Demon Cultivator: I, Master of the Ten Thousand Ghost Banner, Become a Saint Through Merit!

Xu Xuan, a twenty-first-century corporate drone, died saving a child from drowning and unexpectedly arrived in a vast world of immortal cultivation, where he became an outer disciple of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect. If he failed his examination within three months and couldn’t refine a Hundred Ghost Banner, his body would be taken apart: his bones made into bone artifacts, his blood used to nourish spirit herbs, and his soul sealed inside the sect’s inherited Ten Thousand Ghost Banner. After many failures over the three months, he was lucky enough to refine a half-finished Hundred Ghost Banner, but it lacked a chief soul and could not become a true demonic artifact. With the examination still far out of reach and the deadline fast approaching, his life in danger, a passage to a martial world in the final years of a dynasty unexpectedly opened. The emperor in this world was incompetent, corrupt officials ran rampant, and martial cultivators did as they pleased. Natural and man-made disasters left the people homeless and filled with resentment, giving rise to countless demons that preyed on humans. It was a world straight out of the apocalypse. And yet… For demonic cultivator Xu Xuan, it was a sacred place for cultivation. Martial cultivators who ran amok could be made into zombies, while the demons wreaking havoc across the land were the ideal materials for refining and upgrading the Hundred Ghost Banner. The resentment permeating the world was the perfect supplement for his cultivation, letting him take a crooked path to surpass the rest. But… Why had the demonic artifact he was cultivating, meant to upgrade from a Hundred Ghost Banner to a Ten Thousand Ghost Banner, become so brilliantly golden? Even the spells he cast glowed gold. Not only did they ignore the righteous path’s methods of suppression, they could also suppress other demonic spells! It seemed he had mastered an extraordinary ability, perhaps a Merit-Blessed True Body that even the great masters of the righteous path struggled to cultivate. He was clearly a demonic genius…