In the Cangxuan Realm, the spiritual energy is about to be exhausted and the ascension is over. The ancient "War of Heaven" tore apart the way of heaven, leaving a crack called "Tianqian". The demons from outside the territory are watching from the crack, and the world is slowly sliding towards the end of the law.
In the outer sect of Qingming Sect, Shen Zhou, a handyman disciple, was beaten to death. When he opened his eyes again, the soul of a modern man lived in his body - Lin Yue, thirty-three years old, a veteran in risk control. In his previous life, he eliminated risks, plugged loopholes, and tried to save his life before finding a game that could turn the tables; it was the same in this life, but the chessboard was replaced by a world where this side was about to die.
There was a broken disk in his sea of consciousness, called the Tianque Disk, and it was said to be a corner of the broken piece of Heavenly Dao. It can be loaded with different Dao Pattern modules - Spiritual Plant, Formation Pattern, Beast Control, Fate and Time and Space. It can only be opened one at a time, and all of them come at a price: it consumes life span, will backfire, and if used too much, it will be assimilated by the fragments, and even attract the perception of the devil.
So Shen Zhou never acts recklessly. Don't fight if you can't win, and only fight if you can settle the account. He grew spiritual grass in exchange for money, went into secret realms to scavenge relics, treated the sect's plans as a chess game, and climbed up step by step from the first level of Qi refining. He befriended the clumsy but loyal Qi Mu, tentatively cooperated with the array master Su Wan, and formed a life-and-death partnership with the demon girl Xuan Shuang in the secret realm - the immortal demon is not an old enemy, the real enemy comes from outside the world.
But he always wanted to figure out one thing: Why was he "pushed" into this realm of death? What is the relationship between Tianquepan and Shattered Heavenly Dao?
When the spiritual energy bottoms out and the passage to ascension is completely closed, when the old secrets of the guardians of the realm, the true appearance of the extraterrestrial demons, and the truth of the Tianqing battle are revealed one by one, Shen Zhou will use this missing piece of the board to make a final move that no one has expected.
