My Fate Is a Chessboard, but I Break My Chains and Defy Heaven

Name: My Fate Is a Chessboard, but I Break My Chains and Defy Heaven
Author: The Lemon Tree Outside the South Gate

命局为棋，我自破命亦破天

by The Lemon Tree Outside the South Gate (南门外的柠檬树)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 354k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Traditional Eastern Fantasy
Updated: 1mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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One hundred thousand years ago, the Upper Realm held dominion over destiny, treating the myriad races of the heavens as pieces and the lives and deaths of all beings as pawns. Unwilling to be controlled, the Dragon Ancestor and the Fate Ancestor joined forces to lay out a shocking game spanning one hundred thousand years, all to win future generations a chance to break free. One hundred thousand years later, Su Jin was pushed off Qinglan Cliff by his own people and plunged into a frigid pool. On the brink of death, his soul arrived at the Bridge of Helplessness. At the same time, Long Wucang, the true dragon clan’s young master who had undergone nine cycles of reincarnation, was ambushed. His dragon soul strayed from the grand formation and met Su Jin between life and death. Half of a mysterious Fate Talisman, a heaven-defying cultivation technique, one man and one dragon: from that moment on, they embarked on the path of cultivation together. Everyone said Su Jin was a cripple, his meridians sealed, destined to be unable to cultivate for the rest of his life. But they did not know that what was sealed inside him was no useless body, but the Supreme Profound Yin-Yang Body, powerful enough to shake the destiny of the heavens. Open the martial meridians, refine the Fate Eyes, master yin and yang, and shatter reincarnation. As the game sealed away for one hundred thousand years gradually came to light, Su Jin finally discovered that his origins, Long Wucang’s nine cycles of reincarnation, the Fate Talisman left behind by the Fate Ancestor, and even the rise and fall of this world were all merely pieces on the board. The Upper Realm makes its moves, and all beings are drawn into the game. But in this life, Su Jin refuses to be a pawn again. “If destiny has trapped me in this game, then I’ll flip the board.” “I’ll make destiny my game, break free of fate, and defy the heavens!”

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