The Celestial Court hangs high above, its laws as unyielding as iron. Sects stand everywhere, with undercurrents surging beneath the surface. Beneath the Nine Heavens, the struggle for the Great Dao has never ceased.
A sudden calamity destroys the lineage of Mirror Lake Sword Palace. Its sole survivor, Ling Cang, escapes by sheer luck from a bottomless abyss, burdened by a blood feud and countless mysteries. His Dao foundation is ruined, his path to immortality cut off, and Celestial Court Skyward Patrol envoys pursue him without mercy. In all the world, there is no place for him to stand.
At the edge of death, he abandons his former path. Within the sea of his extinguished heart, he contemplates the Northern Abyss, which swallows all things, and tempers a body of strange and inscrutable Ruins-and-Abyss True Water. From then on, the free-spirited youth in a blue robe embarks on a path of vengeance and seeking the Dao, wielding schemes as his blade and wisdom as his armor.
The Celestial Court sees him as a defiant remnant, the sects regard him as a pawn in their game, and foreign races see him as an opportunity that could change everything. In this grand age, he moves like a solitary swan’s shadow, navigating among the great powers and laying thunderous plans in silence, advancing cautiously amid the blades and shadows both on and beyond the chessboard.
“The highest good is like water. Water benefits all things and does not contend.”
“Yet when the vast sea rages, it can bring down the gates of Heaven!”
From the ruined relics of the Taiwei Enclosure, through the tangled upheavals of the Tianshi Enclosure, and all the way to the immortal palaces atop the Ziwei Enclosure... This is a deadly contest with heaven and earth as the board and all beings as its pieces, as well as a solitary cultivation journey that probes the heart and seeks the Dao of eternal life.
The angle is novel, and there is a political struggle in it, which is quite class-level. It seems that others are helping, but readers can also see that they are all using each other, and they are all chess pieces. It depends on how the protagonist, the chess piece, breaks the game.
Awesome and super good looking