Xu Jingxian is the poorest lightning-ward formation repairman in the Leixiao Realm, with a cultivation level of only the third tier of Spirit Breath. Others hide from lightning, but he can draw it into his own body and send it out the other side.
One day, he takes on a nearly unprofitable job repairing a formation for someone undergoing tribulation. His client, He Ping'an, is alive and kicking, yet the damaged tribulation seal reads:
[The tribulation subject's case has been closed in advance. Time of death: fifteen minutes from now.]
Xu Jingxian saves the man, but the Thunder Bureau's public ledger refuses to acknowledge that a living person is still alive. Then a female inspector comes knocking: she is alive in the civil registry, but has been dead for seventeen years in the old thunder disaster records. Even the ancient spirit of the thunder laws sealed inside the tribulation seal insists that the public ledger cannot be wrong.
From a leaky lightning-ward shop to the "Tribulation Response Outsourcing Office"; from repairing formations and taking on tribulations for unaffiliated cultivators to investigating the death lists scattered across the Nine Rings and Ten Thousand Pagodas. Xu Jingxian gradually discovers that so-called heavenly tribulations are not decided by heaven alone.
He doesn't guarantee that his clients will successfully overcome their tribulations. He only insists on one thing:
A tribulation may end in failure, but no one should die because someone else tampered with the books.
