Knowledge is power...
This sentence also applies to the world of immortal cultivation.
Several hundred thousand players are trapped in a gritty zombie apocalypse survival game just after game launch. There are hints that deaths in the game might be serving some other terrible purpose in the background of reality…
The main character, Liu Gan, is a quadruple amputee in real life. A quirk in the server code recognized his prosthetic limbs as ‘real limbs’ in game, giving him ‘normal’ arms and legs that nonetheless have the strength and power of steel limbs, and thus far more power than a normal player. With this minor cheat helping him survive the early stages of the game, Liu Gan sets out to find out what exactly is going on, and to endure as long as he can.
A star shot through the sky, it also shot through the tranquility of the world.
Supernatural powers descended upon Earth. Who watches in the dark? Who mutters in my ear?
When my growl shatters the sky, when my power tramples the abyss, when I govern all that is living and dead… they shall call me– God.
Year 32 of Konoha
It was lunchtime at the Ninja Academy. Kenshi, a newcomer from Earth, accepted a rice ball from Minato, whose smile was as bright and warm as the sun. As he took a bite, Kenshi couldn't help but think about Minato's tragic fate.
"To change the ninja world, I need to start by saving the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato," he thought to himself.
But fate had other plans. Before Kenshi could even begin his mission, Minato who noticed something off about Kenshi. Turned him in to the Anbu, Konoha's secret police. Kenshi was then sent to a special interrogation room, a place reserved for spies.
Kenshi inside the room, stared blankly. Betrayal. He had been betrayed by the very person he intended to save. His original plan was in ruins. Now, he had a new mission: Destroy Konoha.
[Fair warning: The protagonist can be stupid. There's racism which you can expect from CN authors. The MC is a twisted mf due to betrayal, he doesn't see the world as real after what happened to him.]
When his parents' blood turned cold in the cracks of the bluestone, Li Feng understood: If you want to live, you have to be dirtier than evil people and more despicable than mud!
Kneeling and licking the Black Tiger Gang? Voluntarily practicing the life-shortening Five Poison Palm? Using his subordinates as sacrifices? Selling his affectionate Taoist partner to be used as a furnace? As long as he can climb up, he won't blink an eye!
The body is exhausted? Turned into a corpse! The soul is on the verge of collapse? Ten thousand ghosts are imprisoned in the body! The power is complicated and difficult to control? Bet your life on the unity of body and soul!
From then on, the black market had an extra walking taboo, with corpses as coffins and ghosts as servants, and wherever the blood mist of the underworld passed, the souls of all living beings became nutrients!
> When he sat in the false god realm formed by the swallowing of the blessed land, fishing for a thousand years... what he was fishing for was no longer fish.
(From a maggot in the mud to a great evil being that eclipses the heavens and the earth!)