The Throne at the Summit

Everyone, check out my upcoming story, Earth Culture Invades! If you like it, please add it to your favorites =3= The blurb is below this one. On that day, the keyboard-based online game Relic, hailed by countless netizens as a timeless classic, announced its permanent shutdown, marking the complete decline of the old-style keyboard-based online game after decades of development. At the same time, Shen Xiao, a legendary player who had risen to fame through Relic, announced that he was leaving the Lingyun team and ending his professional career. More than the fall of a shining star, people were captivated by the rise of the latest generation of fully immersive, touch-controlled online games. Six months after Shen Xiao left Lingyun, fully immersive online games like Pinnacle had been flourishing for half a year. Six months later, while everyone's attention was fixed on the glamorous Pinnacle as it prepared to launch its second server, Shen Xiao quietly entered the game after an unexpected mishap that left him not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Now that he's back on the road, can he rekindle the fire burning in his heart? God of melee combat, throne of the summit, onward, with no end in sight! A friendly note: Ling Yexi x Shen Xiao, unwavering 1v1, leveling-up story, feel-good fun, plot-focused, bottom-focused... Updates daily or every other day. (If I can't update or have to post late, I'll leave a comment on the latest chapter.) * Please add my recommended story to your favorites: You can add Earth Culture Invades to your favorites from my author page. It'll start in late April! Blurb: Wan Wei transmigrates into an interstellar world, becoming a good-for-nothing with low combat ability who has been exiled by his family to a remote planet. As soon as he sets foot on the unrecognizable planet, a beep sounds in his ear: [Congratulations, you've bound the Unify the World System!] Wan Wei: ? [From today on, our goal is to conquer the world and become its ruler.] [As long as you collect faith points, I can make you the one and only God of War in the universe.] In this era, humanity has abandoned all spiritual civilization in order to survive, pursuing nothing but martial strength. System: I've also checked, and the country you're in doesn't have enough cosmic resources. You get what I mean, right? Without me, you won't survive. This is the worst of times. And yet... Wan Wei turns his attention to tinkering with all sorts of strange things. Seeds of plants no one's ever seen, useless writing, flashy knickknacks... System: What are you doing?! Hurry up and train! Wan Wei remains unmoved. The System soon despairs: its Host is a complete good-for-nothing who has no ambition whatsoever!!! Everyone, including the System, thinks Wan Wei is doomed, until one day... A strange video appears on a livestreaming platform that has only ever featured combat-related content: [Turn on synchronized smell and taste to enjoy authentic Chinese cuisine from Earth.] Netizens: This can improve combat ability? Scam! But... it's weird. Let's give it a try. Later: Barbecue, hot pot... a feast of Manchu and Han dishes. "Boss Wan, when are you opening a branch on our planet? Don't make me get on my knees and beg you!!" The System receives real-time notifications: 10 faith points received... 20... 30... System: ??? Another day, a strange platform claiming to be text-only appears online. Its homepage recommends several articles: "I'm a Laid-Back Slacker in Space," "After Failing the Ability Assessment, I Decisively Changed Careers," "I Became a Winner in Life After Rejecting the Rat Race"... Netizens: This can improve combat ability? Scam! But... it's weird. Let's give it a try. Later: Novels of every genre, poetry, literary classics... "I have a friend who's going to die tomorrow. His lifelong wish is to see the ending of this work before he leaves this world... So when's the next update?" Later still, fashion, music, movies, sports, pets, games, travel... Earth's human culture sweeps through the stars in a raging wave, and the System collects faith points until its hands are full. System: I'm done... Worst of all, as this cultural invasion continues, people across the stars gradually discover that their long-dormant mental powers are slowly coming back to life! Once upon a time, mental power was the supreme and mightiest ability. It had simply vanished into the long river of time. Many years later, Wan, the cultural magnate, godfather of mental power, and Wei: These are the best of times. * Ares suffers a mortal wound in a crucial battle. After emergency treatment, he is diagnosed as unable to return to the battlefield. All his glory vanishes in an instant. Abandoned on a remote planet, he becomes nothing more than "Ares, the Marshal and God of War who was once covered in glory" in the annals of interstellar history. Ares, now a good-for-nothing, ekes out a miserable existence until someone takes him in. The newcomer has a lively gaze and a smile that could steal anyone's heart. "Want to come work for me?" Theme: