If You Won't Spend Money, What Are You Cultivating Immortality For?

Xia An, a famous and slightly unhinged researcher among the stars, accidentally transmigrates to a planet undergoing spiritual qi revival. This unprecedented wave of evolution sends the mad scientist into a frenzy of delight. He can hardly wait to turn the entire planet into his laboratory! However... After transmigrating, Xia An has no people, no land, and only 600 yuan in monthly welfare payments. Xia An: ... He opens a web search and types: [What can I do to make money fast?] * Three days later. A mobile game called Record of Cultivation officially launches. Its monthly pass sets a new low price for mobile games: just one yuan a month, and it comes with an ultra-rare cultivation manual from the start. Free-to-play players: Are you looking down on us? Playing for free is the most fun! Hmph~ Paying players: What the heck? I followed this manual to cultivate, and actually punched a ghost into oblivion! Free-to-play players: ??? * The number of paying players in Record of Cultivation keeps growing. Xia An quickly builds his own research lab, but it's desperately short on both staff and equipment. Looking at the ghosts and monsters that no longer have any research value, he rubs his chin. The next day. Record of Cultivation launches its annual super event: No need to pay 9,998 or even 998. For just 188, take home a gorgeous demon pet! Free-to-play players: Its stats aren't even as good as the little white dog I got from my starting draw. We won't pay for looks, hmph~ Paying players: What the heck? My demon pet actually showed up at my door! It helped me turn the tables on the evil spirit in my old house, and we got tons of loot! Free-to-play players: ??? * Later. Spiritual qi revives, demons and monsters run rampant, and the entire planet is plunged into violent upheaval and chaos. A mobile game called Record of Cultivation becomes humanity's last hope. Free-to-play players: Daddy, we know we were wrong! Let us spend money already!! T▽T * Xia An: Just think about it, how are you going to get stronger if you don't spend money.jpg A few things to know before reading: 1. Couple: Huo Yin x Xia An. The love interest appears fairly late, but he's not just a token love interest. Plot comes first, romance second. 2. There is a secondary couple. If that bothers you, proceed with caution! 3. The author is an exclamation mark fanatic. If you don't like that, don't read. 4. No character is perfect. All the protagonists and supporting characters have flaws. Read with a clear head, and please don't insult anyone. 5. Updates every day at 6 p.m. After the story goes premium, there will be at least six chapters a day. Edits at other times are just typo fixes~ 6. Bookmarks, comments, and subscriptions are the author's greatest motivation for writing. Love you all~~( ^ ^) _U~~ 7. Writing takes a lot of effort, so please support the official release. Thank you! Here are two of my upcoming novels. Please add them to your reading list~ Upcoming novel 1: A Fun-Lover on the Battlefield of Ten Thousand Races Blurb: Gongyi Le is fatally stabbed in the street while watching the commotion, then transmigrates to another world. Bad news: It's a cruel cultivation era where ten thousand races are at war, and he's just a high school student with no strength to fight back. Good news: He finally activates his golden finger: [AFK Cultivation System]. As long as he has cultivation techniques, he can leave them running around the clock for cultivation, alchemy, weapon crafting, and more! And so... A peerless human prodigy rises to prominence, though his style seems... a little off. The ancestors of several great clans fight over a life-extending pill until they're practically at each other's throats. Gongyi Le watches the spectacle and pulls out a handful of fragrant pills to munch on like melon seeds. The ancestors pause mid-battle and stare at the pills in Gongyi Le's hand: What are you eating? Gongyi Le swallows the last life-extending pill: Burp, all gone. Everyone, drawing their weapons: ... Aaaah!! * Ten great races launch a war of annihilation over an ancient spiritual treasure. The battlefield runs red with blood, and cries of misery fill the air. Gongyi Le watches the spectacle and pulls out a set of little chairs and a table for enjoying the show. Everyone looks at the stool beneath Gongyi Le: You... You turned a divine weapon into what the hell is this?! Gongyi Le, grabbing the stool: D-don't come any closer!! * The treasured cultivation manuals of the ten thousand races mysteriously vanish, and the races go into a frenzy trying to catch the thief. Gongyi Le watches the spectacle and helpfully offers several clues: I saw the thief sneak in right over there that day. Look, there are even footprints here! The ten thousand races: ... →_→ Gongyi Le: ??? The ten thousand races, sharpening their knives. Gongyi Le: Wait, even if those shoe prints are exactly the same size as mine, you can't slander me! The ten thousand races: You damn thief, prepare to die!! Gongyi Le: ... Tsk. After a great battle. Gongyi Le looks at everyone lying on the ground, unable to get up, and slowly puts away his weapons. He scolds them with righteous indignation and heartfelt anguish: I told you, if it wasn't me, it wasn't me. I, Gong, never lie! Everyone: ... ??? Your surname is Gongyi, damn it!! Upcoming novel 2: Lord, Please Stop Hiding Already Blurb: Zongzheng Quan has a golden finger System that lets him collect soul power and spend points whenever he gets close to death, paving his way to the peak of life. But he has mastered the art of keeping a low profile. Instead, he joins a pest control company and builds a thriving career. But then... A bizarre Lord Survival game descends upon Blue Star. Every year, ten thousand people are randomly selected and forcibly sent to a dangerous otherworldly continent to become lords, while the whole world watches the livestream. Three years later, fewer than a thousand of the thirty thousand lords are still alive. When the fourth selection comes around, Zongzheng Quan unsurprisingly becomes the latest unlucky victim. Faced with the page for choosing a lord's combat class, he scrolls straight to the bottom without hesitation and decisively chooses the class everyone agrees is the weakest: summoner. Zongzheng Quan: No one is ever going to make me fight an enemy myself. Absolutely not!! * The new round of lord livestreams begins, and viewers from Blue Star flood into the rooms. The other new lords nervously and cautiously gather resources and build up their territories. Zongzheng Quan waves his hand, summons a group of useless underlings, and charges off to... dig up the soil and kill earthworms! Viewers: ??? What is he doing? There's no hope for him. Let's check the next livestream. * Later, Zongzheng Quan's territory continues to expand, until it finally faces its first conflict with another lord. Viewers: Go, Brother Quan! Charge! Wipe them out and unite the world! But... Zongzheng Quan takes a step back, shields himself behind his underlings, and pretends he just happened to be passing by. Viewers: ??? Aaaah! What are you doing?! * Later still. Zongzheng Quan leads his underlings in a rampage across the otherworldly continent and becomes the strongest lord. The viewers can't help but reflect: Could the way of keeping your head down really be the invincible path? The King of Keeping His Head Down, Zongzheng Quan: ... No, he's just an ordinary lord, that's all! A recommendation for my author's friend's upcoming no-romance novel: The Big Shot Returns to Protect Our Earth, by Yi Chi Shu Blurb: Xi Yan spent thirty thousand years in a world of bloody cultivation battles, finally blowing up the damn Heavenly Dao that had set him up, then returned to Earth to retire. He'd been dead on Earth for twenty years, and all that remained was a grave... After working himself to the bone for tens of thousands of years, Xi Yan packed his things and moved into the grave right away. Unexpectedly, before he could even get comfortable, someone came looking for him. Earth's Heavenly Dao: Help! You little brat, a great world is trying to kill me! w(?Д?)w Xi Yan: ... Looks like retirement isn't happening! With the great world bearing down on him, Xi Yan has no choice but to roll up his sleeves and get to work. He triggers spiritual qi revival, leads everyone in cultivating immortality, and sets up cannons in space. When the great world arrives, they unleash a full barrage and blow the damn thing to pieces! The great world: ??? This little world isn't right! Until the man who once blew it up appears and gives it a benevolent smile. The great world: ... Get away!! Don't come any closer! (ΩДΩ) Moral: Science and technology are the primary productive forces.