Death Game: I Can Read Soulstone Inheritances

Die once, lose a piece of your memory.

Die three times, and you become a soulstone, set into someone's weapon.

While everyone else enters the Nine Realms to grind monsters and level up, Shen Guanfu comes looking for his missing brother.

At the mine, the foreman steps on a soulstone formed from a miner who has died three times, grinding it into the mud. "A worthless Tier Zero stone. One point of Constitution. Not even worth the discomfort of socketing it."

Shen Guanfu picks up the gray stone.

The Record of Ten Thousand Souls opens: this miner spent forty-two years digging into the mountains and kept a secret skill, the ability to spot a flaw in any iron or stone in the world.

An iron spike pries open a wrist shackle.

A worthless stone pries open an entire mine.

Later, he discovers that every ledger recording the harvesting of soulstones bears his brother's wax seal.

His brother sits at the end of a production line that devours people, waiting for him to come turn the tables.

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