What if everything you worked so hard to build was merely an “experiment” in the eyes of the gods?
“Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs.”
The Divine Land has fallen into chaos. The Immortal Sects perch high above the clouds, using dynasties as game boards and periodically starting wars to reap “karmic fortune,” all in the name of the “cycle of the Heavenly Dao.” The common people call it the “Calamity of Three Hundred Years.”
Zhao Heng, a prince of the former dynasty, endured humiliation and hardship to become the founding emperor of the new dynasty. Outwardly, he governs with diligence; in secret, he has spent twenty years laying his plans. He seeks to gather the fortune of humankind so that he can slay the immortals when the next “Calamity” comes.
It is the ultimate confrontation between “players” and “pieces.” Under the dual surveillance of the imperial court and the Immortal Sects, Zhao Heng uses mortal wisdom to carry out the slaughter of gods.
But just as he finally severs the Immortal Sects’ foundations, he glimpses the truth beyond the heavens: the so-called Immortal Sects are merely windows through which a higher-dimensional civilization observes the “stress responses of a lower civilization.”
