The Immortal Sect Owes Me Three Thousand Lives

The immortal sects borrow years from mortals, trading one year of life for the cost of a dose of medicine.

Nineteen-year-old apothecary apprentice Xie Chi has spent three years copying life-span contracts for people at Qiheng Sect. He has grown used to seeing the names entered in the ledgers.

Until one day, a sick woman is forced to trade a year of her life for medicine.

Xie Chi refuses to stamp the contract, only to discover that the life-scale has not even been activated, yet the ledger already says, “Years of life received.”

One contract, two accounts. Someone is still alive, yet their years have already been counted as income.

To save the patient, and to keep his younger sister, who suffers from meridian-splitting disease, alive, Xie Chi begins investigating the Longevity Ledger, a book that should never contain errors.

But he soon discovers that the sect's pills, cultivators' breakthroughs, and immortals' longevity all rest on a debt that has never been settled.

He is only a low-ranking apothecary apprentice, with no heaven-defying treasure and no power to rewrite fate.

But he knows those names.

A life owed must eventually be repaid.