PUPPETMASTER - ARMY OF ONE [Far-Future Cultivation, Psychic Powers, No Cheats, Selfmade OPMC]

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Some among mankind were born chosen. Blessed by bloodline, fortune, or mutation, geniuses doomed to greatness. Zanma was not among them. "Merely above average," he possessed only endurance and nimble fingers. No lost technique, no miraculous artifact, nothing that would let him advance ten times faster than others. And yet his master chose him as one of two inheritors. Out of his generation, it was he who would carve his name into history and come to be known as a monstrous genius, a destroyer of evil and upholder of righteousness; not by the virtue of a heavenly gift, but his own two hands. Geniuses waited for opportunities. Zanma made puppets. By the time fortune found them, he would already be standing on the summit they were promised. What To Expect: - Psychic powers. This is nearly half of the cultivation system. - Puppets, as in proper puppets, not just robots or mind controlled people, and Zanma will use them as his main thing rather than a support tool that gets tossed aside (can you tell this bothers me in xianxia?) - Extremely far-future setting. Technology so advanced it becomes simple again. The story takes place in a manmade megastructure. - "No Golden Finger" - Zanma doesn't have heavenly talent or a heaven-defying time dilation bead that lets him cultivate 10x as fast. He has his own advantages, but no single "Golden Finger." I generally don't like the common trend of xianxia focusing on how you can only get ahead by finding ways to cheat. - No harem. Submitted for Writathon Nov.2025 Originally titled "ZANMA PT: Puppetmaster Travelogue"

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