A Record of the Strange in Great Qian: I Kill Yin Gods by Reading Bones

In the final years of the Great Qian Dynasty, demons have yet to emerge, but the Great Void has descended first. Down-on-his-luck undertaker Guo Chao, trying to pay off his debts, accidentally touches a death-contract jade token on a headless corpse and is dragged into the Great Void Illusion, a world based on real historical tragedies and eerie folk legends. The rules here are strict, and a wrong answer means death. With his talent for hearing bones, Guo Chao forms a superficial alliance with the cold-blooded female killer Su Qinghe. In a human-skin brothel and a blood-soaked village of paper effigies, Guo Chao discovers that behind the deadly rules lies a forbidden secret of the Great Qian imperial family: the secret of immortality. And every last word he hears from the dead is piecing together a truth that sends chills down his spine. The first mystery is revealed: why does the headless corpse who issued the death contract have a birthmark identical to his?