Becoming an Immortal by Taking Someone Else's Death

In the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty, cultivators can pay for a scapegoat to die in their place before facing tribulation.

Being a scapegoat is the most wretched occupation in the world. You get paid each time you die, and most people really do die after just one job.

Chen Sangeng is the sole exception. In three years on the job, he's taken 96 assignments, and every time he's crawled back alive from the mass grave.

No one knows why he can't die. He knows half the answer: there's a coffin in his chest. Whenever he is near death, it cracks open and swallows the lethal lightning, poison, and blades, then steals something from whoever tried to kill him: cultivation, techniques, or memories.

The price is that every time he dies, he loses a piece of his own memory. He's forgotten his parents' faces, and even why he cultivates. All he has left is a little notebook full of accounts.

Until the 99th time, when a woman stands before his grave and says she wants to buy his 100th death.

But the ledger of the Bureau of Fate says: Geng Seven, sold 99 times, buyer: the Bureau of Fate.

It turns out his life was sold twenty years ago.