I Rely On Plug-Ins To Hunt Gods: What Holds True in Every Listing

I Rely On Plug-Ins To Hunt Gods is a fan-translated title for 我靠外挂狩猎神明, a Chinese manhua drawn by the studio 触岛漫画 (Chu Dao Comic). It runs 137 chapters. Kuaikan, the Chinese platform that still hosts it, states 共139个内容 — 139 items — of which 共137篇正文 are main-body chapters. Tapas holds the English licence and published exactly 137 episodes under the title The Godslayer Who Cheats, from 29 April 2024 to 2 May 2025. The Chinese original ran from 1 October 2022 to 2 January 2024. No printed volumes exist in any language, and two languages besides Chinese carry an official edition: English on Tapas, Japanese on Piccoma.

I date mechanical clocks, and the first thing I do with one is ignore the case. Cases get swapped, re-veneered, married to whatever movement the shop had spare. I learned that keeping the waiting-room clocks synchronized on the Glasgow railway, where a handsome oak case regularly turned out to be hiding a movement stamped a full generation later. You date from the movement outward. The same discipline is the only thing that gets you a straight answer about this manhua, because its case — the title, the cover, the chapter number on the page you landed on — has been swapped more times than most.

Why this series has four English titles

The whole tangle starts with one word: 外挂, wàiguà. Literally it is an external attachment, a plug-in. In Chinese gaming slang it has meant a cheat program since long before this comic existed. Translate it literally and you get "plug-ins". Translate it idiomatically and you get "cheat". Both are defensible, and both got used, which is how one comic ended up scattered across search results under names that look unrelated.

MangaUpdates, which keeps the most complete name record I found, files it under The Godslayer Who Cheats and lists these among its associated names: I Rely on Cheat to Hunt Gods, I Rely on Plug-ins to Hunt Gods, Wo Kao Waigua Shoulie Shenming, 我靠外挂狩猎神明, and the Japanese 最強神殺しのリベンジ攻略. Anyone searching one of those will find a partial, differently-numbered version of the same work.

Then there is the query that brought a lot of readers here in the first place, typed as a i rely on plug-ins to hunt gods. Search engines have started reading that stray leading letter as "AI", and an AI Overview will occasionally answer it as though someone asked a philosophical question about artificial intelligence and tooling. That reading is a case with no movement in it. I will come back to why the evidence kills it outright.

How many chapters there are: 137

Kuaikan gives the cleanest figure I found anywhere, because it separates two numbers that every other site collapses into one. Its chapter panel reads 共139个内容 alongside 共137篇正文. One hundred and thirty-nine items posted; one hundred and thirty-seven of them main-body chapters. One of the two extras is the 预告篇, the preview, posted 19 September 2022, twelve days before chapter one.

That two-item gap is the whole story of this title's numbering. It is the antique-trade equivalent of mounting holes that do not line up with the movement now screwed to them. Count the items and you get 139. Count what was actually drawn as story and you get 137. Sites that scraped the item total, sites that scraped the story total, and sites that re-split chapters into shorter reading units all published different numbers, and none of them lied exactly.

Here is where the counts land, each checked against the listing itself in September 2026:

| Source | Count shown | What it is counting | |---|---|---| | Kuaikan (official, Chinese) | 139 items / 137 正文 | Everything posted, then story chapters only | | Tapas (official, English) | 137 episodes | Licensed English episodes, series complete | | MangaUpdates | 137 chapters (Complete) | Status in country of origin | | AniList | field left empty | No chapter or volume figure recorded | | MangaDex | 11 English chapters | Scanlation, chapters 0–10 | | ManhuaPlus | 8 chapter links, 0–7 | Abandoned aggregator upload |

Three independent records land on 137, and two of the three are the publishers themselves. That is the number I would put my name to.

When it was published and how fast chapters arrived

The Chinese original and the English licence are two different runs with two different calendars, and conflating them produces most of the wrong publication dates in circulation.

On Kuaikan, the preview went up 19 September 2022 and chapter one, 背叛，重启 (Betrayal, Restart), on 1 October 2022. The final chapter, 王的馈赠 (The King's Gift), posted 2 January 2024. That is a 470-day run, a little over fifteen months, for 137 chapters — an average of 2.04 chapters per week. AniList independently records the start date as 1 October 2022, matching Kuaikan exactly.

The cadence was not an average, though; it was a schedule, and reading the dates makes it visible. Of the 137 release dates on Kuaikan, 64 fell on a Tuesday and 64 on a Friday. That is 128 of 137, or 93 per cent, landing on one of two fixed weekdays, with a scatter of nine make-up posts on other days. Twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays, for fifteen months.

The English run on Tapas behaves differently at the start and then falls into the same rhythm. Episodes 1 through 25 all published between 29 April and 2 May 2024 — twenty-five episodes dumped in three days to give the launch a backlog worth subscribing to. After that it settles: every episode date I sampled from number 50 onward fell on a Friday. Episode 50 carries the label "Season 1 Finale" and posted 12 July 2024. Episode 137, labelled "Series Finale", posted 2 May 2025. Excluding the launch dump, that is 112 episodes across 365 days, 2.15 per week.

Two publishers, two countries, two years apart, both converging on roughly two chapters a week. The production reality underneath the branding did not change.

Where you can read it legally

Seven platforms are named as official homes for this series across the records I checked, and their conditions differ sharply. I opened each one I could reach.

| Platform | Language | What I found on the page | |---|---|---| | Tapas | English | Live. 137 episodes, marked "Completed series" | | Kuaikan | Chinese | Live. Marked 连载中 (ongoing), last chapter 2 January 2024 | | Piccoma | Japanese | Exists, geo-restricted; page opens only from inside Japan | | Tencent (ac.qq.com) | Chinese | Dead. Returns 错误提示 — comic does not exist or was deleted | | Bilibili Manga | Chinese | Listed as the raw source by MangaDex; could not verify | | iQIYI | Chinese | Named by MangaUpdates; not verified | | Dongman | Chinese | Named by MangaUpdates; not verified |

The Tencent entry deserves attention, because it is exactly the failure mode I spend my working life on. MangaUpdates still lists Acqq among the original publishers. The record is accurate about the past and useless about the present: comic ID 652945 on ac.qq.com now returns an error page reading 该漫画不存在或章节已被删除 — this comic does not exist or its chapters have been deleted. The catalogue outlived the thing it catalogued, the way a dealer's description outlives the movement it described.

Tapas is where an English reader should go. Episode one is free; the rest unlock with Ink, the platform's currency, or through a timed wait that excludes the most recent 41 episodes. The series page credits NCOMIC as producer, Lindsey Li as managing editor, and Tapas Entertainment as publisher, 2024. It carries 168,024 views, 5,054 subscribers and 9,727 likes. On 2 May 2025 Tapas posted a notice on the series page: "This series concluded with Episode 137 as the final episode. We apologize for the sudden end and ask for your understanding."

NCOMIC's own corporate site settles the question of which editions are genuinely authorised. Its English catalogue links The Godslayer Who Cheats directly to the Tapas series page, and its Japanese catalogue links 最強神殺しのリベンジ攻略 directly to Piccoma. The producer is pointing at its own licensees, which is about as clean a provenance chain as this medium offers.

Volumes and translation languages: zero and two

There are no printed volumes, and four separate databases agree by omission. AniList leaves both the chapter and volume fields empty. MangaDex records an empty last-volume value and files every chapter it holds under no volume at all. MangaUpdates gives a chapter count and no volume figure. Kuaikan counts items and chapters, never volumes.

That is not an oversight in the records. The series is tagged on MangaDex as Long Strip, Web Comic, Full Color — a vertical-scroll webtoon drawn for phone screens. Work in that format is rarely collected into print, and nothing in any listing suggests this one was.

On languages, the honest count is two official translations beyond the Chinese original: English on Tapas, Japanese on Piccoma, both confirmed through NCOMIC's own links. MangaDex reports a single available translated language, English, which reflects fan translation rather than licensing. MangaUpdates also records a Vietnamese associated name, Ta Dựa Vào Hack Để Săn Các Vị Thần; I found no official Vietnamese edition behind it and would treat it as a fan title until someone produces the licence.

Why an AI Overview misreads this query

This is where the two kinds of search separate, and the comparison is worth setting out plainly, because a machine currently gets it wrong and a human never does.

| | Serial-fiction title lookup | AI plug-in query | |---|---|---| | What the reader wants | A specific chapter of a specific comic | A tool, method or explanation | | Winning answer | Chapter number, platform, licence status | Software names, capabilities, comparisons | | Related searches | manhua, chapter 1, manga, alternate title, Reddit threads | plugin, API, integration, model, prompt | | Test that settles it | Does a comic with this exact title exist? | Does any product with this name exist? | | Verdict here | 137 chapters, licensed to Tapas since 2024 | No such tool exists |

The related searches decide it. Every companion query that clusters around this phrase is a comic-reader query: I Rely On Plug-Ins To Hunt Gods manhua, chapter 1, manga, alternate title, plus the Reddit threads people open when a scanlation dies mid-run. Nobody searching for an artificial-intelligence tool asks for its manhua or its chapter one. The vocabulary surrounding a query is evidence about the query, and here every scrap of it points at a comic.

A metaphorical reading of the phrase — plug-ins, hunting gods, something clever about tooling and power — is a beautiful case with nothing inside it. The movement is a 137-chapter Chinese webtoon that ran twice weekly for fifteen months, and the mismatch between the two readings is the part that actually needed explaining.

How to date a chapter listing you don't trust

The method transfers directly from clocks. Five steps, in order, and the order matters:

1. Find the native title. Work back to 我靠外挂狩猎神明. Every English variant is a translation decision, and translations fork; the original does not.
2. Go to the publisher, not the index. Kuaikan and Tapas post their own ledgers. Aggregators post copies of copies, and each generation loses accuracy.
3. Separate items from chapters. Kuaikan's 139-versus-137 split is the single most useful number on any page connected to this series. Ask any listing which of the two it is showing.
4. Read the dates, not the count. A listing that stops in October 2022 is telling you when a translator quit, not how long the comic is. MangaDex's 11 chapters and ManhuaPlus's seven are both timestamps disguised as totals.
5. Explain the mismatch before you accept it. If two sources disagree, one of them is describing a different edition, a different split, or a different year. Name which, or trust neither.

I would add one caution about my own work here. Piccoma refused to open from outside Japan, and Bilibili's page renders through JavaScript that its API declined to serve me, so the Japanese and Bilibili editions rest on NCOMIC's and MangaDex's word rather than on a page I read myself. That is weaker evidence than the rest of this article, and you should weight it accordingly.

Frequently asked questions

How many chapters does I Rely On Plug-Ins To Hunt Gods have?

One hundred and thirty-seven. Kuaikan, the official Chinese platform, lists 139 items but marks only 137 as main-body chapters; one of the two extras is the preview posted on 19 September 2022. Tapas published 137 episodes in English, and MangaUpdates records the series as complete at 137.

Is I Rely On Plug-Ins To Hunt Gods the same as The Godslayer Who Cheats?

Yes. Both name 我靠外挂狩猎神明 by 触岛漫画. The Godslayer Who Cheats is the licensed English title on Tapas; I Rely On Plug-Ins To Hunt Gods is an aggregator rendering of the Chinese 外挂, which means plug-in literally and game cheat in practice. Piccoma publishes it in Japanese as 最強神殺しのリベンジ攻略.

Where can I read I Rely On Plug-Ins To Hunt Gods legally?

Tapas holds the English licence and carries all 137 episodes as The Godslayer Who Cheats; episode one is free and the rest unlock with Ink or a timed wait. Kuaikan hosts the Chinese original. Piccoma carries the Japanese edition, though its pages open only from inside Japan.

Why do different sites show different chapter numbers for this manhua?

Each site counts what suits it. MangaDex carries 11 English chapters because the scanlation stopped in October 2022; ManhuaPlus stalled at chapter seven; Kuaikan counts 139 items against 137 chapters. The publisher's own ledger is the only count matching what was actually drawn.

Is I Rely On Plug-Ins To Hunt Gods finished or still ongoing?

The listings disagree. Tapas marks it a completed series and posted on 2 May 2025 that episode 137 was the final one. Kuaikan still shows 连载中, ongoing, though its last chapter went up on 2 January 2024. AniList also still reads RELEASING.

Are there printed volumes of I Rely On Plug-Ins To Hunt Gods?

None have been recorded. AniList leaves the volume field empty, MangaDex files every chapter under no volume, and MangaUpdates gives a chapter count with no volume figure. The series was drawn as a full-colour vertical-scroll webtoon, a format that rarely receives a print collection.