The Emperor Without Borders

When Lin Yuan was sixteen, he found a black monkey on a snowbound mountain, nearly starved to death. He named it Xiao Hei. He thought he was simply taking on another mouth to feed. Only later did Lin Yuan realize that the monkey could steal spirit herbs, learn martial techniques, and kill demon beasts several times stronger than itself with a single staff strike. As for Lin Yuan, he had unexpectedly obtained a mysterious chessboard capable of deducing the future. From Qingxi Village to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, from sect rivalries to the Imperial Road of the Myriad Races. When Lin Yuan finally saw the world for what it truly was, he discovered that heaven and earth were heading toward death. Some told him it was fate. Others told him it was the only way. But Lin Yuan asked just one thing: “Who decided that?” Heaven and earth have their borders; all living beings do not. In this life, he would carve out a path no one had ever walked.