Please Do Not Undergo Tribulation During the Gaokao

Demons, ghosts, monsters, and cultivators hide within modern society, enjoying the conveniences brought by technology. A thousand-year-old tree demon masquerades as a precious ancient tree, collecting government subsidies month after month. An eight-hundred-year-old fox demon starts a livestream, striking seductive poses to absorb human life essence. A five-hundred-year-old literary Dao cultivator enters closed-door cultivation for a century, painstakingly mastering the Eight-legged Essay, only to emerge and find the imperial examination abolished. Elsewhere, a three-hundred-year-old tiger demon enjoys good food and drink at a wildlife park, watching the humans safely tucked inside their cars. A hundred-year-old jiangshi, facing a steep decline in its kind, opposes cremation and campaigns for traditional earth burial. And a sixty-year-old sect master leads his sect down the mountain to start a company and enter the secular world, only to be arrested for corruption and bribery. Meanwhile, a thirty-year-old cultivator is caught on camera flying on a sword and frantically hires paid trolls to do damage control in the comments, insisting the footage is AI-generated. And seventeen-year-old Zhou You is busy saving the world.