Qing Yao passed by a tribulation site, but was mistakenly struck by a swerving tribulation lightning, becoming a new ghost in the netherworld. To protect the Tianlei Sect, she went from being a ghost runner at the Naihe Bridge to a judge, discovering that she could alter the Book of Life and Death. Her master's sect was repeatedly targeted by the chosen ones of heaven, so she time and again renewed the fates of her fellow disciples. Until everyone broke into the Palace of King Yama, accusing her of disrupting fairness, she opened the ledger and revealed their records of altering fates for relatives and friends. The Heavenly Dao descended in person to apply pressure, and King Yama stepped forward to protect her; Qing Yao gripped her judge's brush tightly, determined to make everyone obey the exact same rules of life and death.