Cultivation: I Examine the Meridians of the Dead

In the Great Yin Immortal Dynasty, cultivation methods must be registered, and people must be registered according to their methods. The officially designated meridians are the path to life; altering even a single acupoint marks one as a heretic. Shen Yan is the lowest-ranked corpse examiner in the death prison. He has touched too many bodies of those who died from qi deviation, knowing that the dead do not lie for the living. One day, a genius from the county academy dies under a universally safe "Nourishing Meridian Scripture," but the corpse's meridians take one extra turn beyond the official route. Shen Yan can replicate that turn within his own body. He gains not the dead's cultivation or secret arts, but only the knowledge of where it went wrong, why they died, and the same injuries. Yet when his sister begins coughing up blood with a burnt smell, he has no choice but to graft one condemned wrong meridian after another into his own body. Later, he examines sects, immortal cities, and a wiped-out cultivation civilization. Until a transcendent being falls from the sky, and he realizes—the greatest corpse in the world is called the Heavenly Dao. — Description from novelcodex.org