The first time
Good news: He won the lottery and was about to reach the peak of his life. Bad news: He died after falling into a river because he wasn’t watching where he was going.
The second time
Good news: He transmigrated. Bad news: He was stranded in a godforsaken forest with no golden finger or System, and got bitten to death by a venomous snake right off the bat.
The third time, a month later
Good news: He was still alive. Bad news: He was still in the same place he had transmigrated to, in that same familiar forest.
After 1,685 deaths
Good news: He couldn’t stay dead and could come back to life. Bad news: The cooldown was long, and it took almost a month for him to revive. Worse, he always returned to where the dream began. He still couldn’t get out of the forest, had no idea where he was, and seemed to be cursed with bad luck.
After 27,658 deaths, the good news was that he finally made it out of the forest and found a human settlement. The bad news was that someone killed him and robbed him along the way, then called him a poor loser. He died yet again, but at least he’d figured out that this was a world of cultivation, albeit one with chaotic laws and no order.
Around the same time, he successfully obtained a summoning System, whose full name was the Game Summoning, Build a Top-Tier Sect System.
“Build a sect? Even a dog wouldn’t do it. I’ll build one!”
Meanwhile, back on Blue Star, millions of light-years away, a game called The Immortal Path to Salvation quietly appeared on the official website of a company whose technology could already create a virtual second life.
Behind the scenes, Gu Qin chuckled. “Heh heh. You laboring mules of the Fourth Calamity, come work for me! Heh heh heh!”
But then some people from the authorities showed up.
Gu Qin: “Professionals? I’ll take them!”
In the end, everything became clear.
Gu Qin stopped smiling. The players stopped smiling too. The authorities all saluted in unison.
