I Inherited the Eighth Pawnshop from the Start

Shen Mo inherited the mysterious Eighth Pawnshop.

From that day on, he became a "merchant of lifespans" walking among the living.

A wealthy man squandered a fortune worth billions to buy three years of life;

A pauper wagered the next thirty years of his life for a surgery that could save him.

He bought low and sold high, weaving a vast web of wealth and power across the real world.

The first shopkeeper's last words were: "Collect the time of all living beings, gather the heroic souls of history, and cultivate civilization in a virtual world... until you create a true god."

Shen Mo smiled.

He returned to the Fog City of three hundred years ago.

"Mr. Newton, would you like to see the universe three hundred years from now?"

He slipped into a laboratory engulfed in war and whispered to the genius with a wild mane of hair:

"Einstein, your equations aren't finished yet. Come with me."

In the real world, a game called Spore Evolution quietly went online. Players around the globe immersed themselves in it, cultivating civilizations of their own.

They had no idea that every one of their wild ideas was helping pave Shen Mo's path to godhood...

"All of humanity are my tools for creating a god."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.