Lu Chen spent three years collecting corpses at a mass burial ground. For the first time, he received funeral money from two people.
One payment was for the person in the coffin. The other was for him.
That night, he narrowly survived and witnessed the deceased's final thought.
Thus began the opening of the Book of Burial Names. Fulfill the dead's final wishes, and you can inherit something they left behind.
Return an old belt, and gain ten years of the Snow-Treading Step.
Clear the name of a wrongfully slain swordsman, and gain the River-Splitting Blade technique.
Bury the border soldiers who had no one to lay them to rest, and gain the resolve of an army that never retreats.
At first, Lu Chen only wanted to earn enough silver to buy back his family's coffin shop.
But the more bodies he collected, the more frightening the dead's identities became. Then one day, as he stood before a sacred statue worshiped by thousands, the Book of Burial Names suddenly opened on its own.
The sage said to still be in seclusion had been dead for three thousand years.
His final wish was just one sentence:
“Don't let them know you heard me.”
