Chu Ge, a sophomore in college, died suddenly after staying up all night reading a script and transmigrated into a chaotic Ming dynasty plagued by demons and evil spirits.
He became a lonely 37-year-old paper effigy maker, so poor his family could barely afford to eat. His little grandson had also been chosen as a sacrifice by the village's "River God."
With evil spirits about to come knocking for his life that very night, Chu Ge gave a cold laugh and picked up some bamboo strips and colored paper.
"I'm an acting student. You think I can't deal with a bunch of beasts pretending to be ghosts and gods?"
The Divine Persona System activated! As long as he crafted a paper effigy and perfectly acted out its mannerisms, he could summon a god to possess him!
That night, a hundred ghosts roamed the streets. Chu Ge put on a deathly pale paper mask and cried out in a chilling voice, "I am Black Impermanence! You wretched wandering spirits dare to act so recklessly in my presence?!" One swing of his mourning staff reduced the water ghost to ash!
From then on, a mad, fiercely protective old dad appeared in this man-eating age of chaos.
He crafted Judge Bao to punish injustice in the human world, Zhong Kui to slay the ancestor of all demons, and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, whose staff pierced through the hypocritical heavens!
"If you're going to pretend to be gods and ghosts, then I'll play a real god and crush you from a higher plane!"
This book shows potential for comic book adaptation! Keep it up!