Primordial Scammer: My Cultivation is Pure Deception

Reborn as the Sky-Deceiving Demon Lotus, Ling Xiao is an anomaly whose very existence is forbidden by the Great Dao itself. Constantly teetering on the brink of cosmic erasure, his fate is to be annihilated before he can even transform. But this forbidden Chaos Root holds a unique, terrifying secret: the Dao of Deception. To cultivate, he must fool the world, bending reality, manipulating fate, and siphoning power from every successful lie. His first audacious target? Two nascent, future Saints, Zhunti and Jie Yin, fresh from their transformations. With a masterful charade, he brainwashes them into becoming his sworn brothers, his cultivation skyrocketing with every successful trick. As his influence subtly rewrites primordial history, the Heavens themselves begin to notice. Can a primordial con artist outwit destiny and ancient powers, or will his grand deception ultimately become his own undoing, a trick played upon himself?