Cornered by the village bullies, Lin Heng reaches a desperate point when he unexpectedly activates the Ten Directions Back-Pushing Diagram, brought from an ancient tomb, and awakens an extraordinary talent for mental calculation and deduction.
Others try to predict fate, but he insists on calculating every variable. The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion declares certain outcomes unchangeable, but he is determined to find a way beyond them.
From struggling to survive in a ruined kiln in Qingzhu Village to making a name for himself in the Danxia Sect, and then founding the Rule-Breaking Alliance to fight the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, Lin Heng uses counting rods as his foundation and mental arithmetic as his blade, reading people's hearts, calculating the greater trends, and uncovering cause and effect.
The Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion lays out a deadly fate-bound trap, but a thousand dead ends cannot hold him. When all 1,024 deductions lead to ruin, he makes himself the variable and forces his way to a 1,025th possibility!
The truth behind his parents' murder, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's conspiracy, and the secret of the fixed-fate formation are all gradually revealed through his deductions.
Fate is a game of strategy, and everyone is a piece on the board. Lin Heng alone wields counting rods as his pieces and mental calculation as his art, breaking fixed outcomes and defying fate until he becomes the player who controls his own destiny!
