Transmigrate to the Cultivation World and Become a Chess Player

The game is on. Once a move is made, there are no takebacks.

Ye Chen, a quantitative analyst, died suddenly on the night he won the International Go Masters. His soul was dragged into a rift in time and space by a dark red rune of unknown origin. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the middle of a bloody massacre that had wiped out an entire family.

In the world of cultivation, the strong prey on the weak. Ye Chen has mediocre aptitude and is at the bottom of the cultivation ladder, but he possesses a weapon no cultivation technique can replace: the mind of a game theorist. Building an intelligence network in the market, optimizing pill recipes through comparative experiments, modeling the behavior of demonic beasts in secret realms, calculating the stakes in sect power struggles... While everyone else competes in spiritual power and cultivation levels, he chooses a path less traveled and far deadlier.