High Martial Countdown: I Sold the Future to the Whole World

Lin Jin transmigrated to a high-martial-arts world just as his spot in the martial arts exam was stolen. Everyone told him to accept his fate. The next moment, a bill from the future appeared before his eyes. [Jiangcheng No. 1 High School: An A-rank rift will appear in three hours. Death toll: 921.] [Future assets available for trade: fear, regret, surplus lifespan, unfulfilled wishes.] [After completing a trade, you can exchange them for cultivation time, combat techniques, forewarning, or protection.] Lin Jin started a livestream and told the teachers and students, “Anyone who returns the stolen crystal subsidy gets one free rescue from me.” The entire internet laughed at him, calling him crazy. Three hours later, the athletic field split open, and mutant beasts crawled out of the exam hall. Lin Jin used a single IOU from the future to buy the lives of everyone at the school, becoming a legend in one battle. From that day on, the world gained a new establishment: the Future Exchange. Some traded ten years of regret for one chance to change their fate. Some traded the fear of an entire city for one night of high-martial-arts ascension. Some knelt outside the exchange, begging Lin Jin to sell them a single tomorrow. Years later, the myriad races descended, and the gods auctioned off humanity’s future. Lin Jin sat at the far end of the trading table and brought down the gavel. “Sorry, I’ve already bought out humanity’s future in full.”