Cultivation and Taoism

On the day when he was named on the gold medal list, flowers were flying all over the city, but he clutched a note of unknown origin in his palm: "The number one scholar is parading through the streets, don't leave your horse." At the end of the royal street, a pair of eyes looked quietly behind the curtain; above the golden palace, the emperor smiled and betrothed the princess. He agreed, but turned around and left on the wedding night, and became a fugitive on the court's arrest documents. Hidden deep in the mountains is a sect that has not tolerated outsiders for two hundred years. The barefoot girl picked up this man who was poisoned but refused to die. She is naive and ignorant of worldly affairs, gives him medicine, helps him go to the toilet, and asks him why men hide secrets. Here he learned to use talismans, learned to survive the chase, and also learned to release a crumbling fire bird from his charred palm. But there are evil ways outside the mountain who use deer bones to draw talismans, there are monsters that transform into the face that he misses most, and there are pairs of hands playing with the chess game in the darkness of the court. Is the girl waiting for his return really an illusion? What kind of past events are hidden in the sect that gave him a way out? He was just an abandoned piece that was pushed onto the chessboard, but he still wanted to find his own way amidst the murderous intent on the board. Ancient style intrigue × Immortal Gate × Desperate Counterattack, an escape from the Golden Palace to the deep mountains, a transformation from an abandoned son to a chess player.