Humans fear spirits but spirits should fear him.
Spoilers. For real (Insert Ryuji).
The novel was supposedly horror/thriller but I’d say its more like supernatural + horror-aspected comedy.
Under the analogous department, the spirits have been on the decline for many years. But recently, more spirits have appeared, more openly...
The world has many kinds of spirits apparently. They are born from dying and absorbing Yin Qi if I recall correctly. Evil spirits are called ghosts while good ones are called spirits. Its dumb but deal with it. And apparently there are entities called evil anomalies and evil thoughts. It talks about them a little I think but I still don’t understand what’s they are. I know a little but I won’t go THAT far in detail.
That’s one of the problems I have, the author doesn’t do a lot of explaining. Only the bare basics and you’ll have to infer the other stuff like I did. We might learn more in-depth in the future since it hints that but why couldn’t we learn it now.... ;(
The world also has cultivators but we know almost nothing about them yet. They seem to be weak in front of what our MC is capable of though.
Our MC, Zhou Cai, is a regular, single, poor, university student that has the special ability to gain abilities from getting hit by spirits. You want to burn me? Freeze me? Trap me? Do it! He’s not afraid. The stronger the spirit, the stronger the ability he gets as he continues to get hit. His personality is pretty normal like a regular Chinese MC. Sometimes shameless and sometimes self-oriented but pretty normal. His IQ and decision making is also normal. By normal I don’t mean boring or average but he acts realistically, most of the time. MOST of the time. There are a few decisions that I kind of disagreed with but I could accept the reasoning behind it.
Companion? The leopard girl who is an anomaly is pretty needy to start off with which I disliked. But since it wasn’t as serious of a novel as I expected and she was useful with her knowledge, I accepted her because that is the law of equivalent exchange. She seems to be an innocent little girl/leopard that is a glutton and can be a little manipulative. She also seems to be hiding a lot. Many mysteries around her.
As for other characters, they don’t really matter yet. Well, they matter but they’re not important enough to change your decision if you should read if you got to know them.
And if you need to know, no young masters/arrogant pricks and I don’t see any romance potential yet.
