It Was Here All Along-Burn Them to Ashes with Me

Shi Tiexin circled the idol again and again.

In some ancient texts of Dispersed Literature from the Main Worldline, there were tropes like this: a wild mountain temple, a hollow Buddha statue, the protagonist fleeing pursuit and hiding inside the statue to escape with his life, and so on. But such tropes had been obsolete fifty years ago, because they had drifted too far from reality.

As the cultivation levels of the masses steadily rose, "hiding inside a Buddha statue" had become a severe violation of realistic circumstances.

To strut around as an assassin, one had to be at least in the Second Heavenly Layer, right? How could a group of them fail to see through a mere Buddha statue? Besides, how capable could a group of assassins who could not even see through a Buddha-statue disguise be? Wouldn't it be enough to knock them flat?

I'm really not being a Keyboard Warrior here. If I went, I really could do it—this was what the vast majority of battle-hardened Sharp Energy Practitioners had to say.

Dispersed Literature had to be loftier than reality, after all.

And reality was constantly advancing.

"A protagonist encountered beautiful women everywhere; from childhood sweethearts to teachers and classmates, every one of them was gorgeous." At Fengming First High School, such a plot would be wishful fantasy, but in Shaluo City's elite district, it was a serious realist work, because beautiful women truly were everywhere around them.

"One punch sent the school tyrant flying two meters." To those in the elite district, that kind of plot was not satisfying at all, but a stifling tale of "a crippled body and an indomitable will."

"Only two meters? The protagonist is really too weak. This book truly is a serious realist work." "It abuses the protagonist too badly.