The Accountant of Ten Thousand Tribulations

The dead cannot speak.

At least, that's what everyone in Qingheng Sect believed.

Shen Yan, however, could hear the final words left behind by the dead.

A corpse, a tampered ledger, and three hundred and seven spirit stones that vanished without a trace drew him into an old sect case that had been buried for years.

Some used the dead as cover for their crimes. Some made the living pay for their deficits with their lives. And some sat high above the clouds, trading the karma of all living beings for their own immortality.

To stay alive, Shen Yan had no choice but to investigate old accounts no one dared touch.

Starting as the sect's lowliest bookkeeping apprentice, he tracked spirit stones, pursued debts owed in blood, and cracked secret cases, searching for opportunities to cultivate amid one deadly crisis after another.

While others fought over heavenly treasures, he investigated the price behind each opportunity.

While others secluded themselves to seek the Dao, he searched for a way to survive in the fragments of words left by the dead.

Until one day, he discovered that the so-called destiny, immortal fate, and eternal life might all be nothing more than an old account still waiting to be settled.

And the name on the first page of the ledger he had spent years investigating was none other than his father's.

Can every debt owed in this world truly be repaid?