The Cultivation World’s Merciless Revenge on a Master After His Body Is Shattered and His Heart Turns Cold

[Maybe this counts as a story written to make readers suffer, but that wasn’t my intention...]

[All-receiving, overpowered protagonist, protagonist gets put through the wringer, cruel-to-wife-then-chases-him-to-the-crematorium, nonstop melodrama, disfigurement, substitute, faked death, and more]

All his life, Jiyun worked to save the world, punish evil, and set things right.

After countless trials with his companions, crossing the four seas and eight corners of the world and conquering the seventy-two caves, he resolutely slew the Sixfold Heavenly Demon with a single sword strike!

Afterward, all his cultivation scattered like butterflies, and the favored child of heaven became, overnight

“Jiyun!”

“Immortal Lord!”

“Immortal Jiyun!”

“Junior Brother!”

“Boss!”

Hands reached out to lift him, sincere, passionate, and trembling, then drew him into one warm embrace after another.

Even great heroes have friends, you know.

See, Heavenly Demon? What can your curse do to me?

Jiyun went on his way after putting everything to rest, becoming the first elder of the Tianshou Sect after his close friend rebuilt it.

And so, “When the road ends at the water’s source, sit and watch the clouds rise.”

“System activated. Your beginner gift pack is here. The favorability of all beings across all planes toward the overpowered male lead has been capped at -1. It is currently fixed at -1 and cannot be exceeded.”

Everything should have ended happily, with love and harmony, yet lately Jiyun had felt a vague sense of unease. Eventually, he realized things were a hundred times worse than he had imagined.

The close friends who had once fought shoulder to shoulder with him drifted away.

The juniors who had once admired him kept their distance.

The people he had helped turned away from him as if he were a snake or a scorpion.

He was unwilling to accept it, but could do nothing about it.

Until a child stumbled into his world and said he wanted to become his disciple...