A Poor Man's Apprenticeship Gift Can't Be Taken [Virtual Reality]

After an accident leaves Chu Jingsheng disabled, he casually downloads an unfinished full-dive game called The Hard Life of a Sect Leader.

From the start, there's a dilapidated main hall and a handsome but impoverished sect leader. As the game's first player, Chu Jingsheng is not only the sect leader's senior disciple, but also his only disciple so far...

The main hall is the sect's most intact building. Unfortunately, the place is so bare that one wall has no tiles. They call it a sect, but it's really just the two of them, master and disciple, and they're so poor their pockets are cleaner than their faces.

Seeing his master's handsome face, Chu Jingsheng decides not to quit right away.

Much later, as Chu Jingsheng sits in the sect leader's chair poring over the accounts, he still can't figure out what made him abandon his real-world company and come to the game to pretend to be an NPC.

He has a feeling he should never have accepted the apprenticeship gift his master gave him back then. Now it seems he has to give himself up as well.

Why call this game The Hard Life of a Sect Leader? They might as well rename it The Hard Life of a Senior Disciple. If all else fails, he can usurp Xu Heyi and take over as sect leader himself!

A calamity forces the Heavenly Dao of the cultivation realm to disguise this plane as a full-dive game and summon a group of atheistic players from an alternate world of advanced technology.

The more the players treat it as a game, the slower and weaker the cultivation realm's corruption becomes.

Chosen as the "savior," Xu Heyi is badly exploited by the Heavenly Dao.

But since the Heavenly Dao brought him his beloved disciple, he can just about tolerate the job.

His disciple can handle everything, anyway!

An older top and younger bottom master-disciple pairing. The top won't take any other disciples, and the bottom is his only one. His leg will be healed, too.

[Please bookmark my upcoming novel, Running Away With a Baby and Entering a Global Ocean Survival Game. The link is in the announcement in the comments!]

Chu Xiucheng knows a little about stories where someone runs away with a baby. Generally, as long as they're still in the same plane, they get caught.

So when it was his turn, he made sure to run far away. He transmigrated straight back to his hometown on Blue Star. Surely no one could catch him now!

Who could have guessed that, only a few years after he got home, Blue Star would enter a global ocean survival game?

So Chu Xiucheng has no choice but to take his three-year-old child into the game.

Chu Xiucheng: "Mantou! Don't bite my tail. You'll chip a tooth."

But the merfolk child, who hasn't developed intelligence yet, only knows that he loves eating fish. There's a big fish tail right in front of him. It looks delicious, and it keeps waving in front of his eyes.

Too bad he can't bite through it!

The big and little merfolk thrive in the ocean, setting new survival records at a frantic pace and leading all of Blue Star through countless challenges.

Until... the child's other father shows up!

Chu Xiucheng: "Nobody told me you could still get caught after running away with a baby across planes!"

The battle-scarred Emperor Gu Chaojin has spent three years desperately searching for his empress.

But his empress seems not to exist in this world. Even as the ruler of the most powerful empire in the galaxy, he can't find a single trace of him no matter how thoroughly he searches.

Until a mechanical voice sounds in his mind.

[Underage player requests support from both parents. Would you like to load the game?]

Gu Chaojin remembers the egg still in his wife's belly and immediately accepts!

Theme: The flower of hope will always bloom