Nan Liujing woke up to learn that he'd been kidnapped by an evil game System called Island Survival. From then on, he had to say goodbye to Blue Star and spend the rest of his life tied to a barren little island.
What do you mean, one island from the start and everything else has to be earned through grinding?
Faced with a desolate island where not even birds would land, Nan Liujing's hoarding instincts kicked in.
No way. He had to start grinding!!!
He went beachcombing, farmed, raised slimes, and explored resource islands by boat whenever he had time, trading with the native inhabitants.
Gradually, his little island was expanded again and again, and wasteland turned into fertile fields. He started a ranch and built a windmill. Not only could Nan Liujing provide for himself, he could also set up a stall on the natives' islands from time to time to sell farm products. He used the money he earned to buy even more useful alchemy tools.
An automatic sprinkler? Great stuff. Bought!
After the 30-day beginner period ended, the game revealed its sinister true nature. Disasters arrived one after another: extreme cold, scorching heat, torrential rain, endless nights... Every 30-day period brought players a severe new challenge.
Nan Liujing was always among the best prepared.
When a Blizzard hit, Nan Liujing sat in his warm farmhouse, basking by the cozy fireplace, stroking the cat curled up on his lap and sipping hot cocoa.
Ah, bliss.
The game wasn't without combat, but players who focused on everyday life weren't interested in all that fighting and killing.
Of course, if some idiot dared disturb him while he was farming, Nan Liujing wouldn't hesitate to... plant him in the ground.
Important note: This story was inspired by multiple Story of Seasons games. If anything seems familiar, it's because I'm paying tribute!
Short skit:
A: Hey, dude, that's some nice gear. Where'd you buy it?
B: I don't Know Island.
A: I asked where you bought it!!
B: I told you! Know Island!!
Coming soon!
The World Champion Starts with a Little Ghost
This is a world where humans and Phantom Spirits coexist.
Lu Zhaoxing returned to school to pick up a test paper he'd left behind, but was attacked by a wild Phantom Spirit. He accidentally fell into the Phantom Spirit world, the “Cave,” and nearly ran himself to death trying to escape.
Luckily, all roads aren't dead ends. Before a wild Phantom Spirit could slice off his head, Lu Zhaoxing met a common-rank Little Ghost.
Even among common-rank Phantom Spirits, Little Ghosts were among the weakest. Even after evolving, they were still weak. Spirit tamers with any ambition wouldn't choose to make a contract with one, but in that moment of danger, it was the only one that reached out to Lu Zhaoxing.
Without hesitation, Lu Zhaoxing took its hand.
So what if it was “the weakest Ghost-type Phantom Spirit”? Lu Zhaoxing was confident that with his tactical skills and grueling training, combined with Little Ghost's extraordinary fighting spirit, they could fight their way through the fierce competition and win.
Their goal: the national championship!
This story was inspired by pet-battling games like Pokemon and Digimon. If anything seems familiar, that's completely normal!
This story includes: making contracts with Phantom Spirits, training and leveling them up, exploring caves, and Phantom Spirit battles, both solo and team-based.
The protagonists: a broke, battle-crazed Bking who's generous to Phantom Spirits, and his older boyfriend who loves teasing cats
The world's strongest doubles partners + single-battle rivals who refuse to take each other on
A progression fantasy, a long epic, and adorable pets. Please support Little Ghost! Support Lu, the future world champion!
Great Voyage: Starting with a Little Sailboat
Xie Lin had always felt that he was unlucky by anyone's standards.
An eleven-car pileup on the highway? He just had to be there. Their car just had to be caught in the middle. And he just had to lose everything there.
The accident left him with a shattered leg and a rib that punctured his lung. Years of hard work practicing taekwondo went up in smoke. He could no longer live a normal life, and became a cripple in the eyes of the world. Forget running; even walking a little left him gasping for breath.
No one could be more unlucky than him.
And yet, when he was pulled into a survival game for all humanity, he received the System's chosen talent: Lucky Dog.
Who? Me?
Even though he found the System's judgment deeply ironic, Xie Lin had no choice. As the saying goes, you can't fight city hall. What could he do against a System powerful enough to pull all of Blue Star into a survival game?
All he could do was quietly curse it: Damn System!
But when he took his first steady steps with the game's help, and when he could run and jump faster than ordinary people, breathing easily and full of vigor,
Xie Lin stood on the ship, feeling more relaxed and free than ever before.
While the other players went mad trying to leave the game and return to Blue Star, Xie Lin had already decided to fight with all his might to stay.
The boundless sea was a graveyard for survivors. Those who refused to strive would be swallowed by it. Xie Lin wanted lasting health and freedom, and he'd pay any price to get them.
Even murder.
Salvage supplies, upgrade his ship, explore islands, trade and fight with the natives, and recruit crew members.
From a penniless rookie to the captain of the world's number-one pirate ship.
His survival journey began with a little sailboat.
A survival game on the open sea for all humanity. This story focuses on shipbuilding, seafaring exploration, and interactions with crew members and NPCs.
The protagonist has some principles, but not many. Survival comes first.
A Bking captain forced to act flamboyant x a mad-dog crewman always trying to get the upper hand
This couple is always at each other's throats. Outsiders think the crewman is a loyal dog, but he's always itching to overstep his place.
“When danger strikes, he's the safest place to be. When things are safe, he's the most dangerous.”
Cultivating the Dao of Longevity: Spirit Rice Is a Dao, Too
The Great Dream Never Returns to the Countryside is a currently popular single-player farming and relaxation mobile game, nicknamed “Tap Tap Fun.” Players take on the role of a low-level rogue cultivator who accidentally enters an immortal estate. By chance, they learn how to enter and leave the ancient secret realm “The Great Dream Never Returns to the Countryside,” and secretly claim it as their own.
The ancient secret realm is rich in spiritual energy and has fertile spiritual soil. Sow grain, grow rice, raise ordinary beasts, and nurture living creatures. It's the perfect place to cultivate spirit plants and raise spirit beasts, and once served as a designated farm for a great cultivation sect in ancient times.
Players jokingly call it the Immortal Estate Farm Resort.
Pei Ran was playing the mobile game during his commute when a car hit him and sent him flying more than ten meters. When he woke up, he was in a cultivation world, mysteriously returned to his youth and back to the age of fifteen.
He had no money and nowhere to live. After patting himself down, he found nothing but a new birthmark on his wrist. It looked like two black and white carp embracing head to tail, and very much like the game icon for The Great Dream Never Returns to the Countryside.
Pei Ran had figured it out: his golden finger had arrived along with his transmigration.
First came a car accident, then transmigration, plus a golden finger. He had all the prerequisites for becoming a protagonist. He knew how this worked. His destiny was in his own hands!
But after just a few days of gloating, reality doused Pei Ran in cold water.
He had no spiritual root.
Without a spiritual root, all his wild dreams were worthless.
Dejected, Pei Ran prepared to give up on his fantasies of immortality, eternal life, and wandering from the North Sea at dawn to the Cangwu Mountains by dusk. He would return to reality and find an honest job as an apprentice at a rice shop.
On his first day at work, the shopkeeper told him to receive a delivery at the back door. After hauling hundreds of pounds of rice, his back ached and his legs cramped. He started to miss home.
That night, as he tossed and turned in bed, he found an unhusked grain of rice in his sleeve. It rolled onto his wrist, and his birthmark began to glow faintly.
Plant one grain of rice, and a stalk of spirit rice grows.
A line of text floated above the plant.
【Metal Spiritual Root +1】
Pei Ran planted countless varieties and raised hundreds of beasts.
Ten thousand mu of fertile land and a thousand kinds of spirit beasts would help him attain the Dao.
So what if he had a hellish start with no spiritual root? He'd grow one himself!
Fang Yunjian was one of the most unconventional cultivators in the Qingyun Sect, a spoiled super-rich second-generation cultivator with “spoiled brat” written all over his face.
His family had a Golden Core Patriarch to back them up. He was born with a top-grade spiritual root and a natural Dao body. As a child, he openly pulled strings to become a disciple of the headmaster of the Qingyun Sect. Spirit treasures flowed like water, and spirit stones were worth less than dirt to him.
Cultivation had no bottlenecks for him, and he picked up spells at a glance. His life had always gone smoothly, enough to make people grind their teeth with envy.
An eighteen-year-old at the eighth level of Qi Refining could be called a heaven's favorite anywhere.
Yet this arrogant prodigy repeatedly came up short in front of an unknown rogue cultivator. Every time they met, he either embarrassed himself or was on his way to doing so.
Why did nothing ever go the way I wanted?
Fang Yunjian was stunned, in disbelief, and gritting his teeth.
He shouted furiously, “Pei! Don't think I'm afraid of you! What do you have to be so proud of? You're only a little better-looking and a little better with a sword. I'll surpass you in no time!”
Pei Ran: “...”
Was that a compliment?
“Thanks?”
“Don't thank me!! I wasn't complimenting you!!”
A cultivation farming story!
A hot-tempered, childish prodigy top x a calm Bking with a screw loose bottom
Spell cultivator x sword cultivator
Everyone knows sword cultivators are stat monsters. When they fight, they don't play fair.
So it's perfectly normal for the top to cry after getting beaten by the bottom. The bottom won't comfort him, either. A mature top should learn to handle his own emotions.
Fang Yunjian (pouting): Why won't you comfort me?
Pei Ran: ? Hold on, I have to feed the chickens.
Fang Yunjian: Are the chickens more important than me?
Pei Ran: Why are you competing with chickens?
Fang Yunjian stormed off.
Theme: A good life is built with your own hands.
