Applied Cultivation Book 1: Survival Protocol is out on KU, Amazon, & Audible!
Hey everyone, CatVI here. I’ve been lurking on Reddit for a while and finally worked up the nerve to do the thing: a… self-promo announcement post!
Applied Cultivation: Survival Protocol, the first book in my cultivation/progression eastern fantasy series, is now live on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!.... unless it isn't 3AM where you live, in which case please imagine me nervously refreshing pages at 3 a.m. and check again after getting a healthier amount of sleep than I did.
Ahem. (Yes, it’s a xianxia 🗡(˶>⩊<˶) with light LitRPG elements)
It started on Royal Road, where the story had reached 2.28M+ views with 6,800+ followers, and I’m incredibly grateful to the readers who helped it get this far.
The story is about a guy (with minor ‘personality issues’) transmigrating into a brutal xianxia world. Specifically, into the body of the 160-kg pampered youngest son of a diner couple, who, uhh, are forced into early retirement in the first few lines of the book. Needless to say, he is unsatisfied. He had a Greek god physique in his past life, but now he can’t even see his feet if he stands straight. He also has trash talent in cultivation. He awakened a certain bloodline that the sect elder thinks manifested just because he ate too much seafood. But on the flip side, he has heavenly talent in offending others. Which he does.
The only way he can survive is by joining a cultivation sect. But because of his aforementioned trash talent (and of course, the heavenly talent), he has to get creative about solving issues popping up here and there (like entitled Young Masters and whatnot).
What to expect:
- Weak to Strong. Poor to Rich. Fat to Fit (the definition of ‘fit’ is flexible here!)
- Earned progression through blood, sweat, grit, and lots of devious planning. No easy handouts. This is a story about a group of underdogs.
- Xianxia with light LitRPG/system elements. All cultivators have access to the system. It isn't the MC's unique cheat
- No Harem
One thing Royal Road readers have told me they enjoyed is the character interaction, especially the banter among the main cast. The other big one is how much of a schemer the MC is. He, well, yes, admittedly he may have 'attitude problems', but I’ve also had readers tell me how proud they were when he experienced “friendship” for the first time ever.
There's a crab.
(V)╭•̀ﮧ •́╮(V)
Indeed there is one. He likes to collect stuff (he's a Cognizant Collector Crab, you can see him photo-bombing Yu Han on the cover). He has a stash and is probably on the Law Enforcement Hall's watch-list for unauthorized... unauthorized lots of things.
Okay enough about that. Here are the links to the book, and you can read for yourself:
Amazon KU: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0H5TQGC9M
Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Applied-Cultivation-Survival-Protocol-Audiobook/B0H27DTMTR
Huge thanks to Ben Moran Studio for the cover art (the fruit is a mango! And the crab is a crab.) Also to John Joseph Rogers and Rylee Kuberra for being incredible voice actors (They both have incredible RANGE). I could not have done this without Mango Media and Royal Guard Publishing either, so kudos to them all.
COVER ARTIST: Ben Moran Studio.
VOICE ACTORS: John Joseph Rogers and Rylee Kuberra.
AI USAGE: No AI Used.
Here’s the actual blurb:
>They called him trash. He wrote it down.
>Demons slaughtered his family. By morning, the men who called it a tragedy seized what little his family owned. Even his last friend came at him with a knife. With nothing left to lose, he limped toward the gates of a prestigious immortal sect in one last gamble.
Instead, he stumbled into a civil war. The Stormy Reef Sect was tearing itself apart. Old-blood aristocrats and the reformist leadership suffocated one another into a stalemate one breath from breaking. And before any of that could matter, he slapped the faces of two young masters who wouldn't forget.
>By every law of cultivation, he should be dead.
>The laws didn't consider what he did for a living.
>In his past life, he was Johan, a corporate warfare consultant who wrote eulogies first and lawsuits second. So what if he's now a worthless reject in a body that wheezes climbing a flight of stairs? To him, any problem—mortal or immortal—is just another hostile takeover. He'll bring algorithms to sword fights and liquidate every name on his growing list of death feuds. The final audit ends in either bankruptcy or the afterlife.
>But first, he needs to lose some weight.
P.S. After I stubbed the book on Royal Road, the views went down and I lost quite a few followers. (╥﹏╥) I’m choosing to believe they all ascended to Kindle Unlimited after growing tired of the mortal world, and I will be praying to the gods of mahjong accordingly. Anyway, happy reading, my fellow cultured sirs and madams. Hope to see you in the comments. I’m happy to answer any questions I can about the book, the world, the characters, without spoilers, of course.