Synopsis of the story of "Determining the Universe"
Ling Yixuan, a prodigy from the Qingming Sword Sect, has a special talent for playing chess. Due to a mysterious white stone pendant, he accidentally entered the Soul-Desolating Valley, an ancient and sinister place, and accidentally saw through the remaining formation of the "Qiankun Game" on the stone tablet. Here, he meets Su Qingyao, the descendant of Tianji Pavilion - she holds the attached black child token and is proficient in chess sword and Tianji deduction. The tokens on their waists are in harmony with each other, and they are destined to be "chess pieces".
Changes in the chess game attract the demon cultivator "Ghost Yizi" and various forces to covet him. Ling Yixuan and Su Qingyao hurriedly join forces to defeat the enemy with the "Yin Yang Sword", but they find that there is a black hand behind the chess game, and they have a deep connection with their lives. In order to break the game and find the truth, they stepped into the core of the underground palace and took on the game of Qiankun chess, which required eighty-one days to pass through eighteen levels of illusion.
From confronting the murderous intentions controlled by puppets in "The Chess Game of All Living Beings", to confronting inner obsessions and fears in "The Chess Game of Inner Demons", to sticking to one's true intentions in the court disputes in "The Chess Game of Power", the two use their swords as their sons and their hearts as their chess, and their tacit understanding gradually deepens in the shared life and death, and their love grows secretly. They went through the "Jedi Chess Game" to realize the vitality of the desperate situation, and went through the "Reincarnation Chess Game" to learn about the mystery of cause and effect. Finally, in the last illusion of "Qiankun Tribulation", they used the Tao as the son, the soul as the guide, and relied on the Tao of "love as the guide, righteousness as the foundation, and the common people as the thought" to break the game.
In the end, the two uncovered the truth about their life experiences - they were actually the reincarnation of an ancient chess master with magical powers, and uncovered an ancient organization that attempted to use the game of chess to subvert the world. They became the "players" who controlled the destiny of the universe, witnessed the renewal of the fierce land in the Qingming Mountains, and continued to write their own legend of the game in the new world side by side.
