I Became an Empress, Starting as the White Lotus Saintess

Reborn + eerie god world + strong female lead + power progression

Qin Wanwan (Miaotan), an HR manager who worked herself to death pulling 996 shifts, opens her eyes and finds herself plunged into a terrifying dungeon.

Reborn as a candidate to become the White Lotus Sect’s Holy Maiden, she follows the belief in the Mother of No Birth and the Pure Void Hometown.

She thinks she can lie flat and feast on offerings, but soon discovers that the world is overrun with Buddhist and Daoist sects, demons, and ghosts, while ordinary people are all sacrifices to the eerie gods.

Luckily, the scripture she specializes in, the White Lotus Sutra, gives her extraordinary talents:

Purify corruption and counter evil gods

Devour eerie gods and rapidly increase her cultivation

While everyone else kneels before eerie gods and begs for protection, Qin Wanwan (Miaotan) turns around and purifies and delivers them from suffering. “Eerie gods, you can either convert or have your souls scattered. As an HR professional, I’m best at negotiating terms.”

At last, seated in the highest hall, she smiles and says:

“Who says a Holy Maiden can’t start a headhunting firm? Now, welcome to apply for the Empress Alliance. Bring your resumes.”

The five major sects are the Lingyun Sect, Changfeng Sect, Xiangling Sect, Qiming Sect, and Mingguang Temple.

Cultivation stages: Light-Opening Realm, Mind-Opening Realm, Spirit-Opening Realm, God-Opening Realm, and Perfection Realm.