The Player in the Age of Declining Magic

Spiritual energy has been exhausted for three hundred years. The last cultivator is thrown into a mine to await death.

Gu Qingxuan opens his eyes, and a chessboard appears in his sea of consciousness. The nine sect leaders, the chosen prodigies and saintesses, and those who climbed to the top over his back are all names on the board, with their dates of death marked beneath them.

With one move, he decides who lives and who dies. I hold the pieces, and the world is my board.