The Great Yan dynasty has stood for over a century, and the martial world reveres the "Nine Sects and Thirteen Fortresses." Martial artists draw breath into their meridians and refine the true qi of their respective schools. Yet in the shadowed corners of the realm, strange phenomena known as "Anomalies" still roam: shadows that flow backward, rain that speaks, and doors that refuse to close even after death.
Shen Yan, a corpse registrar in Yanhui City, works for the authorities, identifying nameless dead year after year so he can save enough money to ransom his younger sister, who was sold to an apothecary. One rainy night, inside the chest cavity of a corpse that should not have existed, he finds a small lamp made of white bone. When its flame is lit, it reveals what the dead saw in their final moments. It also exposes a secret Shen Yan has hidden for ten years: he has no heartbeat, yet he is still alive.
When prestigious sects, the black market, and the imperial intelligence bureau all begin pursuing the bone lamp, Shen Yan has no choice but to enter the martial world. He must save his sister and discover who he really is. But with every new truth revealed by the lamp, one more place in the human world loses its peace. And the "Night Without Day," erased from history, may never truly have ended.
A grand view of the world