The Confused Cultivator’s Handbook

[Mortal's journey + no System + no brainless decisions + slow burn + not a quick-hit power fantasy]

[Humans, demons, and devils]

A young man transmigrates into this world, but has no System. At an inn, he is taken hostage by a wicked demonic woman. By a strange turn of events, he is gravely injured by a ghost-path cultivator and left on the brink of death. The woman mistakenly believes he took a fatal blow to save her, and grows curious about him. She flees with him, and by a stroke of luck, he obtains a wisp of “Southern Li Bright Flame.” Thus, he blunders into the path of cultivation and, for reasons he can't explain, is forced to grow stronger step by step. Eventually, he is caught up in a shocking conspiracy. Just when he thinks he is doomed, the teacher who once taught him to read and write back in his village suddenly appears from the heavens...