I Was Supposed to Be the Human Emperor, So Why Did I Found a Dark Heavenly Court?

Transmigrating into a chaotic age of demons and martial might, Zhou Qing became an abandoned disciple of a sect. Burdened by enormous debts and haunted by resentful spirits, he had little time left to live.

The Myriad Laws Altar in his mind became his only refuge in an age of darkness and upheaval.

By refining the Blade Prison Spirit, he gained the Peerless Blade, which could be upgraded into the Divine Blade of the Prison.

By refining the Hanging Corpse's Resentment, he gained the Spirit-Binding Rope, which could be upgraded into the Immortal Rope of Soul-Seizing.

By refining the Water Monkey, he gained the Water-Repelling Pearl, which could be upgraded into the Abyss-Devouring Spirit Vortex.

By refining the Bone-Painting Demon, he gained the art of disguise, which could be upgraded into the King of Ten Thousand Forms, free to transform at will.

By refining the Gu Huo Bird, he gained the Blood-Burning Method, which could be upgraded into the Nine-Phoenix Nirvana Heart Sutra, granting immortality and imperishability.

Many years later.

The Era of the Emperor's Fall. Civilization lay in ruins.

The dark upheavals came and went, taking with them every old friend who had called him “Daoist.”

Zhou Qing sat alone on a throne built from piles of dark bones.

The Myriad Worlds, along with their immortals, gods, demons, Buddhas, and countless living beings, knelt below him and hailed him as the Lord of the Heavenly Court.