Death registries, awakening, the Sword-Burial Mine, mortal cultivation, sword cultivators, labor contracts, sealed wells, sword rankings, sects, fighting above your level, ascension to immortality.
Song Li spent six years carrying broken swords for the Sword-Burial Mine. When he finally paid off his debt for awakening, the sword registry claimed he had died in a mining accident three days earlier.
His qualification was stripped away. In three days, the registry incinerator would be lit, and even every trace of his life would be burned away.
Mortal Song Li refused to accept his death. He investigated the labor contracts, ventured into the sealed well, and seized back his first breath of spiritual energy. From the mine's death registry to the sect's sword rankings, he carved out his own road to immortality, one sword at a time.
