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And that's it for this theory. I apologise for the typos. English isn't my first language and I'm using my phone to write this, so the autocorrect sometimes changes things without me noticing them.

"A few decades of being alive again is nothing to an eternal being anyways. And that guy? Mo Xuan Yu? Yeah, he seems desperate, so maybe I can help him."

And that’s when Mo Xuanyu performed the ritual.

At that point, maybe Wei Wuxian thought, "You know what? Judging the dead for eternity is kind of boring. Might as well take a little vacation."
And since Diyu has ten kings (The Ten Kings of Hell / 十殿阎罗) managing things, why not take a break?

I think those 13 years were spent in a nightmarish state because of his trauma. And maybe, just maybe, he decided to punish himself in the Red River because he believed he truly deserved it.

But after cleansing himself and repenting, he might’ve started seeing things differently.

He believed his sacrifices were meaningless, and that the cultivation world wanted him dead (obviously, all of this being his own assumptions.)

So of course he wouldn’t want to be summoned back.
If I had gone through all of that I would also want to dissappear from the map.

He died believing there was no place for him in the world despite how vast it was.
He thought his loved ones had died because of him, that his soulmate despised him, that his brother hated him, that he had failed to protect the people he held dear to his heart.

That would explain how he avoided being summoned for 13 years as well.

If he is the boss of Diyu, then no matter how many times people try to summon him, if he doesn't want to answer—he doesn't.

And let’s not forget: Wei Wuxian died absolutely T R A U M A T I S E D.

Because I don't think he would be gifted such power just like that.
It has to be intrinsic, right?

Wei Wuxian isn't the kind of person who steals an ability from the Ruler of Diyu itself and survive.
He must have had that ability deep inside him.

He just awakened it.

And who else is known for doing exactly that?

That’s right. Yanwang.

Now, I could be wrong—this is just a theory. But it would explain a lot.

It would explain how Wei Wuxian acquired so much knowledge of the Gui Dao in just a few months, how he _invented_ it, and how he mastered it.

He judges the dead fairly, punishing them based on their deeds, not their status in life.
Wei Wuxian does the same.

A perfect example? During the Sunshot Campaign, he refused to kill the innocent Wen remnants. He only went after those who actually deserved punishment. He sought justice—not revenge.

My theory: when Wei Wuxian fell into the Red River of Diyu, his true self awakened.

And what is that "true self" you ask?

I think Wei Wuxian is actually 阎王 (Yanwang), the ruler of Diyu.

Yanwang is the Overlord of the Underworld.

If I were a resentful spirit trapped there and some random stranger showed up saying, "Hey, maybe don’t eat me alive. Instead, let’s work together! I’ll give the orders, and you follow them, okay?"—I’d eat him alive. I wouldn’t bow down to him.

And yet, somehow, they did.
Why?

"Yeah, this guy. You know what? Let's make him our leader."

That makes zero sense to me (we know he's super charismatic, but still...)

The Burial Mounds were filled with suffering, corrupted, vengeful souls. Just because a new cool person appears doesn’t mean they should accept him.

We know he spent 13 years in some kind of perpetual nightmare while he was dead. We’ll get back to that in a second.

For now, let’s focus on the fact that he became the Grandmaster of the Ghost Path—because apparently, he was just so cool that the spirits took one look at him and went,

Yet somehow, he was later summoned back—offered a new body and a second chance at life.

How is that even possible??

Well, I have a theory.

What if Wei Wuxian wasn’t just a mere mortal? Yes, when he was alive, he was definitely human. We know that. But what if, in death, he became something else?

When Wei Wuxian died, the entire cultivation world was searching for him. The best cultivators in China couldn’t even find a single trace of his soul. In the end, they assumed it was so shattered, so broken, and scattered that he had simply ceased to exist. Right?

Right?

You don’t just casually create an entire spiritual discipline just because you barely survived three months in a haunted hill, right?
We know he is a genius, one of the best cultivators to ever exist, yes, but it still feels like something is missing.

And then there’s the issue of his death.

How does he just command the dead with such authority??

And let’s not forget—he doesn’t just control the dead, he invented an entire cultivation path around the concept of Gui Dao. Where did that knowledge come from?

So how does someone become that powerful? How does a mere mortal gain such mastery over the dead?

The man _whispers_ and corpses and spirits are too afraid to disobey him. Some don’t even dare look at him because of how menacing he is. Who is this man, exactly?

Is it possible that he was literally pulled into the Red River of Diyu???

This got me thinking about how Wei Wuxian became the Grandmaster of the Ghost Path (鬼道, Gui Dao)—not the Demonic Path (魔道, Mo Dao), which, by the way, is a common misconception he himself clarifies.

People who betray their families, commit violent crimes, or use their blood in rituals also end up there.

Now, hear me out.
Do you remember that scene in the MDZS donghua adaptation where Wei Wuxian gets dragged into a pool of red liquid by resentful ghosts right before he becomes the Yiling Laozu?

As I've read, there's a Red River there which is basically a river of blood in which sinners are thrown to punish them. This river apparently is also boiling and full of corpses, suffering spirits, demonic entities and so on, right?

And not only that!

Rewriting some late-night thoughts I posted on Twitter last night.
As a non Chinese person, I've been informing myself a little bit about Chinese mythology and I've stumbled upon a place called 地狱 (Diyu), which is like the Underworld, right?

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