An age-old destiny is a chessboard, and all living beings are its pieces.
Ever since he was old enough to remember, Chen Zhi has lived in the alleys of an ancient city with no name. Mediocre, quiet, and uncompetitive, he is like a speck of dust blown into a crack in the stone, unnoticed by anyone.
But the truth is that memories from three lifetimes lie dormant within him. The soul of his past bears ancient taboos, the Dao embryo of his future foresees the killing intent of Heaven's Will, and his present mortal body advances with care, laying out a scheme spanning eternity. He is the only anomaly in the world to bridge past, present, and future, and the “origin of the three lifetimes” that Heaven's Will is doing everything in its power to destroy.
Beneath this city lies the ancestral seed of the ancient Huai clan, its three fragments scattered across the world. Whoever obtains the root will have a place to call home; whoever obtains the trunk will be bound by fate; only whoever obtains the leaves will be qualified to overturn the board. Chen Zhi draws his first blade from a ruined formation at the bottom of a well, learns his first secret on a rocky slope, and seizes his first black ledger from an assassination by the Patrol Office. He will gather all three fragments of the ancestral seed, awaken his true self across three lifetimes, and personally tear apart the chess game of fate that Heaven's Will has kept fixed for ten thousand years.
The players of the mortal realm see him as a piece, the sects of the middle realm regard him as a heretic, and the celestial palaces of the upper realm send emissaries down to destroy him. Chen Zhi does only one thing: make a move, then strike back and kill.
This is not a story about a mortal cultivating immortality. It is about a mortal becoming the one who moves the pieces, wielding three lifetimes as a blade and taking the Core of Delusive Existence as his Dao, carving a path through the cracks in the chessboard of the heavens so all living beings can choose their own fate.
Three bodies become one, a Dao Venerable across three lifetimes. Beneath the Huai tree, he moves the pieces, supreme through eternity.
