Deep in Zhongnan Mountain, in the Age of Declining Dharma, intern doctor Su Mingzhao triggers the long-sealed Primordial Jade Register, dormant for six Jiazi, inside a collapsed ancient temple, awakening memories of nine lifetimes of reincarnation. When he discovers that his family's yin-yang fish jade pendant is actually a vessel for a congenital Dao seed, he has already become a “variable in the Heavenly Dao” hunted by the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. The mysterious girl Lu Qing appears with a reversed yin-yang jade pendant and leads him on a path to prove the Dao, across an inverted Yellow Springs and into a daring venture to Penglai. But neither of them knows they have long been woven into a calamity-era chess game spanning 129,600 years. The karmic ties between the Star Lord of Time and the spirit of the Moon Cassia Tree, the god-slaying prophecy on the jade slips in the Hall of Fate, and the restless ancestral shaman essence in a bronze coffin all point to the ultimate truth behind the tampered Investiture of the Gods War.
