A Small Official in the Immortal Dynasty: Starting from the Collation of Legal Documents

The Great Yu Immortal Dynasty used laws and orders to control the mountains and rivers, official seals to prevent disasters, and post roads to tie the world. Xu Zhao was just a record-keeper in the Yichuan Department of Anning County, Bianzhou. He copied roads, verified tax deeds, filled in documents and scolded others, and he thought he would die in the eyes of others. Until he discovered that a road guide that should have been destroyed with the dead had actually left legal ink marks on three inns. From that night on, he could see "traces of legal system" invisible to ordinary people in official documents, seals, tax rolls, and customs talismans - who had changed documents, who had transferred military status, which river was losing its name, which mountain had its deed stolen, which prison housed soldiers who were not recognized by the court, and even the entire state and city was quietly devouring the names of the people. From the dead man's road guide, to the black ship for water transport, the Zongmen mining road, the old barren gate, and the cracked city seal, Xu Zhao step by step from the lowest level clerk into the deepest secret of Bianzhou: this land has never been an ordinary Bianzhou, but a desolate-suppressing Dharma city made up of cities, passes, mountains, rivers and post roads. When the dead can pass the test, but the living are erased from the list; when the official seal can suppress evil spirits, but cannot suppress the old method of cannibalism, Xu Zhao can only wear the humblest official status and do something that even the court dare not do - let the desolate post road that has been cut off long ago and has never been used by humans once again send the names that the world deserves to the world.