On the night when all the life lights in Qingwu City were extinguished, the twelve corpses in Yi Zhuang opened their eyes at the same time.
Jiang Zhaoye was born without fire and was considered a waste of cultivation by everyone, but he accidentally got a black lamp that could hear the last wishes of the deceased. He can borrow the skills of the deceased in exchange for fulfilling his unfinished wish; if he fails to repay the borrowed fire, he will be swallowed up by obsession and gradually forget who he is.
From the ninety-six living coffins on the Blackwater River to the underground palace of the mine slaves who have never seen the light of day under the Jintian Mountain, Jiang Zhaoye and the escaped stargazer Pei Qingluo tracked down and discovered that the sky lantern that had protected Kyushu for three hundred years was secretly draining the life span of all living beings.
As the sky begins to fall, everyone is calculating who to sacrifice. Jiang Zhaoye just wants the erased names to be heard again - the dead should be named, and the living should have the right to decide for whom their fires are lit.
