You Call This Evil Cultivation?

In the final years of a crumbling dynasty, demons and monsters run rampant across the land. Daoist priests dedicate themselves to subduing these malevolent forces, yet the orthodox path of cultivation is brutally demanding—requiring not only innate talent but also years of seated meditation just to take the first step. Frustrated by these steep barriers, more and more practitioners abandon the righteous way and turn to heretical arts, becoming "evil cultivators." Heretical cultivation demands no special constitution, is easy to begin, and progresses at astonishing speed. The sole drawback is that the deeper one delves, the more their mind unravels, until complete madness claims them. Ren Hang transmigrates into this eerie world and awakens a unique ability: by fulfilling the dying wishes of evil cultivators, he can inherit their entire legacy—cultivation base, magical artifacts, techniques, and all—while completely nullifying the associated mental corruption and other dire consequences. Armed with this power, Ren Hang begins transforming flawed, dangerous forbidden arts into peerless divine abilities. The Profound Yin True Scripture lets him skip meditation entirely—he simply captures a specter, forcibly refines it, and its yin energy converts into mana, with fiercer fiends accelerating his growth exponentially. The Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles requires only a expenditure of mana to immobilize even the most ferocious evil spirit. The Blood Demon Escape Technique demands but a bitten fingertip—using his own essence blood as a catalyst, he can flash ten li away in an instant. The cost? A couple of extra meals to replenish his strength. Years later, a throng of bewildered Daoists stare at Ren Hang, radiant with golden light and venerated by countless common folk, utterly dumbfounded. "You call this an evil cultivator?" Ren Hang can only shrug—it is not that he is insufficiently wicked, but rather that this world has simply gone mad.