A pure white train that never stops carries ten dead people covered in blood and grime.
This is the Land of Suffering.
Birth, old age, illness, death, separation from loved ones, meeting those you hate, wanting what you cannot have, and the burning torment of the five aggregates.
Eight steel cities have become eight layers of despairing hell.
Every seven days, the tide recedes. Everyone’s memories are wiped clean, and they sink back into a mass of flesh.
Only an “imprint” carved into the flesh with an extreme obsession can preserve a remnant of the soul.
Shen Ji, a criminal defense lawyer, arrived carrying a debt of blood.
She could always find loopholes in rules that should have meant certain death, leaving the uncanny judge speechless.
But when she pulled open her companion’s collar, she found a torn scroll branded onto the throat of the woman in blue;
a stopped surgical scalpel hidden in the chest of a cardiac surgeon;
and a blood-red scale on the back of her own hand, frantically drawing in murderous intent...
The Land of Suffering never accepts innocent souls.
Only after opening the gates of the eighth temple and seeing the familiar photograph in the very center of the courtroom did Shen Ji finally realize in terror:
In this horrific trial spanning countless tribulations, the true defendant was...
