The Day My Ascension Failed, I Personally Wiped Out My Entire Family

At the Ascension Ceremony, three thousand youths gather at the Heaven-Questioning Platform.

Before the Bone-Illuminating Mirror, Lin Fan is declared to have no spiritual roots. Just an ordinary mortal.

The immortal sects won't take him. Rogue cultivators want him dead. Even the road back to his village is blocked.

After falling off a cliff, he accidentally eats a thousand-year-old Black Tai Sui. A demon serpent sealed for three hundred years takes up residence inside him, and he gains a sinister cultivation art in his mind: The Myriad Spirits Blood-Devouring Art.

The first page reads: To cultivate immortality, first sever all ties. Use blood as a guide and souls as an offering. Devour your kin to prove your Dao, and only then will you gain spiritual roots!

Lin Fan closes the book. "I'd rather be an ordinary mortal for the rest of my life."

That night, the Black Tai Sui takes control of his body and massacres Qingmu Village.

The lives of 137 people earn him the lowest-grade ninth-rank mixed spiritual roots in the cultivation world.

The only survivor in the whole village is the killer himself.

From then on, a venomous demon serpent coils around his wrist, a bloodthirsty evil creature dwells in his veins, and the righteous factions hunt him down.

Everyone says he has fallen to the demonic path.

Lin Fan wipes the blood from his hands. "Since I can't wash it away, I'll carve out a path through slaughter, starting with you lofty immortals."