The Hundred Ghosts of the Qimen Game

The treacherous path is like a game of chess, with all living beings as its pieces.

A game spanning a hundred years, the “Hundred Ghosts Gambit,” has quietly begun.

Lu Guicang carries a fragmentary copy of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s scrolls and roams the mortal world, using occult arts to divine good and ill fortune. Yet he cannot foresee that he and his younger brother, Lu Qi, have already become crucial pieces in the game. Lu Qi was born frail, with a damaged soul, and bears a mysterious fragment of the “Yin Jade.” He is destined to become the “vessel” coveted by an evil formation.

Deep in the underground palace of Qixia Mountain, the “Nine Nether Spirit-Summoning Formation” quietly stirs. The blood moon hangs overhead, and ten thousand souls wail. The Xie family is torn by infighting, the “Ghost Face” lurks in the shadows, and descendants of the Nangong clan watch from the sidelines. The authorities, the jianghu, witchcraft practitioners, secret sects… all forces weave together into a vast web.

To save his loved one and break out of a deadly trap, Lu Guicang makes his life the fuel, while Lu Qi offers his body as the vessel. In the face of utter desperation, the brothers defy the game and seek the “flame of the gambit” that can reverse their fate, amidst conspiracies, sacrifice, and awakening.

This is a deadly game of chess played on the board of heaven and earth, with human hearts as its blades.

Whose hands hold the pieces?

And are you, too, caught in the game?

“Only when the flame of the gambit burns out will a new dawn appear.”