I Become an Immortal Emperor by Losing Money, Starting with Ruining the Sect

[Anti-rat race, mistaken reverence, sect-building, hilarious power fantasy]

Shen Guixu transmigrates into a cultivation world and binds himself to the [Sect Reverse Conversion System].

For every spirit stone the sect loses or wastes, he gets a thousandfold return in cultivation;

If the sect goes bankrupt and shuts down, he ascends on the spot!

To become an immortal as soon as possible, Shen Guixu starts a string of “utterly insane” spending sprees:

He recruits blind men, old farmers, and unlucky souls as disciples;

He spends a fortune building outhouses from white marble and paving the ground with top-grade spirit stones;

He makes candy with ten-thousand-year-old spirit herbs, producing sweets that taste great but have no medicinal effects;

He builds a bathhouse in a haunted, extremely cursed place, waiting for the business to go under...

He eagerly awaits the bankruptcy payout, but instead:

His blind disciple becomes a Mind's Eye Sword Saint and splits open the gates of heaven with one stroke;

The luxurious outhouse, with its perfect surroundings, becomes a sacred site where cultivators reach enlightenment;

The candy is mistaken for a miracle cure for inner demons, causing a buying frenzy across the internet and sending its price through the roof;

The bathhouse reforms a ten-thousand-year-old Ghost King, and land prices skyrocket ten thousandfold overnight!

Many years later.

Shen Guixu, forced to become the “Dao Ancestor” and worshipped by millions of cultivators, looks at the spirit stones filling his storehouses, more than he could ever spend, and despairingly cries to the heavens:

“Please stop trying so hard! All I want is to run this sect into the ground!”

(Also known as: “Wicked Disciples! Your Master Wants to Ruin You,” “The Only Normal Person in the Cultivation World,” and “I Can Become a Saint If My Sect Goes Bankrupt”)