Summoning Spirits on the Nether Road

Wen Yan, a recent college graduate from the twenty-first century, accidentally transmigrates to another world overrun by demons and monsters, where human lives are worthless. As soon as he arrives, a wandering vengeful spirit attacks him. At death’s door, he activates the golden finger he received upon transmigrating: the Netherworld Summoning System. The System can turn chaotic supernatural forces into a set of rules, allowing Wen Yan to summon Netherworld souls to fight, exchange for tools that seal demons and ghosts, and accumulate soul power by completing missions to level up. It gives Wen Yan a glimmer of hope in his desperate situation.

At first, Wen Yan is just an ordinary person with no supernatural abilities. His body is too weak to practice the local cultivation methods, so he can only rely on souls summoned by the System to fight. But summoning high-level souls consumes a great deal of soul power, and overusing it will cause the souls to turn on him and kill him. To survive, and to protect the displaced people who share his plight, Wen Yan sets himself a goal: to build a city and a power of their own, so humans will no longer be left to the mercy of demons and ghosts.

The three demon and ghost lords who rule the region refuse to let humanity rise. They keep sending their underlings to attack Wen Yan’s settlement and sabotage the city-building project. They even collude with the leaders of other human factions to suppress Wen Yan and seize his few remaining resources. Before the Ghost Tide sweeps across the entire region, an event that occurs every three months, Wen Yan must finish building the city, gather refugees, and strengthen himself. Otherwise, everyone who depends on him will be devoured by the tide, and humanity will lose all hope of revival.

In one deadly confrontation after another, Wen Yan uses the System’s rule-based advantage to recruit powerful Netherworld souls, unravel the demons’ and ghosts’ schemes, and gradually unite scattered human settlements. Starting as a transmigrator with nothing, he grows step by step into a human leader capable of fighting the demons and ghosts. Along the way, he continues