Uncanny cultivation + no System + a struggle for the Great Dao + Chinese-style cosmic horror + power struggles + mind games + folk customs
My techniques may be a little sinister and unfit for polite society, but I’m a respectable man who has read the classics...
The Great Dao is uncanny, immortals wage war, and strange beings run rampant. Beneath the sky, rivers of blood surge.
The world ruled by the Strange Emperor and Immortal Lords is one where everyone looks out for themselves. Under its rules, even immortals are no more than specks of dust.
After Lu Yuan encounters the uncanny, he unexpectedly acquires a few disreputable folk traditions from the Nine Provinces.
Corpse-driving, flower-snatching, paper effigies, the Flower Cave Maiden, venomous insects, Nuo opera, spirit possession, spirit mediums, journeys to the underworld, soul-calling...
From then on, he enters the Immortal Realm, slays strange beings and immortals alike, and uses sinister arts to survive in the Immortal Court’s Bureau of Strange Affairs. Then, with a spark that sets the prairie ablaze, he sets out to change the world.
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