A Fearsome Creature Lies Within Me

[Folk legends and strange tales + modern underworld + no System + no cultivation + adventure] Xu Xiu lives in a world invaded by the bizarre. After his master's death leaves him adrift, he plans to hide away among ordinary people and accept his fate. But an incident in Shiban Village, where people drive stakes into drought demons, opens his eyes to many things. From the moment he steps into this treacherous underworld, he is constantly navigating life-or-death crises. Along the way, he experiences personal growth, comes to understand the immense karmic consequences brought by fate, and encounters people from all corners of the land. But as Xu Xiu searches for the end of this path, he fails to realize that he has already become the very calamity he most wants to escape, the thing he least wants to be!