I Revived the Gods of Huaxia by Selling Blind Boxes

[Coming soon: “A Shelter from the Start” and “I’m Really Not the Great Interstellar Demon Lord!”]

Good news: Ye Mingtao, the new God of Wealth, has taken office. Bad news: she’s been assigned to the wrong world. History has been lost, there’s no faith, her power is fading, and alien beasts and enemies from outer space are watching hungrily from beyond.

…Not a big problem! Ye Mingtao sets out her treasure-gathering bowl and starts selling divine blind boxes:

Those with nowhere left to turn, what are you willing to trade for a chance to survive?

Wealth, luck, knowledge…Whatever you have, whatever you desire.

The God of Wealth has no taboos. Anything is permitted.

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At first, when people heard someone was selling divine blind boxes and that you might gain miraculous abilities, they all laughed and called it a pipe dream.

Until…

Alien beasts from the starry sea stormed into residential areas, and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven appeared in the sky, killing them with a single blow.

When people asked how the life-saving treasure had come from a blind box of the Great Sage…it turned out to be one of his monkey hairs.

After becoming famous in a single battle, the whole world went wild:

[Superpowers! Divine blessings! Aaaah, give me a blind box!]

[I’ve finally saved up for ten pulls. Please, please give me a guaranteed rare one. If there’s no Lady Nüwa in the Mending Heaven banner, I’ll take that tough kid with a snake in each hand, or even Mount Buzhou!]

[So, my little carp has already become a fish spirit. Where should I go to leap through the Dragon Gate and evolve into a dragon?

The person above really does love their little carp. I heard the evolution route is difficult and costs a lot. Rich people pay to win, and poor people rely on luck, right?]

[Help, help, help! My Mazu statue fell asleep after saving my life! What dishes does Lady Mazu like? I want to make offerings so she wakes up soon!]

[Shocking! The latest archaeological news from our home planet: Shennong really existed in ancient times?!]

When enemies from beyond the universe finally invade Blue Star, they’re all stunned. Weren’t we all supposed to be building a three-, four-, five-, and six-dimensional technological civilization together? How did Blue Star become the only one to transcend the mundane?!

[Reading Guide]

1. Behind-the-scenes story about transforming a technological world from the ground up into a supernatural one, reviving and spreading Chinese mythology to fill gaps in recorded history, and summoning divine powers to fight.

The gods drawn from the blind boxes appear only as statues or projections through vessels. They gain faith from afar and bless the world, but they won’t rule humanity or meddle in everything.

“Gods” refers to deities and spirits, including some humans who became divine.

2. Interstellar setting, but the technology is not very advanced. People have only just left Blue Star.

3. The heroine is a true god. The romance is a background element, with the treasure-gathering bowl spirit gradually becoming an obsessed, devoted dog. Someone has a one-sided crush on the heroine.

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Completed works: “A Raft from the Start,” a survival story; “Becoming a God Starts with Summoning Players,” a Western-fantasy story with Fourth Disaster elements.

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Coming soon: “A Shelter from the Start [Stockpiling for Survival]”

A doomsday game arrives, and overnight, humanity is plunged into the wilderness, where monsters and natural disasters appear one after another.

Huo Sheng looks at her shabby shelter, bare as a pauper’s home and full of drafts. “…Let’s start with a small goal: build a thousand-square-meter warehouse and fill it to the brim.”

What? No materials?

Huo Sheng lets out a long sigh. “It’s not like I want to do this. Why are those tree monsters opposite me going around my shelter? Is it really that scary? It’s just one, two, three…eight, nine, ten weapons pointed at you. I really only borrowed a little wood to build a house!”

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A silly, people-misinterpret-everything story, coming soon: “I’m Really Not the Great Interstellar Demon Lord!”

After transmigrating into a full-dive game and becoming a tyrant about to be overthrown, Sheng Zhao sits in a luxurious palace, a mech’s spatial storage device on one side and a male consort on the other. As she holds them both, her hands tremble slightly.

The Emperor System: Achieve the ultimate good-ruler or tyrant ending, and you can go home.

Sheng Zhao looks at the kingdom’s absurdly backward infrastructure, then at the yellow- and red-named officials filling the court. This life is too hard.

Stirring up trouble is out of the question. She might as well be a tyrant, enjoy herself, bring down the kingdom as quickly as possible, and fake her death to go home.

And yet…

Sheng Zhao promotes the red-named guard who hates her most on the spot.

The future rebel leader is moved to tears and swears eternal loyalty. “Tyrant, I mean, Your Majesty is wise!”

Sheng Zhao: ?

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Sheng Zhao gets her overly enthusiastic officials to eat and drink with her.

A corrupt noble: “Oh no, this is terrible! His Majesty is terrifyingly brilliant. He made me turn myself in, planned every move in advance, and has a truly ruthless mind!”

Sheng Zhao: ??

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Sheng Zhao slacks off, lies flat, and sunbathes.

The evil cult that happens to see her: “Waaah, we knew the Great Demon Lord was only pretending to fish for us! Is it too late to switch sides and join the Great Demon Lord?”

Sheng Zhao: ??? No…listen, let me explain…making things up is a disease, and it needs treatment!

One year later, instead of facing an uprising, the kingdom is thriving.

Ten years later, the empire’s tyrant has become a wise ruler praised by all, unrivaled in intelligence and strategy.

People of later generations say that the wise ruler who unified the galaxy and her exceptionally capable ministers saved the world.

Premise: What belongs to China belongs to the world, too.