Welcome, potential colleagues, or curious people who happen to open this book. Don't get me wrong, this is not about praising virtue, let alone advising people to do evil. This is just a survival report.
The world of cultivation is very cruel, and the law of the jungle is the eternal undertone. You chose one path, and I chose another. The so-called good and evil are just stigmas smeared on you and me by the party that occupies the right to speak. They enjoy the blessed land of spiritual veins, inherit Taoism, and use high-sounding moral laws to judge the life and death of others; while we, deprived of resources and exiled to the margins, can only absorb nutrients in less than honorable ways in the cracks.
There is no tender redemption in this book, no sudden enlightenment, only hard-core strategies, hard-hearted methods and practical skills on how to survive. It records the survival rules that a monk who chose the "evil path" refined over hundreds of years of bloodshed. I understand the loopholes in the rules, understand the darkness of people's hearts, and know how to carve a way out of the desperate situation of being surrounded.
Core principles: Survival first, efficiency first. Morality? That is a whitewashing tool that only the winner deserves to use.
Open it, not to let you identify with me, but to understand me, to understand a soul that is still struggling to breathe in the mud that is despised by the world. If you happen to be walking in the shadows, I hope this manual will help you live a little longer.
——An anonymous senior evil cultivator
