The Eighteen Realms: No Answers for the Living
[Eastern fantasy + ensemble cast + wars across the realms + no System + foreshadowing of reincarnation]
The First Realm had been gone for far too long.
So long that all the people of the Seventeen Realms had come to regard the Second Realm as the edge of the world.
Then a tentacle from beyond the realms crossed the sea of stars and landed in Yunmeng Water Town, which Gu Changchuan was charged with guarding.
He severed the tentacle, summoned his disciples, and knocked on the forbidden zone's gates. After that, gates to the realms facing skyward, stone platforms hanging upside down, and time and space torn apart began appearing in different worlds.
The mysterious enemies would remember everything.
If a sect changed its formation once, they learned a way to break it.
If the defenders changed their tactics, they created new servitor races.
Even deciding who to save first and who to save later became part of the next killing trap.
The more united the Eighteen Realms became, the faster they learned.
The stronger Gu Changchuan became, the closer they came to their true goal.
As the First Realm reappeared, war erupted across all Seventeen Realms. Sects, forbidden zones, Human Emperors, divine beasts, guardians of the passes, and countless people who should never have met were forced to fight side by side.
Gu Changchuan gradually discovered that this war was older than the history of the Eighteen Realms. Through every act of resistance, the enemy sought to find one eternally correct answer that could be repeated forever.
He, too, had once believed that if he reached the highest peak in the world, he could put an end to it all.
Only later did he understand:
The enemy wanted a single, exclusive answer.
Behind him stood the countless people of the Eighteen Realms, each different from the last.
