[Ten times darker after corruption, three times weaker after redemption]
The vast crimson insect tide ravaging the timeline of an entire greater world civilization was endless.
In the cultivation world, where the weak were prey to the strong and humans were scarce, an early warning came before the insect tide arrived. The helpless Heavenly Dao, with no way to turn the tide, accidentally pulled a naive young extraterrestrial demon from the river of time...
And he, Lu Bing, would lead the legendary male protagonist who championed freedom and a brighter future for the realm, overcoming every obstacle with astonishing skill.
--Good news: Lu Bing, the savior and extraterrestrial demon, saved the world all by himself. Don't ask how he did it.
--Bad news: Lu Bing, the insect tide's only nemesis, seems to have... gone down the wrong path.
Even after the crimson insect tide was completely wiped out and everything had settled in the final act, a great calamity even more terrifying than the insect tide remained: the male protagonist.
The puppet label that bound him to the identity of the Heavenly Dao's chosen one cemented Lu Bing's perfect nature of using killing to stop killing. He went from upright and honorable to vengeful and deceitful, telling lies to everyone's face.
Until, a century later, he survived his tribulation and ascended, planning to return to his hometown...
Is he ascending to the Immortal Realm? No, no, no, it's the stars!
[Refined, corrupted pure-evil savior] Lu Bing: Heh... I'm laughing because I'm so furious.
[Despairing, reborn second-time savior] Luomansha Mira: Ahaha, I'm very sorry. My bad.
An oddball tale of the two of them going from a fake-brotherhood contract to an unlikely partnership, as they restart a shattered, dark and grim interstellar world. Along the way, their bizarre stories of mutual sabotage accidentally save the world again and again.
Including, but not limited to: foolish people at the academy who are transmigrators and transmigrated souls, and later get saddled with a strategy System and go around causing trouble.
And the Scarlet Insect Clan spies and twelve royal relatives of the Insect Emperors, who use human flesh as fresh feed and treat civilizations as pig farms for slaughter, locked in one battle of wits after another.
P.S. The former male protagonist, [Lu Bing], is neutral evil. He goes from male god to male ghost, makes no distinction between friend and foe, and considers whatever he personally wants to be the only way things can go smoothly.
[There's a general outline, but updates are whenever I feel like it.]
Theme: A roundabout way of saving the world from two perspectives, with a powerful lead carrying the team while his companions coast to victory
