Global Monster Grind

Global Monster Grind is a long urban supernatural-powers web novel by the online author Chuige Da Qiqiu 9. Serialization on Qidian began around 2019 and concluded on May 15, 2021; the complete work runs to 827 chapters and roughly 2.837 million characters, with more than 200,000 recommendation votes and over 80,000 bookmarks accumulated. The story is set in an apocalyptic world where "fantasy invades reality": anomalies and supernatural beings seep into daily life, the order of technological civilization is torn open step by step, and ordinary people's survival becomes the most urgent problem. The protagonist, Geng Jiangyue, was once a top student in the arcane studies class of Sea Lion City No. 3 Senior High School, but with a spiritual-power value of only 3 he is judged "spiritually disabled" and can only claim a government-subsidized "Level 3 Disabled Person's Game Account," making a living as a bottom-tier laborer in the virtual game world. After failing to seize a "century-old wild ginseng" in Black Crow Forest, he accidentally digs up the "Blank Ring," an item with the attribute "None": it grants immunity to possession attacks by super-spirits and automatic counterattacks, and it cannot be damaged, lost, or traded. The moment he puts on the ring, his spiritual-power value inexplicably drops—and his fate turns with it. From then on he claws his way up from the bottom, facing ever more dangerous breaches and "certain-death traps" alongside his closest friend Panda, his wife An'an, his rival-and-ally Zhu Xingfeng, and his brother Li Junfei. The work unfolds in multi-volume episodic arcs such as "Night of the Lost Soul," "Certain-Death Trap," "Deadly Carnival Month," and "Winter Is Coming," and closes its main line with "The Gentleman Strives Unceasingly (Finale)." The author sets the game thrill of "grinding monsters and leveling up" alongside apocalyptic survival, social class, and human choices, summing up the book's underlying tone in one line: "History is created by the masses—but first you have to survive." Survive first; then talk about saving the world.