The Immortal Ascension Bell rang nine times at Qingqi Sect.
Lu Xuan, a nineteen-year-old corpse-handling servant, recognized the hand of the carpenter next door on the remains sent down by an immortal.
Frostbitten skin, crooked fingers, and an old scar left from catching his daughter.
But halfway through washing the body, those marks begin to disappear, and the dead man's face slowly turns into the immortal's.
The person who delivered the remains left three taboos:
Do not look at its face. Do not accept anything from it. Do not answer its voice.
Yet the person in the box calls him by name.
"Little Lu, did they get the money?"
Lu Xuan only wants to pass along a message for an old friend, but from that moment on, he owes a debt that must be repaid with his lifespan.
To survive, he begins learning to read auras and break contracts, searching for the path of cultivation left behind by those who came before. And the remains sent back down the mountain gradually help him see the truth: what the immortals have cast away, and who has ended up bearing it.
