Dude, How Come Everyone Has Cheats?

(This book has a great many bizarre mechanics and outrageous stats. It will be an age of brilliant stars. The stats and mechanics will unfold gradually later on, but not too far down the line.)

"Fellow cultivator, how much for this orb?" asked the swarthy, muscular man.

"A hundred thousand spirit crystals each," Xie Ning replied with a faint smile.

"Why don't you just go rob someone!"

Xie Ning's smile vanished at once, and he put on a stern expression. "I know you. You're a wanted cosmic criminal. We will never show criminals any mercy!"

A cube appeared in midair, blazing with dazzling white light. The man in front of Xie Ning vanished, leaving only a floor littered with bulging money bags.

He picked up a bag and weighed it in his hand. Top-grade spirit pearls rolled out onto the ground. "Whoa, loaded!"

An ancient road stretched across the starry sky, with a long history and no end in sight, connecting every corner of the universe. Invasion and protection had become the defining themes of this cosmos.

The universe is dark and devours the weak. Fall behind and you will be beaten. This has been an eternal law: stop moving forward, and all that remains of you will be bones.

Countless races rose together, but war was never what people wished to see. There were always those who yearned for peace, yet peace could only be built on overwhelming force. The factions advocating war and peace argued heatedly, while the fisherman watching them fight chuckled with delight.

A group of young people carried the hopes of countless generations, past and present, and bore the greatest fortunes of their races. With their hands turning the wheels of fate, where would this world go next?