Guarding a Grave Tablet for Ten Years, the Dead Ask Me to Clear Their Names

Grey Stele City has one rule: every year, the names of the dead must be copied down again.

Cen Liyuan has guarded the stele for ten years. Other people can only see the names carved on it, but he can hear the last words the dead left trapped in the stone.

In the eleventh year after his father's death, he hears his father again on a stranger's stele:

"A Yuan, don't practice stele martial arts. That's no cultivation technique. It's an order left behind for soldiers by the previous era."

To uncover how his father managed to die twice, Cen Liyuan enters the White Sand Iron Well. Time lies there, the dead keep carrying out their unfinished missions, and the Federation is burying a secret that has lasted three hundred years.

When the seven forbidden lands awaken at once, every cultivator will be remade into a soldier who knows only how to obey.

And the man who records the grievances of the dead decides to scrape the commands from the stele, stroke by stroke.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.