Chess Breaks Through the Nine Heavens

Name: Chess Breaks Through the Nine Heavens
Author: Willows and a Gentle Breeze

棋破九天

by Willows and a Gentle Breeze (杨柳清风)

Status: Completed
Length: 208k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Traditional Eastern Fantasy
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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“A martial arts washout? Today, with this little chessboard, I'll show you what a sage's wrath looks like!” Inside the Ye family ancestral hall, a drop of blood fell from the young man's fingertip onto the blue stone chessboard, and the star chart of the Twenty-Eight Mansions branded itself onto his spine. While everyone mocked his obsession with chess, no one guessed that this bloodstained endgame was the very celestial chess formation the Chess Sage Zhou had used to suppress the demons a thousand years ago. On the shores of the Eastern Sea, a nine-headed demon wyrm raised black waves that devoured souls. He laid out nineteen lines of poisonous moves on tear-shaped shark pearls stained with blood. In the depths of the Yellow Springs, a prison-guarding chess dragon breathed out the qi of life-and-death tribulations, and he wagered his three souls to bait the dragon into devouring its own tail. From a castoff of the family, scorned by all, to the Heavenly Origin Chess Sage who commanded the Star-River Board, every move Ye Chen made added another inch of petrified markings to his spine. “You think the Chess Sage's legacy is a gift?” A bronze sword reflected the frenzied face of Chess Sage Zhou. “It's nothing but a thousand-year-old atonement!” As the music of his childhood sweetheart's zither turned into a jade hairpin sealing demons, and his brother, both friend and foe, revealed his soul-devouring black piece, Ye Chen lifted the final sacrifice amid the agony of star patterns consuming his body. It was none other than the unfinished endgame of “Great Unity Under Heaven” from Murong Xue's century-old painted realm... On the chessboard, every star point is an unhealed scar; Beneath the sea of tribulations, every move stakes a life against the will of Heaven.

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