{Urban fantasy + spiritual qi revival + bizarre cultivation + cosmic horror + wasteland + not mindless power fantasy}
“You think this is cultivation? No. We're maggots, feeding on the last scraps of humanity in the world's festering pus.”
When Li Ming, a college student, fished that bizarre cake out of a filthy ditch, his hunger disappeared. The collapse of his worldview was only just beginning.
Spiritual qi is pollution; cultivation is mutation.
Spirit medicines have become collections of filth. Even the “medicinal power” they emit can trigger chain curses that spread without end.
The orthodox schools of cultivation have become manifestations of decay and mutation. Being neither human nor ghost is now what it means to be “immortal in bearing” in this world.
Spells have lost their pure, ethereal grace and become sinister means of stirring up curses...
Li Ming finally understood that the most terrifying thing in this world wasn't the supernatural. To survive amid the rot, you had to become even more twisted than it was.
