I know it’s hella problematic, but the web novel reverend insanity/master of gu introduced me to the genre a long time ago, and I’d love a tv show/movie with that style of magic system. Anything vaguely similar would be dope if you know what I’m talking about.
Grandmaster of demonic cultivation is the closest I’ve found.
Edit: Thank you everybody :mission-accomplished-1: :mission-accomplished-2: I now have enough content to make the void of capitalist realism feel less empty. I really appreciate all the recs.
If you find any let me know. I've always figured that a TV show would be a fantastic format for this kind of story, because they'd have to have, like, actual writers keeping things reasonably focused and stuff. As opposed to the random internet weirdos writing whatever comes to mind until they get bored that makes up the vast majority of the genre. But it's hard to browse this stuff in English at least, because most people who speak English have literally never heard of this genre.
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I’ll save this and tag you if I do (be a buddy and tag me if you find any too though please).