Horror Cultivation Path: Rules of the Strange Tales

The Heavenly Dao has collapsed, and spiritual energy has been tainted by poison. Cultivation techniques have mutated into bloody rule-based horror tales, and cultivation means signing a life-and-death contract with the uncanny.

Nan Pingwen, a mere servant at the Qingxuan Sect, has a false spiritual root and was never expected to achieve immortality. But at death's door, he awakens the "Paradox Eye," a pair of eyes that can spot logical loopholes within absolute rules.

In a secret mirror realm, he uses another person's eyes to exploit a time paradox. In the ancient village of Ping'an, he uses himself as bait to rewrite the village rules and make someone else take his place in death. Inside the Transmission Hall, he chooses the wordless Heavenly Book from among three uncanny cultivation manuals and begins the path of the uncanny immortal, using his own body as ink to write the rules.

When those who obey the rules become puppets and those who break them turn to ash, only those who walk along the rules' edges can glimpse a sliver of hope. Nan Pingwen exploits bugs all the way to immortality, only to discover that the so-called advent of the uncanny is nothing more than a final selection at the end of the Heavenly Dao's road, and that he himself has become the very loophole chosen by the process.

"Rules are dead, but logic is alive."