Three thousand years into the Age of Declining Dharma, the path to immortality is severed, and martial arts reign supreme.
Lin Que, whose soul transmigrates into Luohun Village, opens his eyes to find himself the fourth sacrifice on an altar. As he teeters on the brink of death, the "Karmic Chessboard System" activates: observe fate, make a move, review the game, and collect the pieces. The price is that every use strips away another fragment of his human warmth.
He fights his way out of a village of blood sacrifice, then, armed with a medium spirit root, crippled martial arts, and all living beings as his pieces, ventures into Qingzhou, enters the immortal sects, and stirs up the immortal dynasty.
Until he discovers that the sigil on his chest shares its origins with a forbidden art of the ancient Immortal Court. Until he sees the truth: the Age of Declining Dharma is no natural disaster, and ascension is no blessing.
The Heavenly Dao is watching him make his moves in this game.
And he intends to flip the board.
The book by the new author is alright.
I feel I can only give it 4 stars.
The beginning was quite intriguing, so I decided to keep watching.