I, Gong Qing, Am the King of the Rift Valley

“They all think I, Gong Qing, came back reborn to be a savior. No. I'm just a liar who refuses to let fate push him around.”

I, Gong Qing, acting leader of Quanzhen, died at the hands of the old Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain. But when I opened my eyes again, I was back three months before the Biyou Village incident. In my previous life, I watched Quanzhen fall apart and the people I cared about walk one by one toward their inevitable tragedies. This time, I returned with every painful memory. I'll deceive everyone, including Qu Tong, the mastermind hiding behind the scenes.

I found Ma Xianhong and told him that the “older sister” he trusted so completely was the real puppet master. I contacted Xia Liuqing and drew him into the plan by putting Granny Jinfeng's safety on the line. Together, we staged the “Biyou Village funeral,” making the entire world of outliers believe we had all perished together. Under the water, however, we built a new base, “Dragon Palace,” and launched a mad “Player Project”: we used another desperate world, Spirit Cage, as a sandbox and brought in the consciousness of real-world players to fight its terrifying ecosystem.

But the biggest lie is that I might not be reborn at all. The fragments of my memories are growing increasingly blurry, and sometimes I can't even tell whether I'm a player trying to defy fate or a pawn in the hands of some higher-dimensional being. What I've restarted isn't just the civilization of outliers. It's a high-stakes gamble against fate itself.