Horror Journey to the West: Taming Monsters and Cthulhu from the Start

After transmigrating to Shituoling in Journey to the West, Li Qingyu went insane: three minds were fighting in his head, a modern office worker, an ancient pharmacy apprentice, and a Lovecraftian game. He discovered he could refine demons: grab one creature in each hand, and with a flash of pink fire, fuse them into a new species. A saltwater fish and a widowed ewe combined into a tiny reptile with a sheep's skull for a head and a ball of fur trailing behind it. The pretty widow who had a crush on him promptly vanished. The sky would randomly turn deathly pale, and in that moment Shituoling showed its true face: buildings belched black smoke, rivers glowed green, and every passerby was a deformed monster wearing human skin. When his own sister cracked her whip, a golden giant bird in the sky, its throat seized in someone's grip, thrashed its wings frantically. When Old Man Lu knocked for the fourth time, Li Qingyu was crouched by the well refining demons. Everything he had fished up was sea life, and fusing it into an octopus could produce anything from a bench to a long knife or even a living lobster. As night fell, he gazed at the twisted silhouettes outside his window and named his new pet: "From now on, you'll be called Cthulhu." A night-owl's eerie laughter rang out in the distance: "The rule of Shituoling: after dark, anything can be eaten."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.