After Faking My Death, I Became a Stand-In for the Mad Demon Lord

[Two male leads + master and disciple + raising him + substitute + rekindled love + love and kill each other + deranged + both pure]

Shen Nanqiao spent a hundred years as a corporate drone in the cultivation world.

Betraying his master, offering himself up in a sacrifice, blowing himself up: every step was a “scripted mission” assigned by the Heavenly Dao System. At long last, he finished his performance and got killed off, ready to take his ten thousand top-grade spirit stones and go home to lie flat.

But only five years after his death, the System suddenly popped up a message:

“Your former mission target, [Disciple: Li Chenyuan], has fallen into darkness and become an unparalleled Demon Venerable. He is gathering a million demon soldiers to bathe the Three Realms in blood and sacrifice them to you.”

“Please return to your post immediately and stabilize the target’s emotions. Double rewards, plus a seaside immortal mansion.”

For the sake of a lavish retirement, Shen Nanqiao gritted his teeth and returned to the cultivation world.

His new identity: a menial disciple with inferior spiritual roots. His mission: infiltrate the Demon Palace and calm his former disciple.

He planned to do the bare minimum, but because his face looked somewhat like that of the “deceased respected master,” he was dragged straight into the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons.

Forced into those white robes, forced to imitate that man’s way of speaking, forced to stand before the once aloof and proud young man and

play himself.

Until cold chains wound around his wrists. Li Chenyuan’s eyes were bloodshot as he roared hoarsely, “Smile! You were always best at imitating him, weren’t you?”

Shen Nanqiao: I’m not good at imitating him. I am him. But I can’t say that. I’d lose my spirit stones.

Later

When the Demon Venerable discovers that the greedy, cowardly substitute who would bend over for a few low-grade spirit stones is the very person he summoned day and night, the one he offered the Three Realms as a sacrifice to bring back

The sky falls.