I was human as well, till I was exposed to at least one and apparently two mutagenic pathogens which altered my very being. I take it you had a similar experience?
Those who die where I come from always have a chance to linger with unfinished business or resentful energy. The word we use is "ghosts" but it's a kind of demonic cultivation, to follow that path and become stronger. Some ghosts are just energies, others can construct forms. I spent a while consuming other ghosts to get stronger.
[CW: Fictional pathogens mentioned.]
private.
[ Private because he's perpetually worried cultivators will see he's a ghost and try to banish him. ]
[CW: Fictional pathogens mentioned.]
[cw: fictional pathogens] [cw: lots of death/undead talk] + still private
Those who die where I come from always have a chance to linger with unfinished business or resentful energy. The word we use is "ghosts" but it's a kind of demonic cultivation, to follow that path and become stronger. Some ghosts are just energies, others can construct forms. I spent a while consuming other ghosts to get stronger.
But you had some sort of disease?