Don't Pick Up Random Disciples by the Roadside

[Updates every day without fail. No hiatus before the story is complete.] [Unofficial blurb: Don’t pick up disciples by the roadside on a whim. Don’t neglect a disciple you’ve picked up, or you might end up attracting a wife.] [Official blurb] After a popular martial arts game gets a full-dive version, Sang Zhu loses her livelihood as a professional power-leveling player. To make ends meet, she has no choice but to put on a secret identity and enter this martial world as a player. Drawing on years of power-leveling experience, Sang Zhu ventures into high-level maps ahead of schedule. She learns skills to boost her combat power, gathers herbs to make healing salves, mines ore to craft gear, picks up a client to pay her wages, and even takes on a new player who wandered into a high-level map as her disciple… Oh, she shouldn’t pick this one up on a whim. She walks around a woman whose character design is way too beautiful and gets back to her money-making business. After Sang Zhu runs into the woman again and again in deserted places, she finally can’t help asking, “How did you find a place like this?” “My master taught me.” Sang Zhu thinks to herself that this master teaches some really strange things. “She loves exploring all sorts of strange places, and she’s always teaching me how to glitch through the map.” Sang Zhu: “…” Isn’t that just leading you astray? “Her idea of fun is pinning people she’s made enemies of to the ground, then putting a bounty on every single one of them.” Sang Zhu: “…” Are there really people who cause that much trouble? “But she doesn’t want me anymore.” Sang Zhu: “?” Wow, what a neglectful master, abandoning her disciple like that. “The last time I saw her, she told me that when the game’s new version came out, she’d take me to explore the new dungeon, earn achievements, find pets, and watch fireworks.” Sang Zhu: “…” Wait, what? Under the woman’s gaze, as if she could see straight through her soul, Sang Zhu finally remembered. Many years ago, before she became a professional power-leveling player, she’d picked up a disciple by the roadside. “So, have you seen my master?” [Notes] The main plot follows the story, with romance along the way. The game is the focus, with real life playing a supporting role. One of the female leads uses a wheelchair. The other female lead’s identity contains a spoiler. [The next novel will be The Wasteland Junkyard] [Unofficial blurb] Don’t pick up defective products on the verge of being destroyed, or she might grow up to become a world-destroying little monster. Chang Ying: I just want to end up with my sister. Is that so wrong? [Official blurb] In the midst of the apocalypse, Yue Lianheng is exiled to the Lower District and turns a junkyard into a shelter. This mechanical arm can still be used if she repairs it, that neural computer will work again after a few knocks, and the robot can become a laborer with a few program changes. Then there’s the experimental reject that was almost scrapped Seeing the child’s harmless gaze, Yue Lianheng casually takes her home and names her Chang Ying, raising her by her side like a younger sister. Years later, Yue Lianheng becomes the de facto leader of the Lower District. Everyone knows she’s tough and ruthless, and that her only weakness is her little sister, who looks like she couldn’t hurt a fly. So someone kidnaps her little sister to use as leverage. As Yue Lianheng sighs helplessly, Chang Ying crushes the kidnapper’s wrist with ease and innocently asks her, “Sis, can I kill people?” Later, people say Yue Lianheng has raised a little monster who will destroy the world one day. Yue Lianheng looks down at the obedient little sister in her arms. Who’s going to destroy the world? Chang Ying? “Sis.” The little monster in her arms bites her collarbone with its canine teeth, still wearing a harmless expression. “Can I do something a little improper again?” “Or you could do a little more, too.” Theme: Strive to become stronger and never give up.