Jin Wujiu, a top forensic pathologist at the provincial public security department, dies suddenly after autopsying three bodies in a row. He transmigrates and wakes up as the lowest-ranking corpse washer in the Great Qian Demon Suppression Bureau, a lowly servant tasked with skinning and dismembering demons. Baleful energy seeps into the body, and no one lives past thirty. The body he has transmigrated into has only three days left. His superior dumps a highly venomous fox demon's corpse on him, clearly intending for him to die before dawn. But he has miscalculated. The moment Jin Wujiu touches the demon corpse, he awakens the Demon-Slaying Codex. By slaying demons and touching their corpses, he can extract their innate gifts and see the deepest fragments of their memories from before death. So he examines corpses and solves cases, unearths irrefutable proof that his superior covered up a murder, and turns the tables by having him beheaded. He then solves a bizarre case involving the extermination of a powerful family, slashes through the demon that protected its master, and steps on the son of the Deputy Minister of Revenue in front of everyone. From corpse washer to demon-slaying guard to company commander, Jin Wujiu has only one path: whoever wants his life, he takes theirs first. In this murderous, chaotic age, the fastest blade decides who makes the rules. And the hands he uses to examine corpses are as steady as the blade he uses to kill.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.