In the Great Wilderness, the rules have collapsed, and bizarre horrors run rampant.
“Rule One: When you’re in the red fog, never look back.”
“Rule Two: After nightfall, do not answer anyone who calls to you.”
“Rule Three: The bizarre are invincible. The only way to survive is to use the rules.”
Chen Guan spent seventy years as a gatekeeper in a forbidden zone of the Great Zhou. As he neared the end of his life, he awakened the Life-Buying Money System.
As long as he makes a deal, he can ignore any rule and forcibly dismantle every taboo!
One day, the Great Zhou princess, Luo Li, arrived at the forbidden zone’s gate, her robes stained with blood. She collapsed in despair:
“Please, senior, save me and take me back to the capital. I’ll repay you with the whole Great Zhou realm!”
Seventy-year-old Chen Guan, who had nearly lost all his teeth, tremblingly reached out a hand and said something astonishing:
“The realm’s too heavy. I can’t carry it. I can save your life, but it’ll cost extra!”
From then on, the world gained an extremely greedy, extremely terrifying old man who solved problems with brute force.
A red-clad vengeful ghost blocks the road? Chen Guan slaps it right back. “I’ve been paid, so don’t you know the rules, you bastard?”
An ancient forbidden zone descends? Chen Guan picks up a sledgehammer. “This place is in the way of my delivery. Tear it down!”
Princess Luo Li: “I thought he was a mad old man who’d do anything for money, until he nailed the God of Taboos to death with a single iron nail...”
Gods and demons across the myriad heavens: “Please, someone give him some money and make him stop! He’s going to dismantle the whole world!”
