Guixu
Everyone Wants Me to Save the World, but I Really Am the Mastermind
- Original Name:
- 归墟 (guī xū)
- Gender:
- Neutral
- Kind:
- Concept
- Scope:
- Novel-specific
- Status:
- Active
- Source:
- AI
- Occurrences:
- 327
- Chapters:
- 69
- Context Up To:
- Ch. 111
- Wiki Model:
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- Updated:
Contents
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Guixu (归墟) |
| Nature | A realm of game-like instances created by Fan Daoyi 2 |
| Creator | Fan Daoyi, also known as Dao Yi 2 45 |
| Affiliation | Fan Daoyi and his subordinates; worshipped by the Four Fiends Cult 2 90 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 1 |
Background
Fan Daoyi created everything in Guixu and cast it into the Present World. He used the promise of wishes to attract humans and harvest their fear, leaving his subordinates to manage the instances 2.
Guixu has existed for over a hundred years. Its early instances inspired despair, but their contents eventually became so familiar that players relied on guides and treated Guixu as a “freebie game” 2 32 70.
Mechanics
Instances and entry
- Age requirement: Entrants must be at least sixteen years old 32.
- Participation: Every instance in Xia Baoguo’s records required at least three participants 6.
- Levels: Instances include Green-level and special Red-level ones. A Green-level beginner instance was commonly used for speedruns 5 16.
- Rules: Instances have their own rules and objectives. The college entrance exam instance was set in a school; players were expected to follow its rules and complete an exam 16.
- Bosses: The copied college entrance exam instances shared one self-aware boss that moved among them 16.
Fear, wishes and abilities
- Origin Source: Fear becomes Origin Source; a small portion is separated to form wishes for players who clear an instance 5.
- Resurrection: A wish from a special Red-level Guixu can bring the dead back to life, but resurrection slots are limited 16 67.
- Abilities: Players can receive an ability as a luck-based clearing reward or awaken one after being deeply affected by a major event in a game. The latter method offers a greater chance of a rare ability 21.
Entrances and passages
Fan Daoyi’s original gate allowed passage from the Present World into Guixu, but did not allow Guixu creatures to leave. Flower Tender, Apothecary and Xuan Miao developed a temporary passage using one of her flowers to connect the two worlds 53.
- A flower passage drew hospital patients through illusions and sweet dreams into Flower Tender’s plantation 45.
- Dao Er and Fan Daoyi could create Guixu entrances themselves 37 75.
- Using a potted flower and Apothecary’s research, members of Eight Trigrams created an unstable passage 56.
Notable locations and instances
| Location or instance | Description |
|---|---|
| Green-level beginner instance | Previously considered safe enough for speedruns; only one player survived a run investigated by the authorities 5 16. |
| College entrance exam instance | A school scenario copied across exam sites. Its established guide contained answers and instructions collected by earlier players 16. |
| Flower Tender’s plantation | A field of hallucinogenic flowers reached through a flower passage; it lay between areas resembling two connected games 45. |
| Special Red-level Guixu | Clearing it could allow a player to wish for the dead to be resurrected 16. |
Inhabitants and affiliations
- Fan Daoyi — Guixu’s creator. He delegated its management to his creations, then ordered reforms when its instances stopped frightening people 2 5.
- Xuan Miao — Coordinated the assigned instance reforms and helped develop a passage to the Present World 5 53.
- Flower Tender and Apothecary — Guixu subordinates who worked on the passage scheme and were connected to experiments involving humans 45 53.
- Four Fiends Cult — A group devoted to Guixu. Dao Er announced that it intended to bring Guixu’s terror back to the world 37 90.
- Eight Trigrams and Four Symbols — Human organizations that responded to Guixu incidents, including the failed monitoring of the college entrance exam 16.
Story role
Reform and the college entrance exam
After Guixu’s repetitive instances became predictable, Fan Daoyi ordered his subordinates to reform them. A death in a Green-level beginner instance alerted the Dragon Group that the supposedly safe game had changed 2 5.
During the college entrance exam, Fan Daoyi changed the rules of the copied school instances after their entrances closed. The rule “Guixu must not be watched” disabled monitoring insects across every exam site. Later, a discipline monitor killed a player for disrupting morning reading, an event not covered by the guide 16 22.
Passages and the Insect Disaster
Flower Tender revealed that she, Apothecary and Xuan Miao had created a temporary passage to bring Guixu creatures into the Present World and generate fear 53. Xun Wind later foresaw countless passages opening above Azure Cloud City and insect swarms overrunning it 56.
Fan Daoyi came to distrust Guixu and created a remote entrance on a snowy mountain. A ripple subsequently stopped the vortices of every Guixu entrance 75.
An author’s note explains that the Guixu creatures’ actions during the first volume followed Dao Yi’s wishes from before he fell asleep. Their apparent betrayal was staged to convince the Insect Race that he had been weakened 99.
Conflict with Eight Trigrams
After the Insect Disaster, the country placed Guixu under its control. Zhen Thunder was later found dead at an entrance, clutching a clue that identified a wish as a way to destroy Guixu 107.
Li Fire and other Eight Trigrams members entered Guixu together. Apothecary and Puppeteer killed Kun Earth and Kan Water; Xun Wind sent Li Fire back to the human world before facing Sculptor 108.
Dao Yi subsequently slaughtered Guixu’s creatures, declaring that he had chosen neither humanity nor Guixu 109.