I Possessed the Villain

As Ling Yuhuai died in a rain of arrows during a pursuit, all he could think of was the fading echo of the Kingdom of Dian's destruction. When he opened his eyes again, he had gone from a mountain of corpses in a struggle for imperial power to a cultivation world crisscrossed by spiritual veins, where immortals and demons stood side by side.

In his previous life, he was an ordinary mortal prince who strictly observed the rules of the heir apparent and possessed little spiritual power. In this life, he had somehow taken over someone else's body and become a notorious demonic cultivator, a big shot in the cultivation world. The original owner had been born with demonic bones and delighted in tormenting disciples of the immortal sects and betraying his own followers. He had made mighty experts from various sects fall for him, only to turn around and wipe out their sects. He was the cultivation world's biggest heartbreaker, with enough blood feuds and romantic debts behind him to circle the Ninth Heaven three times.

Ling Yuhuai had inherited this mess completely unprepared. Even more unexpected, the original owner's "old lovers" were now coming after him one by one. He had just blocked the life-bound flying sword of a Qingxuan Sect sword cultivator when he had to deal with a deadly demonic technique from an elder in the demon realm. Even the young master of a reclusive clan had turned up at his door with a magical weapon. Each of them had murder in their eyes and kept demanding he repay his old debts.

Ling Yuhuai leaned on his broken sword and coughed up blood, his composure completely shattered. "Can someone tell me? I just got here, I haven't even figured out how to use my spiritual roots, so why am I stuck with all these romantic debts and this Shura field?"

In this world, powerful Soul Formation cultivators hid among the mountains and rivers, Nascent Soul cultivators roamed the streets, and even unaffiliated cultivators could ride the wind. With the reputation of a "wicked demonic cultivator" hanging over him, he was surrounded and attacked the moment he left home. His daily struggle to survive was like dancing on the edge of a blade.

Even worse, the original owner's misdeeds had spread throughout the immortal and demon realms. Everyone thought he was building a harem, and all sides were suspicious of one another. At the slightest provocation, they would fight over "who was the real one," leaving him caught in the middle and battered again and again.

Ling Yuhuai: Thanks for asking. I'm in the cultivation world, and I just dodged another assassination attempt. Please, someone give me a copy of A Guide to Surviving After Becoming a Scumbag Demonic Cultivator!

Notes:

Also known as: One Argument Away from a Shura Field, The Whole World Thinks I'm Building a Harem, Everyone Thinks They're Being Cheated On

Message: Life is beautiful.