Pawn your lifespan for spirit stones, wager your karma to defy fate.
On the first day Lin Qi'an took over his family's ancestral pawnshop, he accepted half of a bloodstained peachwood sword.
The Hongwu Tongbao coin embedded in its hilt suddenly spun. He saw the Sword-Seeking Pavilion collapse beneath a blood moon, its three hundred cultivators turned into nourishment for a bronze tree.
It was a sign that his Karma Dao Physique had awakened.
Blood-red prophecies appeared before his eyes, while the copper coin in his palm changed its reign title with every calamity:
Yongle could steal the fortune of the Great Ming and forge a sword. Chongzhen could summon ghost soldiers from the underworld to clear the way.
But every time he used a point of fortune, memories from his past lives as a general, a Daoist, and a beggar began to overwrite his own.
It was only when the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, covered in blood, crashed into the pawnshop that he learned the world had long since been turned into a game of chess by the Hall of Reincarnation.
Every item on the pawnshop's antique shelves was a living person's karma, torn away from them.
The ledger behind the counter recorded not transactions in gold and silver, but the endless exchange of people's fates.
And the gentle woman who always came to pawn her jade bangle already had a tenth mark of reincarnation appearing on her neck... Weigh it on your Lin family's karma scale.
Would he pawn this Dao physique to bring peace to all, or swallow the coin and wager against the Heavenly Dao?
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
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