We learn the background of JW through the guoshi. JW tried to save the kingdom of Wu Yong from a volcano eruption, but failed and caused a million people to fall to their deaths. Driven into depression, he suggests using human sacrifices to stop the volcano. His friends disagree with him, so he kills them and ends up cursed by their resentful spirits. The guoshi runs away, but later is reunited when JW becomes the emperor of the heavens. But the guoshi finds out that JW’s ascension story is a lie, and he has murdered all the previous gods in order to become the emperor, using his hatred to create vicious ghosts and monsters to terrorize the people.
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