Isn’t This a Game? How Come You Guys Are Really Cultivating Immortality?! is a fast, funny cultivation story built on one killer twist: the “players” think they’re logging into a VR game—while the heroine knows it’s real life.
After falling into a cultivation world, Song Jiulai inherits a sect that’s basically a ruin: empty coffers, no resources, no disciples, and enemies who’d love to see it vanish for good. A system shows up with a single demand—revive the sect and climb to the top—but offers almost nothing to help. With no spirit stones and no backing, Song Jiulai does the only sensible thing: she finds a loophole and recruits manpower from another world.
Her solution is shameless and brilliant. She advertises her sect to modern Earth as a limited “immersive cultivation game beta,” complete with quests, skill trees, crafting, and hidden achievements. Players rush in to grind, optimize, and meme their way to “immortality”—only to slowly realize the monsters bite back, death has consequences, and every “NPC” is an actual person. Meanwhile, Song Jiulai weaponizes their enthusiasm: they rebuild halls, develop techniques, farm resources, and bulldoze problems with pure gamer logic.
What starts as chaotic comedy turns into an absurdly effective rise to power, as a once-forgotten sect becomes a growing force—drawing real attention, real rivalry, and real danger. And the biggest question becomes: when everyone thinks it’s a game, who’s going to be ready when the world stops playing along?
