Su Ye transmigrates. Other people get a golden finger when they transmigrate. He gets a lousy System: all 999 previous Hosts are dead, leaving him the last man standing.
Fortunately, though his predecessors are dead, their inheritance remains: nine hundred years of save files, cultivation techniques, secret manuals, and equipment, all his to inherit.
His fiancee shows up to break off their engagement? He unlocks the first Host's Crimson Sand Seal and sends her packing.
A young master from a powerful clan shows up to humiliate him? He brings out the lifetime's cultivation of the first five hundred Hosts and puts him in his place.
Others study hard for ten years. Su Ye loads a save file and reaches the max level.
But he gradually discovers that none of the first 999 Hosts seem to have died normal deaths.
The 998th Host left him one last message: Don't trust the people playing chess.
Su Ye stares at the System panel in silence for a long time.
This inheritance seems a little too hot to handle.