The Death Ledger
Every life started in Blade RPG's English Death Challenge goes on the Death Ledger: the realm it reached, the turns it survived, whether it is still alive, and — for most of them — what killed it. Once the engine records a death, that save cannot be continued, so a dead row is a finished life.
The Ledger itself lives inside the game, because it shows spirit roots and causes of death for every run: open the Death Challenge and tap 🏆 Death Ledger. Below is the board we can show here without a sign-in — the players who have spent the most turns in the English game, across every mode.
Reading the numbers honestly
The English edition opened in August 2026, so both boards are young and the numbers are small. We're showing them anyway, because the alternative is seeding a board with fake entries, and a game about consequences that lies about its record has nothing left to sell.
For scale: the Traditional Chinese edition has been live far longer, and its most dedicated players are in the tens of thousands of turns. That is what a board looks like after time, not what an English player should expect today.
What the Death Ledger ranks
- Realm reached first, turns survived second — living and dead runs on the same board
- 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 keep a death board at all
Because in a mode where a death ends the save, the record is the only thing that survives you. A leaderboard in a normal game measures how much time someone spent. The Death Ledger measures how much risk someone got away with, and for how long, before they didn't.
What actually ends these runs · How death is enforced · The ladder they were climbing
FAQ
What is the Death Ledger?
The in-game board of Blade RPG's English Death Challenge, a cultivation roguelike. Every life started in the mode gets a row, ranked first by the realm it reached and then by the turns it survived, with whether it is still alive and, if not, what ended it. It is inside the game: open the Death Challenge and tap 🏆 Death Ledger. You need to be signed in to see it.
What does the board on this page show?
The public board, which needs no sign-in: the players who have played the English game the most turns, counted across every mode and every save and shown under the name of their longest-running character, plus who has played the most turns this week. It measures how long people have played, not how far one life got — that is what the in-game Death Ledger is for.
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 onto the Death Ledger?
Start a Death Challenge life: in the Hall tap + New Avatar, then I'm not afraid to die. Every life is recorded. To climb it, survive — realm and turns only move when you play them, and nothing in the Market raises a realm or your stats.
Does my entry stay after I die?
Yes. A dead run keeps its row, with the realm it reached, the turns it lasted and what ended it. That's the point of a ledger rather than a scoreboard.
How many turns is a good run?
Surviving past the opening stretch at all puts you ahead of most attempts, since Qi Condensation covers thirteen of the ladder's forty-five ranks and the majority of runs end inside it. Any run that reaches Foundation Establishment is a genuinely long one.
Put a name on it
40 free turns, no card. The bar is lower than you think, and so is the ceiling.
Play free →New accounts start in the free-form wuxia sandbox. For the cultivation Death Challenge, open the Hall and tap + New Avatar, then I'm not afraid to die.