Death's Favorite Warlock

Lars wakes each morning to a voice urging him to kill — she calls it a quest that will help him level. He resists, until a murderous sect destroys his village and takes his mother as a slave. With no other options, Lars must trust the voice, complete her quests, and grow powerful enough to rescue his mother in a world where cultivators are as gods and he is merely human.

Kill after kill, Lars has grown stronger — and what was once horrific is becoming an addiction. When a powerful elder cultivator spirits him away to the Sect of the Spring Rain, he becomes the subject of a twisted plot to uncover and exploit his secret cultivation technique. Can he navigate the treacherous power struggles of the sect, or will he be killed off by warring factions before his grisly methods are exposed?

A crazed princess, royal intrigue, relentless assassins, and a merciless army — Lars must overcome all these and more as he navigates new threats in the brutal cultivation world he thought he had finally begun to understand.

After a devastating attack by his former sect master leaves many companions dead and Yumi captured, Lars is forced to return to the sect — only to find more allies imprisoned by scheming elders. As he scrambles to rescue them, he discovers the sect is even more dangerous and corrupt than he remembered, with power struggles and violence lurking around every corner.