Reborn: Infinite Asura
Synopsis:
When Lin Ye, the top player of the hit cultivation MMORPG The Mystic Realm, known as “Asura,” takes his own life amid a storm of online abuse, he wakes reborn on the eve of the “cheat scandal.”
Clutching an old hard drive containing evidence that guild leader Zhan Tian colluded with a GM, he stares at the hospital bill for his younger sister and hears the curses he uttered before dying in his previous life still ringing in his ears.
But this time, strange things begin happening one after another: a deliveryman shows up carrying a server that floats in midair, cultivation techniques from The Mystic Realm actually work in the real world, and demonic monsters from the game tear through the screen, reaching their claws toward everything he holds dear.
“The Mystic Realm isn’t a game. It’s real.”
A reborn player’s advantage is knowing every trap the future holds. Asura’s instinct, meanwhile, is to drag everyone scheming against him into his own slaughterhouse.
Zhan Tian wants to steal a hidden dungeon? Lin Ye uses a virtual cultivation technique to crush his ambition in the real world. The GM wants to ban his account? Lin Ye pulls a rusted iron sword straight out of the server and cleaves through the GM’s scheme.
While netizens are still arguing over whether “Asura is cheating,” Lin Ye is already walking over the corpses of demonic envoys. He uses the game’s “Qi Drawing Art” to earn enough for his sister’s surgery, then makes those who wronged him in his previous life pay back every last debt, with interest.
He just never expected that this revenge game, where online gaming and cultivation intertwine, would have an even more terrifying rule:
“All players will eventually become sustenance for The Mystic Realm.”
And he, “Asura,” seems to have been chosen as the sacrifice from the very beginning.
As blood blurs the boundary between virtual and real, Lin Ye tightens his grip on his sword: