Otherworld: I Can Summon Characters from Books

Twenty-seven years ago, the Otherworld descended upon Earth, granting humanity supernatural abilities and transforming ordinary people into professional ability-users. This cataclysmic event veered the course of human civilization onto a radically different path. Among the myriad professions that emerged, the Scholar was widely dismissed as utterly useless—until the transmigrator Zhou Jing arrived. Through his unique power, Zhou Jing elevated this lowly class to legendary status. Any book he had ever read became a gateway: he could summon its characters into reality to fight for him. From classic masterpieces such as *Water Margin*, *Dream of the Red Chamber*, *Romance of the Three Kingdoms*, *Journey to the West*, *Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio*, *In Search of the Supernatural*, *Classic of Mountains and Seas*, *The Story of Yue Fei*, *Investiture of the Gods*, *Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties*, and *What the Master Does Not Speak*, to countless other texts—Zhou Jing himself had lost count of how many books he had devoured before crossing over. Heroes of the Three Kingdoms, the 108 outlaws of Liangshan Marsh, Tang Sanzang and his disciples on their eighty-one trials, fox spirits and ghosts from Liaozhai, exotic beasts and edible wonders from the Shanhai classics—the roster of formidable beings Zhou Jing can summon is virtually limitless. When asked the secret behind his overwhelming power, Zhou Jing simply replies: "Read more books."