Fate is a chess game, but who holds the black and white pieces? When “Heaven” is no heavenly law, will the pieces on the board bow their heads and accept their fate as pawns, or will they shatter their crowns and bite through the strings that bind them? Witness the twin stars who rise from humble beginnings: Emperor Wu, who tramples countless bones beneath his feet and uses the fortune of the Human Emperor to hold the realm together; and the Celestial Immortal Xuanqiong, who gathers the worship of myriad worlds and uses the power of faith to knock on the gates of immortality. Once childhood friends who drank together beside a frozen river, they now stand at the pinnacles of heaven and earth, yet remain trapped by the shackles of being “two sides of one body.” To transcend, one must seize the other's foundation; to attain the Dao, one must step over the other's back.
The boy whose family ties were crushed and whose Dao heart was broken becomes a pawn, clutching a fragment of jade-like fortune in a pool of blood. As the Immortal Emperor scatters starlight and the Sovereign buries a blade, as the imperial throne is stained with dust and the immortal altar sullied, when an ant raises its blade, will fate crush it beneath its heel, or will it overturn this very chessboard of destiny?
