Expandingworld Stories

The Earth is changing-not through war, climate, or disaster, but through an impossible, ceaseless expansion. Every year, new land emerges at the planet's edges, stretching its surface ever outward. To navigate this phenomenon, the Union of the Seven States sends explorers beyond the known world. Some return with knowledge, others with warnings. Many never return at all. But there is another secret the Union keeps hidden. Long ago, there were not seven states, but eight. The Eighth State did not vanish by chance-it was erased. Its lands, its people, and its purpose faded into history as the Union quietly claimed what remained. Their export, once vital, became obsolete. Their existence, inconvenient. Now, a new team of explorers embarks on a perilous journey into the uncharted lands. When they stumble upon ruins unlike any before, they uncover whispers of the lost state-evidence that it never truly disappeared. Because the Eighth State is still out there. Watching. Waiting. Faced with buried truths, deadly ambushes, and a revelation that could shatter the world's foundations, the explorers must uncover the fate of the lost state before they, too, are erased from history. Adventure. Mystery. Survival. In a world that never stops growing, how far is too far?

Xian, a modern boy obsessed with murim stories, suddenly finds himself transported to the Murim world after his death-though he has no memory of how he died. He appears in the City of Kunlun, immediately standing out as an otherworlder. Before he can understand his situation, he is confronted by a group of thugs demanding his clothes. Elsewhere in the city, a calm and dangerous figure named Jin Muyeon walks the streets. Very soon... Their paths are about to collide.