Chapter 50: Volume-end Summary
This volume’s story takes searching for the orphan as the main thread, leading to a series of stories involving abnormal gods and chaos.
To be honest, I personally feel that my portrayal of the abnormal god Kuthuen and the dimensional race Huo Gu who appear in this volume is not good enough yet, and I’m somewhat annoyed about it.
But I know this is related to my daily work and rest schedule not being regular, and real-life work being too draining on my spirit and time-consuming, because daily life is stressful enough, making it hard to find a relatively suitable relaxed mood for writing, so my mood inevitably becomes a bit restless, and even when advancing the plot according to the outline, I still write in a somewhat hasty manner; I’m working hard to improve this mindset, and I’ll try to avoid such mistakes in the next volume.
Then, following the format set in the previous volume, let’s review this volume’s story.
The Eastern mysticism power that appears in this volume is the Ushi-Oni; I suppose some people have already guessed it while reading, and its story background is also mentioned in this volume’s story, so I won’t elaborate; its image is taken from a Japanese artist’s creation “Ushi-Oni momo”, but the Ushi-Oni’s curse is taken from the folk story setting of “clothing and feathers become a flying bird, removing feathers becomes a woman”, except here I’ve added a new setting that using Ushi-Oni feathers for too long will completely turn one into an Ushi-Oni.
Next is Official General General Zeng, taken from the Taoist ghost god in Minnan region’s folk culture（ yes, although it is the guardian in front of Ksitigarbha’s seat, it is not Buddhist）, with inspiration from Taiwan’s terror game《 Ghost Beating》.
The first Kuthuen faction to appear is Huo Gu, a dimensional race who accidentally gained the ability of longevity, but is cowardly and afraid of death, hiding in darkness, and because of fearing injury, does not dare to easily develop their civilization; based on their race’s character traits, they are set with an appearance similar to rat people.
Next is Kuthuen, no need to say much about its specific image, the blueprint is Cthulhu, except this one appears from underground.
Finally, regarding this volume’s story, I actually prepared a rather knife-like ending, but this knife is not for this volume’s protagonist, but for a supporting character; it felt like it would knife people silly, so I didn’t dare to write it; if everyone wants to see it, I’ll put it in an Easter egg chapter later.
Next volume, Encounter, simply put, it’s another heaven-defying person following Xu Xian, Ning Caichen, and Fall Eleven…
Everyone can imagine what kind of “defying heaven” story this is again.
