- Mo Dao... Verified | The Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation

We open at the end. Thirteen years before the main narrative, Wei Wuxian, the founder of demonic cultivation, is dead. The cultivation world celebrates his demise. Once the charismatic right-hand man of the prestigious Jiang Clan, Wei Wuxian turned to forbidden arts after a traumatic war, inventing ghostly talismans and the infamous "Stygian Tiger Seal." He was a monster who commanded corpses, killed thousands at the Battle of Nightless City, and was eventually torn apart by his own undead army.

Unlike typical xianxia where power is linear and moral, MDZS introduces a sharp duality: The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Mo Dao...