@snacksyou should try playing Amazing Cultivation Simulator.
One of the common way to cheese the game is to create anguish soul gems farming location in your sect (making room with dogshit feng shui and inhospitable living conditions like -100°C where you will have your sect gate which is used to assemble npcs that want to join you, everyone who you don't want to recruit very quickly expire, becoming a valuable item and then body could be used as fertiliser for fields afaik)