I Really Wasn't Trying to Show Off, But the Whole World Keeps Making Wild Assumptions

Fantasy with a twist | Survivalist sign-ins | Lighthearted, satisfying misdirection

Gu Qingzhou has just transmigrated into the body of the notorious young heir of the Zhenyue Mountain Manor. The Azure Nether Sword Sect is about to slaughter everyone in the manor, skinning him alive and hanging his flayed skin from the city gate as a warning!

A blood-soaked prohibition hangs over the manor gate: anyone who steps three paces beyond it dies. With his martial arts crippled, Gu Qingzhou hides in the woodshed. At the brink of doom, he activates the Heavenly Dao AFK Survivalist System. A sign-in at the moment of crisis grants him the divine Nine Deaths Transformation Art, which lets him absorb the surrounding killing intent and turn it into his own true essence while idle. A sign-in at a dry well behind the mountain teaches him the life-saving Step Without a Trace technique. Every step he takes while fleeing adds ten years to his cultivation.

He tries to stall for time with poisoned wine laced with arsenic, but his enemies imagine it to be the terrifying Nine Nether Immortal Brew. He runs for his life and accidentally shatters a thousand-year-old protective sect formation with one step, and the footprint is mistaken by the Demon Emperor for a seal of the Heavenly Dao. He hides in an abandoned temple, hoping only to roast a steamed bun to fill his stomach, but the foremost figures of both the righteous and demonic factions all bow before him, convinced he is a hidden ancestor who has come to toy with the mortal world, and insist on honoring him as the ruler of all under heaven.

Gu Qingzhou is at his wit's end. I really just want to keep my head down and stay alive. Stop imagining things!

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