You’re Not Afraid, You Just Know You’re Going to Die

[No heroine + no System + decisive protagonist who kills without hesitation + no saintly do-gooder + fast-paced power fantasy] Zhang Xuan was sickly from a young age, so his parents sent him to Mount Mao to cultivate the Dao. But with an astonishing talent for enlightenment, he reached the Celestial Realm in just one year, becoming the second Purple-Robed Celestial Master after Mount Mao's founder. He mastered every kind of magic! Ten years later, Zhang Xuan was supposed to inherit the position of Mount Mao's leader. Then he learned that his younger sister had been murdered. Her Three Souls and Seven Spirits had been forcibly borrowed to prolong someone's life, and an evil cultivator had taken her internal organs to use as vessels in a forbidden ritual to alter fate. To find the killer, Zhang Xuan shortened his own lifespan to refine his sister's resentment into a red-clad vengeful ghost. Zombies butcher their own kin, and vengeful ghosts claim lives. A red-clad corpse enters the coffin, while karmic flames coil around the living. Zhang Xuan killed dozens of scoundrels in one go, only to be condemned by the so-called righteous sects for treating human lives like weeds and betraying the orthodox path. Mount Mao's acting leader wanted to purge the sect of him, Mount Longhu sought to uphold Heaven's justice, and the Buddhists wanted him dead to earn merit. His parents died because of him. In a single night, he lost his family and everything he had. “Fine, fine, you all want me dead, is that it? Then I'll die for you to see...” That night, Zhang Xuan knelt before his master's grave and bade farewell. Then, clad in purple robes and holding his sister's battered red-clad corpse, he leaped into a bottomless abyss. On the seventh day after his death, Zhang Xuan returned to the world of the living in blood-red purple robes, wielding a blackened blood-stained peachwood sword. He went after those who had once tried to drive him to his death. One after another, they fell to their knees and begged for mercy, hoping Zhang Xuan would spare them. But Zhang Xuan only gave a sinister smile. “You're not afraid. You just know you're about to die...”