My Ability Is Role-playing

Although Zhao Guanlan had a rather mischievous sense of humor, he was direct and efficient, with no bad habit of keeping people in suspense. He straightforwardly declared, "I announce that from now on, all Earthlings and Cangming Star people can join the [Profound Immortal Game Platform] anytime, anywhere."

Saying this, he seemed to suddenly remember something and added, "Since we now have the ultimate enhanced version, there’s no need to continue operating the Main God Game Platform that required phone login anymore."

"Dear players, whether you are freeloaders or VIP members who believe in spending..."

"The world is vast, till we meet again!"

As he spoke, the light on the billboard suddenly disappeared, leaving a dim background.

Swish!

The advertising screen lit up again.

Zhao Guanlan tilted his head, seemingly staring at the camera, with his lips always slightly curled up, making people feel as though he was mocking something: "Almost forgot."

"The upgraded and enhanced version of the [Profound Immortal Game Platform] will only operate one game for a considerable period."

"I have named it ’All Heavens OL’."

"Hmm, no need for wild guesses."

"It’s exactly as you imagined—real physical bodies, unlimited resurrection, battling in the otherworld. Blah blah blah, if you’re interested in the details, go explore them yourself."

Zhao Guanlan, with a nonchalant look, said carelessly, "Conspiracy theorists can step aside. I am indeed using you."

"But there’s one thing you must understand clearly."

"Every ’player’ has the potential to gain experience points usable in the ’real world’ from ’All Heavens OL’."

"This is a mutually beneficial deal."

On the streets, Bai Wenzai glanced at Sun Qian beside him, then focused his gaze on the billboard.

He had to admit that as the only one among the four Cangming Overlords whose pretense hadn’t reached a transcendent level, Zhao Guanlan had many flaws, his nature was wicked, playful, seemed completely devoid of moral consciousness and empathy, and today he was a bit talkative, but perhaps because of this, [Profound Immortal] Zhao Guanlan was the most down-to-earth one.

Coupled with the undeniable charm and strength, it wasn’t that hard to accept the fact that this guy had numerous fanatical fans on Earth.

Zhao Guanlan clapped his hands, drawing the audience’s attention: "In addition to the above..."

"Friends with criminal records on Earth or Cangming Star, won’t be able to log in to the platform~"

"You can think of this as a harmless little BUG."

Suddenly, turning his face to the side, Zhao Guanlan looked over as if someone was asking him something, feigning surprise in his tone: "What?"

"Fix the BUG?"

"In the next life, for sure."

After a moment of cheeky self-directing and acting, the smile on Zhao Guanlan’s face suddenly vanished, and he performed a face-changing trick from Sichuan opera, his gaze cold, his tone dark: "People who aren’t even good at doing bad things don’t even have any value to be used."

The meaning was very clear...

Not getting caught = No criminal record.

This...

The logic was airtight, flawless, perfectly fitting Zhao Guanlan’s persona.

To be honest, Bai Wenzai and Sun Qian weren’t surprised at all by these words.

[Profound Immortal] Zhao Guanlan had always been such a clear-eyed, unpretentious villain, whose views were so significantly different from those of normal humans.

Beep!

After the commercial insert was finished, the big screen started playing regular commercials.

"’All Heavens OL’..."

Bai Wenzai was startled by his own voice as soon as he opened his mouth; his voice had somehow turned extremely hoarse, and his throat was dry as if it had caught fire.

His Adam’s apple moved for a while, and after activating the all-purpose inner qi cultivated from the [Burning Martial] series to moisten his vocal cords, his voice finally returned to normal.

"A virtual reality online game launched globally at the same time... No, no, it’s a thousand times, ten thousand times stronger than that!"

Like a hardcore web novel addict, a nameless fire seemed to burn in Bai Wenzai’s eyes: "This time, it’s very likely to be the popular ’Fourth Calamity’ from a few years ago!"

Sun Qian wasn’t much better off than Bai Wenzai.

After all, the Main God Game Platform was recognized as a "permanent cheat" by various countries, providing countless benefits for extraordinary cultivation. Now upgraded by Zhao Guanlan to the Profound Immortal Game Platform and open to all humans on Earth and Cangming Star...

The impact of this event was simply enormous!

Previously, in the [National Speed Cultivation Competition] event, she could persist for ten years, reaching her limit of bearing with no further advancement possible, but that was also due to her shallow foundation and excessively weak initial strength.

Now encountering a new opportunity, as long as she didn’t foolishly give it up, she could very likely push her potential upper limit another level higher!

Sun Qian didn’t know what people in other countries thought.

As a Chinese, she firmly believed the phrase "Are generals and ministers born from noble lineages?" down to her soul.

Bloodline, extraordinary talent, family wealth, body structure, intelligence, fortune... none of these limiting factors could be reasons for her to stop!

Among the first batch of Earth’s extraordinary ones, the [Prophet] Ma Ran was undoubtedly the strongest.

What about the second batch?

Since someone has to be the "strongest," why couldn’t it be her, Sun Qian?

However...

"Fourth Calamity?" Sun Qian knitted her brows, her eyes slightly bewildered.

Upon seeing this, Bai Wenzai briefly explained: "The term originally comes from a game called Stellaris, with the first three calamities being the End of the Cycle, the Unbidden, and the War in Heaven. The Fourth Calamity is..."

"Players!"

"This concept later expanded in the novel domain."

"In online novels with the Fourth Calamity theme, the ’game map’ players know often serves as a real planet, star system, or even a cosmos."

Hearing this, Sun Qian, recalling the previous words of Zhao Guanlan, fully understood what exactly ’All Heavens OL’ was.

If a group of "players" from an otherworld, with unlimited resurrection capabilities, descended upon Earth...

The thought alone was terrifying.

A year ago, the entire Earth had no countermeasures against "players," and could only become NPCs or antagonists.

As they talked, the two found a milk tea shop, ordered a glass of Mango Pomelo Sago each, and took out their phones to log onto the Earth Super Forum.

As expected!

Now, the forum’s traffic had increased several times compared to normal!

Discussion threads about ’All Heavens OL’ were everywhere.

"Extra! Extra! [Fearless] Wu Di, an elite member from the Grass Hut Academic Society, announced that ’All Heavens OL’ will skip the internal testing phase and directly enter the [Double Star Public Test] phase!"

"Your news is outdated! Just now, [Extreme Cold] Li Xing and Dong Huaiming had a dreamy collaboration on Station B, stating that version 1.0 of ’All Heavens OL’ will have at least seven hundred thousand main world maps! Each main world will accommodate ten thousand players at the same time! Once a world is fully conquered, a new world will be opened synchronously!"

"How is the conquest progress calculated?"

"Not sure, but... word is that in the end, every high-level player who passes the tests can choose to conquer an otherworld civilization alone!"

"Whoa! Impressive! Isn’t this just like being a real transmigrator?"

"Player characters are undying and resurrect infinitely as a basic operation, otherwise how could they be called the [Fourth Calamity]? Plus the super growth attributes of the data panel and experience points... isn’t this a hundred times stronger than those ordinary transmigrators with so-called golden fingers?"

"Too conservative, if you ask me, at least a ten thousand times stronger."

"Indeed. Data panels, experience points, skill points, and attribute points are understandable, but the players’ undying and resurrecting trait is simply a BUG! Roaming through fantasy, xianxia, high fantasy, wuxia, sci-fi, urban, wizard worlds, without any fear! They can provoke strong enemies and antagonize without truly dying, allowing them to indulge as they please!"

Bai Wenzai and Sun Qian silently browsed through the comments of netizens from various countries on the Earth Super Forum, and after a comparison, they sadly realized that compared to Cangming friends, Earthlings’ sense of empathy and moral baseline was indeed somewhat lower.

In the internal communication section for Earth, various sneaky tactics in "Preemptive Conquest of All Heavens World Strategies" had already begun to emerge in some trending posts, with many inhumane and dark means causing cold sweat to break out on people’s foreheads.

That said, if everything Zhao Guanlan advertised about ’All Heavens OL’ was genuinely true, then...

The current world could entirely be classified as "game reality, global deification"!

With the advent of ’All Heavens OL,’ every law-abiding Earthling and Cangming person could naturally become a [True·On Top of the World] above all heavens and myriads of worlds.