The Unorthodox Path: Patrolling the Heavens and Slaying Gods

Name: The Unorthodox Path: Patrolling the Heavens and Slaying Gods
Author: Luo Lan Loves to Cook

左道旁门巡天弑神

by Luo Lan Loves to Cook (爱做饭的罗兰)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 247k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Fantasy High-Concept
Updated: 7mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

52 Heavenly Laws + multiple worlds + return from death + exploiting bugs + immortal cultivation + martial arts

Fang Han transmigrated into a chaotic, eerie world and became a lowly novice monk at Puxian Temple.

Here, the gods and Buddhas had no faces, his senior brothers were inhuman, and his master... was a monster who had to replace his “skin” regularly.

Fortunately, he could return from death.

The first time, his senior brother strangled him, and he returned to the morning water-carrying chore.

The second time, he was skinned and thrown into a pot, and he returned to the morning chanting service.

The Nth time, he tried to escape the temple, but always died the instant he crossed the mountain gate, returning to the beginning.

He discovered that the temple itself was a prison trapped in a loop.

And his monstrous master, Lu You, who was always kindly smiling at him yet made him drink “tea of enlightenment,” was looking at him in an increasingly unsettling way.

“Dear disciple, your body that ‘cannot die’... is the finest ‘material’ your master has ever seen.”

“Come, let your master move in. From now on, you will be me and I will be you, sharing this... immortal path.”

Fang Han looked at his reflection, his face gradually turning pale and deathly, then felt the book in his arms, the Seven-Day Resurrection Method, which his master had casually given him and which kept bringing him back from death.

He knew his master was waiting for his “skin” to ripen.

And his only way to survive was to find, amid this endless cycle of death, the path to truth that even his monstrous master had never touched.

[Eerie immortal cultivation + death loops + Lovecraftian horror + master and disciple devouring each other]

Note: This is not a conventional power fantasy. The protagonist searches for a glimmer of hope amid despair. The world is dark and the tone oppressive, so proceed with caution.

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