Livestreaming from the Underworld, Watched by the Whole World! [Metaphysics]

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The Underworld is being rebuilt. Le Jia, one of the underworld officials tasked with restoring order, is reborn in the human world to capture spirits lingering among the living.

To rack up achievements as efficiently as possible and get promoted and a raise sooner, Le Jia throws herself into the work, rushing out night after night to hunt spirits. She livestreams her ghost hunts, shouting out ads: "Ghost hunting is my profession. My contact information is at the top of the screen. If you need me, contact me first. I'll be there whenever you call."

Seeing this, netizens sneer and curse her, berating Le Jia for having no shame and doing anything for fame and views. It's absolutely revolting.

That is, until they see...

"Holy crap! I was watching the livestream and gossiping, and it led right to my doorstep? Isn't that place on screen my hometown? Why is the neighbor girl who drowned when we were kids there? Why is she crossing a bridge I've never seen before? And did she just drink a bowl of soup?"

"Wasn't Le Jia just in the village upstairs a second ago? How did she suddenly teleport to my front door? The person in her livestream... looks like the auntie next door who went missing three months ago! She really died? And she says her husband killed her???"

Millions of netizens are stunned!

So the livestreamed ghost hunting in the Underworld isn't special effects! It's real!

And when she says she'll come whenever you call, she isn't bragging!

Night falls, and it's time for Master Le, whose work schedule belongs to the dead, to get back to work. The moment her livestream starts, hundreds of millions of viewers pour in, filling the screen with "666."

One day, a flood of bizarre comments suddenly appears among all the "666s."

"Hello, Master Le. I'm in a country thousands of miles away. My grandmother has watched your livestreams for a long time. She has one wish: after she dies, she hopes you'll personally escort her away. Could you come?"

"Could the person above give me a turn first? I want to ask Master Le if she can come here. A malicious spirit has committed several horrific murders in our area, and the local mediums and shamans can't handle it at all. Could Master Le take it away first and send it to the Eighteenth Level of Hell?"

Yan Cang, the newly appointed Lord of the Underworld, thinks: After the great calamity, everything in Heaven and Earth has changed. Humans and gods have all been reborn, and divine offices have been reassigned. If Le Jia accumulates enough merit soon, she can reclaim her divine office and once again serve as a judge of the Underworld.

The first time: Le Jia brings back a whole crowd of spirits.

Yan Cang: Mm, not bad.

The second time: Besides human spirits, Le Jia brings back several pig demons.

Yan Cang: Hm? That's all right too. After all, the six paths of reincarnation include pig demons, who must also be judged in the Underworld.

The third time: Le Jia brings back several foreigners.

Yan Cang: ? Wait, he needs to check whether foreign spirits need visas to enter the Underworld!

The fourth time: Le Jia brings back several foreign pig demons...

Yan Cang: ...

#How Master Le Exceeds Her Targets and Takes Her Business Global#

#Who Did Master Le Escort Away Today?#

#The World Watches Master Le Livestreaming Underworld Culture#

Cover art by my dear friend Mo Qingsha. She spent ages drawing Le Jia, one stroke at a time. It's amazing, absolutely amazing!

Reading Guide:

1. Includes elements of fake and real heiresses and the entertainment industry, related to the protagonist's background and identity.

2. Many details are invented. All place names, personal names, and events are fictional and are the author's own creation. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

3. Every species and living being has its own causes and effects, and its own right and wrong, good and evil. No species is favored over another. No prejudice.

4. Yan Cang's surname, Yan, comes from one of the ancient Chinese surnames.

Le Jia's name: Jia comes from "sangharama," a word often found in Buddhist scriptures.

5. The protagonist has a character-growth arc.

Important note: This novel's setting is fictional in many respects and does not copy the real world. The focus is on telling a good story and conveying its themes. Everything is designed to suit the story, and no offense is intended.

After Transmigrating Into a Lord Game, I Founded an Empire

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[The Lord Game has begun. Plundering will begin in one week. Those who fail will be eliminated. Strength is your only means of survival.]

When Bai Yue wakes up, a cold, mechanical game prompt sounds in her ear. Behind her are a dilapidated thatched hut, a patch of weed-covered land, two low-tier workers, and a set of basic tools.

In the distance lies a dense fog, marked "Undeveloped Territory."

Explore new areas, develop the wasteland, fortify her home, and level up as quickly as possible. These are Bai Yue's only ways to prepare for the other lords' plundering in a week.

On top of that, the disasters regularly unleashed by the game System and the evil forces invading her territory are all difficult trials that threaten her survival.

Bai Yue quickly gets to work upgrading her territory, but suddenly realizes that something about it seems different.

Strange prompts float above everything she sees.

(Low-Tier Green Grass: Weave it into shoes to increase your movement speed.)

(Golden Spirit Grass: Eating it boosts your energy and makes you work faster.)

(Superior-Grade Soil: Ordinary plants can be raised to superior grade when planted in it.)

(F-Rank Worker: Give a worker beauty, and they can lure enemy engineers into a counterattack.)

Bai Yue: I get it!

*

The first plundering and elimination round begins. A neighboring lord leads his territory straight toward Bai Yue's, ready to plunder it in a show of force.

But...

The soldiers he painstakingly upgraded and recruited rebel on the spot, and the house he built crumbles like an egg smashed against a rock.

Before he can even fight, he watches helplessly as his own territory gets plundered.

Not long afterward, another lord launches an attack...

And Bai Yue's territory grows by another chunk.

Bai Yue: ...I didn't do anything... Would anyone believe me?

*

After learning how to see the hidden information in all things, Bai Yue diligently sets about being a good lord. She upgrades her workers, expands her land, works hard at farming, builds up her home, and grows her territory.

She also plunders and swallows up the territories that are practically handed to her. Life is simple and happy.

Until one day, someone knocks on the gate of Bai Yue's territory...

A stranger lord arrives with a vast territory and says politely, "Are you Lord Bai? I'm here to join you, ma'am."

Bai Yue: ???

*

Bai Yue: Do you believe me when I say that I never intended to build a vast territory surrounded by countless islands, with more workers than I can count, or to create an empire in the Lord Game? It wasn't my personal choice at all.

#How I Was Forced to Take On a Bunch of Followers#

#I Didn't Expect to Conquer an Empire#

Reading Guide:

1. A progression story with plenty of world-building.

*My Junior Sister's Qi Refining Is No Simple Matter

Tang Yue transmigrates into a book as the cultivation world's ultimate cannon fodder: short-lived, with terrible spiritual roots, and someone whose greatest achievement in life is reaching the Qi Refining stage.

In her sect:

Her master: the greatest swordsman under heaven.

Her senior brother: the destined hero's script.

Her second senior sister: a tragic romance between master and disciple.

Her third senior brother: the future leader of the demon clan.

Her fourth senior brother: jilted, with a blood-drop jade pendant.

Tang Yue: ...A short-lived, useless cannon-fodder character, perfect for appearing in the main characters' flashbacks.

With so many power-fantasy storylines gathered in one place, Tang Yue, a cannon-fodder character who gets close to the protagonists, clearly has no hope of surviving.

Fortunately, she has a System. As long as she diligently plays an insignificant passerby, she can gain experience, skills, and extra years of life.

Tang Yue keeps a low profile and hides herself away, determined to stay as far from the protagonist's group as possible. Even to earn a living, she puts on a secret identity to take jobs and make spirit stones.

Until one day, her senior brothers and sisters run into Tang Yue while exploring a secret realm. They watch with their own eyes as their sickly junior sister, who was supposedly on the verge of death, punches a beast comparable to a Deity Transformation cultivator to death with her bare hands.

As it happens, they also discover that the genius who advised their eldest senior brother on swordsmanship, refined a miraculous potion to fulfill their second senior sister's dream, invented "demon mint" for their third senior brother, and forged the "Number One Blade Under Heaven" for their fourth senior brother is none other than their sickly little junior sister!

Her senior brothers and sisters are stunned: Junior Sister! Aren't you only at the Qi Refining stage?

Her master: So you were the one who gave me the Carefree Powder.

Tang Yue: ...Just hear me out...

Damn it! She has to go back and change the job system! If a job comes from the protagonist's group, she has to avoid it!

While wearing secret identities and taking jobs, Tang Yue meets a pitiful little person. They're dressed in rags and wearing a "hideousness-concealing" mask. They look utterly miserable, making them the perfect friend for her.

They feel an instant kinship, and Tang Yue decides they are friends who would die for each other.

Later, Tang Yue discovers that the pitiful friend she thought was made for her is actually the greatest villain in the entire cultivation world.

Nope...

Tang Yue blocks him in a flash and never looks back.

Sikong Ting: ...

After all that effort pretending, he's right back where he started.

This novel uses 80% 24-hour advance locking.

Theme: Never be confined by a one-sided view of what is right in front of you.