A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation: Starting in a Village of Paper Effigies

(A touch of folk customs + Lovecraftian horror + Not a simulator)

Lu Xun transmigrates to a world of the Five Turbidities and is born in Lanruo Village.

No gods protect the village. Dense fog spreads, spirit money fills the sky, villagers look like paper effigies, and the low houses resemble coffins...

Fortunately, a Book of Hundred Lives and Reincarnations comes with him.

Each time he dies, he refines a divine ability from death itself:

Paperheart Calamity, Blood Robe Walk, Nuo Mask Dance...

After several lifetimes, when he finally fights his way out of Lanruo Village, he discovers that even places protected by gods aren't necessarily safe.

The only way to survive is to cultivate merit, follow the path of sacrificial rites, and advance by consuming pills.