Shadow Throne

Shadow Throne is a long game-world fantasy web novel by Yu Yunfei, about 2.76 million characters in total, serialized and completed on Qidian.com starting in 2015, with more than nine hundred chapters. The protagonist Raven is a veteran player of the game World of Ultron; killed in the game through the scheming of the god of murder Cyric, he wakes up to find himself transported into this virtual world he knows inside out, as a half-elf youth hunted by assassins and accompanied by his sister. Relying on his foreknowledge of the game's rules, a system panel that shows his own attributes and specialties, and the legendary skill "Self-Stabilization," he struggles to survive in a perilous borderland while maneuvering for advantage, treating gods, nobles, and champions of every kind as pieces on his chessboard. Built on a "pseudo-DND" power system, the work blends transmigration, system, faith-based apotheosis, and faction-building elements; the protagonist turns the tables all the way through information asymmetry and intrigue, growing from a novice assassin into a deity who ignites the divine spark. The author describes it as "the story of a god who digs pits," with a humorous style and brisk pacing; the early and middle sections are tightly plotted with dense payoffs, making it one of the earlier representative works in Chinese web fiction to systematically portray "a player transported into a game world who achieves apotheosis."