“Master Bai Ze! How about it? Come work with me, and I guarantee your incense offerings will flourish and your followers will fill the universe! What? A sacrifice? How about this silver tongue of mine? …Deal! My sense of taste? Take it, take it!” From the start, he sacrifices his sense of taste. Lin Jiu, a trainee Taoist, relies on his family’s “shamelessness beyond compare” art and his incredible gift of gab, enough to bring the dead back to life, to successfully fool the divine beast Bai Ze and score a trial version of the “Eye of True Knowledge”…
But this is only an appetizer for a hell-level dungeon. Lin Jiu, the famous “theory king, good-for-nothing in practice” of Maoshan, is “accidentally” tricked by his own master into the [Heavenly Dao Game Arena], a terrifying survival game with 99 levels based on the Classic of Mountains and Seas. One hundred players, every level a bizarre death trap, and the final bosses are ancient evil monsters such as Feiyi, the Nine-Tailed Fox, Xiangliu, and Zhulong! The secret to clearing a level? “Tame” its boss and make it the key to beating the next one! Fail, and you die for real!
But the most terrifying thing isn’t the monsters. It’s that “you can’t trust a ghost’s words”! Teammates may turn into “player ghosts” at any moment, NPCs hide deadly traps behind their smiles, and even the environment twists your perception! Trust? That’s a luxury for those who make it to the end.
While others rely on strength to fight head-on,
Lin Jiu uses his gift of gab to fool Bifang into buying into a vision of livestreaming and selling new-energy products, negotiates with the Nine-Tailed Fox to open an illusion-experience venue, and scares Feiyi with his “Special Envoy of the Celestial Court” identity… Bosses? They’re all potential business partners, or targets to scam!
Lin Jiu uses crafty tricks to exploit loopholes: he abuses bugs, lures monsters into fighting each other, and uses “ghosts” as cannon fodder to offer up to the boss.
Lin Jiu gets through by being shameless: kneeling, clinging to powerful allies, and making his way through each level.
