Chen Lu, an ordinary graduate student, wakes after a sudden death to find himself in the cultivation world’s most brutal demonic sect, the Chusheng Sect.
There is no lofty immortal bearing here, only the iron rule that "people are resources to be used up." Lots are drawn to assign disciples to halls, and he draws the Hehuan Hall, the one with the highest death rate. Hall Master Chu Yi treats her disciples as cultivation resources. Every month, she selects people from the inner sect, and within half a month, those chosen become dried corpses in a dry well.
The Book of a Hundred Lives is his only golden finger: a dark yellow booklet recording how he died in his first seventy-three lives. Seventy-three cycles of rebirth, seventy-three ways to die: being drained of his essence, refined into a magical artifact, offered as a sacrifice, betrayed by his fellow disciples... Each death leaves behind a clue for the next life.
Twenty-seven lives remain. Once they are used up, his soul will be erased forever.
Chen Lu has no way out. He must use the memories of his past lives to find a way to survive the Hehuan Hall's rules of devouring its own. Faking illness, lying low, stealing pills, cultivating: like a snake, he slowly and lethally gathers strength in the darkness.
But when he discovers the spiritual energy imprint of Foundation Establishment Elder Liu Yuanzhen in an abandoned formation tower, he realizes that he has long since stopped being a mere pawn on the board.
Someone is watching him from the shadows.
Someone has walked the same path across a hundred lives.
And in this life, he won't just survive. He'll flip the entire board.
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