The Record of Three Lives and the Origin of Heaven

The Buddha lowers his gaze and shakes Kunlun; a few words of truth appear in a troubled age.

A Taoist shakes the heavens with one hand; his sword reaches a thousand miles, leaving no one alive.

A vagabond drifts through half a lifetime, only to break the tribulation of his heart one day.

Rouged lips and powdered cheeks bewitch the world, yet one weeps alone before a lonely grave.

A scholar's passion turns his hair white; who could have guessed his life would amount to nothing?

I turn the heavens into a chessboard and the stars into pieces. Who dares enter this game of life and death?

Love and longing, the affairs of the martial world: a few sparse strokes tell the tragedy of a lifetime.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.