Early Qing Dynasty: Cultivating Through Unorthodox Ways

As the saying goes: don't rebel during the Qing, or you'll get a drill in the chrysanthemum! Zhou Tian unexpectedly arrived in the first year of the Kangxi reign, early in the Qing dynasty, and became a street fortune-teller. Seeing the passersby with their tiny, little-finger-sized queues, he thought of the century of humiliation two hundred years later. Zhou Tian felt he ought to do something, to make this transmigration count. But the next moment, a voice at his ear left him utterly stunned! “Have you heard? General Aobai slew the fierce Tiger Demon King in the Ten Thousand Mountains. Now all the demons there have submitted to the Jurchens.” “Of course I have. They say General Aobai split a mountain in two with a single slash.” A Demon King? Splitting a mountain? Zhou Tian stared in bewilderment. Wasn't this the early Qing dynasty? Then something even more bewildering happened. “Hall Master Zhou, the cult leader has an order.” “The cult leader commands you to report to the main altar in Liangguang and await instructions.” A middle-aged man holding a White Lotus talisman seal suddenly appeared before Zhou Tian. Only then did Zhou Tian realize, to his utter amazement, that his predecessor had been a hall master of the White Lotus Sect! As a hall master, Zhou Tian discovered that the White Lotus Sect possessed hundreds of unorthodox, forbidden arts. Gu sorcery: A hundred insects crown their king; ten thousand insects become gu. Paper effigy craft: Cut paper into shapes, then breathe life into them. Human-skin lanterns: Bones for the frame, human skin for the paper. Flying-head sorcery, curse magic, corpse refinement… Your pigskin barbarians may be sinister, but can they match my unorthodox arts? A true man must make his mark in this world, never living a life of mediocrity. If I don't feast from five cauldrons in life, then I must be boiled in five cauldrons in death!