Eternal Embers: I Become Invincible by Sacrificing My Own Clan

[Utterly Rational + Villain Protagonist + Ruthless and Decisive + No Female Lead] Chu Xiu's spiritual root is ripped out and his treasured artifact stolen, leaving him a cripple. Locked in a woodshed and awaiting his family's decision to send him off as a sacrifice, he not only stays calm, he almost wants to laugh. “If this debt of being raised by you is so great, then I invite all my relatives to enter the formation and help me attain the Dao. That will settle the score.” One poem of slaughter, half a hall of bloodied kin. Chu Xiu wields himself like a sickle, turning the tables and reaping those around him. From a castoff in a remote little town, he becomes a reaper who makes gods and buddhas throughout the heavens tremble. He never wastes words: if he can wipe out an entire household, he leaves no survivors. He has no bottom line; every principle gives way to profit. “Good and evil are nothing but excuses for an unfair division of interests. My only job is to decide how your lives are divided up.” “Morality is a chain invented by the weak to shield themselves from the strong. I am the one holding the shears.” “Those who follow me become kindling; those who oppose me become ashes.”