In this magnificent age, where gods and demons abound and prodigies rise together, the path of cultivation has never been a matter of polite company and fine meals.
Chu Ye, a lowly mine slave with a muddled spiritual root, encounters a mysterious ancient corpse deep in the lightless mines, pierced through the ages by nine bronze chains.
From that moment on, he embarks on a path of cunning unlike any his predecessors have taken.
Others cultivate through talent; he cultivates by picking up bargains.
Others fight with style; he fights for the best value.
While prodigies everywhere kill one another over a single magical treasure, Chu Ye has already dug up his rivals' ancestral graves and thoughtfully polished their tombstones until they gleam.
He thinks he will spend the rest of his life charging down this shameless path. Then he meets a woman named Yun Zhi.
She is as cool and aloof as an immortal, able to hold back a million-strong army with a single sword, and she specializes in putting the unruly in their place.
She watches Chu Ye swindle and deceive, striking at people unseen, and merely nods:
"That's how you should deal with your enemies."
"You've got a wicked streak. I like it."
From struggling through the mire of the mortal realm, to braving the bloodshed of the cultivation world, to contending over the laws of the immortal realm, and finally reaching the ultimate origin of the divine realm...
With his cunning techniques and the woman by his side who knows how to put the unruly in their place, Chu Ye wreaks havoc all the way up.
Gradually, they discover that the ancient corpse's legacy and Yun Zhi's mysterious origins both point to an enormous scheme that has been shrouded across the ages.
"If this world treats all living beings as pieces on a chessboard, then I'll wreck the whole board along with it!"
