[Infinite] Please Do Not Apply to the Sword Cultivation Program

#Question: What should you do if you're the first to discover that the world is warping and you've become a target?

#College student Fang: If you can't beat them, join them. At least the sword cultivator program comes with job placement.

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The day the Immortal Realm merged with the 21st century and connected the Immortal System to all of society, it gave 1.7 billion mortals two choices:

1. Have a spiritual root and become a god.

2. Have no spiritual root and become a believer.

Chuunibyou teenagers grew restless at the prospect, while experts and scholars wore worried expressions. Some dreamed of being chosen by the Immortal System and rising to the top overnight, while others feared that the cultivation world's law of the jungle would trigger a social collapse.

But the first mortal to connect to the Immortal System's livestream, Student Fang, said coolly: You're overthinking it.

College students in the cultivation world are just as innocent and foolish as those in the mortal world.

For details, see the posts:

[First-year talisman cultivator here. My senior has been drawing a talisman under the sun for ten minutes without moving. I suspect he's dead, since college students die so easily.]

[Third-year body cultivator here. My little sister can punch ten of me. My grandma can yank up a willow tree with one hand. I feel like a wimp in my 8 a.m. class.]

[Sword cultivator here. Got caught flying my sword without a license. I'm having doubts about my major. Send me 50 and I'll tell you about my plan to get certified.]

The believers: "..."

Is this really the god they're supposed to worship?

Fortunately, there are some differences. For instance, cultivation college students have to compete in an infinite-flow contest and earn rankings and faith points to improve their cultivation.

The college students say they might as well be dead, but inside the Immortal System they kill harder than anyone. Every one of them wants to climb the rankings, gain believers and treasures from the Immortal Realm, claim a share from the Five Great Clans, ascend to godhood, and look down on all living beings.

Everyone thought there could never be a place for mortals, until the System announced the rankings for the first time. Under the gaze of countless gods and more than a billion pairs of human eyes, the first-place winner emerged:

Fang Xunyu.

A mortal through and through.

The gods fell silent. The immortals said nothing.

Only the mortal world erupted. On the livestream, countless [You have become his believer] notifications appeared, while the top ten, powerful enough to split mountains and fill seas, stood upon the altar and bowed to Fang Xunyu.

A whole group of gods bowed down and worshipped a mortal.

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The gulf between immortals and mortals, the law of the jungle: no matter how calm things may seem, this is still an invasion from another world, an irresistible process of being devoured, like ants being crushed.

Fang Xunyu was cold by nature and had originally planned to accept this consumption.

But someone forced his way into his placid world, laughing in his ear: "Do not go gentle into that good night."

That boy was dazzlingly sharp, with an arrogant, flamboyant appearance, as if a single glance could burn you. He had no sense of boundaries with Fang Xunyu.

He was a genius. Fang Xunyu had never met anyone more capable or more handsome.

He was also a madman, treating Fang Xunyu as a substitute, then breaking down with jealousy whenever Fang Xunyu showed affection for someone else. A madman who pinned Fang Xunyu down and bit into his flesh.

"How dare you like him?" Fu Sijue's eyes seemed to drip blood. Tears fell as he spoke with an almost pleading expression. "You should only look at me. Xunyu, please, look only at me."

* Not a traditional power-progression wish-fulfillment story. Infinite-flow cultivation.

* The author is obsessed with younger love interests, so this is an unconventional age-gap romance with a younger top.

* The top split himself in two: one is an aloof beauty high above the altar, the other is clingy. The clingy one is his true nature. He's an extreme hopeless romantic, so don't expect too much of him.

* This will most likely be an ensemble story.

The ensemble includes, but is not limited to: a rapper who practices word-spirit magic, a female doctor cultivator who transmigrates whenever she wakes up, and college students who crawl around in the shadows.

Blurb screenshotted on July 17, 2023.

Theme: Study hard and improve every day.