I Built a Social App in the Cultivation World

Shen Luming used to be a product manager. After years of grinding herself to the bone at an internet company, she finally won herself a death-from-overwork package.

After dying, she transmigrated into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female supporting character. She had a talent for weaving illusions, but all she wanted was to steal the male lead away, until her core was damaged, her cultivation ruined, and everyone despised her.

System:

Good thing you got bound to me! Hurry up and raise your affection scores so you can become everyone's beloved!

Shen Luming: I refuse.

Later, Shen Luming discovered that the original owner's illusion skill could connect multiple people at once.

Shen Luming: ...Have you ever heard of social networking?

System:

Don't kid yourself! With your current cultivation, you can't even sustain the simplest illusion!

Shen Luming glanced at the mess of models, smoke, and atmospheric lighting in her illusion. With a wave of her hand, she deleted it all, leaving only a plain white interface.

Shen Luming: What if I only transmit text and images?

System: ??!

When cultivators heard about Shen Luming's idea, they laughed themselves silly.

“Huh? We cultivators can travel beyond our bodies whenever we want. Who'd want to exchange messages with strangers?”

But once Shen Luming built it, the cultivators all changed their tune:

“Ahh, this is actually great!”

She created an Anonymous Chat Room, hiding all identifying information and supporting only text and images.

Cultivators let go of the barriers between social classes and sects, and began to fret over a few lines of text from strangers, waiting eagerly for replies...

She created a Q&A platform, where powerful experts argued fiercely while junior disciples watched in awe.

The free exchange of ideas between sects broke through cultivation theories that had been stagnant for centuries!

She created a fashion and food-sharing section, setting trends across the land, breaking down conservatism, and letting every kind of aesthetic flourish.

She even opened a shopping section, turning her own sect into the richest in the cultivation world!

She opened a classic texts discussion board, and the niche experts who'd been scattered across the land finally found one another. One brilliant creator after another appeared.

For a while, tears and underwear were flying everywhere, and even the original authors came to create fanworks...

#Bai Ze himself spotted in the Bai Ze Tu tag! Hurry over and see!#

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Shen Luming had the most followers in the entire cultivation world, but no time to surf the web. Every day, she not only had to test new features, but also had a mountain of requests for help to deal with...

What? A child has been kidnapped?

Shen Luming helped post a missing-person notice and launched a site-wide search, leaving the kidnappers nowhere to hide!

What? A lecher is harassing and threatening a female cultivator?

Shen Luming immediately pinpointed his location and brought her senior and junior fellow disciples over. Three Nascent Soul cultivators arrived in a flash, giving the creep a taste of the terror of having his personal information exposed.

What? Someone's lonely and bored because they have no one to play with... What the heck?

Shen Luming checked the help-seeker's ID. Bai Ze himself??

Shen Luming kicked open the next room's door:

Assistant Bai! No slacking off during work hours!

The handsome demon before her only grinned boldly.

“Ancient texts say that surfing the web is a demon's nature. So, want to do it together?”

Theme: Communication changes lives