[Lighthearted ensemble cast + an immortal sect’s debt collection + rule-based mystery + hidden big shots all around + character growth]
My father had been dead for eighteen years.
I only found out after I went up the mountain to collect his debt.
The problem was, he had just run off yesterday.
Wen Zhaotang set off on a long journey to Guichen Sect with the 30,000 spirit stone debt contract her father had left behind, thinking she was finally about to get rich overnight.
But when she reached the mountain gate...
Great.
They were selling the plaque.
The entire sect had scraped together everything they owned, and all they had was 723 spirit stones.
She was just about to sit down and demand payment when she realized that something seemed off about this impoverished sect that could barely afford to eat.
The senior brother in charge of the accounts was the young master of the Tianheng Yan clan.
The cold-faced senior brother who raised spirit beasts was a perennial second-place contender on the Qingxiao List.
The second senior sister, so stingy she could split a single spirit stone in two to make it go further, was absurdly skilled in formations.
The rest were each even less like ordinary paupers.
And even more absurd...
Her debt contract was real.
Her father had “died” eighteen years ago. That was real, too.
And according to the local household register, she had been alive for eighteen years, but in the central Heavenly Contract registry, her entry consisted of just four characters:
No such person
Wen Zhaotang: “...”
Fine.
The 30,000 spirit stones can wait.
She would start by getting to the bottom of why she “didn’t exist,” then collect every last debt, one by one.
