This Immortal NPC Lives Off Players

Game designer Lin Bufan dies from overwork and wakes up as an NPC in a Xianxia MMORPG—with a death sentence. His cultivation is destroyed, his lifespan cut to three years, and an army of players is hunting him for loot. But Lin has a plan: if players are the Fourth Calamity, then he'll turn them into his personal resource farm. With a golden quest marker floating above his head, he lures murder-hungry gamers into becoming his workforce. While other NPCs hand out fetch quests, Lin's already issuing sect bonds and futures contracts on magical treasures. The players think they're exploiting him,…