At his lowest point, Lu Zheng signed a life-and-death contract: win ten games out of ten, or retire. No one thought highly of him until he used iron-blooded defense to defeat ten league aces including the "rock wall" Zhao Pan and talented center Lin Xiao. Bai Yan, the man behind the scenes, sneered, while his former disciple Shen Yao was using his banned hands to dismantle a shady chess game that had been buried for ten years. When Su Tang's anonymous report revealed the truth, every block Lu Zheng made was a trial of the system.
