I Roast My Way to Immortality: From the Start, I Owed 30,000 After Reading the Bullet Comments

I Cultivate by Roasting People: From the Start, I Read the Comments and Ended Up Owing 30,000 Spirit Stones In the cultivation world, writing novels is a form of cultivation. Readers are Heaven and Earth, average subscriptions are your cultivation level, and joining a sect through a publishing contract is the only way forward. Qin Qiong is a penniless rogue cultivator from the Poor Alliance. With just twenty-three average subscriptions, he ranks dead last in the entire cultivation world. After writing for three months, he was so broke he had only three spirit stones left. His first book flopped so badly it wasn't even worth criticizing. Then he found a bronze mirror in a rubbish heap. The mirror lit up. Words appeared inside. "Is this protagonist an idiot?" "Dropped." "Author, come out. I promise I won't beat you to death." Qin Qiong read the comments all night: insults, praise, pleas for updates, readers dropping the book. They were all reader comments appearing on the mirror. He quietly tweaked the opening. Then he looked in the mirror again... "Hey, this is getting kind of interesting." In three months, he went from twenty-three average subscriptions to signing with a sect. But no one knew his secret was hidden in a bronze mirror. It was a demonic artifact. If anyone found out, he'd be dead. And to make matters worse, the mirror was 30,000 spirit stones in arrears, with ten percent monthly interest. The righteous sects wouldn't take him. The demonic path wanted him. The sects suspected him. His friends urged him not to go astray. Qin Qiong gripped the mirror, watching the comments scroll across it, then looked at his empty spirit-stone pouch. "When you're too broke to afford food, who cares whether the path is righteous?" "Survive first. Worry about the rest later."