“Corpses suppress the tide of corruption, and living Gu can lay waste to a city. In this world, right and wrong come down to whose fist is stronger.”
The dying youth Li Wujiu was cast into the Sea of Burial Life, a forbidden ground of the Yin Ruins Cult. Amid thousands of corpses, he awakened the [Yin-Yang Gu Seed] and glimpsed the truth of the world:
- The Yin Ruins Cult sought to bring down the Gate of Eternal Night and purify all living things with corpse energy.
- The Sun Alliance planned to sacrifice living beings in a “Tide of Corruption” calamity, hoping to burn the world and attain the Dao.
- Ordinary people caught between them were nothing but Gu vessels in a game played by two great powers.
To break free of his fate, Li Wujiu embarked on a path of his own invention, merging corpse cultivation with Gu:
▪️ Refine corpses into Gu: Extract corpse energy from the dead to refine the [Six-Armed Corpse King Gu], turning himself half-corpse and hardening his body to withstand the gods.
▪️ Use Gu to nourish corpses: Devour Yang-aligned Gu worms to make up for the flaws in his Yin body, reversing the laws of life and death.
▪️ Shed his corpse and ascend to immortality: At the cost of dismantling his physical body, refine the [Yin-Yang Furnace] and merge the source of the Tide of Corruption, becoming a new Heavenly Dao that balances Yin and Yang.
He bore the scorn of the people and was branded a “ghoul,” yet used corpse energy to cleanse areas contaminated by the Tide of Corruption.
He schemed against allies and fellow countrymen, massacred everyone at the Shennong Pagoda to seize the “Nirvana Gu,” and severed his own arm to fake his death, all for the smallest chance of survival.
He overturned every notion of good and evil. At last, he unleashed his ultimate move, the [Ten Thousand Corpses Return to Yang Formation], sacrificing every corpse Gu he had ever refined and turning them into a vast surge of life that healed all living beings.
As the Yin Ruins Cult’s Corpse Dragon coiled across the heavens and the Sun Alliance’s Blazing Sun Gu scorched mountains and rivers, Li Wujiu stood between the Gate of Eternal Night and the Eye of Corruption, smiling as he tore apart both sides’ pact.
“You treat all living things as kindling. I’ll use this zombie body as a furnace and forge a new world where black and white are clear!”
[Reborn + System + Dark Fantasy + No Goody-Two-Shoes Protagonist]
Killing decisively is not the Holy Mother, support