Born a mine slave, an eight-year-old boy, he devoured the soul of a transmigrator from another world overnight. When Lin Gui opened his eyes, his left eye reflected the laws governing all things, while his right saw through the threads of fate. A world of cultivation, shackled by nine layers of chains, slowly unfolded before him.
The blood-oath altar of the Northern Wasteland tribes, the floating mountains of the Central Province clans, the Golden Abacus That Reaches the Heavens of the Western Reef merchants: the Nine Domains were both a prison and a chessboard. Here, every breakthrough came at the price of grotesque mutation, and every new power threatened to strip away one's humanity.
Climbing out of a mountain of corpses in the blood-veined mines, Lin Gui made his first move in the shadows of Grayrock Stockade. The Listening Wind Pavilion was his mask; the abandoned mine tunnels, his blade. While the various factions fought over petty gains, an organization called the Shadow Pavilion was quietly weaving its web in the dark.
But the most dangerous contest was not in the outside world. It was within himself. Each time he used reason to overturn the rules, the power from another world inside him eroded more of his humanity. The bonds he shared with his companions became his last stake in this deadly gamble.
The Nine Domains are the board, and all living beings are pieces. Watch as this eight-year-old boy, who devoured a transmigrator, places his pieces amid the ruins of the cultivation world, follows the demonic path, and uses cunning to outwit the heavens, forging a shocking new path by slaying the gods.
When the cage of rules is broken and fate itself is rewritten, will he be the savior who brings a new order, or a demon who destroys everything? The answer lies hidden in the spreading shadows of the Shadow Pavilion.
