King of Passives

King of Passives is a game-category web novel by Liuguan Pusa serialized on Qidian, filed under "Games · Virtual MMO," completed in April 2022 at about 2.03 million characters. Set in an era when full-dive games are ubiquitous, the story follows an ordinary young man who, unwilling to spend his life as a driftwood ordered about by others, quits his job and goes home, treating the full-dive MMO New World as his livelihood and vowing to change his life through in-game earnings. Upon entering the game, he triggers his unique "King of Passives" talent: every time he kills an elite demon warrior, he automatically gains a passive skill, such as Critical Strike. So he grinds monsters and triggers skills, his skill bar filling up, passives stacking layer upon layer, making him extraordinarily powerful without even realizing it. His style is "low-key": heads-down grinding monsters and passives while trying not to draw attention, yet dungeon runs, boss fights, and player conflicts keep forcing him to act, defeating experts and big shots with a whole suite of passive effects no one else can comprehend. The main plot revolves around in-game growth, resource competition, and the maneuvering between player factions, with a clear "grinder" and "flexing" flavor. King of Passives is Liuguan Pusa's first long-form work, running about 596 chapters at completion.