The night the sect threw Xu Zhou into a corpse pit as worthless scrap, he saw his cause of death in the registry: expendable.
He had been a modern construction inspector, but transmigrated into a discarded disciple of the Qingyun Sect. He should have been buried alongside the other six bodies. By counting corpses and checking the registry, he crawled out from under the corpse collector's iron hook, only to discover that the sky was a shattered web of ten thousand laws: the Way of Heaven takes from those with too much to make up for those with too little, but those who mend the heavens always take from the poorest first.
Lifespans, spiritual roots, formation materials, passage rights, even an entire village's escape route could all be written down as "surplus" for mending the heavens. Xu Zhou could see the discrepancies in the accounts, but all he had to fill them with was what little he owned. With the poisoned boy A Shi and Gu Chen, a mysterious debt collector, he crossed fog gates that checked tokens, blood, and old debts, pursuing the signature that marked him "expendable."
He only wanted to ask the person who signed it one thing: Why me?
But the farther he climbed, the more he realized that once he held the power to mend the heavens for everyone, he might become the next person to sign the order.
