Those Years I Was the Boss of the Abyss of All Evils

[Complete] Su Yu is blind and is missing one of his three souls. He grew up without the care of parents, suffering constant abuse from his family. The only thing of value he has is a spiritual marriage pact with the genius heir of the Gu family of Xize. On the day he comes of age, the pact is destroyed, taking away the last reason his family had to keep him around. Someone pushes him off a cliff, and he plunges into the abyss. The fall leaves Su Yu with amnesia, but awakens his inborn spiritual sight. In the wilds and within eerie, bewitched towns... lie burial grounds full of lonely ghosts. The ghosts eye the newcomer hungrily. He's a blind mortal, soft-skinned and beautiful. But by the time they bare their fangs, they have somehow become the blind man's minions. The blind boy is dressed in rags, his gray eyes seemingly unfocused. Yet his words are cold and heartless: “Want to buy your freedom? Easy. Work off your sins.” The ghosts later discover what “working off their sins” means: Minor misdeeds in life: ten years of labor. Major misdeeds in life: a life sentence. Their heartless boss doesn't just capture ghosts. He also captures the demon beasts from the nearby Immortal Spirit Village, and eventually even brings back the chief disciple of Mount Tianlu! * Gu Zizhou of Xize is the widely revered chief disciple of Mount Tianlu, a young sword immortal famous throughout the cultivation world. After a sudden fall from grace, he is ambushed and plunged into the Abyss of Ten Thousand Evils. But when he opens his eyes, a few ghosts have gathered around him, expertly writing and drawing with brushes and ink. “Where are you from? What bad things did you do? Did you fall, or did an enemy push you?” “You idiot. He obviously looks like he was pushed by an enemy. Someone like him won't work for long. The boss might not want him and could even lose money on him.” “Boss, you're here. Here's the new guy!” Gu Zizhou looks up and sees a youth in red robes in the distance, a light veil covering his eyes and his skin deathly pale. Just seeing him makes the spiritual marriage pact deep in his soul stir. Blind boy: “What does he look like?” Little ghost: “Boss, he's just about acceptable. He can be a gatekeeper here in our Abyss of Ten Thousand Evils.” Gu Zizhou: “?” P.S.: 1. Updates daily, but the time varies. If something comes up, I'll post a leave notice in the comments, blurb, or author's notes. 2. Cold-hearted pursued character x sword cultivator pursuer. The plot follows a progression and focuses on character growth; it isn't a fast-paced power fantasy or lighthearted story. 3. Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Severing, Void Insight, Great Ascension, and Tribulation Transcendence. 4. The story takes off in volume two. The protagonist obtains the Abyss of Ten Thousand Evils in Chapter 15. Please see the warning in the author's note for Chapter 2 before reading. Upcoming novel: The Cunning Assassin Blurb: Jiang Yu plays an MMO and encounters an assassin in a dungeon. The assassin is a pickup-group player who doesn't talk much, but is highly skilled and always finishes at the top of the damage charts. When Jiang Yu opens his profile, he sees a top-ranked player. Word is that he only runs dungeons when he's in the mood and spends most of his time on battlefields that even dogs won't enter. Jiang Yu thinks they're strangers who will never cross paths again. But when the dungeon ends, the assassin sends him a friend request. Jiang Yu accepts without thinking much of it, but after that, the assassin keeps showing up in his party at every event. He's there when Jiang Yu calls for a pickup group, there in the siege battle, and even when Jiang Yu goes fishing in the wilderness, the assassin is idling nearby. Jiang Yu thinks it's all coincidence, until one day... At the edge of the Sea at World's End, after the first-kill dungeon run, the assassin stands beside him and sets off a [Heart of True Love] firework. Jiang Yu: “?” Assassin: “.” Qi Chen has loved someone ever since the moment they first met. But they don't cross paths often, and have only met a handful of times. Later, when he meets him in the game, Qi Chen starts thinking up all sorts of ways... to pursue him. Theme: Life has its ups and downs and hardships. Never give up or retreat; press forward without hesitation and overcome every obstacle.