The story takes place in the fictional Chinese kingdom of Caiyun. According to legend, a young man, aided by the power of the Eight Immortals, founded Caiyun. Consequently, Caiyun's territory was divided into eight provinces: Hongzhou, Huangzhou, Bizhou, Lanzhou, Zizhou, Heizhou, Baizhou, and Chazhou. Approximately 600 years ago, the king of the time ordered the nobles of each province to adopt one of these eight colors as their surnames (for example, the Marquis of Lanzhou became Lan, the Marquis of Hongzhou became Hong, and so on). Commoners were prohibited from sharing surnames with these eight marquises. Consequently, those bearing these eight colors were considered the most aristocratic of the nobles. Furthermore, because the Marquis of Zizhou, where the capital was located, also served as king, the Zi family became the royal family's surname. Despite being born into the prestigious Hong family, Hong Xiuli lived in poverty. She had to work extensively to support her family. Having experienced the turmoil of the throne struggle as a child, she deeply understood the suffering of the people. From a young age, she diligently studied, hoping to pass the imperial examination, become an official, assist the king, and build a prosperous and peaceful nation. However, as a woman, she cannot take the imperial examination. One day, Xiu Li accepts a high-paying commission from Grand Tutor Xiao and enters the harem as a noble concubine to teach and assist the incompetent emperor. This opportunity leads Xiu Li to a career as an official, and she encounters a variety of people.
[Ordinary Person Flow] + [No System] + [Cautious Flow]
Cultivation System: Qi Refining—Foundation Building—Golden Core—Nascent Soul—Deity Transformation—Body Integration—Void Reaching—Mahayana (Tribulation Crossing)
A thousand years ago, indescribable evil invaded the cultivation world. Along with the invasion, the strange and wicked cultivators brought chaos to the world, and the entire surface world fell. The remaining Qi cultivators in the cultivation world could only lead some mortals to hide underground and open up three domains to eke out a living.
Beneath the false prosperity of the underworld, immortal masters reign supreme, mortal kingdoms stand in disarray, and powerful clans are firmly established. In this world, the protagonist Yi Cheng is quietly born. From miner to constable, then to spy, and finally to heir to a villainous organization, watch how the protagonist breaks free from constraints with his mortal body, ascends to immortality step by step, and stirs up the world.
On an seemingly ordinary day, a driverless bus carrying Kong Linzhang, Wei Zhiyuan, and a group of cursed individuals arrives at the Black Haunted House. Every so often, a blood-red portal within the house forcibly pulls the group into a terrifying world to carry out horrific events. Kong Linzhang and Wei Zhiyuan, as witnesses, are filled with intense regret and resentment, and unexpectedly gain the ability to travel through time. During their travels, they foresee crucial clues using information asymmetry, but their lack of understanding of the rules of time travel hinders their actions. Meanwhile, a mysterious villainous organization, determined to prevent the truth from being revealed, constantly sabotages the protagonists' search for clues. The protagonists must not only contend with the harsh environment and unknown threats beyond the Haunted House and the blood-red portal, but also break the curse within a limited time. In the process, they are forced to choose sides with some of the cursed individuals due to ideological differences, creating a conflict between factions. The protagonists are also misled by the villains, leading to misunderstandings and misguided actions. Even after successfully breaking the curse, they discover that the "butterfly effect" has caused irreversible consequences, and the victory comes at a heavy price.
The Moon holds crucial strategic significance for Earth and serves as humanity's gateway to the deeper reaches of the universe. As a regular soldier stationed at China's Guanghan Station on the Moon, Cauchy is fully aware of the weight of his responsibility. Witnessing the warm lives of lunar residents and the continuous breakthroughs made by scientific research, Cauchy's vision for humanity's future grows ever more profound. The successful development of helium-3 has completely solved humanity's electricity needs, but it has also stirred the wrath of those with ulterior motives. He is forced to ponder whether technological advancement is designed to perpetuate war or to forge a brighter future for humanity...
Seek your own path, keep searching, and you'll find the way of humanity. Water and mountains may be crossed, but the path remains. May Heaven never grow old, and may my hometown forever be well. I see only green mountains, yet everywhere they are pierced by rain and wind. The road to my hometown seems endless. The Way of the Taoist, the Way of the Gods—I seek the way of humanity myself. Demons and monsters all claim to be good, but the winds howl and thunder roars, heaven and earth waile and ghosts cry. Why has the once beautiful land become a sea of blood? The road to my hometown seems like a road of no return. I ask humanity, where can I find the Way? (Although this has been used before, I'll still use it to feel appropriate.)
When Xia Tian, an ordinary young man from Earth, transmigrates to a peaceful world filled with anime characters but devoid of any extraordinary powers, he originally only wanted to marry a random two-dimensional wife and live a peaceful, uneventful life.
However, he was unaware that his time travel was not accidental.
He had long been chosen by the City of Sigil, the central hub of the multiverse, to be the vessel for a terrifying divine descent. A traveler's god, whose fate was uncertain, was attempting to be reborn through his body, while a mad abomination from the City of Sigil, its twisted form, was also eroding the city.
To escape his fate as a vessel and resist the corruption of divine abominations, Xia Tian was forced to abandon his comfortable life as a plagiarist. His only way out was to drag the entire magic-free world along on a violent path of transcendent evolution. And the end of this path pointed precisely to his own—the ritual of becoming a god.
Then, the style of the painting suddenly changed:
Yukino Yukinoshita clenched her fists: "I swear, I'll punch that self-righteous man in the face."
Minoru Kageno (Shadow) whispered in the shadows: "This time, I'm going to become a real nuclear bomb."
Miyamizu Mitsuha gazed at the starry sky, her prayer filled with determination: "My God, please, this time, watch over me alone."
Years later, when Xia Tian looked back, those "protagonists" who shone in the extraordinary era he had personally ushered in were standing at the forefront of the times. And he found that he himself seemed to have unknowingly ascended to the throne of gods.
Faced with this world that he himself had upgraded, Xia Tian left only one sentence:
"Do you want to dance too?"
In this world, there exists a celestial sect called Tai Xuan. Its disciples and followers, bound by an enduring destiny, have cultivated for countless lifetimes, all for the sake of becoming immortals. Alas, they encountered the Old Man Gu, and their path was severed…
Gu Yang joined the Tai Xuan Sect, a top-tier immortal sect in Yunzhou, and became a menial disciple. When he learned that he would be expelled from the mountain, he awakened the Life Rewind System.
Under certain conditions, one can revisit the past life of a specific person. Coincidentally, the Tai Xuan Sect places great importance on lineage when accepting disciples, and all of its true disciples possess a glorious past life.
Gu Yang, through life regression, observes the experiences of others' past lives, even their previous lives, and steals all the cultivation resources that the cultivators prepared for his reincarnation, thereby cultivating the Great Dao and achieving the pinnacle of immortality.
[Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation...]