On a stormy night, a delivery box holds a sacrificial vessel from the Nine Hells worth trillions.
Lin Xiao awakens the Merit-to-Sainthood System after being hit by a Porsche, unaware that his delivery is his first order from the underworld. The Buddha Jumps Over the Wall jar he’s delivering turns out to be a soul-stealing vessel from the Western Zhou dynasty.
Modern City × Ancient Mystical Arts
Nine ancient bronze sacrificial vessels are hidden in his insulated delivery box. Every completed order tears away another corner of the world’s secrets:
- The Nine Great Mystical Sects, kept in the pockets of big business, manipulate global stock markets using children’s fated birth charts
- In the Yellow Springs delivery group, underworld judges are preparing an IPO for a chain of Meng Po’s Soup restaurants
- The AI saintess of the Asura Hall has a jade birthmark embedded in her chest, the same one Lin Xiao lost as a child
**The survival game you thought you were playing is the echo of a massacre from twenty years ago**
When Lin Xiao discovers that:
- Every delivery fee is burning away his lifespan
- The tycoon at the top of the tipping leaderboard was his father’s sworn enemy
- The System’s ultimate achievement, “Sainthood of the Flesh,” is actually a sacrificial ritual
This delivery rider, trapped by an algorithm in a world of five-star reviews, decides to boil the waters of the River of Forgetfulness in a bronze vessel and raise a spirit-summoning banner on the New York Stock Exchange.
Merit System Instructions
✓ Save one person = 1 merit point, redeemable for ancient martial arts secrets
✓ Save ten thousand people = unlock the Underworld livestream, where a million souls wait online to pester you about their orders
✓ Save the wrong person = trigger a global financial tsunami, see Chapter 33 for a nuke-level twist
Now Lin Xiao’s electric scooter is rolling over a talisman-covered manhole on Wall Street, and his delivery box contains:
- A fragment of the River Map, pried from a coffin of the Nine Evils
- Something capable of freezing the Dow Jones index
