Officer, Phoenix Legacy. Salary: whatever you feel like typing. First order: grandmother moved here by dawn. Best doctors on the planet on retainer. She wakes up in a suite that makes this one look like a motel."
Li Wei's lips trembled once; just once; then hardened into the smile of a woman who finally had permission to weaponise her kindness.
"Second order?" she asked.
"Campus intelligence package. Ye Qingyu; senior, medical department, known as Ice Goddess. I want her class schedule, family tree, bank accounts, medical records, every WeChat message she's sent in the last three years, and the exact brand of lipstick she wears when she wants to feel untouchable. Deliver it before breakfast."
Li Wei was already typing. "Give me four hours."
"Give me two."
He walked to the window, the city sprawling beneath him like a chessboard made of ants.
"Tomorrow I enrol back in university as the mysterious trillionaire transfer student.
The day after, Ye Qingyu learns what happens when you reject a man who came back from Hell with a receipt."
Behind him, Li Wei spoke without looking up from the screen.
"And when the Ancient Clans eventually sense you?"
Lin Feng smiled at his own reflection; eyes flickering crimson for just a heartbeat, then vanishing again under perfect Shroud.
"Then they discover the difference between hidden dragons… and the thing that eats dragons for breakfast."
DING!
New quest preview unlocked
[Volume 1 Finale: Campus Annihilation]
Make the Ice Goddess kneel in public.
Bonus objective: Do it without ever raising your voice or lifting a finger.
Remaining rental time:
99 years, 364 days, 18 hours, 11 minutes…
Lin Feng killed the lights completely.
Tomorrow, the university will meet its new god.
And he was already bored with being merciful.