The Heavenly IOU

For ten thousand years of immortal cultivation, all seek eternal life. Only Zhou Du cultivates debt. A scroll of the 'Heavenly IOU' tears open the coldest rules of the cultivation world. Cultivation base is advanced, lifespan is cashed out. Every step of glory on the path to immortality is bought by stripping away a part of 'humanity' from oneself. Silent, colorless, tasteless, painless, without time, without memory... Nine loans, nine sacrifices, nine times on the verge of soul scattering. He silently keeps accounts, silently endures the torture of heavenly compound interest, enduring what ordinary people cannot, giving up what the world is unwilling to. Until the sealed top-secret archives of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion are revealed, he learns that his life of innate debt was destined from birth. Seven residual debts from his father's generation, a thousand years of mortgage across nine realms. He sinks step by step into the abyss of debt, only for the final day to reverse the heavenly debt rights, and with a mortal body, sit on the supreme seat of heaven.