The Founder of Diabolism - S01

On a deserted road in the countryside, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji come upon a stone plaque that reads "Yi City." Still trying to solve the mystery of the cursed severed arm, they head into the abandoned city looking for more leads. But when a mysterious new cultivator appears, the investigation into the demonic arm pulls Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji into a plot that threatens the cultivation world as they know it. The situation grows more serious when the two discover it involves the chief cultivator of the renowned Lanling Jin Sect, Jin Guangyao. As the pair keep piecing together the key conspiracies in the history of cultivation, their friends and colleagues become suspicious of their motives. With the world against him, Wei Wuxian must prove he is not the demonic sorcerer people believe him to be, to win back their trust and save the cultivation world from the sinister evil lurking within it.