Becoming a God of Death in a Cyberpunk World [Infinite]

Qian Liu woke up one morning and discovered she was a corpse.

Iron airships bearing down with a vast army, a virtual jungle blazing with excitement, a modern world ruled by financial conglomerates… Amid the crackle of sparks, a cold and eerie electronic voice said to her, “Welcome to the year 3100 of the New Era!”

The terrifying thing wasn’t this world of consumerism. It was that she was an undocumented citizen!

Qian Liu: …Can I still die one more time?

The most tragic protagonist in cyberpunk history, Qian Liu scared an inhabitant of this world to death the moment she arrived. As a result, she became bound to the artificial intelligence attached to the deceased: the [Heavenly Dao System]. A cultivation manual in full holographic projection opened before her:

Draw in qi and open your spiritual apertures: Take microbial nanobots and use electronic eyes to observe a binary world made up of zeroes and ones.

Cleanse your meridians, build your foundation, and ascend the ranks: Undergo a full-body blood upgrade, then weld on a metal exoskeleton sawblade to become a cold-blooded cyber warrior.

Form your inner golden core and fly on a sword: Implant the highest-grade chip made by a financial conglomerate, master electromagnetic levitation, and parkour along the elevated airways.

And when she reaches the legendary Mahayana stage, one sword strike will shake the world. The twelve Celestial Cities floating in the sky will collapse under her fury, and tens of millions of steel warships will bleed and wail for her alone!

[Remain unknown or become famous]

Qian Liu resolutely chose “or.” In this wasteland where high technology exists alongside a low standard of living, she is just a diligent corpse collector. Her greatest dream is to stay alive.

Then a new notification appeared, gently reminding her: “Dear lower-class citizen, you have 3,000,000,000 points in outstanding debt. If you do not pay within three working days, GCPD will come to repossess your organs and genetic sequence. Please do your best to die!”

Qian Liu’s vision went dark. “How much?!”

To repay her debt, she has no choice but to sign up for The End, an infinite survival game of real-life slaughter created by the upper-city elite, who have poured a trillion into it. The players’ blood and tears will become an exquisitely prepared snack, and their deaths will delight global viewers with exclusive VVVVIP memberships. It’s a frenzied celebration, an unparalleled honor!

And so a Demon King who overwhelms all other players is born.

She is the king of the rankings, the dungeon terminator, a cyberpsycho, the biggest Boss of the rebel faction, the first Transcendent Sequence in Gene City, an electronic ghost roaming the internet, a sword saint who rides the winds of the nine heavens, and the most wanted criminal with a bounty of billions of points…

[Black Knight 12137]: “Thanks for the rocket launcher, livestream chat. Let’s blow up the upper city for everyone!”

*

As a corpse who has come back to life, the only thing Qian Liu can do is fight her way out of here, push open the door separating life from death, and see the world outside.

Because in her final moments, she remembered seeing a distant future.

Qian Liu walks across a snowy wilderness stretching ten thousand miles. In this life, she carries a sword, its killing edge as bleak as a sky filled with snow, and walks beside the lonely figure in white.

She says, “I want the twelve Celestial Cities to fall before me. I want there to be no more injustice in this world.”

Become a true cyber immortal. Be the number-one player.

[Reading guide]

*An unconventional infinite survival story. Both the game and cyber-cultivation plotlines are important parts of the novel.

*Blurb recorded on September 9, 2024.

Theme: Challenge yourself and break through adversity.