Jiang Xingyan, sixteen, is the most unremarkable orphan girl in the capital.
She is also the Great Sheng Dynasty’s most deeply hidden trump card.
She has mastered the art of divination, able to read the stars, tell fortunes, and predict fortune and misfortune.
She studies the mystic arts of Qimen Dunjia, able to arrange formations, command troops, and use heaven and earth as her chessboard.
She is skilled in talismans. With yellow paper and cinnabar in hand, she can break barriers, show the way, kindle flames, and protect herself.
Her Bagua swordsmanship is peerless. The veteran generals of the northern frontier cannot last three moves against her.
On her first battlefield, she trapped three thousand elite enemy troops in a Qimen formation.
When the chancellor pressed her at every turn in court, she used divination to break the deadlock, then turned around and produced irrefutable proof of his embezzlement.
When a famed general from an enemy kingdom set a deadly formation on the northern frontier, she took one look and said, “Not bad. Change a few strokes, and it becomes your burial ground.”
Everyone thinks she is the Fourth Prince’s sharpest blade.
No one knows that the secret she hides is greater than this whole game of chess.
Her talisman incantations come from the lost teachings of the Jiang clan of the Heavenly Domain, and her inner cultivation is founded on the once-in-a-millennium “Innate Dao Body.”
The Prince of Jingbei, her equal on the northern frontier, was originally her betrothed, promised to her before birth.
And they both come from that mysterious world above the clouds, where people can fly through the air and travel underground.
When the ancient seal is broken, and the lofty families of the Heavenly Domain finally find her,
she reveals her true edge.
She is no pawn, no blade.
She is the one who moves the pieces.
