Demonic Cultivator: My Shadow Can Cultivate

Yang Xiu transmigrates into a demonic sect and awakens a mysterious divine ability through his shadow. From that moment on, spells, pills, formations, runes—everything can cultivate entirely on its own. "Go to the righteous sects' mountain gates and secretly learn their sword arts." His shadow observes a passing sword cultivator practicing his technique and returns having stolen the Flowing Cloud, Severing Water Sword. Later, it slips into the forbidden grounds of the Boundless Sword Pavilion and secretly masters the Sword Sect's hidden ultimate art, the Supreme Emotion-Forsaking Sword. "Explore Mount Wutong." His shadow brawls with a Black Mountain Rat, gets beaten black and blue, and comes back whining to him about it for ages. Sent to the Flood Dragon's lair, it steals an egg from its nest—and Yang Xiu spends the next ten days and ten nights fleeing the enraged flood dragon hot on his heels. "Explore freely." His shadow, curious about the ways of tomb raiders, digs ever deeper into the Earthly Abyss and brings back a burial shroud belonging to a mighty one of the Spirit Realm... Yang Xiu becomes tainted by an unknown curse, and his body begins slowly turning to stone. This is a world shrouded in darkness. Foundation Establishment elders harvest the essence of their own disciples to refine cultivation pills; Nascent Soul ancestors devour the flesh and blood of countless living beings to nourish themselves; and the mighty ones of the Spirit Realm periodically descend their divine avatars upon the lower realm, wantonly harvesting the souls of the strong... Here begins Yang Xiu's path to eternity.