Cultivation Cheat

Cultivation Cheat is a modern cultivation web novel by the online author Lingluan Zilingluo, totaling over two million Chinese characters. It has been serialized on multiple digital reading platforms, with digital rights provided by Chinese Online and produced and distributed by Yuewen Information Technology. The protagonist, Xiao Yi, is an eighteen-year-old graduate of Q City who has just finished the college entrance exam and received his university admission letter. His parents work abroad, and he lives at home largely on his own, spending the whole summer vacation playing games. After being trolled in a game until he nearly loses his mind, he unexpectedly connects with the cultivation world: the sword spirit Wanwan appears, and the game system becomes his "cheat," bringing game mechanics such as quests, a shop, monster drops, and town portal scrolls into the cultivation world. With this system, the Nine-Turn Divine Pill that others spend a century refining can be bought at a twenty percent discount, the treasures others exhaust themselves to craft drop from monsters he kills, and he himself walks the three paths of sword, talisman, and alchemy at once. The story, written in a light, trope-defying tone, follows the youth as he steamrolls his way up through a cultivation world where the strong prey on the weak, always turning danger into safety through the system's "unreasonable" advantages even when bullied and besieged by immortal sects and hidden old monsters, making solemn cultivation read like a holographic game that can be reloaded at any time.