Cultivating to Survive in a Strange Sea: Start by Defeating Lust Demons and Deduce Evil Arts

Everyone transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation amid a haunted sea.

Some awaken divine powers to suppress ghosts, others gain eyes that can spot evil spirits, and still others bear precious bones of the dead. From the start, fortune favors them, and they soar to greatness.

Only Zhou Yuanhao awakens an unreliable talent that burns his lifespan to make deductions.

In this eerie place, where monsters are everywhere and each day could be your last, what good is a long life?

Burn it! Give me the most thorough deductions you can!

The Vitality-Replenishing Art will drain you until you're a dried husk? Burn twenty years of lifespan and derive the Demonic Nourishment Vitality-Replenishing Art.

Good news: You won't be drained anymore.

Bad news: Unless you sacrifice an eerie creature every so often, you'll be consumed by lustful fire.

The minor alchemy art has no suitable furnace? Burn thirty years of lifespan and derive the Nine-Turn Intestine-Rending Alchemy Method.

Good news: No furnace needed.

Bad news: The pills come out of a slightly unusual place, but there's no time to worry about that. Eat up!

The Five Viscera Exploding Body Art will make your body explode and kill you? Burn a hundred years of lifespan and derive the Chapter on the Deification of the Five Viscera.

Good news: Your body won't explode.

Bad news: Your heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys argue every day, trying to kill your main consciousness and take over.

Others shed their mortal forms through immortal cultivation. The more Zhou Yuanhao cultivates, the more sinister he becomes.

Evil gods whisper in the depths of the haunted sea, while alien races surround the islands. With nothing but a mortal body, Zhou Yuanhao...

relies on burning his lifespan to derive sinister arts, carving out a crooked path to immortality in the depths of despair.

Thousands of years later,

at the peak of the mountain gate of the True Sinister Sect, Zhou Yuanhao looks down at his body and falls into deep thought.

This lifespan... why does it keep growing the more I burn?

And this body... why does it look less and less human?

Never mind.

If I can stay alive in the haunted sea, what more could I ask for?