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This is the chapter where the butcher’s bill comes due. After the unimaginable brutality of the battle against Peng Longteng, “Collect” is the grim, exhausted aftermath—a tally of flesh, sacrifice, and the bitter cost of survival. We see what it means to win in the Dao-Twisted World: not a glorious victory, but a pile of broken bodies, a near-death protagonist held together by rat oil and sheer spite, and the quiet agony of those left maimed. The chapter’s emotional core is not the death of the monster, but the desperate, ugly, beautiful human acts that made it possible. Get ready to feel the weight of every life spent and every limb lost.

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Dao Gui Yi Xian