The Abyss That Illuminates the Bones

Thirty-seven people died in the Hanjiang mine disaster.

But Lu Linyuan later discovered that those thirty-seven names had been written in an immortal's life ledger even before they were born.

Lifespans could be taxed, names erased, and dynasties could extend their fortune by spending the lives of their people.

And yet he was the only person who didn't exist in the ledger.

With no fate to calculate and no fortune to borrow, all he could do was claw his way up from a mountain of corpses.

Hanjiang, the Nine Provinces, the Imperial Tombs, the Immortal Sects...

The closer he came to the truth, the more he discovered something even more terrifying:

Those immortals who stood high above the world seemed to be afraid of something, too.

And why was the bronze coffin buried beneath Hanjiang for so many years waiting for him in particular?