Ten Thousand Volumes Shatter the Firmament

I'm an unlucky college student who fell off a cliff on Kongtong Mountain and got a little "warranty service" from the Seven Stars Aligning. Somehow, I came out of it with a bizarre ability: every time I "eat" a book, I can randomly draw one of the skills inside it.

Armed with a backpack full of martial arts novels, I became a pretty mediocre expert and made a name for myself in the city. Then one day, in a fit of rage, I accidentally redrew the map of the Japanese archipelago with the budget version of Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin.

That really stirred up a hornet's nest.

A bunch of old fossils calling themselves the "Guardians of Antiquity" came to find me. They told me Earth was actually a locked "beginner's village," and that Laozi and Qin Shi Huang were former challengers who had failed to break through. Beyond the stars, advanced civilizations had long been eyeing us, ready to crush anyone who dared defy them.

And so my whole style took a sharp turn: I used the theories of The Three-Body Problem to wage psychological warfare against an alien fleet, and asked the phantom of Brother Monkey from Journey to the West to "bless" a starship... As the malice of the entire universe closed in, I quietly pulled out my backpack.

"Hold on. Let me finish Stellar Transformation first."

This is a story about how reading really can change the world.