Shen An, an embalmer who has been practicing in modern times for 8 years, accidentally traveled to a world of immortal cultivators that was polluted by strange things and where human life was like insignificant things. At the beginning, he was detected as a short-lived species with only 4 years of life left, and was forced to join the night watch team of the vigil village with a mortality rate of 90%. His only reliance is the broken shrine burning with ashes in his dream - as long as he sacrifices his lifespan, memory, emotions, cognition and even his own sense of existence, he can fish for techniques, elixirs, and information from the "Sea of Ashes". However, the more sacrifices you make, the faster you die...