Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Can Rewind After Dying Infinitely

The Heavenly Dao has crumbled, the six realms of reincarnation have ground to a halt, and the clay statues in the City God temples weep tears of blood.

By day, paper figures carry wedding palanquins. By night, demons sit in taverns and gnaw on human bones.

The Demon-Slaying Bureau hangs a plaque proclaiming “Slay demons and exorcise evil,” but behind it stands a furnace a hundred zhang tall, where the flesh and blood of great demons is refined into pills of immortality.

I’m a transmigrator with terminal lung cancer, carrying nothing but a blank illustrated bestiary and a broken, man-eating sword.

The Illustrated Bestiary of Ten Thousand Demons has four categories: [Divine] [Monsters] [Ghosts] [Demons]. Each page I fill unlocks a core trait.

Record a nine-tailed fox demon → [Fox’s Enchanting Breath]: demons see me as one of their own.

Record a painted-skin ghost → [Shift Bones, Change Face]: evade the Demon-Slaying Bureau’s spirit mirror.

Record a drought demon → ??? (Rank: Heaven-Breaking, cannot yet be unlocked)

Wild Roamer, Baleful Qi Gatherer, Netherworld Communer, Heaven-Breaking...

I’ll collect every anomaly of the Heavenly Dao, starting as a lowly little demon. Every time I die, I grow stronger.

Others cultivate immortality through enlightenment. I do it by throwing my life away.

The day I complete this bestiary, I’ll mend this rotten sky myself.