Records of Hengyan

Chen Dusheng was born with salt bones, and the immortal sects judged him to have a useless body. All he inherited was a ledger of five generations of debt. Then, from the bottom of an abandoned brine well, he retrieved an ancient scale called Heng. It could weigh the true value of anything, but demanded lifespan and memories as its counterweights. From the salt flats to the capital, he investigated the debts one by one, until he discovered that the spiritual energy of the Nine Rivers was itself a debt unpaid for a thousand years, and its creditor had returned from the sea.