The Ballad of Baiyue: I Start Out Backed by a Peerless Witch

Title: Ballad of the Baiyue: I’m Offline, with a Peerless Witch at My Back Synopsis: I transmigrated into the body of a Baiyue prince, only to become a “cripple” in a networked world. Bronze drums thundered, tattoos glowed on my people’s skin, and they shared a collective consciousness that let them cultivate at astonishing speed. But I, Zou Wuzhu, was an “offline” outcast who couldn’t connect. I endured their scorn, with no hope of ever claiming the throne. In 219 BC, the iron cavalry of Great Qin marched south, wielding the divine tones of jade chimes to sever the network, destroy souls, and seize spirits. Baiyue warriors fell by the thousands. Their tattoos went dark, and their memories were wiped clean. As Ayi, the witch of Western Ou and a network terminal, coughed blood from the backlash, she seized my hand in despair. “How… can you resist it?” I gazed at her breathtaking face and felt a dragon soul from Huaxia, born in 2024 and utterly unlike anything in this world, slowly awakening within me. It turned out my disconnection wasn’t a flaw. It was the ultimate backdoor built into this world’s bronze-punk network, reserved for fighting off a System invasion. Qin commander Tu Sui sneered. “We’ll format this world today!” I took the witch’s hand and stood back to back with her. “Ayi, connect to me.” “Today, let’s show Great Qin’s antivirus program…” “…the fury of a System vulnerability!”