The Death Ledger
Every name below is a cultivator who is still alive, or was. The number beside it is how many turns that life lasted. Because there is no reload and no revive, each of these is one continuous run — not a total across attempts, not a save file someone kept rewinding.
Reading the numbers honestly
The English edition opened in August 2026, so this ledger is young and the numbers are small. We're showing them anyway, because the alternative is seeding a board with fake entries, and a permadeath game that lies about its death record has nothing left to sell.
For scale: the Traditional Chinese edition runs the same engine and has been live far longer, with leaders in the tens of thousands of turns. That is what this board looks like after time, not what an English run should expect today.
What a turn count means here
- One turn = one action taken in the world, and each one costs 2 Satiety whether or not it goes well
- Qi Condensation is 13 of 45 ranks. Most runs end without leaving it
- Above Foundation Establishment, advancement is bound to turns actually survived — you cannot shortcut the board
- At most one rank per turn, so a high realm always implies a long life behind it
- Rank is server-authoritative and only moves up — the board reads engine state, not narration
Why publish a death board at all
Because in a game where dying is permanent, the record is the only thing that survives you. A leaderboard in a normal game measures how much time someone spent. Here it measures how much risk someone got away with, and for how long, before they didn't.
What actually ends these runs · Why there's no way to undo it · The ladder they were climbing
FAQ
Are these real players?
Yes. The board is read live from the game's public, de-identified ladder endpoint and cached for two minutes. Nothing here is seeded.
How do I get on it?
Survive. There is no other mechanism — turns cannot be bought into rank, and nothing in the shop advances a realm.
Does my entry stay after I die?
The run's record persists. That's the point of a ledger rather than a scoreboard.
Put a name on it
40 free turns, no card. The bar is lower than you think, and so is the ceiling.
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