The Age of Spiritual Dryness

The world's spiritual energy has been exhausted for more than a thousand years. Those who practice music, chess, calligraphy and painting are respected, martial arts is reduced to the lowest level, monks are aloof, and ordinary people's lives are like grass. In the town of Qingniu in the far west of the Garo Empire, Jiang Chuan, the twelve-year-old son of a carpenter, never thought that he would be associated with cultivating immortals. Until that day, he mistakenly swallowed a black pill hidden in a boulder. The chess game that day has come to an end. Can a mortal boy make his own piece in this world where his spiritual energy is about to expire?