Shattering the Heavens with Baleful Force

Li Village was slaughtered in a single night. Only the young Ji Ye escaped, his bloodline running wild. The power of destruction in his right eye could burn away the heavens, while the vitality of creation flowed through his left. The two supreme bloodlines of Zhulong and Nüwa, ancient enemies, somehow coexist within him as he teeters on the brink of death. Cast into the God-Burial Abyss, he gains no brute strength in his desperate plight. Instead, with astonishing wisdom, he uncovers the secrets of the ancient graveyard and becomes the only one capable of solving the puzzle left by Fuxi.

What Fuxi left behind was no power to destroy heaven and earth, but the divine art of using the celestial abacus to see through to the source of all things. The honest cook who travels by Ji Ye's side is the reincarnation of the savage White Tiger. The trapped Dragon Clan saintess, the Xuanwu heir seeking protection, the Vermilion Bird goddess who offers her inheritance... Behind these “coincidences” that arrive with the coming calamity, who is pulling the strings?

Wielding the jade token of space and time and seeing the paths of all things, Ji Ye uses his mortal body as a chessboard and turns the world to his advantage. The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's shadow clings to him like a curse, his mother's whereabouts are as elusive as a kite with a severed string, and the source of his bloodline's curse lies buried in mist... As the horrifying truth behind this game played with heaven and earth slowly comes into view, he taps the table with one finger:

Does the one pulling the strings know that the mantis stalks the cicada?

Who set this deadly game in motion, one that will shake the ages?