In the Blue Star Era, disaster struck without warning. Humanity was nearly wiped out.
Lu Linyuan, an orphan who grew up to be a top student in his second year of high school, had one real strength: he could sleep.
It wasn’t that he wanted to sleep. The same awful dream had tormented him for over a decade, dragging him into a strange space every night at the same time, where he floated around like a balloon. Then, the next day in class, his homeroom teacher, Jiang Ting, would inevitably nail him in the head with a piece of chalk.
Until one day, the entire grade suddenly awakened.
Other people awakened powers like controlling fire, wielding ice, or moving objects with their minds. Flashy stuff.
Lu Linyuan awakened a mysterious space inside his body. Three shadowy figures who looked exactly like him stood inside it, with a progress bar above their heads that read “Cultivating on Autopilot.”
Even more absurd, the System shop had everything: Enlightenment Chocolate that dramatically boosted your talent, Charm Cupcakes that made you impossibly good-looking, Capture Capsules with a chance to catch anything...
There was just one catch: each lottery draw cost 160 energy crystals, and the guaranteed-win odds were 0.000001%.
“System, are you trying to mess with me?”
System: “Dear customer, we recommend that you keep topping up your balance.”
At last, when he drew an SSS-rank divine skill and prepared to make his mark, someone told him: You are the second Child of the Elements in Great Xia. You are invincible among those at your rank, but every breakthrough brings you closer to death.
This is the story of a top student who cultivates on autopilot, spends big on lottery draws, and occasionally shows off, but is forced to go from standing in the hallway as punishment to standing on the national battlefield.
System-based / School superpowers / Slow-burn growth / Play the pig to eat the tiger / National team
Many interesting settings