The Whole Internet Is Trying to Die, and I Become a God Through China's Taboo Lore!

The whole world has become a killing ground ruled by supernatural rules! The laws of physics have collapsed, and guns and cannons are useless. Only the taboos of ancient Chinese customs offer a way to survive! Others treat their ancestors’ rules as feudal trash and recklessly court death: A streamer combs her hair before a mirror at midnight, and her hair twists around her until her head is severed; A rich heir steps on a threshold and throws his weight around, only to be dragged underground and torn to pieces; Professor Wang, a popular science educator with ten million followers, burns counterfeit spirit money at a crossroads and is devoured by a hundred ghosts! Only Ye Xi, the reincarnation of the last Celestial Master of the previous era, holds the Illustrated Compendium of the Nine Provinces’ Taboos and can see through every deadly trap at a glance! One puff of pure yang tobacco drives back ghosts; one bowl of talisman water cures all poisons; he draws talismans in midair to slay vengeful spirits and scatters beans to summon soldiers against the ghostly troops! The infamous Red-Dressed Slit-Mouthed Woman is a fearsome menace? He ordains her as a ghostly maid who sweeps the floor and takes out the trash every day! The haughty Western vampire duke thinks himself invincible? Ye Xi pulls out his fangs, dresses him in a paper-official’s uniform, and makes him a night watchman who clangs his gong at midnight and cries, “The weather is dry, beware of fire!” Chen Tai’a, a domineering sixth-rank Martial Saint? Ye Xi cripples half his body and makes him sign a contract of servitude to work as a doorman. Even vampires dare to bully him! The Special Affairs Bureau sends troops to surround him? Ye Xi summons heavenly lightning to smash an S-rank haunted domain, forcing the director-general to kneel and beg for his protection! The Ghost Festival brings a calamity as a hundred ghosts roam the night? Armed with nothing but a sword, he slays a fifth-rank Ghost Mother, ordains her as a water-serving maid, and leaves the seventh-rank Yin Deity too afraid to show its face! Science, martial arts: in the face of our ancestors’ rules, they’re all a joke! I, Ye Xi, am the night watchman of the mortal realm! I guard the Nine Provinces and slay evil spirits, using China’s taboos to enshrine myself as a god in this age!