Bizarre Cultivation Studies

In a world where death transforms cultivators, demons, and fiends into Tainted Ashes—remnants of power that can extend life or spawn reincarnation—an ancient warning echoes: consume the ashes to brighten your life lamp, or watch them birth something far worse. But there exists a third path, walked by beings who wear human skin yet think nothing like humans. These ash-born apostles of atheism seek to dismantle the divine order itself, forging soulless creations from the remnants of the dead and enslaving them as tools. They are engineers of the profane, architects of a new world built on the co…