Flies buzz over bubbling cauldrons of human remains where clay-faced Daoist practitioners chant twisted scriptures. In this grotesque parody of a cultivation world, human flesh is just another ingredient, and immortality is a sickness of the mind. The air reeks of copper and burnt hair, and every shadow harbors twitching, multi-limbed horrors.

Locked in this nightmare is Li Huowang, a teen designated as a cheap "medicine primer" destined to be ground into alchemical pills by his grotesque master. Yet, when he closes his eyes, the blood-stained altars vanish, replaced by the sterile white walls of a modern mental hospital. Doctors insist the demonic sect is merely a hallucination, but the phantom taste of copper and burnt flesh feels entirely too real. In a psychological horror manhua where sanity is the ultimate tool for survival, the lines between reality and delusion disintegrate. How can he escape his gruesome fate when he cannot even trust his own mind?

horror, psychological, supernatural, cultivation, mystery, madness, survival, hallucination, gore, dark fantasy

Also known as: Gui Dao Zhi Xian, 诡道之仙.