After Retiring from the Underworld, I Joined an Infinite Game

My new novel, The Whole Sect Proves the Dao and Ascends in an Infinite Game, is now underway! [Infinite Knowledge Quiz] Question: You get home and find a ghost resting on your bed. You rush to the door, only to hear strange sounds outside. Looking through the peephole, you see another ghost about to open your front door. What should you do? Among all the answers like “hide in the shoe cabinet” and “hide in the kitchen,” Xie Fangcheng slowly drew his sword. First, kill the one on the bed, then kill the one in the elevator. * Xie Fangcheng had diligently worked in the underworld for fifteen hundred years and finally retired as an exemplary employee. His kindhearted boss asked him, “Would you like to return to the mortal world? That way, in eighty or a hundred years, you can come back to the underworld and keep working around the clock.” Xie Fangcheng nodded. When he opened his eyes again, he was inside an infinite game. The horror game Don't Answer was known for its terror, gore, and brutality. The survival rate for its instances was no more than thirty percent, and dying in the game meant dying in real life. A bizarre mountain village. A terrifying fairy-tale town. A doomsday battle royale... While the players thought about how to survive each instance, Xie Fangcheng dutifully gave every NPC a peaceful passing. Xie Fangcheng: “Hello, I just retired as a department manager... and now I'm back on the job!” * They say a new player has arrived in the game, and the instances he enters never restart. * They also say someone's seen NPCs running around with their heads in their hands. Player: “That can't be possible...” Xie Fangcheng stabs the ghost boss with his sword. After completing the exorcism, he wipes his blade. “Who else?!” #What kind of lousy game is this? Don't Answer? I'll answer all I want!# #Stealing people from the underworld? Did you ask us underworld civil servants first?# Reader's guide: 1. Not a typical leveling story. Both leads are max-level from the start. 2. The leads don't follow the usual rules. It's an infinite-game story where the protagonist tears apart the plot and NPCs alike. 3. [Lots of side-character POVs] [Omniscient POV] [But not a sprawling ensemble cast] [The protagonist is the bottom] You don't need to tell me if you're dropping the novel. I hope to write something even better and meet you again. A retired underworld department manager bottom x a tenured professor at a Buddhist academy Cover character design artist: Juan Si Ji-Er Gou (non-exclusive character design, licensed by the artist) New novel now underway: The Whole Sect Proves the Dao and Ascends in an Infinite Game Blurb: The ladder between the cultivation world and the immortal realm collapsed, and no one in the cultivation world could ever again prove the Dao and ascend. No one had ascended from the cultivation world in three hundred years. Not even a single heavenly thunderbolt had struck. Only one sect, the Palace of Morality, remained, struggling to keep going. Yet everyone in the Palace of Morality, from top to bottom, including the spirit beasts and immortal herbs, seemed equally listless, as though they didn't care whether they lived or died. Until one day, inspiration struck the sect leader, Du E: “If our world is beyond saving, why not go see what other worlds are like?” So Sect Leader Du tore through the void and finally dragged back a black door. It had a sign that read: Logging in to horror game. . As soon as he entered the game, the System's beginner-protection warning appeared: Warning! Warning! Avoid bosses above your level! Du E pulled the sword from the BOSS's body. “Boss? Where's the boss?” System: ... Boss: ... . When he got out of the instance and returned to his sect, he turned to look at the black door behind him. Du E scraped off the words “horror game.” Du E wrote: Sect training ground. #I hear this game is pretty scary. Why not just kill all your NPCs?# #Ever wonder why we're the last sect left in the cultivation world?# Reader's notes: 1. The bottom is a good person, but not by conventional standards. 2. A ridiculous infinite-flow story. New novel: My Reborn Husband Came Back to Spoil Me. Yep, it's just a simple little sweet romance. Theme: Pursue scientific development and abandon superstition!