[No System + light romance + transmigration + multiple female leads + decisive and ruthless protagonist + imaginative fantasy]
Jiang Luochuan falls off a cliff and tumbles into a tomb in a mountain valley, landing on the body of a thousand-year-old woman. The woman, who has slept for a millennium, suddenly awakens and pulls him into her coffin. After a dizzy spell, he finds himself a thousand years in the past.
First he is mistaken for a thief who has come to steal a woman’s virtue. After escaping, he is struck by lightning. Then, while trying to fill his stomach, he is poisoned. As he flees, bandits chop off his head, but his immortal body lets him turn the tables and kill them. By chance, he obtains the Wind and Thunder Steps and begins an extraordinary journey with one cheat after another.
Jiang Luochuan makes his way to Azure Cloud Mountain. A sword stele reveals that he is Ye Tianzun, the peerless powerhouse who fought in the ultimate battle of long ago. Now all he has left is an immortal body: his cultivation is gone, and his realm is incomplete.
He cultivates new techniques and rebuilds his strength. But when he once again reaches the pinnacle, he discovers that this world is merely a piece on the board in a contest between mighty beings, and all the living creatures in it are no more than ants on that board.
So Jiang Luochuan gathers the many powerful figures of this world and breaks through the boundary between realms. The pawn turns the tables and kills the player. Yet the sight before him plunges him into an even more boundless terror: countless pawns like this one exist together on a vast chessboard.
Now that the players have been killed, what fate awaits all these pawns?
I can’t die. I hope you can’t either.
