I Became the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls and Created Billions of the Fourth Calamity

[Cultivation] + [Ten Thousand Souls Banner] + [Pseudo-Players] + [Fourth Calamity] + [Farming and Infrastructure] + [Behind-the-Scenes Protagonist] Qin Jiuge, a transmigrator, was once a prodigy in the martial arts. When he heard there were cultivators in the world, he set out to find them, only to be caught off guard and refined into a Ten Thousand Souls Banner by a rogue cultivator of the demonic path. At long last, he turned the tables on his captor, but the price was being trapped in a barren mountain for more than thirty years. After breaking the seal and returning, Qin Jiuge entered the cultivation world as a spirit artifact, seeking the elusive path to immortality. An artifact without an owner can't move, so he found a puppet he could control. Without spirit stones and resources, he empowered wandering souls to become player laborers and earn them for him. When the empowered souls, now "players," numbered in the billions and became an undisputed calamity, he too ascended to the lofty altar of immortality, surrounded by countless players. (The synopsis doesn't do it justice. Please read the story.)