Cultivating Immortality Is Not as Fun as Gaming

[Completed. Thank you, lovely readers, for supporting the official release.]

[The blurb for my next book, Our Captain Is Fearless, is below.]

Question: How do you turn a game into reality?

Xie An: Thanks for asking. I don't know about turning a game into reality, but I know all about turning reality into a game!

Suddenly transported to a bona fide fantasy world, Xie An has to get all these cultivation-obsessed practitioners to adapt to a gaming system. Changing their deeply rooted views takes time, so he starts by setting up an official GM organization called the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion.

"The Divine Wind dungeon is now open. Form a party and head in! Rewards for the first clear and the top three on the clear-time rankings are doubled. - Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion"

"The Top 100 Prodigies ranking is now out. Check it out! - Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion"

"The Taixu Realm cultivator discussion forum is now open. [Click here to enter] - Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion"

"..."

The cultivators of the Taixu Realm: ???

Once they get used to the sudden change of style, their once-dull cultivation turns into a whirlwind of chaos.

Battle-hungry cultivators: It used to be impossible to find anyone to spar with. Now I can challenge people one by one, following the rankings!

Cultivators who love exploring secret realms: These secret realms, I mean, dungeons, are so much fun! And we can post party invitations on the forum. So convenient!

Cultivators who value peace and quiet: I was only decorating my cultivation residence. How did it end up on the Home Rankings?

As the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion's representative, Xie An can only grumble to himself: I've made so many secret identities just to help you adapt faster. It's pretty embarrassing to put myself on the rankings I created. It feels like I'm rigging the system.

Don't ask. The game is still in development...

*Plot-focused, with a slow-burn romance that comes much later!

*The author has never cultivated immortality. Lots of original additions!

*A brainless power fantasy. Don't overanalyze it. If it's not your thing, click away.

Blurb for Our Captain Is Fearless:

Yu Bai arrives in a world spun off from an FPS esports novel. The original owner of his body was a rebellious teenager who ran away from home to pursue a career in professional gaming.

His original mission was to help the novel's two main characters achieve a happy ending.

But the game is too much fun, and the timeline is still a long way from the two leads meeting.

So Yu Bai starts gaming, claiming it's all preparation for what comes later.

Going by the in-game name White, Yu Bai makes a name for himself during a livestream by racking up 50 kills on his own.

He then joins a team's youth training camp and becomes a starting player just two months later.

His many fans watch this killing machine grow and declare: The White Era is about to begin!

#One sniper rifle, and no one for miles around. #

#In a world tournament, he faces seven opponents alone in the final circle and pulls off a miraculous counterattack. #

#Leads WG to become the top team in the world. #

#Called WG's WG (meaning a cheater). #

Those are all descriptions of Yu Bai.

There's no denying this guy is a god-tier player, but everyone wishes he'd watch how he talks!

Every time Yu Bai serves as a game commentator, his blunt and forceful assessments kick up a storm.

If he weren't so ridiculously good that no one could criticize his play, and didn't have so many fans, anyone less thick-skinned might have retired on the spot.

When his own fans later asked him about it, Yu Bai looked confused. "What? I'm just stating the facts."

Everyone: ... Are you always this fearless?

Yu Bai: I've always been this fearless.

WG's players: Our captain is fearless!

*No romance, plot-focused. The original novel's characters have very little screen time.

*The FPS game in the story is broadly based on battle royale games, with original additions!!!

*The male lead's team is abbreviated as WG, short for Will Goon, meaning unending and everlasting.

Theme: The future holds infinite possibilities.