I Summoned the Fourth Calamity to Exorcise Ghosts

Guan Yuedi transmigrates into the body of a stand-in female cultivator, is betrayed by her fellow disciples, and offered as a plaything to the Supreme Evil Lord. Years later, at Shangqing Immortal Sect's millennium ceremony, Guan Yuedi climbs the steps and kills her former fellow disciples with her own hands. She calmly wipes the blood from her face. "From today onward, I am the ruler of the Three Realms." Her fellow disciples laugh as they draw their swords. "And what makes you think you can do that?" Guan Yuedi: "The 1.4 billion people standing behind me." Guan Yuedi tirelessly cultivates demonic arts to avenge herself, summoning tens of thousands of vengeful spirits. That day, a low-budget, no-frills game called Ghost Cultivation appears on the internet in the world of Earth. Tired of being human? Become a ghost today. Netizens: [???] [What kind of trash game is this? Who would fall for it?] [Can you really become a ghost?] [Move along, it's all hype.] A month later, Ghost Cultivation becomes a huge hit and China's most famous game. A game account is impossible to get. [I finally got a ghost account! I can float!] [Everyone, meet at Shangqing Immortal Sect tonight. Let's storm the place!] [The Demon King Beatdown event is back. Everyone, log in now!!!] Everyone says Guan Yuedi is the Ghost King who inspires terror throughout the Three Realms. Her followers are a bunch of unhinged ghosts, every one of them a high-level Nascent Soul cultivator. A few years ago, she said she would level the Three Realms, and everyone laughed at her delusions. A few years later, she sits in the Hall of Lingxiao, gazing down at the people below: "Immortals, do any of you know how to kneel?" #You dare bully me? Just you wait. I'll summon 1.4 billion compatriots to overthrow your lousy Three Realms!# #The Supreme Evil Lord is a lovesick husband in my presence# #Just how terrifying can modern people get when they go wild in a cultivation world?# (Some elements and character inspiration from the real world draw on the Classic of Mountains and Seas, folk customs, and myths. They are not intended to have any scholarly value or accuracy. The novel's own setting takes precedence, and its creative liberties are extensive.) (Cover artist: Jing Shiqi) Coming soon: The Whole Internet Watches Me Rule the Future Zhou Yang is a new gaming content creator who brings endless entertainment, is ruthless and doesn't talk much, and is hailed by her fans as "a god from the moment you first see her." By chance, she gets a beta-testing slot for an obscure game claiming to be fully immersive and offering an exceptionally high degree of freedom. [You are about to enter a high-risk world. Are you ready to give your life?] Zhou Yang only cares about one thing: Are there guns? There are. Great, so it's a loot game. Zhou Yang's starting character is a level-zero thug in custody. She kicks open the cell door and snatches the gun from a passing cyber cop. Through choking smoke, she tramples a path across sparks and blood. After shooting her way through the police station, she kicks aside a corpse and wipes the blood from her face. Calmly loading a bullet, she presses the muzzle to the trembling police chief's forehead. "Your police station is mine now." In 2150, life is like the apocalypse. After enduring endless torment, the people at the bottom of society finally achieve time-travel technology through millions of experiments, and send their first distress signal to China in 2025. The Salvation Plan is established. By 2030, the world's leaders have managed to form a tenuous alliance and select 100 heroes to go to 2150. A Qing, a Chinese special forces soldier, is one of them. Compared to the life-or-death situations her old teammates face each day, her only problem is her new teammate: A woman who's immensely capable, never does things the conventional way, has questionable fashion sense, regularly trespasses on other people's property to "take" things, and fights anyone who dares to object. What's even stranger is that she returns to the police station after every mission. A Qing: "Are you a police officer?" Zhou Yang: "No. The police station is my respawn point." A Qing: Respawn what????? Zhou Yang thinks she's just playing a game, and the people watching her stream think they're just watching her play a game. [Fly high, streamer! Beat the game in one life!] [I'll send you a gift for every head you take tonight. Go all the way to the company headquarters!] So Zhou Yang really does fight her way to the company headquarters. At the request of the top donor, she turns on her camera. Zhou Yang's beautiful, icy face appears on tens of millions of screens across the company. And on the screens of the Salvation Plan experts in both worlds. She raises her wineglass. "Here's to the useless ones." That day, the company makes a global announcement. The CEO is now a woman named Zhou Yang. The 2150 experts: Damn, whose ancestor is this lunatic? #I'm a low-level thug, but the police station really is my spawn point# #My streamer took over the future because of a joke from a viewer# #We were promised 100 heroes to save the world, so how did it turn into Cyber 101?# #You call this a fully immersive game? This is Earth Online!# #The leader of the anti-corporate resistance? Just a figurine on the streamer's shelf# Theme: Uphold the justice in your heart, and move forward without hesitation.