Lord of the Nine Abysses

There are two kinds of gu in this world: one breeds in the poison miasma of corpses, the other in the cracks of the human heart. The first devours flesh and blood; the second devours the soul. The night his family offered Shen Moyuan up as a sacrificial pawn to the Gu God, he accidentally swallowed the legendary Heart-Eater Gu. It feeds not on flesh and blood, but on the last spark of light in human nature. From then on, he understood one thing: in this world that devours people, you either become a gu or become the one who raises gu. He chose a third path: To become the one who turns over the entire board. The six great immortal sects, the nine great demonic sects, the thirty-six unorthodox schools... In his eyes, they were no more than thirty-six chess pieces. Benefactors, enemies, lovers, family... In his hands, they were all gu, to be used or discarded as he pleased. When everyone thought he was the champion of the righteous path, he had already become the supreme ruler of the demonic path. When everyone thought he was the supreme ruler of the demonic path, he was refining the head of an immortal sect into a puppet. When everyone thought he held all power beneath heaven, his true goal was To become the only gu in this world. “Mortals raise gu, immortals raise mortals, and I... raise heaven.” Shen Moyuan