I Fool the World with Chinese Mythology

In the year 4045, the laws of a higher civilization tore open the starry sky and dragged Blue Star into a brutal interstellar college entrance exam.

The top students would earn a ticket to survival, while those who failed would become colonial subjects.

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When Xu Jue opened her eyes again, she had returned to the days before the exam that would decide their fate.

In her previous life, she had watched Blue Star fall, humanity enslaved, and her parents executed on the spot for a mouthful of food.

Now, sunlight blazed outside the window. It was a peaceful summer, with cicadas singing.

The girls were still fretting over their boring vacation.

Nothing had begun yet.

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Starting over, Xu Jue studied the exam guidelines, which were beyond human comprehension, and came up with an idea that could only be called insane.

If human technology was destined to fail... then she would change the playing field.

For the sake of civilization, she would invent an all-powerful past.

She would tell a world-shaking lie.

She would take five thousand years of Chinese mythology, from Pangu creating the world and Nuwa creating humanity to the primordial wilderness, the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Heavenly Court, the underworld, and the pursuit of immortality...

And through the examination System, turn these insubstantial legends into "reality" certified by the laws of a higher civilization.

Deceive the heavens and myriad worlds, and make the false real!

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While other civilizations were still competing in technology, Blue Star's style grew increasingly outrageous:

[Version 1.0: spiritual qi revival] Xu Jue submitted her theory of "spiritual qi."

[Version 1.5: Strange Tales of Mountains and Seas] An update to biodiversity introduced spirits and strange beasts.

[Version 2.0: Journey to the West Trial] A global-scale event went live.

[Version 3.0: Netherworld] The cycle of reincarnation went live.

[Version 6.0: The Primordial Wilderness Arrives] The origins of civilization revived, and the world's rules were overwritten.

When the Southern Heavenly Gate swung open during the exam, when the Ruyi Jingu Bang split the starry sea, when Nuwa truly descended...

Mighty China would enshrine the gods throughout the cosmos!

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#Inventing mythology from the start, and higher civilizations actually believe it#

#Something is off about this year's Blue Star examinees#

#You said we'd ascend through technology, so why are you secretly cultivating immortality?#

#I really wasn't lying to you#

#Well, I lied to you, so what#

#Hehe#

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I will deceive the heavens and myriad worlds with Chinese mythology.

And win humanity a brilliant future!

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Theme: Chinese mythology is power