The Great Wilderness: Starting at the Wusheng Temple

Before the game shut down, he transmigrated into the wuxia game The Great Wilderness Jianghu, which he had played for ten years. The main storyline wouldn't begin for another three whole years.

To everyone else, the martial world is full of the unknown. But to Lu Chen, opportunities are everywhere. The future Sword Immortal, famed throughout the land, is currently waiting tables at an inn. The Demonic Cult leader who will later turn half the martial world upside down is being escorted to the capital right now. A fragment containing peerless martial arts lies abandoned in a ruined temple, gathering dust.

With ten years of game memories at his fingertips, Lu Chen knows exactly where to find divine arts and fortuitous encounters, and which people will rise to greatness in the future. Given a second life, he naturally won't hold back. He'll seize every opportunity worth taking, claim every divine art, and make sure not to miss a single person he should befriend early.

But just as Lu Chen prepares to sweep through the martial world with the help of his guide, he stumbles into an ancient temple that never appeared in the game.

Several rules are posted on the temple gate.

[Do not open the door after midnight.]

[There are only six monks in this temple. If you see a seventh, pretend you didn't.]

[The Buddha statue will not open its eyes.]

[If someone asks whether you're a player, do not answer under any circumstances.]

Lu Chen frowns for the first time as he reads them.

At the very bottom of the rules, there's a line of blood writing that has already turned black.

[Remember, there have never been any players in this world.]

Only after that night does Lu Chen gradually realize that the maps inaccessible in the game, the inexplicable invisible walls, the NPCs who repeat strange lines late at night, and the countless things players call "bugs" all seem to conceal another truth.

And the guides he remembers are beginning to fail, one by one.

This martial world is far more dangerous than the game.