I Bear Witness in the Mortal World

Everyone says that people cultivate immortality to live forever. But Shen Wang gradually discovered that the higher one cultivates, the lighter one becomes in this world. Your family forgets you. Old friends no longer recognize you. Your name fades from the household registers, and the things you did lose their claim to you, until one day even history can no longer prove that you ever existed. The world calls that day Ascension. But Shen Wang remembers. He remembers the name missing from the stele, the ancient city that should have been destroyed three hundred years ago, and the sword cultivator who lived for more than four hundred years but was known by no one in the end. Later, he discovered that people weren't the only things the world forgot. It also forgot cities, dynasties, wars, even entire eras. As the deleted histories began to return, everyone had to answer one question: If the world must make some people vanish completely in order to keep existing, who has the right to decide who should be forgotten? Shen Wang had no answer. All he could do was record, one by one, the things that had truly happened. Because at least in this mortal world, someone should be able to prove that they were here.