TDG: Tales of Demons and Gods. Well, not really! Fanfiction? Yes. Just TDG? Nope. It's a world crossing stuff. It's just that, TDG was the first arc/volume for it. The MC arrives before Nie Li's Timeline. And MC kind of took over the Alchemist Association(?) by helping the future head(?). That's the gist of it. Can't really remember it properly though. I think there's a system too.
https ://dynamic.webnovel. com/book/11870929005583205 yeah where the mc is cultivator in prev life also a b c d then suddenly move away from the plot and get weird really fast. pretty sure its this p.s. my acc cant post link yet so sorry for that choppy link
Jackpot! They were Divine Beasts. The 4, and a Qilin (iirc). That was it dude. I only remember it when I read this.