I wonder even if the most braindead wuxia reader would go at this point: "ye! kill that trash! Most painful death!" ?
Like, can't there be a hostile force that's not excessively brain rotteningly evil?
With a cursed weapon user, and a ghoul, it makes sense -- but the author is also the one who chooses these very extreme evils to be the villains.
This story badly needs a villain, that's not uber-racist from the get go.