A Survival Guide to Cultivating Through the Apocalypse

After silly, sweet Yan Qing died, she finally transmigrated to a cultivation world and became a powerful expert, only to be struck by lightning and sent back!

When she returned, she discovered that this world was a book, and the apocalypse was about to begin!

Yan Qing: I've got something to say, but I don't know if I should say it...

Waiting to die was out of the question. Yan Qing immediately grabbed her younger brother, bought train tickets, and fled the city in the middle of the night.

Back at their old home in the mountains, the first thing she did was tear down the dilapidated house! Then she spent a fortune building a sturdy fortress!

Villagers and builders: This girl isn't right in the head. She's got a bit of a persecution complex.

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But when the apocalypse came, the village was reduced to ruins, and only Yan Qing's house remained standing.

An unknown substance ran rampant across the world. Those infected either awakened supernatural abilities or became zombies. With the road out of the village cut off, Yan Qing and the villagers were forced into isolation, tucked away in their little corner of the world.

The zombies evolved, and extreme disasters struck. Yan Qing led the survivors through one crisis after another.

They had thought they were just a bunch of nobodies struggling to survive in the apocalypse. They never expected that later, countless survivors would fight tooth and nail to join their little base.

Yan Qing: ...I really only wanted to survive a little longer back then.

Reader advisory: This story is a slow burn, and maybe it won't burn at all. The heroine is the strongest, but she's not so overpowered that she can knock everyone out in one move. Also: The male lead is basically set dressing, and the romance is a mess.

Cultivation ranks in this story: Body Tempering → Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Golden Core → Nascent Soul → Deification → Tribulation Transcendence → Ascension

Supernatural ability ranks in this story: F → E → D → C → B → A → S → SS → SSS

Zombie ranks in this story: From weakest to strongest, levels one through nine

My new story, Military Academy Top Student, But a Zombie, is now underway. If you're interested, darlings, take a look at my author page. Thanks for your support!

Blurb:

Jiang Ning died during a wild trip after her college entrance exams. When she opened her eyes, she had become a zombie in a parallel world, with ashen skin, blood-red eyes, and sharp fangs.

She was delighted: In her previous life, she worked herself to the bone. This time, she'd lie flat and be a zombie. No need to be human, no need to study. Perfect.

[Ding! The Learning Saves the World System has been bound. Warning: If the Host does not learn how to “be human again,” they will lose their intelligence and become food.]

Jiang Ning: ...Fine. Being alive is better than getting torn to pieces!

She took on System missions and infiltrated a military academy in human form. While the others practiced killing zombies on virtual battlefields, she kept her head down and took notes like crazy. While others desperately saved up points to get high-tier genetic evolution drugs, she used her zombie form to buddy up with the “high-tier genetic progenitors” themselves.

A field guide quietly appeared on the full-dive network, taking the entire internet by storm

“Are you kidding me? How did the author get away unscathed from that Phantom Beast? Three supernatural ability users on my team died fighting it!”

“The weakness of the Bloodsucking Vine is real! We followed the guide and wiped out its nest without a single casualty!”

“This is even more detailed than the research institute's data! Which top student is the author?”

Watching the download points in her account soar, Jiang Ning smiled faintly, keeping her achievements to herself.

Then, with human civilization's territory on the brink of collapse, Jiang Ning brought out the complete field guide to help the supernatural ability users defeat the zombies. But when the Zombie King launched a fatal counterattack, she was forced to reveal her zombie form.

Everyone was horrified: The top student they had always worshiped was actually a zombie!

Jiang Ning grinned arrogantly: What's there to panic about? I'm on your side.

Theme: Nothing matters more than staying alive.