His peak is bankrupt. Its debts are ninety years deep. And something under the mountain has started knocking.

Shen Lu was a sweeper with a dead spirit root — until he learned to refine the sect's ashes into pure qi and exposed a steward's theft in front of the whole Nine Peaks Sect. His reward: a place in the inner sect, on Ash Peak — three disciples, a drunken master, and ninety years of unpaid "ash tithe" owed to the Seventh Peak.

Now the tithe has been called in. In thirty days, Ash Peak faces a formal audit and a tournament it cannot win — or dissolution.

Shen Lu does what he has always done. He keeps the books. He takes the contract nobody wants — hauling the whole sect's ash — and turns trash into income. He trains the misfits nobody else would teach. And in the oldest ash on the mountain, he finds the memory of a laughing immortal, a door made of ash… and the reason the Seventh Peak has been collecting ash for ninety years.

It was never about the money.

The Ash Ledger is Book 2 of the Nine Peaks Saga — a progression cultivation fantasy of ledgers, level-ups, and an underdog who counts every debt. Perfect for readers of Cradle and translated xianxia. Book 1, The Ash Disciple, is available in the same store.