God? It Can't Look Directly at Me Either

The story takes place in the "Abyss Continent", a desperate world where magic and immortality coexist, but the underlying logic has been completely distorted by the "Old Dominators". Here, the so-called "magic" and "immortal magic" are essentially taboo rituals that steal the power of external gods. The cultivation system has been reconstructed into a "sequential path" or "ascension realm", but each promotion is accompanied by a crazy loss of sanity points (SAN values) and irreversible distortion of the body. High-level monks and mages are often monsters in human skin.