My Name Is Not in the Sky

In the nine states of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the people who were born were first registered in heaven. Only those with names on the books are considered alive and can draw their breath to cultivate immortality; if there is no name on the books, even if they can breathe, they are just an ownerless corpse to be disposed of. When he was seventeen years old, Xie Yan, the registration clerk of Qinghe County, was told: There has never been such a person in the heavenly records. On the third bell, he will be delisted. On the road to death, a name that had been dead for ten years came from the black stone left by his adoptive father. As long as he agrees to the unfinished business of the unknown deceased, Xie Yan can borrow the magic skills left by him. He borrowed a bone-illuminating fire and asked the name-checking talisman to write the name of the deceased, and he also allowed himself to step off the name-killing platform. But when I returned home, the word "Xie Yan" on the memorial tablet of my adoptive father had disappeared. From then on, he fulfilled the wish of the unknown person and borrowed his method; he allowed more and more erased people to see the light of day again, but all traces of him in the world disappeared. Until he discovered that some people had written the entire village's living people to death in advance, and some people had used the dead people's names to receive immortality. Since heaven does not remember people, he started from a county and rewrote the names of the world.