Total Exchange

Total Exchange is a system-flow novel of the myriad planes genre by the web author "Missile Launch," first serialized on Qidian Chinese Network, where it once ranked in the top three of the new-book list; it was later signed by Zhulang Literature Network and in July 2014 received a cover recommendation on Zhulang's homepage, running to about 2.11 million characters. The protagonist, Chu Tian, is an ordinary urban young man with an unremarkable education and a diligent job, who has bought a small apartment in a remote area on a mortgage and lives a wholly ordinary life. A chance encounter gives him an "exchange system": as long as he has sufficient exchange conditions, he can exchange from the system for martial arts manuals, magic, immortal arts, divine powers, and all manner of legendary weapons. Through this mechanism he escapes his original world and travels plane after plane. The novel advances by volumes, passing through a wuxia plane (beginning with the martial world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, where he crosses paths and trades blows with figures such as Qiao Feng), an anime plane, immortal-heroic wanderings, an entertainment urban setting, a mythic otherworld, and finally a chapter of reincarnation and rebirth. The author presents the relaxed tone of "I've got a system" through abundant dialogue and meme-play: Qiao Feng marvels at Chu Tian's deep inner power, Yang Guo wants to learn magic, Miss Dongfang is pestered by Linghu Chong, and Chu Tian's answer is always the line "I've got a system." Overall, this is a typical satisfaction-driven myriad-planes work: the protagonist relies on the exchange system to stack up power, leveling up all the way through the collision of inner power, magic, and immortal arts, taking the brisk route of sweeping across the cosmos and becoming a carefree supreme being—suitable for readers who like fast pacing, low barriers to entry, and plane-hopping themes.