Long Night Light

In the winter of the thirty-fourth year of the First Emperor of Qin, Yangzhai in Yingchuan. Gravedigger Sheng, who is afraid of ghosts, has spent his whole life working for the dead without knowing a word. He dug out a coffin with a shovel. The wood was broken, and the fractures were like bullet lines. It was empty, and there was only a bronze goose fish lamp: the goose held the fish in its neck, and the fish belly was filled with water. It was lit without smoke. The lamp cannot be blown out, and the oil has not dried for two thousand years. From then on, he devoted himself to his own blood life after life, waking up later and later: nineteen, thirty-three, forty-one, until he was sixty-four. Before he woke up, he was an honest farmer and office worker. He knew how to marry a wife, was afraid of death, and knew how to urinate and excrement. The moment he woke up, two thousand years of debts were settled together. The most cruel thing in the book is not the catastrophe, but "awakening". When he wakes up once, the wick becomes shorter; when he burns out, he dies for the last time, and he will never come back after death. Cultivation of immortality is not about upgrading, it is about passing on the fire - handing down a lamp, you have to exchange your body for each life: walking twenty miles and losing two teeth, writing a word and losing a door; some people are no longer afraid of ghosts, some can't distinguish between nobles and purples for the rest of their lives, and some are so useless that they can't use the lamp at night. The aura of heaven and earth is not something that comes down from heaven, but is used up by humans inch by inch: burning books, salt and iron, temples, printing, lining armor, spreading small houses into acres, and cremation - every time "the world is under great rule", a layer is scraped away from the ground. The opponent is not a demon sect, but an organization that has been collecting "immortals" since the Qin Dynasty and has changed its name nine times. And the only person worthy of him is the half of the people he leaves behind every time he fakes death: it doesn't take revenge, it just waits for him to come back and holds the door from the inside for life after life.