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After Qi Yunze, hailed as the strongest human alive, died saving the world, he unexpectedly learned the truth about it: this world was built around a male-protagonist power-progression novel.
The novel's protagonist was his disciple, the future savior of the world.
Qi Yunze's role in the story was to guide the protagonist and establish the novel's power ceiling, providing a benchmark to keep the power scaling from falling apart later on.
In the end, because his strength was just too overpowered, the author forcibly wrote him out early in the story.
Qi Yunze, now that he knew everything: "..."
Fine, fine. So you can't handle the competition.
He studied the plot and discovered that the protagonist still had a full twenty years to go before becoming the strongest in the world.
Over those twenty years, the world would fall. The alien species would squeeze humanity's living space down to just 5% of the planet's land, bringing the human race to the brink of extinction.
Qi Yunze suddenly realized that the disciple he'd taken on was a bit of a good-for-nothing. So he decided to keep cultivating, even in the form of a remnant soul.
Two years later:
"I woke up too fast. I'm seeing S-rank disasters fighting each other."
"Wait, something's off about that disaster!"
"Help! That looks like Captain Qi, who died two years ago!"
#The whole human race's dearly beloved, thought dead, turns into an S-rank disaster after a nap#
I may revise the blurb before starting, but the general plot won't change.
Theme: Stay on your own chosen path in life.