The Mysterious Descends: I Corrupted the Whole World from the Start!

[God-tier choices + ruthless decisiveness + mysterious Cthulhu horror + high intelligence + steampunk]

“You practice martial arts. I cultivate immortality... the mysterious, eldritch kind!”

He transmigrates into a high-martial Great Ming, where steam airships blot out the sky and martial arts masters can subdue mountains and rivers with their fists.

Chen Qing starts out as a crippled illegitimate son of the Marquis Chongwu's household, his meridians shattered, facing a hellish predicament: his adoptive mother wants him poisoned, and his fiancée is breaking off their engagement.

He had planned to scrape by, but the System is offering far too much!

[Faced with assassins surrounding him in the dead of night:]

[Option A: Beg for mercy. Consequence: torn to pieces and fed to the dogs.]

[Option B: Fight back to the death. Consequence: hacked apart.]

[Option C: Unleash “the Old Ones'” corruption and turn the enemies into tentacled monsters! Reward: Sequence 9 “Universal Scholar”!]

Chen Qing decisively chooses to become the mastermind in the shadows! Thus, the Great Ming loses a powerless scholar and gains an “unspeakable” being who walks the night.

Drive his vicious stepmother insane, devour painted-skin demons whole, and uncover the truth of the world.